Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Summers

If you can get through it in a live performance you feel comfortable because it pushes you on. It helps you grow and that is what it is all about.

If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

If you look at the year as a whole, we're still seeing reasonable year-to-year growth rates.

If you look at states like North Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia, you see growth of 300 percent or over 200 percent from 1990 to 2005 in the number of immigrants.

I didn't see that there was enough there to offset the risk of growing tobacco,

I didn't know what kind of growing pains we were going to have in November. But we're getting better.

Robert Blake

I didn't have much of a life, ... My kids were grown and gone. I was very, very single a loner.

Jack Kirby

You had to grow up sometime. The fellows who grew early, they were in jeopardy. They became the cops and the crooks, and the crooks became the gangsters. The crooks became the Al Capones.

Jack Canfield

If we are not a little bit uncomfortable every day, we're not growing. All the good stuff is outside our comfort zone.

J. D. Salinger

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

Isabel Wilkerson

My parents sent me to a school across town, an integrated school, where I had the chance to meet and grow up with people who were from other parts of the world. ... I remember feeling that I would never have anything to contribute on St. Patrick's Day. I couldn't tell the stories that they might have been telling about their forebears and I felt left out.

Ira Levin

I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.

Ioan Gruffudd

Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness,

Jack Ma

Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world.

Jack London

Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.

Jack Nicklaus

A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.

Jack Kemp

The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.

Jack Kerouac

and nobody knows what’s going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old

Jack Horner

I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.

Jack Antonoff

My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.

J. C. Chandor

I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.

J. C. Watts

My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.

J. Cole

I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.

Isabel Lucas

Change, of course, is growth, and anything that is not growing is either paralysed or it's not alive, because that's life; we always change and we grow.

Harry Belafonte

I think being born in America and growing up exclusively within the American boundaries of race and race oppression is a very different experience for those of us who grew up under the boundaries of race and race experience in the Caribbean, or for those who grew up in Africa. Our experience has not made us monolithic. We're not all of the same stripe, coming from the same place with the same sense of what the tactics have to be to survive.

Harrison Ford

I think parenting is a huge responsibility. It was in my time when I was growing up and there still continues to be that responsibility.

Harrison Ford

It's a wonderful opportunity to be part of a child's growing up, which is always an endless springtime. You see the blossoming and the growing and the nurturing and the payoff.

Hannah Simone

My family never told me like you have to be one thing. What do you want to be when you grow up? They think it's the most ridiculous question. You can be many, many things.

Hannah Simone

My family’s said to me from the beginning, ‘People are always going to tell you to pick what you want to be when you grow up. You take that and throw it out the window, that’s garbage. People are complicated and we love many things and we’re passionate about many things. You can be a human rights activist and also be doing these comedy plays in your community and that’s OK. All those things are a part of who you are and you can love them equally.

Guy Pearce

Growing up, I was a kid pretending to be an adult.

Guy Kawasaki

It's just as valuable to curate content as it is to create it.

No one grows up. That's one of the sickest lies they ever tell you. People change. People compromise. People get stranded in situations they don't want to be in… and they make the best of it. But don't try to tell me it's some kind of… glorious preordained ascent into emotional maturity. It's not.

Greg Fitzsimmons

They just tested the tap water in Los Angeles and they found traces of estrogen and antidepressants in the tap water. So it's nice to know my son's going to grow up and have huge breasts but it's not going to bother him that much.