Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Savage

Sedaris, in his essay in the It Gets Better book, writes that when he was growing up nobody called him gay because you might as well have called him a warlock. Nobody knew what gay was.

Dan Rather

There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.

We are shifting resources from more administrative to more technical . . . This is a growth strategy.

Billy Graham

Some of the greatest values that have influenced me through the years are those that I learned as a boy growing up on the farm. I remember mostly the love in our family, but I also remember the discipline. Then there was the work; we all had to work.

Try to work at the margins of your ignorance - that's how you grow

Edmund Spenser

True loves are often sown, but seldom grow on ground.

to reflect the realities of a market in which growth has substantially slowed -- and may remain soft well into next year.

Benjamin Stockham

In acting, you can always grow and get better - even if you think you're at your limit.

Finley Dunne

The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual.

Meryl Streep

Let's face it, we were all once three-year-olds who stood in the middle of the living room and everybody thought we were so adorable. Only some of us grow up and get paid for it.

Without this trade barrier, China's information technology industry would have grown much faster.

With all the rest of the tournaments, that should grow to between $75,000 and $100,000.

The projected job growth number would mark a pretty strong snapback from the previous month.

The presidential visit is really going to be a watershed event. We feel trade growth will be very high going forward.

There are questions as to whether the growth rate is sustainable.

Cherie Blair

I have no problem with saying I am a socialist or with saying I'm a feminist. That's how I was when I was 15, and you know, I haven't grown out of it and probably never will.

Enrique Vila-Matas

When it grows dark, we always need someone. This thought, the product of anxiety, only comes to me in the evenings, just when I'm about to end my writerly explorations.

Hill Harper

So many of our young women today, they're growing up without a father, but they're still thirsty for that and desiring positive male love.

Michael Mina

When restaurants start to mature - and usually the five-year time is the time when the restaurant starts to settle in and have its own personality - your job is to grow it.

While some of the retailers have been under a lot of pressure, Kohl has really held its own, because it is a growth retailer.

While much of the growth surge reflects stellar productivity gains, this pace of growth is way too strong for the Fed,

Who wants to be No.1 in a market which is saturated and has slow growth prospects near term.

Jon Cryer

Every time one person gets a piece of information, the likelihood of that information being exposed grows exponentially. It's no longer two people. It's two people squared.

But race is not the only theme in the play. It's also about dignity, about growing old, about living your life with integrity. Those are big themes, but they are so much a part of the story that you don't really think of them as themes.

We'll probably grow pretty dramatically in the next 12 months.

We'll probably be in negative territory for growth when all is said and done.

We'll participate for the first time this year. We see significant growth in high-oleic sunflower. That's an opportunity.

We have the highest growth expectations we've ever had in 13 years for the next three years,

Chris Petersen

Those guys, they're having growing pains and that's to be expected. As much as we tried to get them in there in the summer and get them prepared, there's just nothing like being in a game. You just can't simulate that situation.

We need growth to pay for growth. We need other solutions.

We need growth and money, not revolutionary ideology. Calderon is very Harvard and that's good. We want a Mexico of the 21st century.

You know, it really wasn't that long ago that all this happened. I couldn't imagine growing up in that type of generation. Seeing what Jackie Robinson ... went through. He just wanted to play baseball. That's so tough. My hat's off to the people before me who put up with that.

Ludwig von Mises

State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness.