Famous Quotes & Sayings

Debra Wilson

Chick Corea was a great influence on me, musically, as I was growing up.

Dan Auerbach

I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to Led Zeppelin, either. We all probably obsessed over the same old blues records growing up.

Elizabeth Scott

I always wanted to be grown up. When I was little I couldn’t wait to be a teenager and go to high school. When I got there I wanted to be done with it, wanted to get out into the world, the real one, and live in it. The thing is, that world doesn’t exist. All growing up means is that you realize no one will come along to fix things. No one will come along to save you.

Elizabeth Scott

The thing is, that world doesn't exist. All growing up means is that your realize no one will come along to fix things. No one will come along to save you.

Elizabeth Janeway

Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?

Asafa Powell

I know, I'm like a kid. Maybe I was a bit too spoilt growing up. Everything just came like I wanted it to.

ASAP Rocky

I just want my fans to grow up and enjoy the music first, I don't want to change the world that's not what my music is about.

ASAP Rocky

For me, growing up in Harlem and then migrating down to SoHo and the Lower East Side and chillin' down there and making that my stomping ground... That was a big thing, because I'm from Harlem, and downtown is more artsy and also more open-minded. So I got the best of both worlds.

ASAP Rocky

I thought highly of myself growing up. I still do. There's not really much somebody can say to me to bring down my confidence or anything.

Ashleigh Brilliant

In a democracy, every little wrong idea may grow up to become national policy.

Arabella Weir

As I was growing up, it was made clear that the fat me wasn't welcome, that a thin person was expected and awaited, and impatiently so.

Apolo Ohno

Vancouver is an amazing city and luckily, growing up in the Seattle area, I was able to immerse myself into the culture at a young age, traveling back and forth across the border for skating competitions as a youngster.

Ashley Jensen

I don't even think places like the National Youth Theatre (NYT) are necessarily about wanting to be an actor when you grow up. They're about meeting people from different backgrounds and different religions and different cultures, and mixing with people that you wouldn't ordinarily meet.

Ashley Judd

When we were growing up, we were so poor that our heritage was the only thing we had. Mama would say, 'Kids, pour more water in the soup. Better days are coming.'

Ashley Greene

I'm always changing. I still have the same morals and values and foundation of who I was, growing up in Jacksonville, FL, but I'm such a different person from who I was when I was 17. You live and you learn and you grow.

Berry Gordy

It's like losing a son because I loved Michael and Michael loved me. But you know, as when people grow up and they make their own decisions and they move forward, there's a distance, and I think that Michael in some cases might have gone too far with some of the things he was doing.

Bernie Siegel

If nothing has helped you decide, go ask a child. Children know what they need, and more surprisingly, the know what we need. Adults think. Kids respond with their feelings. They don't think about what you will think of their answer, so they just speak the truth-if you can get to them before junior high school age. At that time, they grow up, stop feeling loved, become depressed and start thinking-and what they are thinking about worries me.

Benjamin Graham

Both a priori reasoning and experience teach us that as as these funds grow larger the geometrical rate of growth by compound interest ultimately defeats itself.

Benjamin Graham

Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors.

She said she didn't want to grow up and do nothing.

William Butler Yeats

Oh, who could have foretoldThat the heart grows old?

Some nights, we'll have guys that look like all-conference. It's been difficult. We are going through some growing pains. I take it personally. We need better leadership on the floor.

She has grown tremendously from last year. She's a wise and very heady setter.

She has grown so much. You'd think that she'd been performing for 100 years (because of her range).

Sixteen percent growth is outstanding. There's no other way to put it.

Donald Rumsfeld

Since no nation threatens China, one must wonder: Why this growing investment?

Meghan Trainor

Since my father is a musician as well, he taught me growing up that if you can play jazz, you can learn all instruments and write on them. He wanted me to be a songwriter that can do anything in any genre. I'm all about doing every genre.

Chris Johnson

She really grows on people after they get to know her personality.

Picabo Street

She just has a lot of growing up to do ? and lose the tiara.

Most of what's left is just organic growth, which means you have to find ways to grow your traffic. Clearly, our growth rates are slowing, and you see that each and every quarter.

Mobile penetration is unlikely to grow by more than 20 percentage points this year.

Michael Fitzpatrick

Mild weather and growing stockpiles can't be ignored much longer.

Bruce Beresford

When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only white man in this unit full of black men.