Quotes about grow
growing-up college thinking
The promise of learning is a delusion.... Tomorrow would alter the sense of what had already been learned, that the learning process is extended in this way, so that from this standpoint none of us ever graduates from college, for time is an emulsion, and probably thinking not to grow up is the brightest kind of maturity for us, right now at any rate. John Ashbery
growing-up mistake long
You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind. Joely Richardson
growing-up kids frustration
When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business. Joey Ramone
growing-up want crowds
I want to grow up with my audience. I don't expect to be getting through to the younger pop crowd. I learned that from Paul Simon. Joe Strummer
growing-up forever lasts
When I was growing up in the '60s I would have thought that westerns would last forever. Joe Dante
growing-up lines down-and
it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be. Jodi Picoult
growing-up voice sick
Sara: "You are so brave," I tell her, and then I smile. "When I grow up, I want to be just like you." To my surprise, Kate shakes her head hard. Her voice is a feather, a thread. "No Mommy," she says. "You'd be sick.
growing-up mistake thinking
Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up
growing-up teenager moving
I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they have to grow up and move past JK Rowling they can move to me. From Jo to Jodi!
growing-up doors faces
The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face.
growing-up mean kids
No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst.
growing-up one-day may
...as it turned out, growing up was just as she'd feared. One day when your alarm clock rang, you got up and realized you had someone else's thoughts in your head... or may be just your old ones, minus the hope.
growing-up people parent
Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.
growing-up wall smart
All teenagers knew this was true. The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face. For years, parents tell you that you can be anything, have anything, do anything. That was why she'd been so eager to grow up-until she got to adolescence and hit a big fat wall ofreality. As it turned out, she couldn't have anything she wanted. You didn't get to be pretty or smart or popular just because you wanted it. You didn't control your own destiny, you were too busy trying to fit in.
growing-up kids thinking
Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.
growing-up people missing
I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't.
growing-up winning firsts
She’s the kind of person who either dies tragically at twenty-seven, like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else grows up to win, like, the first-ever Nobel Prize for Awesome. John Green
growing-up moon tiny
Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets.
growing-up hands time-passing
Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up. Patti Smith
growing-up television ministry
But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it. Pat Robertson
growth panacea
Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many. P. Chidambaram
growth dollars economic
In short, both experience and economic theory imply that the US could now t to a more competitive dollar without experiencing either increased inflation or decreased economic growth. Martin Feldstein
growth world growing
Although investors have been concerned with China's slowing growth rate, China remains one of the largest and fastest-growing economies in the world. Mark Mobius
growing-up singing technique
I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing up. Mark Morris
growing-up children average
I was never happy as a child, so it wasn't something I took for granted.i did'nt grow up as an average, american child. An average child grows up with an expectation of being happy. Marilyn Monroe
growth quality gone
Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists. Noam Chomsky
growth
The entire socioeconomic system is based on production for profit and a growth imperative that cannot be sustained.
growing-up justice growing
Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying. Nikki Giovanni
growing-up thinking air
When you grow up in Bel Air and shop only in expensive boutiques on Rodeo and Robertson, you develop a kind of allergy to anything unpretty -clothes, cars... even people... you start thinking that if you hang around unattractive people, their homeliness can be contagious. Nicole Richie
growing-up fun keys
I grew up in the south of Italy, next to the sea, which was a great place to grow up. The type of life we lived there was very relaxing. Just very fun, open-minded people. It was all very sociable and low-key. Nicki Minaj
growing-up grades fourth-grade
I learned the word non-conformist in fourth grade and immediately announced that I would grow up to become one. Nick Offerman
growing-up kind artistic
It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.
growing-up believe adults
I used to believe, although I don't now, that growing and growing up are analogous, that both are inevitable and uncontrollable processes. Now it seems to me that growing up is governed by the will, that one can choose to become an adult, but only at given moments. These moments come along fairly infrequently -during crises in relationships, for example, or when one has been given the chance to start afresh somewhere- and one can ignore them or seize them. Nick Hornby