Growing Quotes · Page 74

Growing is an important part of the business, but more important than that is to get better.

— Steve Madden

With the right support, a child growing up in a dysfunctional household, who was destined for a lifetime on benefits could be…

— Iain Duncan Smith

Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as…

— Jane Rule

I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and…

— Jackie DeShannon

I now opened my Bible and began to study, and faith has been growing ever since.

— Dwight L. Moody

If kissing is man's greatest invention, then fermentation and patriarchy compete with the domestication of animals for the distinction of being man's…

— Tom Robbins

Growing up in the '60s and early '70s, with the space flight and the Apollo program, I always loved planes. I always…

— Stewart O'Nan

My parents listened to music in our house all the time when we were growing up. It was everything from Dolly Parton…

— Clare Bowen

The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.

— Lev Grossman

Space travel leading to skylife is vital to human survival, because the question is not whether we will be hit by an…

— Gregory Benford

Fools curse over their mistakes, and blame others instead. The Wise laugh at their mistakes, learn and move on.

— Collins Hasty

My best friend growing up really put the bug in my ear about acting. We created this one hour-and-a-half improv play when…

— Katherine Moennig

Growing up, I always wanted to be in punk bands, so I'm really enjoying the harder, heavier element. It's always been my…

— Florence Welch

I was brought up in black neighborhoods in South Baltimore. And we really felt like we were very black. We acted black…

— Jerry Leiber

I always knew I wanted to be a character in the movies. When I was growing up, I had to have a…

— Josh Ryan Evans

Growing up, I stayed in a child's place. My father was murdered when I was 20. I was a model and never…

— LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

Growing up, I'd already decided I wanted to be a beatnik. A Bohemian poet, I thought. Or a musician. Maybe an artist.…

— Charles de Lint

My parents were very strapped for cash when we were growing up.

— Gemma Collins

Because their bones are growing, they can only sleep in certain positions, obviously. The crucifix and the swastika tend to be the…

— Dylan Moran

And so if your competitors aren't growing, if there isn't a competitive reason to grow, and you want focus and discipline to…

— Jim Cantalupo

Growing up with Bronx Irish parents during an era of protests against the status quo, I was especially committed to doing the…

— Greg Fitzsimmons

I played softball and basketball growing up. I really wanted to play football but both parents said no. I was mad for…

— Jordin Sparks

Those who behave in ways that displease you are sending out their disharmony toward you because that is what they have to…

— Wayne Dyer

To be able to have winning in your blood growing up, whether it was pounding my little brother or trying to beat…

— Jordan Spieth

I take all of my life lessons, which some people might call 'mistakes,' and apply them to my future so that I…

— Kimberly Caldwell

But time growing old teaches all things.

— Aeschylus

I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.

— Candace Kita

I don't think we should stop emphasizing race because I think, you know, race is still very, very important, and we have…

— William Julius Wilson

I was not very strong growing up, and my uncle used to look at me, like, 'This kid is not growing up,…

— Dikembe Mutombo

I was born in Faridabad and I spent a major part of my growing up years in Delhi before shifting to Mumbai.…

— Sonu Nigam

The spiritual ambiguity growing up made me really latch onto a faith - Protestantism - that was somewhat conventional. Everyone else was…

— Sufjan Stevens

I don't think I've ever worked on a project [Paper Girls] that is this personal. We draw so much on our memories…

— Cliff Chiang

We weren't poor growing up on Long Island, but it wasn't lavish - just a regular middle-class house.

— Criss Angel

Growing up as a young black girl in Potomac, Maryland was easy. I had a Rainbow Coalition of friends of all ethnicities,…

— Issa Rae

Growing up in the public eye was really tough. When you're 14 and your body is changing, your life is changing, and…

— Mandy Moore

Growing up I was as big a tomboy as you can get.

— Eliza Dushku

This moment, this being, is the thing. My life is all life in little. The moon, the planets, pass around my heart.…

— Alexander Eliot

I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day.

— Ellen DeGeneres

I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.

— Bruce Jenner

Change, of course, is growth, and anything that is not growing is either paralysed or it's not alive, because that's life; we…

— Isabel Lucas