Growing Quotes

• I think America may be growing up and accepting the fact that the bulk of life exists beyond 50. Because demographically... the vast population is over 50.

  

  Carmen Dell'Orefice
  • Life
  • Up
  • May

• Growing up in Australia and the way I was raised, my dad told me to play as a team and to be a team player. You have five guys on the court. It's easy for five guys to defend one guy. It's hard to guard five. It's just a natural thing to do.

  

  Ben Simmons
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Team

• I have a bunch of concepts and ideas that I want to do but I have also been growing my production company in general and looking to branch out of projects that I am directing and producing.

  

  Adrian Grenier
  • Growing

• 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

• There's something to be said for any boy growing up among lots of other boys who like to play basketball and football, while all I wanted to do was put on musicals. Mentally, I was always in my own world.

  

  Ben Platt
  • Up
  • World
  • Football

• I've been a fan of BET since I was a kid, growing up watching the awards, thinking that one day I would be there.

  

  Young M.A
  • Thinking
  • Would
  • Watching

• Issues relating to global health and sustainability must stay high on the agenda if we are to cope with an ageing and ever-increasing population, with growing pressure on resources, and with rising global temperatures. The risks and dangers need to be assessed and then confronted.

  

  Martin Rees
  • High
  • Growing
  • Health

• Growing up, we never got to see a hero who didn't have superpowers who looked like us, that you could kind of look to and say, 'I could be that guy one day. I could be a patriot. I could be a soldier. I could work in the government and be a hero.'

  

  Corey Hawkins
  • Up
  • Work
  • Guy

• I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world.

  

  Jeremy Northam
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• Growing up I didn't watch movies.

  

  Denzel Washington
  • Up
  • Growing

• The 1969 experience has been a rude awakening for many hedge-fund investors and has left some of them with strong reservations about the whole concept. For the first time in their relatively short history, the funds are not growing: in fact, some have suffered large withdrawals of capital, and a few have actually folded.

  

  Carol Loomis
  • Time
  • Experience
  • History

• Aggression at a time when the economy was growing at substantial rates and the retail lending as an industry was growing at a substantial rate was an appropriate aggression. Caution at a time when the economic environment is so uncertain is an appropriate caution.

  

  Chanda Kochhar
  • Time
  • Growing
  • Environment

• Growing up, at that time, I didn't want to be black because I was bullied, and I'd tell my mum that I wanted to be white like everyone else at school.

  

  Ricky Whittle
  • Wanted
  • Because
  • Everyone

• I had, probably, a more challenging experience growing up than most middle-class chicks.

  

  Jennifer Hale
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Growing

• Growing up, I always dreamed of winning an NBA championship, never a gold. A gold was something that never crossed my mind.

  

  Dwyane Wade
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Winning

• I remember so many girls when I was growing up who hated the way they looked.

  

  Nan Goldin
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Girl

• I loved Judy Garland growing up, and I also loved Ella Fitzgerald.

  

  Lindsay Mendez
  • Up
  • Growing

• One of my favorites is one called 'Rory's Radio' that I wrote about my brother Jeff's best friend growing up - his name was Rory Dunigan. I dedicated my first record to my brother, who got killed in a car accident in 1999, and I really didn't have any songs on the first album about him, nothing on a personal note.

  

  Ashton Shepherd
  • Up
  • Friend
  • Car

• When I was growing up my favorite show was 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', and I loved all the stuff that Norman Lear did.

  

  Ryan Murphy
  • Stuff
  • Favorite
  • Norman

• If you want to grow a giant redwood, you need to make sure the seeds are ok, nurture the sapling, and work out what might potentially stop it from growing all the way along. Anything that breaks it at any point stops that growth.

  

  Elon Musk
  • Work
  • Stop
  • Growth

• I'm terrified of being poor, I always have been. It's growing up as a Methodist. I'll spend that bit of extra money to get a better seat on a train sometimes, because it's quieter and calmer, but I refuse to spend money on clothes.

  

  Kevin McCloud
  • Up
  • Money
  • Growing

• Sometimes growing pains are by fits and starts.

  

  Anne Northup
  • Growing

• Theatre is expensive to go to. I certainly felt when I was growing up that theatre wasn't for us. Theatre still has that stigma to it. A lot of people feel intimidated and underrepresented in theatre.

  

  Christopher Eccleston
  • People
  • Up
  • Theatre

• The difference between a reporter, a newspaper columnist, a paid speaker, a television personality, a radio talk show host, a blogger, a movie producer, a publicist, and a political strategist, is growing less - and not more - distinct.

  

  George Packer
  • Movie
  • Political
  • Personality

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