Growing Quotes

• In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the time his children are growing up, lives in still a different world.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• If your gonna screw up, do it while you're young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back.

  

  Winston Groom
  • Harder
  • Screws
  • Bounce

• New Jersey shaped who and what I am. Growing up in Jersey gave you all the advantages of New York, but you were in its shadow. Anyone who's come from here will tell you that same story.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Up
  • Shadow
  • Advantage

• I talk to our kids now that they are grown up, and I ask them about the experiences that had growing up that really had a powerful influence on the way they view the purpose of life. The experiences that really shaped their values - my wife and I have no memory of those experiences!

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Life
  • Up
  • Kids

• Today many Caribbean workers can be found in the hospital, construction, service and hotel industries, but there is also a growing professional sector.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • Today
  • Service
  • Professional

• I really love Scrabble. I played it with my mother growing up. We took it everywhere with us. We didn't know then about the two letter words. Who knew that AA, or more controversially, ZA, or QI were words? We were a games family generally.

  

  Meg Wolitzer
  • Up
  • Family
  • Mother

• I love video games. When I was growing up, video games were very important to me.

  

  Ben Schwartz
  • Up
  • Important
  • Growing

• One in 150 kids is autistic these days. The autism spectrum is growing.

  

  Luke Ford
  • Kids
  • Growing
  • Autism

• When I was growing up, there was no one. There were very few black women in tech; there were very few black women in the fashion game. We didn't have our Grace Jones - Grace Jones was before my time. We didn't really have a lot of black women in electronic and punk who were celebrated in the same levels as, say, your big mega-superstars.

  

  Dawn Angeliqué Richard
  • Up
  • Time
  • Women

• I love 'The Stand;' I read it when I was a kid - it was one of my favorite books when I was growing up. I love Stephen King; I think he's a remarkable writer.

  

  David Yates
  • Up
  • Growing
  • King

• I've always been sort of drawn to storytelling, and I was always very playful growing up.

  

  Megan Boone
  • Up
  • Growing

• Because I am really interested in gardening, I do really interesting plants, not even always flowers. And because I have grown them, I really know them like friends. I paint everything from exotic orchids to rosehips growing wild in a hedge. They just have to speak to me.

  

  Emma Tennant
  • Friends
  • Interesting
  • Growing

• It's a growing trend. Viewers are our customers, but so are advertisers. And advertisers want different ways to reach our viewers.

  

  Jeff Zucker
  • Different
  • Growing

• When I play games, I'll make up little stories for just anything. It's almost the game of making up background stories for people you see on the street. You know what I mean? I wasn't exactly the popular kid in school growing up, so I found myself really observing people, and watching how they interact, and how they react to things.

  

  Kim Swift
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• We may be smaller, we may be small in number, we may have a lot less money, but there are a growing number of people who are sick and tired of the campaigns to destroy decent people, such as George Bush, Sarah Palin, Clarence Thomas, Paula Jones, Linda Tripp, Matt Drudge, Rush Limbaugh.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • People
  • Money
  • May

• Growing up, I never saw any Asian faces on TV, so it didn't feel like a viable option.

  

  Gemma Chan
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Option

• If you're a white male growing up in this society, you're constantly receiving encouragement to go on in science in the form of all the images that you're receiving.

  

  Eileen Pollack
  • Up
  • Society
  • Science

• Growing up in Vegas, over time you get to see shows like Tom Jones, Wayne Newton, I mean, The Rat Pack ran Vegas way, way back, and I'm a huge fan of that whole era and vibe.

  

  Ne-Yo
  • Up
  • Time
  • Vegas

• There is no legislative change that can be made to make up for an economy that's not growing and not expanding.

  

  Martin O'Malley
  • Up
  • Growing

• While U.S. investments in India are growing, we also need Indian investments in America.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • America
  • Growing
  • Investments

• The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from morning to night. So it was a big menagerie of kids, business and cooking!

  

  Anthony Minghella
  • Up
  • Business
  • Kids

• When I became the CEO of Burberry in July 2006, luxury was one of the fastest-growing sectors in the world.

  

  Angela Ahrendts
  • World
  • Growing

• We have to take our anger and rage and channel it into building, growing, loving, holding each other up.

  

  Pramila Jayapal
  • Up
  • Growing

• When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Wanted

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