Growing Quotes

• You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Growing
  • Matter
  • Grandfather

• there's time for laughing and there's time for crying— for hoping for despair for peace for longing —a time for growing and a time for dying: a night for silence and a day for singing but more than all(as all your more than eyes tell me)there is a time for timelessness

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Time
  • Night
  • Peace

• I feel I am a little bit older. Reckon I will start growing a beard next week.

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • Feels
  • Week
  • Next

• Growing up as a kid, we moved all over the country on a fairly frequent basis, from New Jersey to Texas, California, Illinois... we moved 21 times in my first 17 years.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Up
  • Country
  • California

• I have an older son, Josh, and growing up, he just didn't care that much for baseball. And that was fine. But Chaddie, he always wanted to go to the ballpark. He just kind of took to it right away.

  

  Bruce Sutter
  • Up
  • Son
  • Baseball

• I've always loved fantasy books. Even just growing up, I've always kind of loved magic and fantasy.

  

  Lily Collins
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Magic

• It was Toto that made Dorothy laugh, and saved her from growing as gray as her other surroundings. Toto was not gray; he was a little black dog, with long silky hair and small black eyes that twinkled merrily on either side of his funny, wee nose.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Long
  • Black
  • Small

• I was a big fan of Kurt Russell growing up and I always wanted to be the modern day Kurt Russell.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Up
  • Fans
  • Wanted

• I read everything, but particularly, growing up in a household where my mom was black and my dad was white, I remember really loving 'Ebony' and 'Essence.' Those magazines were the only place where I could see images of women who looked like me or my mom.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • Up
  • Women
  • Remember

• My mom was a history teacher, so I couldn't really avoid history when I was growing up. But we're very light on American history. We don't really have great opportunities to study both the Civil War and the Revolution.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Up
  • Great
  • American

• When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.

  

  K. Flay
  • Up
  • Music
  • College

• I have an obsession with fashion - it's another form of expression for me - and I have a growing collection of vintage clothes and jewelry. Being able to play dress-up for my career has been a gift.

  

  Karen Fairchild Little Big Town
  • Up
  • Career
  • Fashion

• I have lesbian impulses, so I understand how a man looks at a woman. … When I was growing up, it wasn't possible for me to do anything about my attraction to women. Lesbianism didn't exist in that time, as far as I knew.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Up
  • Time
  • Women

• Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Love
  • Man
  • Girl

• Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.

  

  Maluma
  • Up
  • Growing Up
  • Artists

• Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thing
  • Old
  • Youth

• I first wrote about Michael Jackson in the 1980s. His skin was growing paler, his features thinner, and his aura more feminine. Some called him a traitor to his race. Some fussed about his gender fluidity. I saw him as a post-modern shape-shifter. But the shifts grew more extreme and mysterious.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • Growing
  • Mysterious

• I feel grateful for the Puerto Ricans who created this genre that has inspired me to have such a beautiful career. Reggaeton has allowed me to continue evolving and growing musically, and I have been able to make it mine as well.

  

  Maluma
  • Career
  • Beautiful
  • Inspired

• Growing up in the middle of nowhere, there was a lot of twangy music around, but it didn't really connect with me then.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing Up

• Growing up in the suburbs, I used to listen to punk rock, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday. And no one from my high school listened to it.

  

  Halsey
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• If we can inspire a kid to pick up a guitar - and less and less kids are doing so these days - it'd be really cool because I know how it felt growing up and how special that was for me.

  

  M. Shadows
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Cool

• Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.

  

  Beverley Mitchell
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Moving

• I did notice growing up that there are so many things, obstacles and things, that people think you can't do because you're Muslim or because you're wearing a hijab. You hear a lot of no's. That was something that I wanted to see change.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Up
  • Change

• When I was growing up, I did go to the arcade. We had a neighborhood arcade, and my friends and I would go fairly regularly.

  

  Gene Luen Yang
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Growing

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