Growing Quotes

• I decided to start embracing and wearing my natural hair, but there was only one problem; I didn't know what to do with it or how to style it. Growing up, all I knew was my relaxed, processed hair, so I had to go through this learning phase.

  

  Kimberly Elise
  • Up
  • Learning
  • Style

• Growing up, I had a face that people wanted to tell things to, and I grew up with adults who had so much to say. They had lived through decades of unbelievable poverty, starvation, political upheaval, chaos.

  

  Jenny Zhang
  • People
  • Up
  • Political

• It's an irony that growing inequality could mean more money for philanthropy. In the U.S., quite a few of the ultra-rich have taken to heart the 19th century industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie's comment that it's a disgrace to die wealthy.

  

  Geoff Mulgan
  • Money
  • Heart
  • Die

• We do nothing for children between the ages of zero and five. And we seem to be quite happy to have children growing up in not just poverty, which wouldn't be so bad, but isolation, lack of people around them, lack of support, lack of ability to go out and play in the dirt.

  

  Alison Gopnik
  • People
  • Up
  • Children

• I always wanted to be a zookeeper when I was growing up, and I've wound up a zookeeper! I've been working with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years! I'm the luckiest old broad on two feet because my life is divided absolutely in half - half animals and half show business. You can't ask for better than two things you love the most.

  

  Betty White
  • Life
  • Up
  • Business

• 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

• As a kid growing up in a rural area, I was always tinkering with parts and machinery.

  

  Mike Schultz
  • Parts
  • Machinery
  • Rural

• She swallowed and looked down at the artichoke petals piled neatly on the side of her plate. Her center certainly felt like it was melting, growing soft and wet just from the rasp of Mr. O'Connor's voice. Why should a man already devilishly handsome also have a voice that could charm birds from the sky? It simply wasn't fair.

  

  Elizabeth Hoyt
  • Men
  • Bird
  • Charm

• I heard that your brain stops growing when you start doing drugs. Let's see, I guess that makes me 19.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Brain
  • Drug
  • Heard

• When I was growing up, I never saw couples fight on the family sitcoms I loved to watch. Subsequently, when tough times arose in my own relationship, I wasn't prepared and felt so isolated and alone. Marital issues weren't a part of the narrative that television told me was a 'working relationship.'

  

  Kenya Barris
  • Up
  • Family
  • Relationship

• I thought highly of myself growing up. I still do. There's not really much somebody can say to me to bring down my confidence or anything.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • Up
  • Confidence
  • Growing Up

• I kind of do this awkward body language because, growing up, I had a really hard time expressing myself vocally.

  

  Analeigh Tipton
  • Up
  • Time
  • Growing

• You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Up
  • Sad
  • Mountain

• 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
  • Up
  • Good
  • Couple

• I believe that the crazy combative patriotism that plainly threatens to destroy civilisation to-day is very largely begotten by the schoolmaster and the schoolmistress in their history lessons. They take the growing mind at a naturally barbaric phase and they inflame and fix its barbarism.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • History

• Growing up in a band is weird - you get stuck hanging on to what it is you think you are. But what I took into Depeche was that punk ethic, that you don't have to be accomplished to be a musician. If you've got ideas, you can do this.

  

  Dave Gahan Depeche Mode
  • Up
  • Band
  • Weird

• 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

• For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Country
  • Pro-life

• Growing up, I went to the Warped Tour a lot, and I got to see bands like Rancid and AFI and Dropkick Murphys and these bands that meant so much to me when I was a kid - all in succession on these stages, so to get to play that same stage that I watched those bands play is a huge thing for me.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Up
  • Growing

• If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace.

  

  Daniel H. Wilson
  • Culture
  • Growing
  • Popular

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

  

  David Autor
  • Growing

• 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
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• As a young queer kid growing up, I explored my identity through the Chicago and Washington, D.C., club scene.

  

  Chelsea Manning
  • Up
  • Identity
  • Chicago

• Growing richer every day, for as rich and poor are relative terms, when the rich are growing poor, it is pretty much the same as if the poor were growing rich. Nobody is poor when the distinction between rich and poor is destroyed.

  

  James L. Petigru
  • Pretty
  • Growing

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