Growing Quotes · Page 92

Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me.

— Loretta Lynn

The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.

— Geezer Butler

I know that human prejudice - especially that growing out of race and religion - is cruelly inveterate and lasting.

— Grover Cleveland

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

— Bruce Jenner

As you have two more huge characters as Cable and Domino, 'Deadpool' is growing, and it's making 'X-Force' franchise bigger and bigger.

— Stefan Kapicic

I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.

— Matt Taibbi

I'm a good businessman. I pay my bills. Growing up in a situation where everything counted helps.

— Kim Cattrall

As a child growing up, it's going to be what you're going to remember most. What you liked or not liked then…

— Daniel Boulud

Every child is born with tremendous love for himself. It is the society that destroys that love, it is the religion that…

— Rajneesh

I am growing to love DC.This [Washington] is a beautiful city. I think every citizen should come see their capital. A lot…

— Sonia Sotomayor

It is the misfortune of contemporary leaders, across the whole spectrum of Australian life, that the community's demand for strong leadership is…

— Hugh Mackay

Shakespeare is absolutely big in Africa. I guess he's big everywhere. Growing up, Shakespeare was the thing. You'd learn monologues and you'd…

— Ishmael Beah

Single parent situations drive poverty and often lead to unsupervised kids. Many boys growing up without fathers often feel angry and abandoned.…

— Bill O'Reilly

Young people, we have this thing about us, this invincibility, because we're young and we're growing up and we want to have…

— Rihanna

All I knew growing up was that my father was married to and loved my momma, period. He worked hard, made some…

— Steve Harvey

My political opinions lean more and more to anarchy. The most improper job of any man, even saints, is bossing other men.…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

In the Middle East, where populations are growing fast, the world is seeing the first collision between population growth and water supply…

— Lester R. Brown

“Maybe freedom really is nothing left to lose. You had it once in childhood, when it was okay to climb a tree,…

— Peter Heller

Most importantly for me growing up, it was a spirituals, it was a gospels, it was James Cleveland, Aretha Franklin, Marion Williams;…

— Cornel West

What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world…

— Warren G. Bennis

If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while…

— William Duncan Silkworth

Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of…

— Henry Ward Beecher

'Friday Night Lights' was kind of like my college years because I did four seasons of that. It was my first series.…

— Jesse Plemons

That mirror, that's one I hate to let go, he said. That was my daughter's the whole time she was growing up.…

— David Wroblewski

I didn't really watch 'Dallas' growing up, as I was a bit young and into other things, like sports.

— Jesse Metcalfe

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the…

— Thomas Sowell

The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.

— Julius Erving

When it comes to dance hall music, I definitely listened to a lot of Vybz Kartel growing up or Gyptian and Mavado.

— Justine Skye

I'm trying not to let the anger and the violence that erupt take over my life. I guess it comes with the…

— Martin Scorsese

PUNK IS: the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to…

— Greg Graffin

It was a sign of growing up, when the dark made no more difference to you than the day.

— Roddy Doyle

The police have spent years pursuing Islamic extremism while too often overlooking the growing violent threat posed by the far-right.

— Dawn Foster

In life, we have to fall, if we do not fall then how will we know what getting up is like?

— Enhance Dreams

Don't be afraid, Queen ... don't be afraid, Queen, the blood has long since gone into the earth. And where it was…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.

— George Gissing

Unfortunately, a superabundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares

— Peter Ustinov

The ability to grow is directly related to the amount of insecurity you can take in your life.

— Bruce Jenner

As a kid growing up in a rural area, I was always tinkering with parts and machinery.

— Mike Schultz

I was obsessed with Jim Carrey growing up. It's why I wanted to become an actor.

— Sebastian Stan

Id never really considered film. If Id thought about film more growing up, I probably would have changed my name. I had…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor