Growing Quotes · Page 101

Growing up, you look at guys like Jeff Thomson as heroes, so going past him is pretty special.

— Brett Lee

I … noticed something striking about my growing cast of deniers. None of them were deniers.

— Lawrence Solomon

Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that.

— Blake Lively

When my sister and I were growing up, she was made out to be the goody-goody one.

— Princess Margaret

Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.

— Mandy Moore

More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing.

— Dean Kamen

For guys, growing older is fine. Gray hair and wrinkles aren't considered a bad thing.

— Nigel Barker

If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again.

— Mary Beth Danielson

A nation is not going mad when it does extravagant things, so long as it does them in an extravagant spirit. But…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

People suffer from pain and call it evil, yet in reality it may be growing pains of the Spirit-the changing of the…

— Henry Thomas Hamblin

To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive…

— E. F. Benson

I think there's a growing courage among the younger generation of American writers. Because of the more superficial treatment of characters taking…

— Mohsin Hamid

The music I heard growing up, since there was no TV or cinema or record covers, I didn't know if it was…

— Robert Palmer

I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face that…

— Yunjin Kim

Coming from a filmy background, I have seen everything growing up, but even at that point of time, it never really fascinated…

— Sonakshi Sinha

The vice and drunkenness among the lowering laboring classes is growing to frightful excess, and the multitudes of low Irish Catholics ……

— John Pintard

To dream magnificently is not a gift given to all men, and even for those who possess it, it runs a strong…

— Charles Baudelaire

In such a world as ours the idle man is not so much a biped as a bivalve; and the wealth which…

— Horace Mann

The Nothing is spreading," groaned the first. "It's growing and growing, there's more of it every day, if it's possible to speak…

— Michael Ende

I used to think that God's gifts were on shelves one above the other and that the taller we grew in Christian…

— F.B. Meyer

“We are misidentified—because we ourselves keep growing, keep changing,127 we shed our old bark, we shed our skins every spring, we keep…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When I got into film school, it really formed a sense of who I am and my sense of feeling like an…

— Meera Menon

Whenever there is negativity in you, if you can be aware in that moment that there is something in you that takes…

— Eckhart Tolle

The intensive and concerted effort to exclude references to religion or God from public places is an attack on our founding principles.…

— Anonymous

Almost 24 million children - one in three - are likely growing up without their father involved in their lives.

— Arne Duncan

You have indeed done much since the new century began to give shape and substance to the growing, the insistent desire that…

— Henry Campbell-Bannerman

We all have this moment, when your folks first see you as someone not growing up to be them.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I am growing stronger. I am a stone being excavated by the slow passage of water; I am wood charred by a…

— Lauren Oliver

Charles Barkley, I used to watch him growing up. Then I met him. He was a big teddy bear.

— Shannon Miller

When I was growing up, I read Britney Spears' and Mariah Carey's biographies. I just wanted to see how they did it…

— Pixie Lott

It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and…

— Elizabeth Aston

Growing up in Eugene, Oregon, there was everything from The Notorious B.I.G. to Weezer playing in my car.

— Mat Kearney

As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed.

— Erik Estrada

I went through some real challenges growing up. I joined the Army two weeks out of high school when I was 17,…

— Geoff Davis

Nobody thought that I was going to make it to the NBA. I only had a couple of believers growing up.

— Dwight Howard

My working and personal relationship with President Obama is marked by growing trust. I appreciate this.

— Vladimir Putin

The fact is I am growing old too fast, alas! I feel it, and yet work I will, and may God grant…

— John James Audubon

Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth.

— Brian Aldiss

Growing older is like climbing a mountain: the higher you get, the more strength you need, but the further you see.

— Anonymous

Growing up I never got into comic books at all. I didn't have any inspiration for it.

— Scarlett Johansson