Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Andy Serkis

Gorillas have a belch vocalization, which is sort of like, 'I'm OK, you're OK.' They do a pig grunt, which is reprimanding. They sing, they laugh, and they hoot, which grows into a chest-beating display.

Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old.

For the last several years, as you know, we've demonstrated outstanding growth in student achievement, and it didn't happen by accident.

Isaac Marion

We have to remember everything. If we don't, by the time we grow up it'll be gone forever.

Isaac Asimov

If you're born in a cubicle and grow up in a corridor, and work in a cell, and vacation in a crowded sun-room, then coming up into the open with nothing but sky over you might just give you a nervous breakdown.

Iris Apfel

I just never want to completely grow up.

Elle Fanning

Beauty is a complex theme, for sure. We all have a different concept and opinion regarding it, but we all like to look at things that are aesthetically pleasing. I had the typical high school experience, where you question what is beauty, and you're comparing yourself to others, it was just part of growing up.

Elle Fanning

I can't really remember my life without movies... [Growing up in Hollywood] is no different really. I make movies the same way other kids play tennis or go to piano lessons. I'm trying to get better at what I want to do, just like other kids are trying to get better at what they want to do.

Ellen DeGeneres

When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

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.

I couldn't stop crying. It's so big for him, for the team, for the curling club, for the province of Newfoundland and for the sport of curling and for Canada. It's huge. It's so important for the growth of the sport.

Larry Ellison

I don't think that's an unreasonable target, ... through a combination of acquisitions and organic growth.

Joe Girardi

I don't think there's any question about the heart of these kids. They want to win, and they want to be big-league players. It's us growing up as a team and eliminating minor mistakes and getting better every day.

I'd say they've grown up a lot in the last two weeks.

Richard Lamm

I don't think growth pays its own way.

I don't see Cisco as a growth story right now.

E. B. White

I am predicting steady and substantial growth each year. It's a niche product, but there are many niche applications out there. We're just scratching the surface.