Growing Quotes · Page 85

Your book grows. The early part of your book is growing still while you are writing the later part of your book.

— Walter Mosley

I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about…

— Trevor Rabin

Growing up in the entertainment industry, I've had a lot of people tell me I'm not good enough.

— Renee Olstead

We're supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right?

— Bill Hicks

It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.

— Lady Gregory

I wasn't even a big comedy nerd. A lot of the comedians I know - a lot of my friends are comedians…

— Demetri Martin

Progress in the Christian life is exactly equal to the growing knowledge we gain of the Triune God in personal experience.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

I started growing roses. I enjoyed the craft of it and that they're difficult to look after; they can provide joy.

— Yannis Philippakis

I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern'…

— Pat Conroy

Like all girls, when I was growing up, I always worried about this bit of me being too fat or that bit.…

— Jennifer Saunders

The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding…

— Walter Kaufmann

I'm terrified of being poor, I always have been. It's growing up as a Methodist. I'll spend that bit of extra money…

— Kevin McCloud

Growing up in Niagara Falls, Ontario, I took classes as a young girl and became very serious about ballet, and also performed…

— Cathy Marie Buchanan

Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years…

— Hal Sparks

Every generation faces a challenge. In the 1930s, it was the creation of Social Security. In the 1960s, it was putting a…

— Eileen Claussen

Some beliefs are rigid, like the body of death, impotent in a changing world. Other beliefs are pliable, like the young sapling,…

— Sophia Lyon Fahs

A good story is alive, ever changing and growing as it meets each listener or reader in a spirited and unique encounter,…

— Katherine Paterson

If your purse no longer bulges and you've lost your golden treasure, If times you think you're lonely and have hungry grown…

— Edgar Guest

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

— Ethan Hawke

Jung said there are four archetypes adults go through, and these archetypes are reflected in the development of my work. The first…

— Wayne Dyer

Trees have about them something beautiful and attractive even to the fancy, since they cannot change their places, are witnesses of all…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

On one hand we encourage and allow major pharmaceutical companies to openly hook vast sectors of our population on narcotics, and then…

— Anthony Bourdain

So many of my friends have always been women growing up... I always feel slightly more comfortable around women because with guys…

— Paul Feig

It's a taboo subject. How the dead are betrayed by the living. We who are living--we who have survived--understand that our guilt…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I love movin'. I was observant growing up, watching Michael Jackson and John Travolta. I'd close my eyes, see the moves.

— Jon Heder

The thing about growing up with Fred and George," said Ginny thoughtfully, "is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if…

— J. K. Rowling

Accept yourself as you are right now; an imperfect, changing, growing and worthy person.

— Denis Waitley

I'm not a natural comedian, as an artist. I studied comedy growing up. I would watch Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy and Martin…

— Brandon T. Jackson

I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.

— Barry Hannah

I remained Ryan's companion on the Hollywood party circuit, growing inured to sex and drugs before I was in my teens.

— Tatum O'Neal

There's something about strength that I really admire, that I failed to see a lot of when I was growing up.

— Michelle Rodriguez

Mum and dad were very much friends, and up to life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up,…

— Kate Winslet

Growing up, the main thing I was ashamed of was my voice. It is very effeminate.

— Leslie Jordan

The very substance which last week was grazing in the field, waving in the milk pail, or growing in the garden, is…

— Isaac Watts

I never felt cool growing up. I was a bit of an outsider, but I discovered theatre very early on, which got…

— Eric McCormack

It was so inspiring for me to watch tennis growing up. I thought I was really good playing, until my brother told…

— Christine Taylor

I'd seen 'Interview with A Vampire' and saw Dracula movies growing up, but I never thought, 'I love vampires; I have to…

— Alan Ball

India is growing at 8 percent. China is growing at 7 percent. And that for them is a catastrophically low number.

— Donald Trump

Everyone, when you're a teenager and you're growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a…

— Ben Folds

We should show Washington how we do it in North Dakota. I'm running to stop the over-regulating of our economy and start…

— Heidi Heitkamp