Growing Quotes · Page 106

Music education is very important. I think that for me growing up, I was disciplined very hard at home.

— Sean Mackin

People associate me with Al Green and Curtis Mayfield, but these aren't people that I listened to growing up. I got into…

— Van Hunt

In summers, while growing up in India, we often slept in the courtyard under the stars.

— Kalpana Chawla

Its consistency of what comedy can do and what comedy can be.Growing up with that show [The Simpsons] shaped my worldview.

— Eric Andre

What I want to do is, I want to put together a nice list of those guys who I really did admire…

— John Cena

No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce.

— Thomas Sowell

Kids don't fight in minor hockey anymore. There's very few fights in junior and college hockey. So growing up, all these guys…

— Wayne Gretzky

'Buffy' is about growing up. 'Angel' is really about already having grown up, dealing with what you've done, and redemption.

— Joss Whedon

I think the best thing about my job is that I have my life documented, which not many people get to have.…

— Kirsten Dunst

For it's home, dearie, home--it's home I want to be. Our topsails are hoisted, and we'll away to sea. O, the oak…

— William Ernest Henley

We are growing from a cheerful small town where everyone waves off their front porch to the subway of New York City…

— Jimmy Wales

When I first joined SAG, there was another John Reilly. My dad was John Reilly, too, but growing up I was John…

— John C. Reilly

I feel like everything you learn as an actor growing up is wrong. You're supposed to hit your mark, find your light…

— Joaquin Phoenix

I was a big fan of Maradona growing up and of the current crop Ronaldo is good but Messi is the best…

— Roy Keane

To give them what I never had heals me. Some days I look at them and almost start to cry. I think,…

— Rosie O'Donnell

Growing up, I was very conservative in my wardrobe, so when I first joined the Pussycat Dolls, the biggest challenge was wearing…

— Nicole Scherzinger

L I K E is like a bunch of dandelion seeds falling beautifully on the ground. It's a soft and good feeling…

— Seohyun

Unrestrained automobility, hedonism, individualism, and conspicuous consumption cannot be sustained because they take more than they give back. A spiritually impoverished world…

— David W. Orr

I think I really thought I was a boy until I was ten years old because my parents divorced when I was…

— Eliza Dushku

Rearing three children is like growing a cactus, a gardenia, and a tubful of impatiens. Each needs varying amounts of water, sunlight…

— Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

Growing up after the Second World War in a Jewish family, I really understand that, and have members of my family who…

— Jill Stein

Growing up, I was always the only black kid on my team and (sometimes) I'd get questions from my friends when I'd…

— Jarome Iginla

Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it while really it is finding…

— C. S. Lewis

We are going through historic times, and my vision is a world, first of all, in which America continues to be that…

— Barack Obama

“He could pour himself into my little paper cup heart and my emptiness would finally have a meaning.”

— Jennifer Elisabeth

When I was growing up, rock & roll helped give me my sense of identity, but I had to search for it.

— Trent Reznor

You know, my mother's beautiful, my dad was a really handsome man, and there was a lot of talk about looks when…

— Courteney Cox

I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality…

— Gary Shteyngart

When I was growing up listening to music, it was 2004, when The Starting Line and Finch and The Used were kind…

— Kellin Quinn

I aint perfect but at least I'm trying to be, theres a difference I learn everyday there for I'm forever growing as…

— Anonymous

The Opportunity Divide doesn't just keep our students disconnected from the mainstream economy; it prevents our businesses from growing.

— Gerald Chertavian

Of course, yes, I watched 'Dora' growing up. I'm bilingual, and she's like my icon.

— Isabela Moner

There is more danger of numerical sequences continued indefinitely than of trees growing up to heaven. Each will some time reach its…

— Gottlob Frege

I think kids growing up, if they were picked on and feeling inferior at 12, they're going to feel that way at…

— Sylvester Stallone

Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my…

— Lionel Richie

The most important beauty is not that with which you were born, but the beauty of character which grows through a woman's…

— Oscar de la Renta

Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency.

— Jan Schakowsky

I was very lucky growing up, and I got all my dad's and aunts' toys from the 1950s and 1960s and loved…

— Jasmine Guinness

When I was growing up, I never really knew my father. I didn't get to know my father until I was about…

— Cole Hauser

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

— Barbara Kingsolver