Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donnie Yen

There are two types of Chinese growing up in America. One is the kind that does really well in school, with thick, thick glasses. And the other is involved with the gangs.

Donald Miller

I think we can provide better stories through providing mentors, and certainly part of my story is providing mentors to kids growing up without dads. I think positive male role models go a long way in terms of rescuing kids from a life of trouble.I think positive male role models go a long way in terms of rescuing kids from a life of trouble.

Dwayne Johnson

I grew up in a musical family; the majority of my growing up was done in Hawaii. It's what we do. You sing, you dance, you play ukulele and you drink.

Clare Bowen

My parents listened to music in our house all the time when we were growing up. It was everything from Dolly Parton to Paul Simon... We packed in everything.

Dalai Lama

When young we have a vivid sense of basic values like trust and warm-heartedness, which we tend to neglect in today's competitive world as we grow up, yet from birth we all have a need for affection. The emotions we experience today have not changed much over the last few thousand years, but the interest increasing numbers of people are showing in their inner world and how their emotions work is a sign of maturity.

Dalai Lama

We all have the potential to be better than we are.

Dolly Parton

[On growing up in a large family with little money:] ... to take a bath ... we just had a pan of water and we'd wash down as far as possible, and we'd wash up as far as possible. Then, when somebody'd clear the room, we'd wash possible.

Dolly Parton

I love the energy of children. It makes me feel young. I'm just drawn to them. They're like magic to me. And they're drawn to me, the childlike part of me that never did grow up.

Dolly Parton

My mama never wore a pair of pants when I was growing up, and now that's all she wears. It was so funny for me when I first started seeing Mama wear pants. It was like it wasn't Mama. Now I've bought her many a pantsuit because she just lives in them.

Dolly Parton

I make jokes about it, but it's the truth that I kind of patterned my look after the town tramp. I didn't know what she was, just this woman who was blond and piled her hair up, wore high heels and tight skirts, and, boy, she was the prettiest thing I'd ever seen. Momma used to say, "Aw, she's just trash," and I thought, That's what I want to be when I grow up. Trash.

We are looking at a lot of growth and a lot of changes.

We are looking at a growth rate somewhere in between 6.5 percent and 7 percent at this point. I think it's really going to be up there.

We recognize that in times of crisis, and this has been a crisis, there is an opportunity for real growth and change.

Feist

'Metals' has partly been about me regaining my self respect and I feel like I'm growing the muscles I want to grow again.

Ann Rinaldi

As a child growing up in World War II, I was very moved and stirred by what was going on, but I distanced myself from history. I regarded history as just one more subject.

Ann Bancroft

Growing up in a rural setting in Minnesota, I was raised with the outdoors and a sense of adventure.

Voluntary programs that are aimed at reducing emissions...are offset by the growth because there are no requirements overall.

Wandering, wandering all around, I have grown weary; trying all sorts of things, I have been searching.

Emily Meade

You grow up loving movies, and your first instinct is you want to be an actor, because those are the people you see in the movies. But when you actually become an actor, you're like, 'Oh, wait, this is actually only a small portion of the storytelling. If I want to really tell a story, I'd want to be a director.'

Heber J. Grant

As a man grows and increases in the things of this world, if he is not careful, he will lose the Spirit of the Lord, and he will set his heart upon the things of this world.

We're not too worried about the situation, as Suzuki's fundamentals and growth prospects are solid.

Our staff has not grown in proportion to the number of increases in the student population.

Out of all the major markets, it was the only one to show growth. We were up one percent.

Our boy's team is very young; we only have a handful of seniors. They are going through some growing pains.

Our big initiative was to grow more profitable square footage. We want to make more room for faster-growth products.

Right now, you could say we're at sort of a sweet spot, where we have healthy growth and reasonably high interest rates.

Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.

J&J needs something like Guidant to revitalize its growth. People are now thinking that if J&J does walk away, St. Jude is in their scopes.

Tony Meola

I think every week we've grown and I think we have a better understanding of each other. It's still a new team. My expectations at the start are like everyone else's in the league, and that's to try to win a championship.

Nina Tassler

I saw them in Spanish when I was a kid, because my grandmother watched them. Half of them I didn't understand, but they were a part of my experiences growing up.

I saw a lot of growth in the team, a lot smarter basketball, a lot of team work.

Nicholas Haslam

I rent a Jacobean-fronted hunting lodge in Hampshire from the National Trust and like to go there as much as possible. I've grown to love it so much, especially when writing my memoirs there at weekends.

Marsha Blackburn

I remember my first job, when I was working in a retail store down there, growing up in Laurel, Mississippi. I was making, like, $2.15 an hour. And I was taught how to responsibly handle those customer interactions.