Grows Quotes
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If you find yourself saying 'I can't do something', but you know it in your heart of hearts that if you do it, you're going to grow, you're going to be a better person, it's going to contribute to your family or to your kids or to something that matters, and you keep saying 'I can't do it,' there is no question—you must do it. You don't discuss it anymore. You just take immediate action... You do what's necessary.
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At school I'd want to be so small that nobody could see me, and so my work depicts and reflects me - what it felt like to grow up in a world of pain.
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What's in the past is in the past... let it be, let it be. We all grow up.
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A Tribe Called Quest was one of those things where it was supposed to be about growth. When I say 'growth,' I don't just mean with our sound or our product, but Tribe was supposed to grow as individuals.
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The feeling for what ought and ought not to be grows and dies like a tree, and no fertilizer of any kind will do much good.
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Well, capitalism is going to grow and grow. The nature of it is that the guy who has the most poker chips on the table has more leverage than everyone else. He can eventually outbluff everyone else and outraise everyone else at the table. That's what has happened and it needs to be corrected.
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All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks.
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After a certain point it grows to implied as well as articulated threats, and people succumb. My wife did, and she was institutionalized.
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Time is the sea in which men grow, are born, or die.
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I've been in Africa, America, moving around a lot. It's helped me to open up my mind. I was born in Jamaica; I've lived all my life there and got all I could from Jamaica. But I needed to be somewhere else to grow.
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I did grow up in a household in which I felt that to be myself was to damage the people I loved.
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There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, mainly because they're pathetic; and the latter, frankly are hard to find.
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I think we grow into ourselves. And unfortunately we do it in the spotlight, so when we make mistakes, everybody knows about it.
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I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic.
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I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.
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I make jokes about it, but it's the truth that I kind of patterned my look after the town tramp. I didn't know what she was, just this woman who was blond and piled her hair up, wore high heels and tight skirts, and, boy, she was the prettiest thing I'd ever seen. Momma used to say, "Aw, she's just trash," and I thought, That's what I want to be when I grow up. Trash.
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There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.
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Whenever you set a goal of any kind, you will have to grow and develop to the point where you are ready to achieve it.
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I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically.
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I'm on a mission to help people grow and give. The more they grow the more they can give, the more life they build, the greater the quality of their life.
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It's the sum of many parts which grow to be something great.
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.
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I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.
