David Wright Quotes

I love being a Met. It was my favorite team growing up, so to be a Met to me is very special.

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• I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Up
  • Think
  • Growing

• I have a complicated relationship with the horror genre. I love it; I loved it as a kid growing up, and I watched Chiller Theater in New York. So I loved it, but then you do feel if you do it too much, you're stuck there.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • Up
  • Love
  • Growing

• When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Person
  • Being
  • Laughter

• Historical science is being left in the dust.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Science
  • Being
  • Dust

• Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.

  

  Jack Herer
  • Nature
  • Growing
  • Survival

• When you watch the sitcoms that were the big hits when I was growing up, TV was still just TV. It was allowed to just be TV. There were three channels that were competing for the whole family and you couldn't take your business elsewhere.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Up
  • Family
  • Business

• Kobe Bryant has always been my favorite player, and he was drafted No. 13, too, in 1996.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Always
  • Player
  • Favorite

• I see the demographics increasing, and by that I mean the notion of social acceptance is growing, not decreasing; I think the notion of fiscal responsibility is growing, not decreasing. And Republicans seem to be moving further away from those two categories than closer.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Growing
  • Responsibility
  • Moving

• My baby will be growing up in Liverpool, so we have another Scouser.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Baby

• Shops are not a growing business, so it's a scary place to be.

  

  Galen Weston
  • Business
  • Growing
  • Place

• My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around my friends, it was 'Yo' and 'That's the joint' and 'Yo, what's up?' So I had my game for my friends and my game for my mom.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Mother

• As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Up
  • Long
  • Remember

• PepsiCo is a $63 billion company. Half the company is snacks, and half the company is beverages. We have a glorious snacks business and a glorious beverage business. We are extremely profitable. We are growing.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Business
  • Growing
  • Company

• 'Brisco' was the first show I created, and of course, at the time I had no idea what a special experience it was because I didn't have a frame of reference. After it was over I was like, 'Damn. Shoot. That was something special.' I'm still upset that it got cancelled.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Special

• While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an ambassador, an actor, an author.

  

  Karen Hesse
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Actor

• Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest of the athletics world. I have always enjoyed going barefoot and when I was growing up I seldom wore shoes, even when I went into town.

  

  Zola Budd
  • Up
  • World
  • Growing

• I definitely love 'Camelot.' It's my favorite show. I'm a big 'True Blood' fan. I love 'American Idol,' and I love my girl J-Lo. The rest are my homework shows: 'Forensic Files,' 'Dr. G. Medical Examiner,' 'The First 48.'

  

  Tamala Jones
  • True
  • Girl
  • Favorite

• I've got three sisters, five aunties, and my mom. It must have had an influence on me growing up.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Up
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• No art is sunk in the self, but rather, in art the self becomes self-forgetful in order to meet the demands of the thing seen and the thing being made.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Art
  • Being
  • Demands

• The life of the community, both domestically and internationally, clearly demonstrates that respect for rights, and the guarantees that follow from them, are measures of the common good that serve to evaluate the relationship between justice and injustice, development and poverty, security and conflict.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Life
  • Good
  • Community

• I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself.

  

  Emily Watson
  • Up

• Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.

  

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

• I love being a Met. It was my favorite team growing up, so to be a Met to me is very special.

  

  David Wright
  • Growing
  • Being
  • Special