Growing Quotes · Page 109

I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and…

— Chinua Achebe

I was a big fan of 'The Smurfs' growing up, even though by default - my mom used to force me to…

— Jayma Mays

I was a huge 'Star Trek' fan. I loved the 'Twilight Zone' growing up. In the future, I hope to create some…

— Seth MacFarlane

Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.

— Julie Burchill

I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school,it just didn't exist there.

— Finn Wittrock

My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference…

— Mark Hoppus

The coldest growing seasons of the future [will be] hotter than the hottest of the past. Is agriculture adapted to that? I…

— Cary Fowler

I'm not the same Sebass as I was before. It wasn't hard at all. It's just a process of maturing, growing up.

— Sebastian Janikowski

In America, we don't have a growing economy. We don't have jobs being created at a replacement level for those we had…

— Rush Limbaugh

Leftovers make you feel good twice. First, when you put it away, you feel thrifty and intelligent: 'I'm saving food!' Then a…

— George Carlin

I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was…

— Julian Assange

I found growing up that love and sexuality was a wonderful way to understand existence. When we love it takes us beyond…

— Frederick Lenz

The word ‘philanthropy’ brings up an image of somebody who’s had an illustrious career, has retired and is giving to highly established…

— Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

The God idea is growing more impersonal and nebulous in proportion as the human mind is learning to understand natural phenomena and…

— Emma Goldman

In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a…

— Salman Rushdie

I wanted to be a nun. I saw nuns as superstars. When I was growing up I went to a Catholic school,…

— Madonna Ciccone

The mind is incredible. Once you've gained mastery over it, channeling its powers positively for your purposes, you can do anything. I…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

The development of European integration can be divided into two phases. The first era ended with the Maastricht Treaty. It was a…

— Vaclav Klaus

One reads the truer deeper facts of Reconstruction with a great despair. It is at once so simple and human, and yet…

— Anonymous

I believe you can never stop growing and learning and I've been very fortunate to have been working since I was 10…

— Taylor Lautner

I started inventing things, and then I couldn't stop, like beavers, which I know about. People think they cut down trees so…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom. But the personality formed in an environment…

— Judith Lewis Herman

I am extremely proud of our remarkable men and women who serve in our military, but the reality is that this is…

— Don Young

People who write about issues like poverty or terrorism are a part of the elite, and the distance between the elite and…

— Pankaj Mishra

We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.

— Jock Sturges

Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.

— Elizabeth Edwards

I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing.

— Paul Simon

Of course, I know by growing older, I'm going to become stronger, smarter, and know the game better.

— Giannis Antetokounmpo

English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.

— Zadie Smith

When I was growing up and watching 'The Sweeney,' the notion of police officers being an inch away from the villains that…

— Lennie James

Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.

— Cargill Gilston Knott

I didn't have a father when I was growing up, and I vowed to be there with my kids.

— Kenyon Martin

Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

— Carl Jung

When I realised I wasn't Michael Jackson and I was this 10 year old boy growing up in the suburbs, I was devastated

— Darren Hayes

I love snacks, but I'm kind of growing out of them. I'm getting into fruit and Clif Bars.

— Maddie Ziegler

The children with the streamlets sing, When April stops at last her weeping; And every happy growing thing Laughs like a babe…

— Lucy Larcom

I was a lifeguard. It was my summer job growing up, and I never saved anyone. I never had to, thank goodness.

— Amber Heard

When I was growing up, the people who liked the Beatles, I didn't like, so I didn't pay attention to them.

— Trent Reznor

I feel growing up in Mumbai is an advantage, as we grow up speaking so many languages that when we go abroad,…

— Zubin Mehta

There is no happiness in life, there is no misery, like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin