Growing Quotes · Page 117

My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.

— Sandra Bullock

Growing up, I learned the value of sticking up for my brown-skinned friends amongst my white-skinned friends.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

I've matured - just growing up and learning more about my sport and more about myself.

— Michelle Carter

There is safety in small beginnings and there is unlimited capital in the experience gained by growing.

— Henry Ford

When I was growing up, I wanted to be my half-sister Lucy. She was 14 years older than me and was impossibly…

— Emilia Fox

When I was a kid growing up, I ate my vitamins, worked out because Hulk Hogan told me to.

— The Miz

Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn't know that hope is just another phase you'll grow out of.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I liked Roy Jones, Sugar Ray Leonard, Ali... those were the guys I was looking at growing up.

— Nonito Donaire

I felt I grew up when I was about 28. I feel pretty much the same. I get reminded when I look…

— Naomi Watts

Growing up, I thought my grandfather was dead. Later, I learned he was alive, but my family pretended he didn't exist because…

— Deborah Pryce

There is perhaps no surer road to peace than the one that starts from little islands and oases of genuine kindness, islands…

— Dominique Pire

Well, I see myself in the same business but a lot more successful and doing more movies maybe behind the camera. I…

— Matthew McGrory

I come from a very sporty background because my mom is a gymnastics teacher. So growing up I was never sitting watching…

— Gal Gadot

I've learned that the perfect picture that I hold in my mind of what my life looks like is constantly changing, growing,…

— Leigh-Allyn Baker

I love love. Growing up, I always thought it was a state, and I'd wait for it to appear. Now I think…

— Greg Saunier

Growing up in the days when you still had to punch buttons to make a telephone call, I could recall the numbers…

— Joshua Foer

“And in Kandahar he was taught about survival, about fighting and killing and hunting, and he learned much else without being taught,…

— Salman Rushdie

I think most people, when they take a look at the candidates and the positions of the candidates, realize that protecting this…

— George W. Bush

The infinite reservoir of future grace is flowing back through the present into the ever-growing pool of past grace. The inexhaustible reservoir…

— John Piper

And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me… And as to…

— Walt Whitman

In its essence the Gospel is a call to make the experiment of comradeship, the experiment of fellowship, the experiment of trusting…

— L. P. Jacks

One attribute of the human being is the potential to keep on growing, to keep on developing. And I think there's room…

— William Segal

It would convert the Treasury of the United States into a manufactory of paper money. It makes the House of Representatives and…

— James A. Garfield

The ability to double our biomass - not by waiting several million years and growing to be the size of an elephant…

— John Medina

If you plant your own seeds in your garden you won't have to see what someone else is growing, because you will…

— Tyrone Porter

If you are becoming more easeful, peaceful & useful then you know you are growing.

— Swami Satchidananda

Now there is a growing feeling, it's something that David Cameron led on actually, he said this some time ago, that MPs…

— Theresa May

I think sitting in the car with your parents and listening to music is an essential to growing up.

— James Vincent McMorrow

For me, Robbie Williams was a massive influence when I was growing up. But also Cheryl Cole. Being in her presence was…

— Louis Tomlinson

I think most of my tastes were British, as far as comedy went, when I was growing up.

— Scott Adsit

The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Time is running out for Iran to address the international community's growing concerns about its nuclear program.

— Barack Obama

Growing up sometimes forces us to confront the distance between our childhood hope and the truth.

— Sara Shandler

Fashion is in my blood. Growing up, I was always clacking around the house in my mother's shoes.

— Sophia Bush

I am like the she-wolf / I broke with the pack / I fled to the mountains / Growing tired of the flatlands.

— Alfonsina Storni

I can't say Boston is 'home-home.' It's definitely a place I'm growing accustomed to. It's such a great sports town.

— Wes Welker

At my growing years of 18 to 21 years old in the Minor Leagues, I dreamed of being a Philadelphia Phillie.

— Ryne Sandberg

When I look in the mirror I see the girl I was when I was growing up, with braces, crooked teeth, a…

— Heather Locklear

Because we are continually growing in the Lord, preachers and lay people alike must be open to the Lord's correction.

— Benny Hinn

I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there's no bubble to escape into.

— Zoe Lister-Jones