Quotes about grow
growing-up knowledge order
To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in order to rediscover the play of anticipations or echoes, to go right back to the first seeds or to go forward to the last traces, to reveal in a work its fidelity to tradition or its irreducible uniqueness, to raise or lower its stock of originality, to say that the Port -Royal grammarians invented nothing, or to discover that Cuvier had more predecessors than one thought, these are harmless enough amusements for historians who refuse to grow up. Michel Foucault
growing-up ambition hockey
I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked. Michael J. Fox
growing-up reality want
In reality, I never want to grow up. Michael Jordan
growing-up kids littles
Growing up as a little kid, I wasn't always this size. I got picked on a lot. Terrell Owens
growing-up children married
No one aspires as a child to grow up and enter into a domestic partnership. But they do aspire as children to grow up and be married. Ted Olson
growth important influence
China is very important. The future growth of China, China's influence is bound to rise. Manmohan Singh
growth rate
India's growth rate will be accelerated, but in the process, America would also benefit.
growth inevitable
[Urbanization] is the inevitable outcome of the processes of growth and the processes of modernization.
growing-up air television
I watched a lot of old television growing up - a lot of Nick at Nite. I watched 'Rhoda', 'Mary Tyler Moore', and 'I Love Lucy.' Growing up, I loved 'My So Called Life' and was devastated when that went off the air. Mamie Gummer
growing-up eye people
Growing up in the public eye was really tough. When you're 14 and your body is changing, your life is changing, and people are watching every step you make, it's really hard to deal with. But I was pretty lucky, people didn't watch me that closely. Mandy Moore
growing-up kids jail
The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail. Malik Bendjelloul
growing-up issues body
I don't really have an issue with showing certain parts of my body. I'd rather not, but it's not a big deal. Growing up in Sweden, it's natural over there. Malin Akerman
growing-up blue white
When I'm born I'm black, when I grow up I'm black, when I'm in the sun I'm black, when I'm sick I'm black, when I die I'm black, and you...when you're born you're pink, when you grow up you're white, when you're cold you're blue, when you're sick you're green, when you die you're grey and you dare call me coloured. Malcolm X
growing today world
The greatest menace to the world today is the growing, exploiting, irresponsible imperialism. Mahatma Gandhi
growth consciousness aspiration
Let the content of Swaraj grow with the growth of national consciousness and aspirations.
growth plant grows
Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely.
growth morbid hinduism
Touch-me-notism that disfigures the present day Hinduism is a morbid growth.
growth
You cannot have growth without change. John C. Maxwell
grows
To reach your potential you must grow. And to grow, you must be highly intentional about it.
growing-up knowledge animal
We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing because it is for that very singing that the bird was made, so there is no need to ask why the human mind undertakes such toil in seeking out these secrets of the heavens. ... And just as other animals, and the human body, are sustained by food and drink, so the very spirit of Man, which is something distinct from Man, is nourished, is increased, and in a sense grows up on this diet of knowledge, and is more like the dead than the living if it is touched by no desire for these things. Johannes Kepler
growing-up thinking opera
I didn't grow up imagining myself as an opera composer. Only once in my entire adolescence did I attend an opera. I went and saw Aida at the old Met, didn't understand a thing about it, and thought it was pretty awful. But I think I had it in my genes without even realising it. John Adams
growing-up house magic
When I was growing up, all the women in my house were using needles. I've always had a fascination with the needle, the magic power of the needle. The needle is used to repair damage. It's a claim to forgiveness. It is never aggressive, it's not a pin. Louise Bourgeois
grows
Things which do not grow and change are dead things. Louise Erdrich
growing-up moon simple
I love this simple maiden, She grows upon me more and more, And--ask the moon who 't was that kissed, Last night upon the shore! George Arnold
growing-up latin our-generation
It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality.
growing-up pimples grew-up
Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples. James M. Barrie
growing-up catholic important
Growing up in a New Jersey suburb, my Catholic faith was an important part of my young life, shaping the way I approached the world. James Lecesne
growing-up fall taken
As it happened, I didn't grow up to be the kind of woman who is the heroine in a Western, and although the men I have known have had many virtues and have taken me to live in many places I have come to love, they have never been John Wayne, and they have never taken me to the bend in the river where the cottonwoods grow. Deep in that part of my heart where artificial rain forever falls, that is still the line I want to hear. Joan Didion
growing-up hot-headed trying
As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed. Erik Estrada
growing-up silly mean
You know, you grow up with the image of John Travolta being super cool - 'Saturday Night Fever,' Brian De Palma, handsome young god... he, in reality, is a very silly man. And I mean that in a good way. He'll walk around the set talking in little weird voices, making people laugh. Eric Stoltz
growing-up dad father
Growing up, my father was a financial analyst for an oil company. He was just a regular dad. And when I would say, Hey, come see my play, hed say, Sure. Hed see one, Oh, good play - you know, very typical dad reaction. Eric McCormack
growing-up theatre outsiders
I never felt cool growing up. I was a bit of an outsider, but I discovered theatre very early on, which got me through.
growing-up thinking growing
Being in the business and growing up in L.A., I think I turned out pretty OK. Emma Roberts