Quotes about grow
growing-up hero chinese
When I was growing up I had three wishes. I wanted to be a Lindbergh-type hero, learn Chinese, and become a member of The Algonquin Round Table. John F. Kennedy
growth fruit process
The processes of growth are gradual, bearing fruit in a decade, not a day.
growing alive american-history
American history is not something dead and over. It is always alive,always growing, always unfinished.
growing-up children school
Let's concede that we have decided to let our children grow up in two separate nations, and lead two separate kinds of lives. If, on the other hand, we have the courage to rise to this challenge to name what's happening within our inner-city schools, then we also need the courage to be activist and go out and fight like hell to change it. Jonathan Kozol
growing-up philadelphia pittsburgh
If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream.
growing-up cities missing
You could grow up in the city where history was made and still miss it all. Jonathan Lethem
growing-up ethics oppression
If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can detect oppression and inequality even where the apparent victims see nothing wrong. Jonathan Haidt
growing-up america wealth
Something has happened where you almost never grow up in America. Maybe it's the greater wealth. Jonathan Ames
growing-up writing play
When I was growing up, my parents asked me what I wanted to do, and I said that I wanted to live in Springfield. They were like, "Well, that's not how it works. There is an actor who play Homer, and someone who writes what Homer says." So, I was like, "Well, I want to write what Homer says." Jonah Hill
growing-up games giving
I learned the game on the radio. Russ Hodges and Lon Simmons were the Giants broadcasters when I was growing up in the Bay area, and they taught me about the game. They taught me about the subtleties of the game, but they also gave me the game and let me enjoy it. That's the main thing, whether it's TV or radio. You have to give the fans the game, and if it's a Giants broadcast, the vast majority are Giants fans. In terms of story lines, most would be about the Giants. Jon Miller
growing-up father grew
When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why. Katey Sagal
growing-up self-esteem kids
I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid.
growing-up white focus
I was wowed by Margo Jefferson's memoir, Negroland, which is about growing up black and privileged in Chicago in the fifties and sixties. It was a window into an alien world. Obviously, I'm not black, but what was really alien to me was her family's focus on respectability. I was never taught when to wear white gloves, what length skirt is appropriate. Justine Larbalestier
growing-up children childhood
Every child should be given the right to grow up and become a productive citizen. This will not happen unless, at the very least, basic food needs are met. Ending childhood hunger should be a national priority. Pamela Sue Martin
growth coercion evolution
Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution. Paramahansa Yogananda
growing-up kids thinking
After Bottle Rocket, I started getting acting work. People started offering me roles in movies. It wasn't something that I thought about as a kid growing up in Texas. Actually, maybe I would have thought of it as a possibility, but it seemed so crazily far-fetched to think that you could work in movies that I really didn't ever quite imagine it. It was just lucky. Owen Wilson
growing-up growing scorsese
Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
growing-up sunday night
As I was growing up, I did a lot of talent shows. I won fifteen Sunday nights straight in a series of talent shows in Macon. I showed up the sixteenth night, and they wouldn't let me go on any more. Whatever success I had was through the help of the good Lord. Otis Redding
growing-up mean sleep
Time to grow up. Time to stop bawling. Time to do SOMETHING. And that means, if I'm not sleeping, my nerd-herd isn't sleeping either-sun or no sun. P. C. Cast
growing-up eye voice
I want to be a Huntress when I grow up!" shouted a voice from the throng. Kyna rolled her eyes and shook her head. "You can't be a Huntress, Liam. You're not a centaur and you're not a female.
growing-up kids wanted
When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley. Paul McCartney
growing-up surprise inevitable
That's the terrible thing about growing up. You lose friends. It's inevitable. It's not like it's a surprise. But it is terrible.
growing-up our-generation interesting
The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.
growing-up thinking decision
Think back to yourself at age 18. I know I was mighty different than the Patti I am today. As we grow up, we grow out of our haircuts, our apartments and - often times - our romantic decisions. Patti Stanger
growing-up kids people
Growing up, there are always those kids who are only happy when they are making someone else upset. That is unfortunately just how some people are. And their parents were fine. Some people are just born with bad wiring. Patton Oswalt
growing-up cutting men
Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again Pericles
growing-up book favourite
When I was growing up, 'Anna Karenina' was one of my favourite books. Paullina Simons
growth immigration population
Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth. Paul Watson
growing-up children play
Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty. Mary Oliver
growing-up young grows
Too old to die young, and too young to grow up. Marty Feldman
growing-up daddy parent
My parents divorced, and I didn't have much of a daddy growing up. Pink
growing-up able hell
You ought to be able to grow up in a place and not have to get the hell out of it when you turn eighteen. Philipp Meyer
growing-up work-out house
I like to work out. I work out hard when I get to it, but it's so sporadic, I'm not sure it counts at all! I eat pretty much anything, but I eat high-quality food. There was never a packet of chips or box of candy in my house when I was growing up. Ever. Rachael Taylor