Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Johnson

Somebody's planting a lot of marijuana out there, and it's not local people just growing it for personal use, ... These people are growing to make a profit. A big profit.

John Cornyn

There just seems to be a growing sense of momentum,

Barbara Wagner

As kids growing up, it wasn't unusual for him to take us to rehearsals and sometimes to opening night parties on Broadway. These were the people he worked with.

Joey Harrington

As much potential as we have in our receiving corps, ... we still have a lot of growing to do.

A lot of it comes down to blocking. We've got to get the job done with the offensive line and handling the ball. We had some kids injured and some kids that were in positions they haven't played before, but they've got to step up. We have to learn to play and we're going to go through some growing pains like that.

A lot of people are thinking about moving down the valuation spectrum, and you can find some reasonably priced, growing small-cap names.

Alvaro's growing up each game. He has half of a season in him and he's starting to attack. We have a lot of quickness, but Alvaro's the one guy on our team who is really quick with the ball.

Bill Clinton

They may walk with a little less spring in their step, and the ranks are growing thinner, but let us never forget, when they were young, these men saved the world.

Mark Kelly

This is something we've yearned for. We were kind of growing out of our skin here.

This is an amazing, wonderful accomplishment for this university. It is a reflection of our growing credibility.

I tried to make it as real for them as possible. The thing about being reality is that reality is not always fun. They did a big piece of growing up that day.

It's a growing sport, period. It's supposed to be one of the fastest-growing sports in the United States.

It's a growing phenomenon, I'll tell you that.

Arthur Young

It's not growing at the number we want. Next year there's opportunity to improve that but I'm not very comfortable saying double-digit growth will come back.

There was nothing exceptional about growing up as the son of a congressman.

Scott Morrison

This is an independent, self-sustaining industry that is growing (at) more than twice the rate of the pharmaceutical industry. It is here to stay.

This is the first time for everyone. There are going to be some growing pains.

Jason Flemyng

A lot of pubs in London are now faceless, expensive yuppy bars. Not like when I was growing up. The pub used to be, and should be, the pillar of community.

Jason Flemyng

If you grow up poor you're always going to worry about money, no matter how successful or lucky you become. I'm not moaning about what actors get paid - I'm very, very lucky - but the difference between what leading actors get paid and supporting actors get is a lot.

Jarome Iginla

Growing up, I was always the only black kid on my team and (sometimes) I'd get questions from my friends when I'd say, `I want to be in the NHL' and they'd say, `Well, there are no black people or not very many in the NHL' and as a kid, you'd wonder why. But overall, I didn't really face any racial difficulties. Nothing too bad or too lasting.

Jarvis Cocker

As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course, as we all know from fairy stories, when you achieve that ambition, you find out you don't want it.

Jarvis Cocker

Its OK to grow up, just as long as you don't grow old. Face it you are young.

Jared Leto

It was great growing up a nomad. To this day I still love hiking and back packing.

Jane McGonigal

Growing up, I was prone to anxiety.

Ethan Zuckerman

When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.

Ethan Hawke

I enjoyed meeting Emma [Watson]. I have a soft spot in my heart for child actors growing up. I know how hard that is. Having gone through that experience myself, I have a lot of sensitivity to it. For lack of a better word, I just feel like I love these kids, and I want them all to grow up and love themselves, and not get caught up in the wrong things, and to learn all the different things this profession has to give, and to understand it.

Ethan Hawke

The constant buzz and pressure and noise and static of the Internet, and the way it makes young people feel makes it difficult to grow up and develop the way one might want to.

Erin Gruwell

I grew up in a very progressive family and with a great educational system, and I asked myself, 'Why doesn't everybody have these opportunities for a good education? So why not give back to these kids who didn't grow up with the same privileges I had?

Erin Morgenstern

Grow up, Bailey." "That is precisely what I'm doing," Bailey says. "I don't care if you don't understand that. Staying here won't make me happy. It will make you happy because you're insipid and boring, and an insipid, boring life is enough for you. It's not enough for me. It will never be enough for me. So I'm leaving. Do me a favor and marry someone who will take decent care of the sheep.

Jason Katims

People think about autism as something with kids. Well, those kids grow up.

Carmen Electra

My biggest downfall is my inner voice. Growing up as a dancer makes you very judgemental with yourself. You learn to look at yourself in the mirror and you criticise every line in your body. It's never perfect. I grew up with this because I had ballet every day in school.

Evan Goldberg

Growing up in Vancouver, it's not like growing up in Middle America or the middle of Canada. It's a very movie town.

Evan Wolfson

I'm not in this just to change the law. It's about changing society. I want gay kids to grow up believing that they can get married, that they can join the Scouts, that they can choose the life they want to live.