Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adrian McKinty

I think if you grow up in a culture where the army is out on the street sighting you with rifles, it has to have some kind of psychological impact.

Ban Ki-moon

As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.

We have made another step towards the qualification. This is proof that this team is growing and getting more mature.

Vint Cerf

It's the Industrial Revolution and the growth of urban concentrations that led to a sense of anonymity.

Shane Koyczan

For me, growing up and going to school and not seeing any anti-bullying posters and not hearing people talk about bullying was very desolate.

Joseph Addison

We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the next step to being dull.

We are growing revenues and share in markets that are themselves growing.

Banksy

I figure there are enough self-opinionated assholes trying to get their ugly little faces in front of you as it is. You ask a lot of kids today what they want to be when they grow up, and they say, 'I want to be famous.' You ask them, 'For what reason?' and they don't know or care. I think Andy Warhol got it wrong - in the future, so many people are going to become famous that one day everybody will end up being anonymous for 15 minutes.

Lauren Alaina

I hope each week I grow and impress you guys and make you happy.

Blake Mycoskie

The idea of community and helping others has always been a part of who I am. Growing up, my parents always made sure that my siblings and I were doing our part to serve our local community.

Boris Kodjoe

I just didn't know who was going to be my partner. I knew that once I had grown to be a man that I was going to attract the person that I deserved to be with, or deserved to be with me.

Eric Shinseki

In the army, we do two things every day. We train our soldiers, and then we grow them into leaders, because frankly, we don't hire out. We grow our own leaders.

Erin O'Connor

My plan growing up was to leave home and try not to panic. I always knew that to strive to be self-sufficient was an important ambition.

Edward Furlong

I never thought I'd reach 21. I used to feel that was old, but growing old doesn't scare me anymore. I just want to have done something super special and have had someone to do it with.

Chris Christie

Social Security is meant to be - to make sure that no one who's worked hard and played by the rules and paid into the system grows old in poverty in America.

We are not just talking about slowing the growth of house prices. We are taking about house prices diminishing.

Keith Carradine

I've grown this mustache which saves me from having to glue on one every day in the heat.

Karin Slaughter

I paid for my name a lot when I was growing up because other kids teased me.

Alan Cohen

Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.

When we rank the stocks, we find more value stocks at the top of the list and more growth names at the bottom.

When growth stocks start paying a dividend it is an indication that there are not a lot of opportunities remaining out there.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

India needs to sustain its high growth rate.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Economic growth is not only unncessary, but ruinous.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Actually, when I think about growing up, I feel most affected by two travels that I made working in cargo boats when I was 16 and 18. One of them crossed through the Mississippi and Baton Rouge and Mobile, Alabama, and another went all the way to Europe. On the last trip, I stayed in Europe for one year with $1,000, working everywhere I could, doing everything. Those years shaped me a lot and taught me the value of exploring different things.

Albert Einstein

But the personality that finally emerges is largely formed by the environment in which a man happens to find himself during his development, by the structure of the society in which he grows up, by the tradition of that society, and by its appraisal of particular types of behavior.

Alexander Downer

Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often away. But when I'm asked that question I often reflect on my inability really to be able to answer it in any relative sense because I never grew up with a father doing anything else. So I just have no idea what it would be like otherwise.

Alden Nowlan

Growing up is never straight forward. There are moments when everything is fine, and other moments where you realize that there are certain memories that you'll never get back, and certain people that are going to change, and the hardest part is knowing that there's nothing you can do except watch them.

Albert Einstein

Growth comes through analogy; through seeing how things connect, rather than only seeing how they might be different.

Alexander Herzen

We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to be a child. If we merely look to the end of the process, the purpose of life is death

We've never had a streak like this. We think we've come to an end for setting a record each year, but we're projecting this is a new plateau because of population growth and household formation.

Adam Sandler

I was a big fan of Kurt Russell growing up and I always wanted to be the modern day Kurt Russell.

Adam Sandler

I don't know who I touch and who I don't. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don't have any secrets. I don't know the reasons I've been so well received.

Adam Sandler

I guess in my house when I was growing up, I was comfortable trying to be funny. And my dad, of course, it bugged him sometimes. He was trying to rest, and I was constantly trying to say something stupid to get a reaction. But I like doing these movies. You can do it in front of the camera and then it's over. I don't have to worry about being in front of too many people.