Growing Quotes · Page 103

Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

— Oscar Wilde

In the course of an average lifetime anyone growing up in a house with such a clock will hear the tune over…

— Dudley Moore

Golf is growing, and there are more good young players, but you don't see them going abroad. It's so expensive to travel.

— Retief Goosen

The hardest part about growing is letting go of what you were used to and moving on with something you're not.

— Melchor Lim

I don't know. I'd be a lot better off if I would've studied more when I was growing up, you know?

— Brian Regan

We plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He's more interested in growing our character than having us look finished.

— Bob Goff

I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical.

— Robert A. Heinlein

My writing is consistently influenced by everything I watched and listened to growing up, so it's just this crazy collage of everything.

— Michael Giacchino

In the '60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protest song. There were…

— George Clooney

I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university…

— Hugh Dancy

Growing up, you always want to hang with your dad - go fishing or whatever. But my dad was always working, so…

— Victor Oladipo

What does seem to be a constant is that I write more emotional stories the older I get. I think a lot…

— Karin Tidbeck

Sir, the year growing ancient, Not yet on summer's death nor on the birth Of trembling winter, the fairest flowers o' th'…

— William Shakespeare

One of my biggest inspirations growing up was Whitney Houston, so I was devastated to hear about her passing. I'm from East…

— Naturi Naughton

Like most North Americans, I'd been raised on the notion that milk is the first food, and everybody must like it because…

— Marvin Harris

My kids are obviously growing up very privileged, but I want them to have a servant's heart. We do community service as…

— Kelly Clarkson

More than ever now, I believe it's so important to look as real and true to life as possible, because nobody's perfect.…

— Kate Winslet

A work in progress quickly becomes feral. It reverts to a wild state overnight. It is barely domesticated, a mustang on which…

— Annie Dillard

Finally, if you still are growing, you reach the highest archetype, the archetype of the spirit. This is the time when you…

— Wayne Dyer

I take a less gloomy view. A good life means fighting to be human under growing difficulties. A lot of young folk…

— Alasdair Gray

It's my motto," said Isabelle, with a sultry smile. 'Nothing less than seven inches.' Meliorn gazed at her stonily. 'I'm talking about…

— Cassandra Clare

This will sound like I grew up on another planet, except for those people who are past 55, 60 maybe. When I…

— Sherry Lansing

I think that people all grow up and have their same personalities, but you can say, "Oh, I can see the roots…

— Ann Patchett

For me, the child is a veritable image of becoming, of possibility, poised to reach towards what is not yet, towards a…

— Maxine Greene

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

Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind.

— David Levithan

“Growing plants from seeds is slow, but it's a quiet romance. The moment they sprout, peeking over the soil, it feels like…

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

This woman talk like she from so deep in the country she got corn growing in her shoes.

— Kathryn Stockett

For a person to be truly discipled and growing in their faith, they need more than one person discipling them.

— Francis Chan

Every time you feel like doing the wrong thing but choose to do the right thing, you are growing!

— Joyce Meyer

I'm pretty shy when I go home because I was pretty shy growing up, and I think I go back to that…

— Kerry Condon

Growing up too fast and I do recall, Wishin' time would stop right in it's tracks.

— Kenny Chesney

It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing Am I any good Will I ever work…

— Jacqueline McKenzie

Growing the mycelium of the Chaga mushroom under laboratory conditions provides an ecologically friendly alternative supply of this unique medicinal mushroom.

— Paul Stamets

Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I…

— Sylvia Plath

“What is a Wanderess? Bound by no boundaries, contained by no countries, tamed by no time, she is the force of nature’s…

— Roman Payne

Change and renewal are themes in life, arent they? We keep growing throughout life.

— Susan Minot

“...although I'm eighty years old, I still consider myself a student. ... Every day learning, learning.”

— Dalai Lama XIV, Desmond Tutu, Douglas Abrams

The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

— Nikola Tesla

I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California.

— Phillip Lim