Growing Quotes

• Growing up, I had a very busy social life. It wasn't until I was a sophomore in high school that I asked Mama if I could come into the kitchen and have her teach me how to cook something.

  

  Paula Deen
  • Life
  • Up
  • School

• It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.

  

  Eugenie Clark
  • Growing
  • Common
  • Chose

• If we're not growing, we must feel guilty, because we are not fulfilling Christ's demand.

  

  Eva Burrows
  • Growing
  • Guilty
  • Demand

• We can in fact only define a weed, mutatis mutandis, in terms of the well-known definition of dirt - as matter out of place. What we call a weed is in fact merely a plant growing where we do not want it.

  

  Edward James Salisbury
  • Growing
  • Weed
  • Definition

• I'm nice because, when I was growing up, so many people weren't nice to me, and I remember how that felt. And I don't want to make anyone else feel like that. I value nice.

  

  Ricky Williams
  • People
  • Remember
  • Feels

• The Love Army is a growing network of people who want to stick up for the underdogs in the red states and blue states in the era of [Donald] Trump.

  

  Van Jones
  • People
  • Up
  • Red

• I got scouted when I was 16, almost 17, and it was something that had never entered my thoughts. I never thought I could be a model. I was such a tomboy growing up, and I've never really been into makeup or anything like that, so it was really surprising, but I definitely saw it as an in for acting.

  

  Anya Taylor-Joy
  • Up
  • Thoughts
  • Model

• Yes, my fashion sense is outrageous, but I am a rebel. I am young and still growing up.

  

  Nia Sharma
  • Up
  • Fashion
  • Rebel

• My dad is a carpenter, a joiner, and I used to watch him make things. So I always imagined that I'd do something where I made things, too. I was really more interested in architecture growing up because I would work with my dad on houses.

  

  Christopher Bailey
  • House
  • Architecture
  • Carpenter

• When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.

  

  Ethan Zuckerman
  • Stories
  • Focused
  • Average

• Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.

  

  Carol Burnett
  • Up
  • Growing

• May you live to see the green grass growing over your grave.

  

  Frank Richard Stockton
  • Green
  • Grave
  • Grass

• There is a growing acceptance and interest in publicly funded school choice as a catalyst for education reform in general and a way to empower parents to be education reformers.

  

  John T. Walton
  • School
  • Parents
  • Education

• 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

• As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.

  

  Ray Kroc
  • Growing
  • Green
  • Soon

• I've just been growing right along. It's painful, but it's a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. It's like going to the gym. It hurts really bad at first, but after a couple of months and after that diet, you're looking so hot.

  

  Mary J. Blige
  • Great
  • Bad
  • Pain

• 'Ders' is something I've been called since I was six by neighbors and stuff growing up.

  

  Anders Holm
  • Up
  • Growing

• In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

  

  John Steinbeck
  • People
  • Growing

• My absolute favorite growing up was Super Friends. The assemblage of so many mighty heroes in one place was, to me, mind-blowing. It was Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Aquaman, and then sometimes Hawkman and some other, lesser heroes.

  

  Michael Ian Black
  • Mind
  • Sometimes
  • Wonder

• Growing up, I learnt to think, 'Let's make it a big night tonight, as you never know what's going to happen next.' So now I have enough, I take too much; when I get the chance to have a fine dinner, I will. And it's had an effect on my health.

  

  John Burnside
  • Up
  • Night
  • Health

• We all have to go through our own experiences of growing up.

  

  Carmen Cusack
  • Up
  • Growing

• And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.... And as to you corpse, I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me, I smell the white roses sweet-scented and growing, I reach to the leafy lips — I reach to the polished breasts of melons. And as to you life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Life
  • Death
  • Morality

• I did a lot of theater growing up, and in college I was in the musical 'Chicago.'

  

  Sarah Shahi
  • College
  • Chicago
  • Theater

• Growing up, we didn't have anything. My mum wasn't well, so I was in three care homes then foster homes before me and my little brother went back to her. I was passed from pillar to post.

  

  Rebecca Ferguson
  • Growing
  • Brother
  • Pillars

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