Growing Quotes · Page 126

I attempt to be who I am and it's fun. At the same time, growing up doing what I'm doing can be…

— Selena Gomez

Growing up, I always dreamed of winning an NBA championship, never a gold. A gold was something that never crossed my mind.

— Dwyane Wade

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has…

— Salvador Dali

The premium single-cup segment is the fastest-growing business within the global coffee industry.

— Howard Schultz

there is every reason to fear that the State is growing ever more powerful, more autonomous, more indifferent to its own inhabitants.

— Charles A. Reich

Growing old is not a thing to watch. It cannot be forgiven in others. Alone, it can be borne. Even indulged.

— Jennifer Stone

There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?

— Eddie Izzard

I remember growing up, saying you’re an artist it sounds pretentious but now it’s one of the only dignified things that you…

— Marilyn Manson

Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin.…

— Zooey Deschanel

Aye, well, he'll be wed a long time," he said callously. "Do him no harm to keep his breeches on for one…

— Diana Gabaldon

We started combining the use of light and the use of theatrics and the use of as many art forms as possible,…

— Alice Cooper

I've always felt this, from when I was growing up to now with my son Riley. We don't let them be little.…

— Melissa Peterman

I wasn't a dancer learning to play Baby Houseman. I was Baby Houseman learning to play a dancer. I was someone who'd…

— Jennifer Grey

The compensation of growing old ... was simply this; that the passion remains as strong as ever, but one has gained --…

— Virginia Woolf

We are all born with an open heart, but at some point as we are growing up, things happen in our lives…

— Agapi Stassinopoulos

That's what everybody tells me. "I would've had a great comic-book collection, but my mother made me throw them away." But when…

— Stan Lee

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

— Jill Stein

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

Neoliberal violence produced in part through a massive shift in wealth to the upper 1%, growing inequality, the reign of the financial…

— Henry Giroux

I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that's why it is growing; if it was perfect it…

— Anonymous

Most people think of the economy as producing goods and services and paying labor to buy what it produces. But a growing…

— Michael Hudson

Language would have evolved first as an internal object, a kind of "language of thought" (LOT), with externalisation (hence communication) an ancillary…

— Noam Chomsky

I thought I was growing wings— it was a cocoon. I thought, now is the time to step into the fire— it…

— Denise Levertov

I enjoyed meeting Emma [Watson]. I have a soft spot in my heart for child actors growing up. I know how hard…

— Ethan Hawke

I didn't really have idols growing up, but some of my friends were huge fangirls.

— Ella Purnell

I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow.

— Magnus Magnusson

Growing up, 'Newsday' was the paper that was delivered to my doorstep every day.

— Kevin Connolly

I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into…

— Clive Anderson

What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in…

— E. O. Wilson

If the economy is growing, people want to employ more workers. If you hire more labor, wages go up.

— Michael Hudson

Growing up I never got into comic books at all. I didn't have any inspiration for it.

— Scarlett Johansson

Charleston is an amazing place. I probably didn't appreciate it enough when I was growing up.

— Thomas Gibson

I was a hockey player growing up. Being a big guy and being imposing, I had to use my size to protect…

— Kevin Durand

Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.

— Jonathan Tropper

Growing older is like climbing a mountain: the higher you get, the more strength you need, but the further you see.

— Anonymous

Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth.

— Brian Aldiss

The fact is I am growing old too fast, alas! I feel it, and yet work I will, and may God grant…

— John James Audubon

My working and personal relationship with President Obama is marked by growing trust. I appreciate this.

— Vladimir Putin

Nobody thought that I was going to make it to the NBA. I only had a couple of believers growing up.

— Dwight Howard

I went through some real challenges growing up. I joined the Army two weeks out of high school when I was 17,…

— Geoff Davis