Growing Quotes

• One attribute of the human being is the potential to keep on growing, to keep on developing. And I think there's room in each of us. I hate to hear someone say, oh well, that man or that woman is sixty or seventy or eighty or ninety or a hundred, so he's finished. There's always something that can be transformed on the upward spiral.

  

  William Segal
  • Hate
  • Humans
  • Developing

• Don't over-analyze your marriage; it's like yanking up a fragile indoor plant every 20 minutes to see how its roots are growing.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Up
  • Marriage
  • Plant

• 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 know why we're strong. I know why we have held together; I know why we are united: it's because there's always been a growing middle class.

  

  Joe Biden
  • Why
  • Together
  • Strong

• The volume and impact of these pseudo-classifications is growing, ... inhibits the free flow of critical information.

  

  Chris Shays
  • Impact
  • Flow
  • Inhibits

• I really just wanted to write about three brothers. When you do that, though, it gives you this wonderful opportunity to tie together different social milieus, because siblings usually move into different worlds as they grow up.

  

  Daniel Kehlmann
  • Moving
  • Brother
  • Sibling

• 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 first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton
  • Success
  • Growing

• I was always an Alabama fan growing up, but when the Alabama recruiter told me I would probably not be able to play until the end of my sophomore year, or the beginning of my junior year.

  

  Bo Jackson
  • Up
  • Beginning
  • Fans

• Liberty University is the world's largest and fastest-growing evangelical university.

  

  Jerry Falwell, Jr.
  • World
  • Growing

• I'm healthy enough to still skate, so I gotta go because growing up I didn't have - I mean, I grew up in Montana so... there was kind of a little half-pipe in my yard, and that was the extent of the skate terrain in Montana. So I've got to go out and make up for lost time.

  

  Jeff Ament
  • Up
  • Time
  • Lost

• There is a growing strength in women, but it is in the forehead, not in the forearm.

  

  Beverly Sills
  • Women
  • Growing

• I've always been kind of an introvert growing up.

  

  Melissa De Sousa
  • Growing
  • Always
  • Introvert

• So many of the fantasy stories I encountered growing up were set in worlds that were largely modelled on medieval Europe in one way or another. Lots of white folks in feudal societies, castles and kings, that kind of thing.

  

  Chris Roberson
  • Up
  • Growing

• I really loved Andy Kaufman growing up, like every comedy person does. I like when sometimes the audience isn't quite sure what's supposed to be happening right then and that sort of unsafe feeling, as long as you're not punishing them.

  

  Mike O'Brien
  • Feeling
  • Comedy
  • Audience

• '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've always been a risk taker. Growing up, I had a lot of freedom and room to roam and do what I wanted, and I think that's a huge part of my game.

  

  Megan Rapinoe
  • Up
  • Game
  • Freedom

• 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

• If on one day we find the fast-spreading recognition of popular rights accompanied by a silent, growing perception of the rights of women, we also find it accompanied by a tendency towards a system of non-coercive education--that is, towards a practical illustration of the rights of children.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Children
  • Perception
  • Silent

• 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

• It's in the difficult times that we're growing and you can't just rebuke everything hard. We've got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

  

  Joel Osteen
  • Good
  • Faith
  • Growing

• One thing that makes me very happy is to see the growing activism among chefs in America. Chefs like Tom Colicchio, Bill Telepan, and Rachel Ray and food writers like Michael Pollan have gone to Congress, indeed sometimes even have testified before Congress, have lent this support to Mrs. Obama's effort to combat childhood obesity.

  

  Jose Andres
  • America
  • Happy
  • Food

• Growing up, as much as country was a big influence in my life, the Rolling Stones and the Beatles and Led Zeppelin were such a close second. My first concert ever was the Rolling Stones in Denver. I snuck a camera backstage and filmed Mick Jagger during sound-check.

  

  Thomas Rhett
  • Life
  • Up
  • Country

• The league, I think, is doing well. It's growing, it's maturing, and it's becoming a better league.

  

  Cobi Jones
  • Growing

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