Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Ginnifer Goodwin

Growing up in Memphis, I have always admired St. Jude's for the magnificent work they do.

Ginnifer Goodwin

My grandmother lives on a farm. And growing up, I assumed that the animals that I was eating and the animals that I was wearing all came from farms like my grandmother's. They all had names, they were all smothered with love, and they all lived to be very old.

Gerry Cooney

Growing up training, I use to get up so early I would wave to the garbage men going by. So, I had this relationship with Blue Collar America and I really liked it. I felt that lots of those people looked forward to me winning.

Harold MacMillan

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

Gwyneth Paltrow

For me when I was growing up, some of the happiest times were when we went to a small island called Nantucket off Massachusetts.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I have a sort of sisterly feeling toward him [Ben Affleck]. I want him to do well and grow up and be a happy person and a fully realized man.

Gregg Sulkin

Basically, growing up, and being a teenage kid, I've always been interested in charity. And one of the benefits of being on a TV show and having a fan base, you kind of have the power to spread news around.

Greg Walden

Many individual growers now are growing organic fruit, and many are taking it upon themselves to market their own products to the public, as opposed to necessarily going through big processors, although, obviously, the bulk of the fruit still is dealt with that way.

Grant Gustin

I was a big Superman fan, growing up. I've always been a big superhero fan.

E. B. White

Hopefully with student support we'll be able to grow it every year.

I don't really know what our strength is going to be, to tell you the truth. We'll probably go through some growing pains this year.

I've seen an exponential growth since the two years I've been coaching.

I've seen a lot of growing pains. They could have really contributed to the team.

Gary Jones

I've told him many times - I have a 4-year-old son and I would love my son to grow up just like him, on and off the mat.

It was the same person re-offending, ... violence potential is going to grow and at one point or another someone is going to get killed.

It was a nice growing perk for her. I told her location is everything. In that situation, she didn't miss one pitch.

It was about what I expected. We have some growing to do, but it was a nice start.

(These businesses) are a unified part of their ongoing high growth business, and...should stay as part of that business.

The service sector was hard hit, growing just 0.8 percent.

It's a growing sport, period. It's supposed to be one of the fastest-growing sports in the United States.

It's a growing phenomenon, I'll tell you that.

It suggests moderate growth in the year ahead, but I don't think there's much risk of a 'double-dip' recession.

It's not in our interests to grow too fast.

It's not our initiative to help grow the sport where it's underdeveloped.

It's not really my personality to go out there and yell instructions and that kind of thing, ... But it's grown on me.

It's not that difficult. I like telling my side of the story. . . . I think I've grown from that.

Arthur Young

It's not growing at the number we want. Next year there's opportunity to improve that but I'm not very comfortable saying double-digit growth will come back.

It's not like they are on the brink, but the growth party is over for now.