Growing Quotes

• It's always a struggle growing up in Akron.

  

  LeBron James
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Struggle

• If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up.

  

  Mike Singletary
  • Growing
  • Needs
  • Prison

• I really don't see little girls growing up and thinking, 'Oh, I'm going to morph myself so I look like Barbie.'

  

  Jeremy Scott
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Growing

• I modeled a little bit in Georgia growing up. I did catalogs and different things, but then when I came to L.A., I became a professional model. It sounds kind of crazy, but in L.A. was when I was able to start making a living from modeling.

  

  Melissa Ordway
  • Different
  • Making
  • Sounds

• Reaching out to Hispanics is critical to our future. The fastest-growing, and most conservative, segment of the population are natural Republicans.

  

  Ken Mehlman
  • Future
  • Growing

• I grew up in Nazareth, Penn., which was an hour and a half from New York, and an hour and a half from Philly. So bands that were touring came through one way or another. We got to see stuff people in other small towns didn't, like Wesley Willis. I couldn't have asked for a better place to grow up and be into music.

  

  Daughn Gibson
  • People
  • Small
  • Touring

• I wanted to be Marv Albert or Bob Costas. Those were my favorites growing up. Still are!

  

  Dave Pasch
  • Growing
  • Wanted
  • Favorites

• Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature has a way of surpassing everything that blocks it and growing stronger for the exercise.

  

  Ali Smith
  • Growing
  • Literature
  • Exercise

• There is an extraordinary collaborative spirit when you are learning and growing.

  

  Robbie Robertson
  • Growing
  • Learning
  • Collaborative

• We should not make the mistake of equating the E.U. with Europe. Outside the E.U., we wouldn't cease to be Europeans. But, an exit would definitely risk losing those opportunities for our children while growing no similar opportunities elsewhere.

  

  Andrew Lansley
  • Children
  • Risk
  • Mistake

• No country's policies are eternal; they do vary. People are growing old, and a new generation is coming to power. In a year's time, a government can look different. You can't influence them if you don't talk to them.

  

  Martti Ahtisaari
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• As a kid, I spent an awful lot of time pretending I was somebody else. I think growing up in the 1980s wasn't very exciting so you kind of create this secret life of an alternate person. You pretend to be whatever you need to be that day, so you live in that dream world.

  

  Jonathan Rhys Meyers
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• My brother and I tortured my mother growing up.

  

  Denis Leary
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Brother

• Growing up, I was poor. In college, I was poor. I never had anything.

  

  Jon Jones
  • Up
  • Growing
  • College

• 'Death Of A Salesman,' 'Streetcar Named Desire,' these are the things that, when I was growing up, made me want to be an artist.

  

  Charles Bock
  • Up
  • Death
  • Desire

• I do listen to myself sometimes and think, 'Is my moral compass so easily swayed by the characters I play, or is it me growing as a human being?'

  

  Andy Serkis
  • Growing
  • Moral

• The sweetest thing we ever had was, like, animal crackers in the pantry. I think my parents sort of passively made sure that we didn't have a lot of junk food at our disposal, and I think that helped me and all my siblings growing up with how to approach nutrition and eating right.

  

  Andrew Luck
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Food

• Look bravely up into the sky, And be content with knowing That God wished for a buttercup Just here, where you are growing.

  

  Sarah Orne Jewett
  • Looks
  • Sky
  • Knowing

• God-willing and prayerfully, we are always growing and changing and developing personally and professionally.

  

  Kim Fields
  • God
  • Growing

• Everything I do is autobiographical in some way. 'Wayne's World' was me growing up in the suburbs of Toronto and listening to heavy metal, and 'Austin Powers' was every bit of British culture that my father, who passed away in 1991, had forced me to watch and taught me to love.

  

  Mike Myers
  • Listening
  • Taught
  • Wayne

• I've always liked simple. Growing up, I wore corduroys and Lacoste shirts, Maraolo flats, and maybe one gold bracelet.

  

  Aerin Lauder
  • Up
  • Simple
  • Gold

• The interesting thing about doing serial television is that the character is growing separate from you, the character and the show are growing, and you get to observe that and participate with it in a way that I think is actually really exciting for an actor.

  

  Liev Schreiber
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Growing

• 'm just going to be a good friend to my kid. One thing I definitely want to change is that whole 'I don't want you to make the same mistakes' mentality. My dad didn't have much money growing up; he didn't have much of an education. He forced that on me, and I didn't want it.

  

  Channing Tatum
  • Up
  • Good
  • Money

• Yeah, I've played a lot of instruments, and I played in a lot of bands growing up, and I've even had to play music in a lot of films that I've done.

  

  Alessandro Nivola
  • Up
  • Music
  • Done

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