Famous Quotes & Sayings

Grant Morrison

I was always interested in myths growing up. So, first I got into some Roman myths, then I was interested in Norse, then Celtic, then I started spreading to all the other mythologies.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

Gary Hamel

There are as many foolhardy ways to grow as there are to downsize.

Jennifer Aniston

I think there comes a point where you have to grow up and get over yourself, lighten up…and forgive

Graham Norton

I loved Lucille Ball growing up.

Graham Norton

I've heard other gay people say when they were growing up they felt 'foreign.' Growing up, I was able to label these feelings as: 'I'm a Protestant.' It wasn't until I left, I thought: 'Oh, those weren't Protestant feelings.'

When we strive to remove all risk from childhood we also remove the foundations of a rational adulthood, and we eliminate the very experiences that will help kids grow up to be the empowered, creative, brave problem-solvers that they can and must be.

Gertrude Stein

What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man.

Jim Hodges

I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences.

Linda Hogan

I can't be married to another person for 30 years; I can't grow up with another person -- that just won't happen, not in this lifetime.

Rene Russo

I came out of a culture when there wasn't tweeting and everyone with a camera in their hands. I didn't grow up with it, so I'm not always thinking about it, but there have been times when I looked over, and I saw that someone was recording my conversation.

Hunter S. Thompson

I guess that's one of the things about growing up in the fifties - it never occurred to me that you wouldn't be at least as successful as your parents.

Hunter S. Thompson

Who knows? If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix & a clean well lighted place full of sunshine and bromides and fast cars where almost everybody seems vaguely happy, except those who know in their hearts what is missing... And being driven slowly and quietly into the kind of terminal craziness that comes with finally understanding that the one thing you want is not there. Missing. Back-ordered. No tengo. Vaya con dios. Grow up! Small is better. Take what you can get...

Howard Schultz

Growing up I always felt like I was living on the other side of the tracks. I knew the people on the other side had more resources, more money, happier families.

Howard Schultz

If Vancouver did not succeed as Starbucks from '87 on, our entire international business, which is now thousands of stores and a significant amount of growth and profit, may not have existed.

Howard E. Wasdin

I want to share some insight into why someone would want to be a SEAL. A lot of us faced obstacles growing up. I didn't have any type of real nurturing as a kid. I hope people will relate to my story and go, 'Hey, if this guy can do it, so can I.

Howard Fast

Either you get a chance to be a kid when you are a kid, or you don't grow up.

Ian Thorpe

This Is Me”: ”For the record, I am not gay and all my sexual experiences have been straight. I'm attracted to women, I love children and aspire to have a family one day … I know what it's like to grow up and be told what your sexuality is, then realising that it's not the full reality. I was accused of being gay before I knew who I was.

Ice T

Hip-hop is the fountain of youth. You just don't grow up if you were there. My son's 20. I'm on the same channel he's on. We wear the same clothes, we feel the same thing. It's a weird, weird generation we're in right now.

Ice T

I have to grow with my audience.

Ice T

I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.

Ian Mcewan

For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense. Of course, they have memories. Of course, time shifts a little for them and Christmas comes round in the end. But they don't feel it. Today is what they feel, and when they say 'When I grow up,' there is always an edge of disbelief - how could they ever be other than what they are?

Hugh Mackay

Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a culture in which they can be entertained and informed, and in which they can communicate effectively, without having to master any but the most rudimentary literacy skills?

Hugh Laurie

I think that’s the lesson you learn in life. As you get older you realize you’re never going to grow up and you’re never going to be ready. And you may, as well, do things now, don’t wait

Hugh Hefner

The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I also had my film idols.

Hugh Hefner

I'm never going to grow up. Staying young is what it is all about for me.

Horace Walpole

Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow To Be old friends?

Hugh Johnson

If I thought Cisco was going to grow 40 percent for one year, I would never pay two-plus the growth rate. But if I thought it was going to be a five-year deal, I would.

If home prices level off, that can knock down growth by 1 or 2 percentage points, from 3.5 percent to 1.5 percent.

If growth in the U.S. slows significantly, all of Asia's exporters will feel it.

If growth comes up (increases) then we'll be able to leave all (schools) open.

I feel like I've grown and become a more consummate performer. I feel like I've chiseled out a more distinctive niche.

Philipp Meyer

I'd grown up in a working class neighborhood in Baltimore, a place hard hit by the offshoring of numerous heavy industries - steel, textile, shipbuilding.