Growing Quotes · Page 55

I've never met anyone with a perfect upbringing. It seems to me that life on planet Earth just doesn't work that way.…

— David Simon

[Winning an Oscar] was a beautiful thing that happened. It is in my house, and every time I look at, I see…

— Penelope Cruz

Being in the hearing world was more of a challenge than being in the Deaf world, because I had to learn how…

— Jack Jason

Dance is an art, so day by day, it's growing and there are new things that can be done.

— Stephen Boss

An attitude of permanent indignation signifies great mental poverty. Politics compels it votaries to take that line and you can see their…

— Paul Valery

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

— Swami Satchidananda

I started growing up in a hurry and taking a lot of the philosophy I'd heard from church as a kid a…

— Dave Brubeck

Acting goes back a little ways for me. I supposed I started with theater growing up. It was mainly a social outlet…

— David Lambert

If you look at how many thousands and thousands of pages, Web pages, are being added to the Internet every day, it's…

— William J. Clinton

I had been a kind of natural mystic my whole life, growing up there in Tennessee next to the river. Somehow, that…

— Coleman Barks

Happiness comes from growing what thrives, not merely survives.

— Janet Macunovich

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts…

— Martha Gellhorn

How awful it was, thought Tessa, remembering Fats the toddler, the way tiny ghosts of your living children haunted your heart; they…

— Anonymous

I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

— Sally Quinn

In this time of extraordinary pressure, educational and social, perhaps a mother’s first duty to her children is to secure for them…

— Charlotte Mason

The nice thing about growing up in that kind of environment is you were exposed to so much -- music, plays, art…

— Perrey Reeves

I think would send a very strong message to Putin and to Russia that NATO countries and the United States are going…

— Mike Pence

We must make every effort to neutralize this threat peacefully, but be ever mindful of the growing danger Iran poses not just…

— Dave Reichert

She knew the intensity of adolescence, and knew no cure for it except growing up. And then one has age and experience,…

— Sara Paretsky

Growing up, I didn't know my parents were famous. I just thought they knew everybody. Everyone was always saying, 'Hi, Billy,' 'Hi,…

— Alexa Ray Joel

In 10th grade, I started playing defense. Mainly because we already had a great tailback. Once I started playing it, it just…

— Charles Woodson

In such a world as ours the idle man is not so much a biped as a bivalve; and the wealth which…

— Horace Mann

Far away in Montana, hidden from view by clustering mountain-peaks, lies an unmapped northwestern corner- the Crown of the Continent. The water…

— George Bird Grinnell

As long as I'm still growing as a musician, it keeps me inspired.

— Bryce Dessner

Women have waited millions of years, growing separate as another species, with visions and priorities no man-words, no man-measurements can comprehend.

— Kate Braverman