Growing Quotes

• This Bush administration has a growing credibility gap, maybe even a credibility chasm, on environmental policy. The President has lost the trust of the American people when it comes to the environment.

  

  Jim Jeffords
  • People
  • American
  • Lost

• When I was growing up, we spoke Egyptian, we ate Egyptian food, we had other Egyptian friends. It was my father's preference.

  

  Leila Aboulela
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Father

• Persecution of Christians is growing around the world, and Congress needs to pay more attention to it.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • World
  • Growing
  • Attention

• Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom.

  

  Kevyn Aucoin
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Mom

• We will make a great and awful mistake if we fail to settle Hebron, neighbor and predecessor of Jerusalem, with a large Jewish settlement, constantly growing and expanding, very soon. This will also be a blessing to the Arab neighbors. Hebron is worthy to be Jerusalem's sister.

  

  David Ben-Gurion
  • Great
  • Mistake
  • Sister

• All my family were brilliant cooks when I was growing up, but I ended up just cleaning up, so I've always lacked confidence in the kitchen.

  

  Amanda Eliasch
  • Up
  • Family
  • Confidence

• Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

  

  James A. Baldwin
  • Up
  • War
  • Growing

• I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I think I was always afraid of up or not being this very cool, amazing person that I wanted to be.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • People
  • Up
  • Amazing

• Mom cooked a lot of turkey when I was growing up. Turkey meatloaf, turkey burgers, ground turkey shepherd's pie - my childhood was the Bubba Gump of turkey. You'd think I would be sick of it, but when I find gems like Gwyneth Paltrow's turkey meatball recipe, it's as though the fowl is no longer foul to me.

  

  Meghan Markle
  • Up
  • Mom
  • Childhood

• Music was kind of a precious commodity growing up.

  

  Anderson East
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• That's the terrible thing about growing up. You lose friends. It's inevitable. It's not like it's a surprise. But it is terrible.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Growing Up

• When I was growing up, there was a character on TV; there was a character stereotype: it was personified by Mel on 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'

  

  Jeffrey Tambor
  • Up
  • Character
  • Growing

• When I was growing up, my father helped kindle my passion for innovation and technology. He was a high-ranking executive at AT&T and used our family dinner table as a focus group.

  

  Denise Morrison
  • Up
  • Family
  • High

• You have to remember that when I met Elvis, you know, it wasn't the fanfare that it is today or even when he was here in the states and I was in Germany growing up.

  

  Priscilla Presley
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Today

• I think, especially among the New York intelligentsia at that time, that there was a reason Bob Dylan went to New York to happen, because there was a culture developed there around the ideas of civil rights, around the idea of democracy growing out of Emerson and Thoreau, these ideas of the fanfare for the common man.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Time
  • Men
  • Thinking

• I definitely get my artistry and my vocal talent from my mother and mother's side. She sang in a jazz trio band so growing up my dad would always take me to see her play and she has a beautiful voice. When I was little and started to sing, she supported me and let that fire burn. She always knew what it took as a support system.

  

  Zella Day
  • Up
  • She
  • Mother

• Our economic future rests on the extent to which all students, especially those who represent America's growing majority, have access to rigorous, college-preparatory classes and excellent teachers.

  Chaka Fattah
  • America
  • Future
  • College

• My dad loves to cook. I'm half Thai, and growing up, that's all we ate in my house. My dad was very big on the idea that dinnertime and cooking time was also family time.

  

  Brenda Song
  • Up
  • Time
  • Family

• As a child, growing up in Hampstead, North London, I was shockingly fair-skinned. Holidays involved me spending the second and third day face-down on a bed, shrieking should anyone touch my blistered skin.

  

  Jane Green
  • Up
  • Growing

• The whole band is from Alaska. It's like growing up anywhere else.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Band

• Virtual Piggy was created to provide a safe way for kids to shop online with parental approval, in recognition of growing digital world kids live in.

  

  Jo Webber
  • World
  • Live
  • Kids

• I talked to Marvel about 'Thor' at one point, but I didn't want to do Thor. It wasn't something I read growing up, really; it wasn't one of the books I loved.

  

  Louis Leterrier
  • Up
  • Growing

• Growing up, I was always trying to catch a great show. And that's where I learned an artist gets respect. That's what makes people talk.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I was a skinny guy growing up, and I still feel like that same skinny kid.

  

  Jamie Dornan
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Growing

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