Quotes about grow
growing-up stress war
Everybody is always talking about droughts and sea level rise, but when human civilization, with more crowding and greater resource depletion, is under that much stress, it translates into wars and huge displaced populations. The Syrian refugee crisis is just a first taste of what it's going to be like. I don't want my kids growing up in that kind of world. James Cameron
growing-up boys two
These boys, now, were living as we'd been living then, they were growing up with a rush and their heads bumped abruptly against the low ceiling of their actual possibilities. They were filled with rage. All they really knew were two darknesses, the darkness of their lives, which were now closing in on them, and the darkness of the movies, which had blinded them to that other darkness, and in which they now, vindictively, dreamed, at once more together than they were at any other time, and more alone. James A. Baldwin
growth environmental damage
Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage. Jacques Yves Cousteau
growth seeing
There is something about seeing myself improve that motivates and excites me. Jackie Joyner-Kersee
growth sap bud
Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud. George Eliot
growing-up kids snitch
When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching. It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters, Geoffrey Canada
growing-up father mean
Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male.
growing-up thinking mortality
I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly. Gary Shteyngart
growing-up america russia
I was very, very sick when I was growing up in Russia. The ambulance constantly came to our house. I had horrible asthma that is easily treated in America, but they didn't even have inhalers back in Russia.
growing-up anger class
Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger. Gary Oldman
growth personal-growth my-own
For my own personal growth I had to set out on my own. Frank Press
growing-up kids skills
Some parents were awful back then and are awful still. The process of raising you didn't turn them into grown-ups. Parents who were clearly imperfect can be helpful to you. As you were trying to grow up despite their fumbling efforts, you had to develop skills and tolerances other kids missed out on. Some of the strongest people I know grew up taking care of inept, invalid, or psychotic parents--but they know the parents weren't normal, healthy, or whole. Frank Pittman
growing-up parent want
My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that. George J. Mitchell
grows
Great deservers grow Intolerable presumers. George Herbert
growing-up latin school
When I was growing up, I was as socially outcast as any nerd could possibly be. I was in the chess club, I brought D&D stuff to school, I had every game system you could imagine, I spent countless hours at arcades, computer camp, loud presence in the Latin Club. All that stuff. Chris Hardwick
growing-up effort nerd
Growing up in the 70s and 80s, it took effort to be a nerd. You had to seek out the nerd stuff.
growing-up memories school
I was very competitive growing up. I can't even play chess anymore because I used to play tournament chess in school. There's too much sense memory of sitting in front of a chess board and getting super intense about it. It's ruined the game for me.
growing-up faults looks
Now I'm growing and I can see my faults. I can look at myself objectively and say I can't blame anyone else; it was my own damn fault. Christopher Atkins
growing-up dad house
My dad is a carpenter, a joiner, and I used to watch him make things. So I always imagined that I'd do something where I made things, too. I was really more interested in architecture growing up because I would work with my dad on houses. Christopher Bailey
growth balance development
Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the individual parts, and the coherence of the environment as a whole. One or the other always dominates. Christopher Alexander
growing-up woods midnight
One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when I was about 8, I used to enjoy just walking alone through the wood late. Eleven p.m. Midnight. Later. Christian Bale
growing-up dad character
I don't think I was particularly in need of superheroes. I never had any fascination with Superman or Spider-Man or a Batman kind of character. If it happened at all, it was imagined characters that I had invented. My dad was a role model for me. He was a fascinating man. There was intrigue and entertainment growing up with him. He gave me an edict that I still pursue: “Life should never be boring.
growth world green
Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off. Chris Patten
growing-up rejection supportive
Growing up in a family of actors, what's great about it is that they're very supportive and they understand what it's like to be an actor - the rejections, the highs and lows... and having a common language with them is great because you have shorthand speech. Chris Pine
growing-up home safe
I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go. Chris Isaak
growing-up ocean fishing
I didn't grow up in the ocean -- as a matter of fact -- near the ocean -- I grew up in the desert. Therefore, it was a pleasant contrast to see the ocean. And I particularly like it when I'm fishing. George W. Bush
growth financial excuse
The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.
growing-up successful parent
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
growing-up heart sunshine
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...
growing-up track people
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
growth may succeed
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.
growing-up real kids
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 E. Wasdin
growing-up kids chance
Either you get a chance to be a kid when you are a kid, or you don't grow up. Howard Fast