Growing Quotes
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When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. My sister became unmarried and pregnant during high school, and she kept saying, 'This wasn't supposed to happen! Why is this happening to me?' Someone should have given her another book to read.
Dorothy Allison
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The volume and impact of these pseudo-classifications is growing, ... inhibits the free flow of critical information.
Chris Shays
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Well, I was obsessed with Judy Garland growing up. Like, obsessed.
Aubrey Plaza
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The number of female-lead action films is definitely growing, which is great.
Monique Ganderton
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When I was growing up, I said to my ex-girlfriend, 'I will not be successful until everyone in Holland knows my name.' And it worked.
Nick van de Wall
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God always wants us to be growing.
Joel Osteen
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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
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I love being a Met. It was my favorite team growing up, so to be a Met to me is very special.
David Wright
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Ive inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed.
Jhumpa Lahiri
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Growing up in an atmosphere of storytelling made me an actor.
John Lithgow
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'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
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You can't take a kid from north Alabama and growing up in church - some of that is just gonna seep out.
Anderson East
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All I'll say is if you look at countries where it is - where they are rapidly growing, they're investing in their infrastructure. They're investing in their educations. They are trying to streamline regulations, but they're not neglecting key investments.
Austan Goolsbee
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I suppose even when I was growing up, I noticed I was most happy when I was absorbed in something, lost in the moment and forgot the time, whether was conversation, movie, or a game I was playing. That was my definition of happiness. And I was least happy when I was all over the place, distracted and restless.
Pico Iyer
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My very first account was @BlackBarbie, which is what my friends called me growing up. Then I thought, 'You can either call yourself that, or you can find something that will matter to dark-skinned girls.' So I came up with @melaniin.goddess.
Khoudia Diop
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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
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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
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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
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I thought it was very important to keep growing with Atletico and to play there for many years.
Diego Costa
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We must be prepared to see an Association of Nations in conference growing into an organic system of world controls for world affairs and the keeping of the world’s peace, or we must be prepared for – a continuation of war.
H. G. Wells
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'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
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Sit down and write it down with a pen and then make up your mind you are going to do it. Don't spend any time thinking of why you can't. The fun is not in getting it, the fun is in growing. Goals are to help us grow, goals are to help us get. The getting is a site benefit; the growth is the real benefit.
Bob Proctor
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I think we need to keep our faces out there and to keep our game out there and keep it growing.
Megan Rapinoe
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When you're growing up, it's very easy to feel lonely and insecure.
John Tiffany