Famous Quotes & Sayings

Guy Gavriel Kay

We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I dont think theres any doubt that coming of age in Winnipeg both opened my eyes and made me hungry - if I can subvert all claims to be a real writer by mixing metaphors like that.

Guy Finley

Only you can choose the nature of what grows, or what doesn't, within you.

Chuck Taylor

Good. Who else? How about people who grow things?

George Boole

Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.

Gary Larson

The great thing about this jungle of ours is that anyone of you could grow up to be Lord of the apes.

Gale Norton

Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.

Erich Fromm

All genuine ideals have one thing in common: they express the desire for something which is not yet accomplished but which is desirable for the purpose of the growth and happiness of the individual.

Everyone's jockeying to get a piece of what they hope is the big growth industry,

Every day, we turn patients away, ... The growing numbers are putting a strain on our system.

The most recent rate increases, and a rate hike at its next meeting, in my judgment will slow growth to an unacceptably low rate for the region and the nation.

Oscar Robertson

The most important thing is what the returning starters think, ... Can they get themselves together and play basketball? You've got to grow up right now. These things happen in sports.

Dave Winer

Actually, I would have liked to sell sooner. Keeping the site running was a perpetual challenge. We would scale and it would just grow exponentially.

Strengthening the inclusiveness of the growth process is a precondition to sustaining high growth rates.

Some sires were in the top 25 percent with superior growth and end product weight, while others did it with moderate growth and superior quality attributes.

Michael Johnson

Somebody's planting a lot of marijuana out there, and it's not local people just growing it for personal use, ... These people are growing to make a profit. A big profit.

William Wordsworth

So was it when my life began;So is it now I am a man;So be it when I shall grow old,Or let me die!

Pattie Boyd

One grows up thinking you will naturally be able to have children, and when it doesn't happen, it's a shock. But I just feel that it wasn't meant to be.

November has had a lot better tone to it than usual. We're seeing money rotating into the growth stocks. If I had to guess, I think people are pretty positive on the market.

The monks have tried everything and failed; the virtuous have grown weary of singing God's Glories.

The moment American growth slows down below, say, 2 percent, trade pressures are not just something that we talk about but are something that are really going to hit policy makers.

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It's growth - mental, financial, you name it.

Harold Geneen

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Do you guys know that this basil is grown in Maine, in the winter? And if you look at it - look at this, see this. This is grown not in dirt. It's grown in water.

Dell has done so well that it's become an 800-pound gorilla. But it's hard to grow an 800-pound gorilla.

the surprising sustainability of 30 percent-plus growth over the next 10 years.

Michael Klare

The supply of oil has been growing all these years in approximate consonance with demand.

Lisa Loeb

I've made music for grownups most of my life as a singer/songwriter - often with my band, Nine Stories - recorded many albums, and 10 years ago I started recording kid's music, too.

Robert Warren

So that makes it even all the more important that we find these kids who again, are sometimes misdiagnosed as having growing pains or tendonitis,

Technology is here to stay. There is long-term growth in the industry.

George Vecsey

Television is making sports universal; for the same reason, big-time soccer is growing more popular in the United States.

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.