Growing Quotes · Page 112

The most important job you have is growing your people, giving them a chance to reach their dreams.

— Jack Welch

Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing…

— Ben Okri

As a kid, I was always mistaken for a girl. Before you reach that age where your sexuality starts to display itself,…

— Matt Reeves

My curls were my worst nightmare growing up.

— Inbar Lavi

I grew up as a very sarcastic person. I was always the class clown, and to date girls I had to be…

— Kurt Fuller

There is a growing recognition about China as a power in the ascent, and there is a question out there about what…

— Richard Armitage

I never got the fascination with the royals as I was growing up. I had no particular issue with them but didn't…

— Mary Katharine Ham

But, sir, the great cause of complaint now is the slavery question, and the questions growing out of it. If there is…

— John Brown Baldwin

There's a certain type of character that you can't help but come in contact with growing up and living in Brooklyn and…

— Steve Buscemi

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Growing up listening to rap music, you almost feel like you should have haters. That's an important part of being a successful…

— Ezra Koenig

When my children were growing up, we began every family meal - which included breakfast and dinner every day - with a…

— Ezekiel Emanuel

I believe in process. I believe in four seasons. I believe that winter's tough, but spring's coming. I believe that there's a…

— Steve Southerland

A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not. That poor miserable brat…

— Christina Stead

Let me tell you a story about when I was growing up in Spain. Many Sundays, we would invite 30, 40, 50…

— Anonymous

I was a handful growing up.

— Olivia Wilde

I wasn't able to relate to anyone on TV growing up, so I wanted to bring my own experiences to the screen.

— Ellen Wong

Growing up I wanted to be a mixture of Audrey Hepburn and Lucille Ball. Apparently I told my mum when I was…

— Dianna Agron

Of course, growing up, I was a big fan of rap so that was something that I got into. I was a…

— Kirko Bangz

With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive.

— B. H. Liddell Hart

Shift from being afraid of making a mistake to being afraid of not making a mistake. If you are not making any…

— Susan Jeffers

It’s part of growing up, I suppose…you always have to leave something behind you.

— Neil Gaiman

An idea is growing in foreign policy circles in Washington ... that there is no turning back. We are stuck in Iraq…

— Georgie Anne Geyer

Paolo Maldini is someone I loved at AC Milan and looked up to as a player. I think he had so much…

— John Terry

When we postpone the harvest, the fruit rots, but when we postpone our problems, they keep on growing.

— Paulo Coelho

When I was growing up in the 1970s, my dad wouldn't take me to Ibrox or Parkhead because of all the sectarianism.

— Douglas Henshall

If I can do anything in this time of my career, I want to make it easier for other actresses and girls…

— Sandra Bullock

When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in…

— Enya

In North Carolina, homes and businesses alike show a growing demand for natural gas.

— Mark Robinson

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

I think Jefferson and George Washington would strongly discourage you from growing marijuana, and their tactics to stop you would be more…

— Newt Gingrich

We continue to receive reports that the morale of some elements is being damaged, .. They are being affected by the impunity…

— John Day

I definitely had an advantage growing up in New York. It's different playing on a New York playground.

— Stephon Marbury

Growing up in England, I was constantly surrounded by the Arthurian legend.

— Jamie Campbell Bower

I think everyone has their awkward phases. Growing up isn't easy for everyone. I definitely had my awkward moments.

— Emily Ratajkowski

To be an elite defense, you gotta keep growing every single day.

— Leighton Vander Esch

Growing up, my two favorite books were Woody Allen's 'Side Effects' and Phyllis Diller's 'Housekeeping Hints.' I carried that Phyllis Diller book…

— Jill Davis

We are a nation that loves the peace. We will never stop growing and developing but we know how to protect ourselves…

— Moshe Ya'alon

I am growing as an actor and person.

— Sunny Singh

Can it be that a generation of school children is growing up heedless of the simple truth that the Pentagon's centrla role…

— Alexander Cockburn