Growing Quotes
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A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as plain as the nose on your face.
Walt Disney
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Well, I was obsessed with Judy Garland growing up. Like, obsessed.
Aubrey Plaza
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Growing up in a family of actors, what's great about it is that they're very supportive and they understand what it's like to be an actor - the rejections, the highs and lows... and having a common language with them is great because you have shorthand speech.
Chris Pine
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The role of business in advancing women's rights is growing, particularly in the area of economic opportunity including opening access to training, mentoring, networks, markets, technology and even to capital in some circumstances.
Melanne Verveer
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As an athlete, I know that I'm such a perfectionist that I'll want to go out and keep working on something over and over until it's perfect. Part of growing up is learning to take a step back.
Adam Rippon
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When I grow up I want to be an old woman.
Michelle Shocked
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The time to begin most things is ten years ago.
Mignon McLaughlin
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You will soon find that your joy in your home is growing, and that you have a source of happiness within yourself that you had not suspected.
Elsie de Wolfe
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We were under a lot of financial pressure when I was growing up.
Andrew Garfield
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Growing up in an atmosphere of storytelling made me an actor.
John Lithgow
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True love doesn't happen right away; it's an ever-growing process. It develops after you've gone through many ups and downs, when you've suffered together, cried together, laughed together.
Ricardo Montalban
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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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As young girls we grow up with the idea that life is going to be a bit of a fairytale. But at some point reality hits and we realise that's not what life is about. Many of us are faced with eating disorders and mental health struggles, bad relationships and heartbreak, low self-esteem and confused sexualities and more. Life is very much real.
Darren Fletcher
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My love for him had never gone away but only changed, growing deeper like wine fermenting or pickles curing. It bore into me with the pervasiveness of water working its way to the center of a mountain.
Lisa See
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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.
Norman Mailer
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When I was growing up, I used to watch 'Power Rangers' and 'Ninja Turtles.' It seemed like every movie had someone doing martial arts in it, so I would go around punching and kicking trees.
Ashton Eaton
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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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'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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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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My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.
Sandra Bullock
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I hated Sundays when I was growing up in Streatham, south London. Everything closed down and stopped.
Simon Callow
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I was interested in politics very much when I was growing up, and that's what I think I really wanted to be - either a senator, or a Supreme Court Justice, and I always wanted to be a lawyer.
Michael Riedel
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None of us really grow up. All we ever do is learn how to behave in public.
Keith Johnstone
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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