Growing Quotes · Page 131

What is wrong with encouraging students to put "how well they're doing" ahead of "what they're doing." An impressive and growing body…

— Alfie Kohn

The universe is a soul making machine, and part of that process is learning, maturing, and growing through difficult and challenging and…

— Lee Strobel

I have these "pinch me" moments when I realize I got to be the thing I wanted to be growing up. I'm…

— Jennifer Weiner

To create the protection for the corporations, government is actually growing bigger than ever before, in every part of the world. Yet…

— Vandana Shiva

Growing up, as a kid, my father was always there.

— Jason Pierre-Paul

Turkey has a young and growing population. Until recently, this was perceived as a problem, a burden that Turkey would bring to…

— Ali Babacan

I was a huge Muppet fan growing up. I want to bring it back to the early '80s Muppet movies, when the…

— Jason Segel

Growing up closes so many doors. The modern world doesn't allow for miracles, so we don't see them. It's a very precious…

— Tim Lebbon

When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician.

— George Papandreou

I'm Asian-American, and I was the only Chinese girl growing up in a white school in San Diego. So I understood what…

— Tess Gerritsen

I'm a guy who's evolving, who's growing, who's played a lot of football and been through a lot.

— Darren Waller

Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was…

— Jessica Hagedorn

Our growing, robust economy is able to provide the average American citizen access to the best social program there is - a…

— J. D. Hayworth

That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing…

— Johnny Cash

As a little girl growing up in Southside Jamaica Queens, if anyone would've told me I'd have my own perfume one day,…

— Nicki Minaj

I was taught growing up that you always do what you believe.

— Eric Reid

I definitely love kimchi. The biggest influence that eating so much Korean food growing up had on me was that I have…

— Patrick Stump

Growing up during the Depression, I worked for the Forest Service and CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps). I tend to work very, very…

— Raymond Burr

When you come from a big family, you see that, growing up, you're learning how to share. Your sisters have got your…

— Gisele Bundchen

I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.

— Taylor Swift

For me, it's good fortune to be between two cultures. Growing up in Germany taught me a lot. I am a world…

— Tarkan

I understand why some women/girls/ladies don't want to be women-identified 'cuz it totally complicates your band identity and no one seems to…

— Tobi Vail

I thought highly of myself growing up. I still do. There's not really much somebody can say to me to bring down…

— ASAP Rocky

I have a lot of growing up to do. But I think, 'Hell, is it too late?'

— Ronnie Wood

In summers, while growing up in India, we often slept in the courtyard under the stars.

— Kalpana Chawla

The world allured me & in an unguarded moment I listened to her siren voice. From that moment I seemed to lose…

— Emily Dickinson

Again, the American people expect us to do what they are doing. It's tightening the belt, it's learning how to do more…

— Eric Cantor

Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will rise 23…

— Lester R. Brown

I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing…

— Mark Morris

My favorite player growing up was Scottie Pippen.

— Robert Covington

My dad took me to loads of concerts when I was growing up.

— Tom Walker

We've forgotten what it's like not to be able to reach the light switch. We've forgotten a lot of the monsters that…

— Fred Rogers

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

— Geoff Davis

When I was growing up, hand washing was a ritual, but now it's a necessity. A child dies every 15 seconds from…

— Kajol

Growing a moustache wouldn't really coordinate with the group dynamics.

— Seungri

I've had many idols growing up. The inclination for idol worship comes naturally to me.

— Kevin Corrigan

If I wasn't acting, I would probably be working with children. I was a camp counselor growing up and I loved it.

— Julianne Nicholson

I'm a runner from sports. I've been a runner, but I wasn't a cross-country runner or anything like that. I played a…

— Scott Bakula

Transformationally motivated people are the growing edge of a great continuity of souls reaching back to the very earliest times.

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

Parapsychology seems to be growing further away from the progress and excitement of the rest of consciousness studies.

— Susan Blackmore