Growing Quotes
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Growing up, I was watched by my parents and strongly critiqued. Instead of saying they loved me or showing physical attention, they would joke that I had a Roman nose - that it was roamin' all over my face. Teasing was their way of showing love, but then you are young, sometimes you can't tell the difference.
Neil Strauss -
The A-PAC region is so important, mainly because it is growing much faster than the global average.
Alan Mulally
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Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency.
Jan Schakowsky -
I was a Tina Turner fan growing up.
Christine Flores -
So many things in the world have happened before. But it's like they never did. Every new thing that happens to a person, it's a first... In that night I felt expansion, as if the world was branching out in shoots and growing faster than the eye could see. I felt smallness, how the earth divided into bits and kept dividing. I felt stars.
Louise Erdrich -
Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.
Bob Ehrlich -
I did martial arts and karate for eight years when I was growing up.
Antony Starr -
It is my growing conviction that the Baptist churches in America are behind the age in missionary spirit. They now and then make a spasmodic effort to throw off a nightmare debt of some years' accumulation, and then sink back into unconscious repose.
Adoniram Judson
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We love a growing private sector that allows people freedom of choice, to choose their health plan, to choose their doctor, to choose their hospital.
John Fleming -
I don't have an exact moment when I decided I wanted to be an actress - it kind of was just really a part of my growing up.
Lily James -
I'm surrounded by music; I always was when I was growing up and continue to be. And I love music. And when I imagine a fictional world, I imagine there's music in it for those people, too.
Lorrie Moore -
"What is a human being, then?" "A seed." "A... seed?" "An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree."
David Zindell -
Growing up, I was in and out of trouble in group homes and other institutions, and when I was 14, I was locked up in a psychiatric hospital for a number of months for behavioral problems.
Gbenga Akinnagbe -
I was extremely curious growing up. I taught myself how to sew, French braid, and cook. When I wasn't creating things with my hands, I was learning more about tech. I was experimenting with email at nine, had my first cell phone at 13, and was truly obsessed with the Internet as a teenager.
Brit Morin
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We didn't go to Broadway musicals when I was growing up; it was too expensive.
Leslie Odom, Jr. -
Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times.
Levon Helm -
I sometimes let people down, especially when I was younger. I was cavalier about what people told me. Part of growing up is learning when to shut up.
Corey Johnson -
Growing up, it was mainly just players I followed more than teams, with the exception of the Mariners. I never really had time to follow a team throughout a season.
Jon Lester -
Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.
W. P. Kinsella -
I had a ton of animals; I had a goat growing up, a bunch of rabbits, a vegetable garden.
Kelli Williams
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I played hockey in North Dakota growing up and watch a lot of that.
Phil Jackson -
When I was growing up, I saw the Aaliyah shirts, the DMX shirts, or the collab shirts with DMX and Aaliyah when they had a single together. Those were the dope collage shirts with their faces all over it. They were doing cool things like that.
ASAP Ferg -
Life is a journey and it's about growing and changing and coming to terms with who and what you are and loving who and what you are.
Kelly McGillis -
Growing up in Miami, being Cuban is integrated into our culture. When we greet anyone, we give them a kiss on the cheek.
Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony