Quotes about growing
growing-up gymnastics splits
I did gymnastics when I was growing up and to this day I can still do the splits. Kristin Kreuk
growing opinion gifts-of-life
I'm constantly learning, and that is the greatest gift of life in my opinion - to always be learning and growing. Kristin Chenoweth
growing-up landscape way
The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does. Molly Parker
growing-up character thinking
I think I've always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual way we interacted with imaginary worlds was as characters: a bench was 'your' boat, leaves on a lawn were the fins of sharks out to get 'you.' Mohsin Hamid
growing-up shadow pakistan
Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s, I lived in the shadow of a tyrannical state.
growing-up boys poverty
I did not grow up in poverty. But I did grow up with a poor boy's sense of longing, in my case not for what my family had never had, but for what we had had and lost.
growing-up school kids
As I have pointed out time and again, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to send little kids to school than it is to let them grow up into young thugs who have to be sent to prison, not to mention the savings in the wear and tear on the nerves, property, and safety of the rest of the citizenry. Molly Ivins
growing-up school thinking
I was always intrigued when I was growing up, and then in engineering school, with the idea of a perpetual machine. I think of the Wal-Mart culture as that. Mike Duke
growing-up jamaican-music jamaicans
I came from a very strict background, and didn't hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up. Grace Jones
growing-up thinking jamaica
Growing up in Jamaica, the Pentecostal church wasn't that fiery thing you might think. It was very British, very proper. Hymns. No dancing. Very quiet. Very fundamental.
growing-up sorry eye
I'm really sorry for people growing up right now, because they have some cockeyed idea that they can get by with their eyes closed; the cane they're tapping is money, and that won't take them in the right direction. Grace Paley
growing-up believe thinking
We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people. Ja Rule
growing-up firsts celtic
I was always interested in myths growing up. So, first I got into some Roman myths, then I was interested in Norse, then Celtic, then I started spreading to all the other mythologies. Grant Morrison
growing-up growing growing-old
Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older. Georg C. Lichtenberg
growing-up thinking over-you
I think there comes a point where you have to grow up and get over yourself, lighten up…and forgive Jennifer Aniston
growing-up growing balls
I loved Lucille Ball growing up. Graham Norton
growing-up gay people
I've heard other gay people say when they were growing up they felt 'foreign.' Growing up, I was able to label these feelings as: 'I'm a Protestant.' It wasn't until I left, I thought: 'Oh, those weren't Protestant feelings.'
growing-up kids childhood
When we strive to remove all risk from childhood we also remove the foundations of a rational adulthood, and we eliminate the very experiences that will help kids grow up to be the empowered, creative, brave problem-solvers that they can and must be.
growing-up men boys
What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man. Gertrude Stein
growing-up writing emotional
I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences. Jim Hodges
growing-up successful parent
I guess that's one of the things about growing up in the fifties - it never occurred to me that you wouldn't be at least as successful as your parents. Hunter S. Thompson
growing-up heart sunshine
Who knows? If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix & a clean well lighted place full of sunshine and bromides and fast cars where almost everybody seems vaguely happy, except those who know in their hearts what is missing... And being driven slowly and quietly into the kind of terminal craziness that comes with finally understanding that the one thing you want is not there. Missing. Back-ordered. No tengo. Vaya con dios. Grow up! Small is better. Take what you can get...
growing-up track people
Growing up I always felt like I was living on the other side of the tracks. I knew the people on the other side had more resources, more money, happier families. Howard Schultz
growing-up real kids
I want to share some insight into why someone would want to be a SEAL. A lot of us faced obstacles growing up. I didn't have any type of real nurturing as a kid. I hope people will relate to my story and go, 'Hey, if this guy can do it, so can I. Howard E. Wasdin
growing-up kids chance
Either you get a chance to be a kid when you are a kid, or you don't grow up. Howard Fast
growing-up children gay
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. Ian Thorpe
growing-up son clothes
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
growing-up men thinking
I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
growing-up memories children
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? Ian Mcewan
growing-up fall skills
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 Mackay
growing-up thinking waiting
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 Laurie
growing-up idols impact
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
growing-up young grows
I'm never going to grow up. Staying young is what it is all about for me.