Growing Quotes

• Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• I'm growing up and continuing to learn from my mistakes and trying not to make the same ones over and over again, but am I going to live in a shell, or am I just going to hide from everybody and not do anything? I don't think that's the way I should live my life, and I'm not going to do it.

  

  Johnny Manziel
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• Growing up in California, I obviously knew about our deep connections with the Japanese.

  

  John Roos
  • Up
  • Deep
  • California

• A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Life
  • Devotion
  • Prayerful

• I want to keep - this seems so corny - I want to keep growing as an artist.

  

  John Glover
  • Growing

• One of the things about being a boy, especially growing up without a father, is you really don't have that role model to teach you how to do things.

  

  Art Alexakis
  • Up
  • Father
  • Boy

• If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing-rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • God
  • Single

• It was magical growing up in New Jersey. My sister and I would go nuts in the basement and do full theater productions. We used a humidifier as a fog machine. It was over the top.

  

  Brandon Uranowitz
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Sister

• For me, it's about being comfortable... but I can feel comfortable in a thong leotard and on stage. Growing up as a dancer, that's how I'm comfortable in my body. It's about where you grew up and those things; it's a way of communicating your spirit to the world.

  

  Jillian Hervey
  • Up
  • World
  • Growing

• I love the farm, I love growing stuff.

  

  Bill Kreutzmann Grateful Dead
  • Growing

• The usual way of growing cotton is highly petrochemical-intensive, requiring 110 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre. Some of the fertilizer is broken down by soil bacteria into nitrate, a toxic and highly soluble chemical that can leach into groundwater or get washed into lakes, creating oxygenless dead zones.

  

  Alex Shoumatoff
  • Growing
  • Broken

• One of my best friends growing up was Vietnamese, and he and his mom would teach me how to say certain things so I could impress my nail girls. Then the nail girls would teach me how to count to 100 and basic things like 'Thank you' and 'You're welcome.' It's funny, because any accent that I do now always turns into Vietnamese.

  

  Anjelah Johnson
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Funny

• I started growing my hair out when I was, like, 22, 23. I just stopped cutting it.

  

  Jonathan Van Ness
  • Growing
  • Hair
  • Cutting

• I still have a stammer that I can control by not opening a sentence with a hard consonant, or by concentrating for a moment, breathing softly down. Growing up, the 'Our Father' was lovely, made for me, the 'Hail Mary' was gorgeous, and 'Glory Be to the Father' was an absolute nightmare.

  

  Colm Toibin
  • Up
  • Father
  • Control

• Growing up in a cold place, in Southern Ontario, Woolrich was a brand of choice for us because it was always warm and comfortable. The parka with the fur on it was standard fare for us. It's extraordinary that they have kept up with the times. Beyond the parka, they have changed, and they have some pretty hip, cool items which I wear.

  

  Douglas Kirkland
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• To me I seem to be constantly growing. I must respond to varying conditions, yet remain changeless within.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Conditions
  • Respond
  • Remain

• Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved.

  

  Alan Dean Foster
  • Up
  • Why
  • Science

• Contemplation: I read a lot of books on philosophy and religion, and try to keep always growing in that part of my life, because without having a spiritual grounding, I think you can get really swayed by the winds of all the praise or the criticism; it's all very, kind of, up and down. Try to stay up and focused.

  

  Kimbra Lee Johnson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Thinking

• I've heard my father say that the man is to be the priest, the provider, and the protector of his family. He's the priest because he is the spiritual leader, monitoring and growing the spiritual temperature of his family.

  

  Benjamin Watson
  • Family
  • Father
  • Spiritual

• 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
  • Life
  • Growing
  • Journey

• As a kid, I was growing up in an era of celebration of the Civil War centennial, with a lot of 'Lost Cause' emphasis on the Confederacy. I used to play Civil War soldiers with my brothers as a child, and my older brother always insisted that he got to be Lee, and I got be Grant. I never knew that Grant won until quite some time had passed.

  

  Drew Gilpin Faust
  • Up
  • Time
  • War

• I guess, growing up at Australia Zoo and getting to travel all over the world, I have this great outlook on life, and that's what I hope I inspire other kids to have.

  

  Bindi Irwin
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• I'm not terribly athletic. And... there's a lot of things I'm not good at. And if it makes anybody feel better, I was really a pretty bad math student growing up.

  

  Lester Holt
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bad

• Children and teens need to explore the dark side as a healthy part of growing. If a child is protected from everything dreadful, he will have no coping mechanisms in place when finally confronted with disaster.

  

  Annette Curtis Klause
  • Children
  • Dark
  • Explore

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