Growing Quotes
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I'm Christian. Growing up in Ethiopia, it's half-Christian and half-Muslim. You grow up with Muslim kids. I'm very much aware of their religion.
Liya Kebede
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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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Top Gun was one of my favorite movies growing up.
Stephen Colletti
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I have a large collection of town cars because when I was just a snipe in the gutter, growing up in Los Angeles, a town car drove by. I remember running in the house to get my mother so she could see it. It was utterly magnificent.
Clive Cussler
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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
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Growing up in an atmosphere of storytelling made me an actor.
John Lithgow
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Our view is that economic isolationism is the wrong way to go. Vibrant, successful growing economies that advance the interests of their citizens engage the global economy. And, we're committed to engaging the global economy.
John W. Snow
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When I began teaching, my colleagues and I quickly realized that our students didn't have access to the same resources we had growing up. We knew there were supplies and resources that could help our students, but our school district simply couldn't afford them.
Charles Best
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An ordinary life used to look something like this: born into a growing family, you help rear your siblings, have the first of your own half-dozen or even dozen children soon after you're grown, and die before your youngest has left home.
Jill Lepore
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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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Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.
Kenny Rogers
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No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce.
Thomas Sowell
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I was teased a lot, growing up, because of my skin tone.
Khoudia Diop
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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
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Ann Demeulemeester is an adult brand now, with its own identity and legacy that is able to continue growing without me.
Ann Demeulemeester
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With the growing reliance on social media, we no longer search for news, or the products and services we wish to buy. Instead they are being pushed to us by friends, acquaintances and business colleagues.
Erik Qualman
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In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.
Stewart Udall
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I always loved '90210' growing up. It was one of my favorites - the old-school '90210'.
Melissa Ordway
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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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The volume and impact of these pseudo-classifications is growing, ... inhibits the free flow of critical information.
Chris Shays
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I'm from a small Irish family of 10, so there always was music in the house. Growing up, my older sisters had things like 'South Pacific' and opera on.
Colm Wilkinson
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The mass audience doesn't want to see you if you aren't perfect. If you don't look a certain way, if you don't have big pecs and great skin and the perfect eyes. And it's unfortunate, because kids are growing up with body image dysmorphia because not everyone is represented on the screen.
Chris Pine
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Growing up, my favorite TV show was 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.', hands down.
John Lasseter
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When you're growing up, it's very easy to feel lonely and insecure.
John Tiffany