Growing Quotes

• The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • Growing
  • Violence

• This unchecked spending is growing faster than our economy, faster than inflation, and far beyond our means to sustain it.

  

  Jim Nussle
  • Growing

• As a kid growing up in Latrobe, PA, I could dream about being an Olympian like Jesse Owens or Johnny Weissmuller. I could also dream about being a great golfer like Bobby Jones or Byron Nelson. But the idea of being an Olympic golfer never occurred to me.

  

  Arnold Palmer
  • Up
  • Great
  • Dream

• Even though flowers fall, don't regret it. Even though weeds grow, don't hate them. Don't arouse the passions of attraction and repulsion, hating and loving. If only we don't arouse the passions, the falling of flowers and the growing of weeds as they are is manifest absolute reality.

  

  Hakuun Yasutani
  • Reality
  • Hate
  • Fall

• I don't have a hands - on fondness for animals. I did not grow up bonded to any particular nonhuman animal. I like them and I pet them and I'm kind to them, but there's no special bond between me and other animals...

  

  Wayne Pacelle
  • Animal
  • Particular
  • Humane

• When I was growing up, my family was serious about manners. I always wanted to put my elbow on the table to prop my head up. I didn't understand how other people looked awake. My head felt so heavy after the whole day.

  

  Margherita Missoni
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• Growing up in Hampton, the face of science was brown like mine.

  

  Margot Lee Shetterly
  • Up
  • Science
  • Growing

• All the time, as an actor, you want to be asking what's next and where things are going. If you're not asking those questions, you're not growing.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Actors
  • Next
  • Asking

• When I was growing up, I always wanted to be somebody else and live somewhere else. I've always felt a little uncomfortable around people.

  

  Donald Ray Pollock
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• Growing older doesn't bother me.

  

  Angie Dickinson
  • Growing

• The numbers in women in rock 'n' roll and metal are pretty much growing a lot, which is a great thing.

  

  Maria Brink
  • Thing
  • Numbers
  • Which

• No generation has escaped it - one morning, your skill with the eight-track or the record player or the cotton gin suddenly ceases to impress. It's just one of those inevitable disappointments that come with growing up, like the realization that Santa doesn't exist or the way that music always takes a turn for the worse after you turn 30.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • Up
  • Music
  • Morning

• 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

• I think it's a change that I did not intend at the time but it is clear that, from The Flower of My Secret on, there is a change in my films. A lot of the journalists have very generously attributed this to my growing maturity.

  

  Pedro Almodovar
  • Time
  • Flower
  • Maturity

• I speak Swedish, it's my first language. Of course, growing up with Latin American parents from Argentina, I also have some other influences from other cultures. But Sweden is where I feel the most at home.

  

  Jose Gonzalez
  • Up
  • Home
  • American

• I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.

  

  Andy Serkis
  • Up
  • Growing

• Growing up, I had only one good pair of shoes. So on rainy school days, my mom would slip plastic bread bags over them to keep them dry. But I was never embarrassed. Because the school bus would be filled with rows and rows of young Iowans with bread bags slipped over their feet.

  

  Joni Ernst
  • Up
  • Good
  • School

• I talked to some vets in L.A. about what they go through and do they think about their experiences a lot. I got a wide array of answers. Some people get very emotional, which is understandable. Two of my best friends growing up are in the armed services, and getting to represent those guys was a big honor for me.

  

  Austin Stowell
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• The Beatles meant everything to me growing up, and John was part of that. I loved Lennon's persona. He knew who he was and he knew what he represented to a worldwide public... I think he incited and inspired a whole group of youth to speak out and say what they felt.

  

  John Travolta
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Inspired

• I am growing meaner by the hour.

  

  Jean Stafford
  • Growing

• Labor is getting a shrinking slice of a pie that's not growing very much.

  

  David Autor
  • Growing

• 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

• Humanity has at least a dim, and growing, cognisance of the effects of its presence on this planet. The possibility that we might integrate that awareness into how we interface with the Earth system is one that should give us hope.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • Hope
  • Earth
  • Humanity

• 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

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