Growing Quotes · Page 117

I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle…

— Ric Ocasek

Growing old is an emotion which comes over us at almost any age; I had it myself between the ages of 25 and 30.

— E. M. Forster

In my time as Archbishop of Canterbury I've seen a growing sense of unity and mission.

— George Carey

I talked to Marvel about 'Thor' at one point, but I didn't want to do Thor. It wasn't something I read growing…

— Louis Leterrier

I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting…

— Miguel

“Your footsteps will have more to say about your spiritual life than knowledge attained.”

— Ricky Maye

My reward in life for growing up a little bit was that Mary Steenburgen came into my life, and we have been…

— Ted Danson

“I’ve grown up defined by this desperate, undeniable, ‘can’t breathe’ kind of space inside of myself and I’m afraid that the diagnosis…

— Jennifer Elisabeth

President Obama's policies have been categorical failures for our country. Unemployment is over nine percent, our deficits are growing, and small businesses…

— Anonymous

Im from northern Virginia, but I grew up next to the West Virginia border, so it was hills and farmland. We had…

— Hilarie Burton

Same sex marriage is a disgrace to the nation and to God. When I was growing up, ‘ungqingili’ [homosexuals in isiZulu] could…

— Jacob Zuma

These things have a life of there own and never existed when I was growing up certainly worrying when one would get…

— Stockard Channing

Moving from an opposition party to a governing party comes with growing pains. And, well, we're feeling those growing pains today. Doing…

— Paul Ryan

Growing up as a young black girl in Potomac, Maryland was easy. I had a Rainbow Coalition of friends of all ethnicities,…

— Issa Rae

Some of the greatest values that have influenced me through the years are those that I learned as a boy growing up…

— Billy Graham

Growing up in Harlem, I had the chance to practice with a Negro League team. At fifteen, I was over six feet…

— Walter Dean Myers

Weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing. When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Cupid and my Campaspe play'd At cards for kisses - Cupid paid: He stakes his quiver, bow, and arrows, His mother's doves,…

— John Lyly

What we face is a comprehensive contraction of our activities, due to declining fossil fuel resources and other growing scarcities. Our failure…

— James Howard Kunstler

This is the mythosphere. It's made up of all the stories, theories and beliefs, legends, myths and hopes, that are generated here…

— Diana Wynne Jones

I spent six years as a child growing not far from Las Vegas.I use to sit on the porch of our home…

— Marco Rubio

“I have realized; it is during the times I am far outside my element that I experience myself the most. That I…

— C. JoyBell C

No Temple made by mortal human hands can ever compare to the Temple made by the gods themselves. That building of wood…

— Vera Nazarian

In the last few decades entire new categories of waste have come to plague and menace the American scene. Pollution is growing…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

All the time we wondered and wondered, who is this person coming/growing/turning/floating/swimming deep, deep inside.

— Crescent Dragonwagon

Growing up in Versailles is like growing up in a museum, and the people living there are almost the security.

— Thomas Mars

The girls show more skin these days, but I think, generally, they behave the same way as when I was growing up.

— Cecily von Ziegesar

Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible.

— Jennifer Jason Leigh

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

— Mortimer Adler

I think that's okay and that is part of growing up and that is good, to learn that the world isn't always…

— Morgan Saylor

When I was growing up, all the art that touched me was lens-generated, like Gerhard Richter, or Polke, Rauschenberg, Warhol.

— Wolfgang Tillmans

I've only ever known growing up across different countries - to me it's just fun.

— Lily Collins

My favorites growing up were always Billy Joel, Michael Jackson... and Placido Domingo.

— Josh Young

What's fantastic is that there's a real growing appreciation for performance-capture technology as a tool for acting.

— Andy Serkis

I didn't go to drama school, so I feel like I did all my growing up on 'Hollyoaks.'

— Nathalie Emmanuel

My kids are growing up, but due to work commitments, I wasn't able to spend time with them.

— Sanjay Mishra

I always thought I desperately wanted a husband and a big family, because I didn't have it growing up.

— Drew Barrymore

It is important that we are looking at renewable resources and growing businesses based on them.

— Jeff Van Drew

I remember as a teen being able to eat more than my father. I was growing so fast and my body couldn’t…

— Saskia de Brauw

Get growing. Back yourself and make mistakes. It's your mistakes and observations that are your greatest tutors.

— Costa Georgiadis