Growing Quotes

• I've sung my whole life. I did a lot of musical theater growing up, I sing in the shower, sing in the car, sing everywhere really, on set at Chuck, all the time. I like it, and I've always felt like I've had a knack for it, or a talent for it, on some level, I don't know.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I've had the acting bug since I was, like, five. But growing up, I saw how people treated me differently when they knew who my father was, even the stuff I did on the field. Sometimes I'd rush for 100 yards, and the headline would be, 'Denzel's son runs for 100 yards.' That's where the suppression of that bug came from.

  

  John David Washington
  • People
  • Up
  • Father

• How awful it was, thought Tessa, remembering Fats the toddler, the way tiny ghosts of your living children haunted your heart; they could never know, and would hate it if they did, how their growing was a constant bereavement.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Children
  • Heart
  • Hate

• Growing up, it was uncool to admit that your family had any money. And then, instantly, money was cool. In Reagan's parlance, it was about freedom of the individual, which was freedom to be greedy... individual versus society. There was a weird seduction in that, which I still feel.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell
  • Up
  • Family
  • Money

• I see a growing consensus that $100 billion will be the floor and not the ceiling.

  

  Christiana Figueres
  • Growing
  • Consensus
  • Billion dollars

• Growing up, I never saw Asian-Americans on TV at all.

  

  Brenda Song
  • Up
  • Growing

• I went to a very small Catholic school. It wasn't an easy place to be growing up gay.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell
  • Up
  • School
  • Small

• We understood, growing up - 'cause it was taught in our family home, my mom and dad - to respect women, for instance. To respect yourself. That you respect your name. Those are the kind of things we were taught.

  

  Burgess Owens
  • Up
  • Women
  • Family

• I want my children to be able to meet and play and communicate with many other children on their own, not only when they are driven somewhere. I want them to grow up in an environment that is not just a place where people sleep but where people work.. and where people enjoy themselves.

  

  Moshe Safdie
  • Children
  • Environment
  • Enjoy

• Growing up outside your own country makes you feel that you don't belong when you return, so you feel free to make friends with whomever you like.

  

  Claire Denis
  • Up
  • Country
  • Friends

• I think the experience of getting an audience a little bit tense and shocking them with a jump scare, and then moving on it can be cheap and easy. The harder thing is to get them unnerved and disturbed in a growing way. That starts off easy and increases all the way through the picture.

  

  C Robert Cargill
  • Thinking
  • Experience
  • Moving

• Growing up, my mom made us this amazing thing called The Mack Theatrical Wardrobe. It was a massive trunk filled with everything that you'd want as a kid if you were into imagination and play.

  

  Allison Mack
  • Up
  • Amazing
  • Mom

• You have a growing network and the computers need to be advanced. Most counties have a network administrator and staff.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Computers
  • Network
  • Administrator

• What is most troubling about Mr. Putin's aggression in Crimea is that it reflects a growing disregard for America's credibility in the world. That has emboldened other aggressive actors - from Chinese nationalists to Al Qaeda terrorists and Iranian theocrats.

  

  John McCain
  • World
  • America
  • Chinese

• The single greatest force for deficit reduction is a growing economy.

  

  Kevin Brady
  • Growing
  • Single

• Rather than standing back and being left behind, we must make the most of the opportunities that a growing China presents to us here in Britain.

  

  George Osborne
  • Growing

• Growing up in a rural setting in Minnesota, I was raised with the outdoors and a sense of adventure.

  

  Ann Bancroft
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Adventure

• I don't contain a self-personality, that I might stand up and say, Do this for me. Kings might say that, Bring me jewels, and so on, but I don't say that. Because when I see the growth of a human being and I see that his love and affection are really growing, then I feel happy. That is what pleases me.

  

  Prem Rawat
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Growth

• My parents were funny. My brothers were funny. We just laughed and had a good time. Growing up, it breeds that. It breeds your funny. It breeds your creativity.

  

  Kym Whitley
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing up.

  

  Mark Morris
  • Up
  • Music
  • Singing

• My childhood growing up in that part of Glasgow always sounds like some kind of sub-Catherine Cookson novel of earthy working-class immigrant life, which to some extent it was, but it wasn't really as colourful that.

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • Life
  • Up
  • Childhood

• I am concerned about the growing problem of sexual abuse and exploitation of our children.

  

  Jim Ryun
  • Children
  • Growing
  • Abuse

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

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Conditions
  • Respond
  • Remain

• Obesity in children is growing out of control. A big part of this is economic. Fake foods are more affordable. It's enticing people to eat more because they think they're saving money when they're really just buying heart disease.

  

  Jillian Michaels
  • People
  • Children
  • Money

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