Famous Quotes & Sayings

George W. Bush

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

Gail Sheehy

We must be willing to change chairs if we want to grow. There is no permanent compatibility between a chair and a person. And there is no one right chair. What is right at one stage may be restricting at another or too soft. During the passage from one stage to another, we will be between two chairs. Wobbling no doubt, but developing.

Gail Sheehy

With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure . We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before.

Gail Sheehy

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.

Frank Turner

I won't sit down And I won't shut up And most of all I will not grow up

Felicity Huffman

As you grow up and get educated in the business, you go from, 'I want to do movies' to 'I want to work. In whatever.

Felicity Jones

As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.

Felicity Jones

I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.

Fefe Dobson

Joy' to me is a reflection of the life experiences that I've had throughout the first record and kind of having some time and a hiatus. It's just like all of those experiences that I had during that period - that growing up period.

Feist

I never really lived outside of the city growing up, but I'm always looking in between the lines of the city, and I magnetize over to the green spots.

Fareed Zakaria

I think that liberals need to grow up.

Faith Prince

I know I always had a lot of energy growing up and I had to put it somewhere. Theater allowed me to really feel things, to laugh, to cry, to explode outward. I could do anything and it was totally accepted and appreciated. If I hadn't gone into the theater, I probably would have been a psychotic killer.

Ezra Taft Benson

Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible.

Ezra Taft Benson

Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and nurtured us through our infancy and childhood, provided us with the necessities of life, and nursed us through physical illnesses and the emotional stresses of growing up.

Francis Beaumont

There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.

Francis Ford Coppola

I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.

Francine Pascal

I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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,

It was necessary for her growth as a person. She needed to get things in the proper perspective. I told her I wanted her story to have a happy ending. In order to do that, the suspension was necessary.

Melissa McCarthy

I've grown to love L.A., but it's the most socially awkward place. All these people have come there not to be something but to pretend to be someone trying to be someone.

I've grown tired of love You are the trouble with me I watch you walk right by

Joel Madden

I've grown a lot as a singer and a songwriter, but also as a person. I communicate better with my band, and our relationships are stronger and closer.

Candace Parker

I've grown a lot as a player and as a person. I just play and don't think about that.

I've had a 10 percent increase in my staff in the last 60 days, ... This (down) market has provided a wonderful growth opportunity. Now, we can hire top talent that a year ago was very hard to attract.

David Remnick

I've grown up on Woody's movies and his prose,

LeAnn Rimes

I've grown up in the press my entire life.

Brandon Rush

I've grown up a lot. That's from being on my own. But I've been away from home too long.

Brian Nash

I'm pleased with where we're at. But it shows we have room for improvement. You have to understand that there's growing pains.

I'm pleased with our progress. 2005 was another growth year for us.

Sarah McLachlan

I'm in total savoring mode. I wish I had something like this when I was growing up.

Erwin McManus

So many of us have abdicated our passions for obligations, as if passion is a luxury for the young, and we must all grow up one day. We, even if reluctantly, fall into place to live a life of conformity that we describe as ‘maturity.’ We’ve made acting like an adult synonymous with living apathetic lives.

Erma Bombeck

A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.

Erin Wasson

I don't have a background in design, so I think it's always about what I see in the world and what inspires me. So yes, I am designing for myself. I'm going through this whole evolution, which is a process of growing up and going from modeling to styling to designing.