Quotes about grow
growing-up athlete growing
I was an athlete when I was growing up. Jeremy Renner
growing-up book writing
Throughout my childhood, my parents dropped me off at a multitude of therapists' offices in hopes that I'd avoid growing up to be the kind of asshole who writes books about them. Also because it was sometimes easier than finding a nanny. Jenny Mollen
growing-up love-is trying
In the end, love is growing up. We feel so much stronger since we are together in this life, than when we were before trying to figure it out alone. Love is all! Gilles Marini
growing aging pleasure
One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be. Gilbert K. Chesterton
growing-up character white
When I was growing up, we learned our history almost as lives of the saints. And it came as a shock, "Oh, Jefferson had slaves?" It always comes as a shock to us that elevation to the White House didn't somehow cleanse them of all their deep character flaws. Harry Shearer
growing-up children lying
The roots of a child's ability to cope and thrive, regardless of circumstance, lie in that child's having had at least a small, safe place (an apartment? a room? a lap?) in which, in the companionship of a loving person, that child could discover that he or she was lovable and capable of loving in return. If a child finds this during the first years of life, he or she can grow up to be a competent, healthy person. Fred Rogers
growth amount
Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount. Frank Herbert
growth may sticks
You're asking me will my love grow. I don't know, I don't know. You stick around now it may show. I don't know, I don't know George Harrison
growth top-10 population
The top 10 per cent of the US population appropriated 91 per cent of income growth between 1989 and 2006, while the top 1 per cent took 59 per cent. Ha-Joon Chang
growth needs chance
In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows potentially threatening new words to develop, language needs the chance to constantly renew itself. Gunter Grass
growing-up mistake hero
...for the contingent out there who sneer at heroes like Superman and Wonder Woman and Captain America, those icons who still, at their core, represent selfless sacrifice for the greater good, and who justify their contempt by saying, oh, it's so unrealistic, no one would ever be so noble... grow up. Seriously. Cynicism is not maturity, do not mistake the one for the other. If you truly cannot accept a story where someone does the right thing because it's the right thing to do, that says far more about who you are than these characters. Greg Rucka
growing-up character kids
Growing up, I was a very shy kid but I felt that being on stage or playing another character would somehow open me up. And I think it did. Jesse Tyler Ferguson
growing-up latin race
My whole life, when I was growing up, not one race has ever accepted me, ... So I never felt connected or attached to any race specifically. I had a very American upbringing, I feel American, and I don't speak Spanish. So, to say that I'm a Latin actress, OK, but it's not fitting; it would be insincere. Jessica Alba
growing-up hair quirky
I definitely know that I'm quirky. I know that I'm different. Red hair definitely made me different growing up. Jayma Mays
growing-up home virginia
Growing up I played piano and I sang at a lot of weddings; I grew up in a very small town, a little coal-mining town in Virginia called Grundy. And my family was very sing-songy at home.
growing-up phones people
Growing up, politics never trickled down to the areas we come from. But people from Obama's camp, and Obama himself, reached out to me and asked for my help on the campaign. We've sat and had dinner, and we've spoken on the phone. He's a very sharp guy. Very charming. Very cool. Jay-Z
growing-up pain dad
When you're growing up, your dad is your superhero. Once you've let yourself fall that in love with someone, once you put him on such a high pedestal and he lets you down, you never want to experience that pain again.
growth world grows
If I don't show the world growth, how are we going to grow?
growing-up class underdog
You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog. Jay Baruchel
growing-up giving want
I remember when I was growing up, you would go to a bank to open a deposit, and they'd give you a toaster. A free toaster. These days, if you're a company, and you go to a bank, they could easily turn you away! They don't want your deposits anymore. Mohamed El-Erian
growing-up objectivity giving
When I was growing up, all I wanted to do was fit in, but if you're perpetually an outsider, it gives you a perspective that might have a little more objectivity than people who really feel connected to their social environment in which they grow up. Moby
growing-up thinking outsiders
I think that growing up very poor in a very wealthy town gave me a sense of being an outsider, and I hated it when I was growing up.
growing-up reading thinking
I guess...on one hand, I spent way too much time watching science fiction and reading science fiction when I was growing up. But a part of it is I also never felt much of a connection to the world in which I lived while I was growing up, and so, oddly enough, I think I felt a lot more connected to the worlds that I read about in science fiction.
growth vulnerable well-being
By being vulnerable, either with yourself or in the presence of another person, that's where all growth and ultimate well-being comes from.
growing-up echoes intimate-relationships
When I was growing up, albums were my closest friends, as sad as that may sound - Joy Division's 'Closer,' or Echo and the Bunnymen's 'Heaven Up Here'... I had a more intimate relationship with those records than I did with most of the people in my life.
growing-up book obscure
When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched obscure movies and only listened to obscure music.
growing-up diversity house
Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling.
growing-up thinking way
I don't think anyone wants to grow up to be Mindy Lahiri, the same way no one wants to grow up to be Michael Scott.But that's OK. Mindy Kaling
growing-up tv-shows america
Growing up, I remember my parents feeling a little wary of 'The Simpsons.' This was the late eighties, and there was a wave of articles about TV shows that were bad for America. Then we all started watching it and loved it.
growing-up kids boston
When I was growing up, I didn't do plays in downtown Boston, and my parents weren't putting me in auditions. They never thought, Oh, she has a gift! They never thought of me as an entertainer when I was a young kid.
growing-up team school
You know what happens to guys? There's what I call the individual time of their career, and the team time of their career. This is the team time. You don't care about all the other stuff. You just want to live in one place, and watch your kids grow up and go to the same school. You say, 'Hey, maybe I'd better play well and be a good enough guy that they keep me.' Mike Babcock
growing-up practice language
I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language. Miguel
growing-up let-me grows
The audience and I are friends. They allowed me to grow up with them. I've let them down several times. They've let me down several times. But we're all family. Mickey Rooney