Growing Quotes · Page 156

Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall…

— Mahmoud Darwish

Every day in every way I am growing more prosperous, successful, victorious. I am made for peace, health, and plenty, and I…

— Catherine Ponder

We're like lightbulbs. If bliss starts growing inside you, it's like a light; it affects the environment.

— David Lynch

There is a growing sense among Americans outside the Beltway that while President Obama may be a good talker, he is a…

— Kathleen Troia McFarland

Growing up, we didn't have any money - we shopped where you picked your shoes out of a bin. When I was…

— Sherri Shepherd

Time flies. Time waits for no man. time heals all wounds. All of us want more time. Time to stand up. Time…

— Blondie

I'm a pretty chill and easygoing person; most people in Australia are, as well. I don't think I ever really saw a…

— Iggy Azalea

When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if…

— Ellen DeGeneres

Growing up, my favorite player was either Derek Jeter or Manny Ramirez.

— Cody Bellinger

If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up.

— Mike Singletary

I want to keep growing. I should take a couple steps every year if I want to be one of the best…

— Ilya Kovalchuk

The fundamental reason why carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is critically important to biology is that there is so little of it.…

— Freeman Dyson

There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not…

— George Orwell

When I was growing up in Huntsville, Alabama, this is where the space and rocket center was. This is where all of…

— Jimmy Wales

When I was growing up, there was a feeling in one's living room as much as in one's local gallery that a…

— Andrew O'Hagan

I'm definitely a perfectionist. I started entertaining so young. I think naturally my personality is that of a perfectionist, and then on…

— Keke Palmer

A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty.…

— Michel de Montaigne

One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth…

— Patricia Briggs

I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if…

— Rickie Lee Jones

The gap between the rich and the poor cannot keep growing without nothing being done about it.

— Kofi Annan

My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I've played a prostitute now three times. I don't know how it's come about that way. It's just a matter of me…

— Brittany Snow

My grandpa was a cowboy. He roped cattle out in Texas and Arizona. Growing up, I'd see him maybe once a year…

— Austin Butler

I'm not a great hunter. But I have fired guns in the past, when I was growing up. But it was part…

— Scott Wilson

In a way, I had a very good and normal childhood. I had loving and caring parents. But I had a lot…

— Elyn Saks

That's always been like a fascination to me - watching my family, three sisters and a brother and all growing up basically…

— Jessica Lange

... people are growing up in the slack flicker of a pale light which lacks the concentrated burn of a candle flame…

— Adrienne Rich

Parents don't come full bloom at the birth of the first baby. In fact parenting is about growing. It's about our own…

— Fred Rogers

I think growing up on a farm in a certain amount of isolation, with not a lot of friends nearby, makes you…

— Kristen Schaal

I kind of grew up a guitar nerd and I tried to figure out how to shred on an acoustic guitar as…

— Michael Gungor

[Harriet Tubman] spoke passionately about her parents, her friends, shared stories about her childhood - learning about all these elements and aspects…

— Aisha Hinds

The question I ask myself is: have I really just become a squeamish middle-aged man, or has something happened to the horror…

— Mark Gatiss

Then ego goes on growing, because the society needs you as an ego, not as a Self. The Self is irrelevant for…

— Rajneesh

Life is about growing, but it's also about making peace with who you are.

— Debby Ryan

I find the growing intervention by the football authorities in strictly footballing matters a rather worrying trend.

— Kenny Cunningham

I see a good marriage as being like two tall trees growing beside each other, each nourishing the grace of the other.

— Lawrence Fagg

Trees acquire strength by growing slowly and flexing with the pressures of nature. Us too.

— Gene Simmons

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

— James Vincent McMorrow

I was an outcast growing up with a bunch of Christian people. My father didn't go to church, and that was not…

— Del Shannon

Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear,…

— Abbie Cornish