Growing Quotes
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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 -
Growing up, when I was younger, I didn't feel all that tough or smart or strong. As I got older, I was able to discover my own strength.
Alexandra Daddario
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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 -
It is important to me to keep trying to push myself to try lots of new musical styles and approaches. To keep growing. It is my version of jumping out of planes.
China Forbes -
When we get together and rehearse, which is always living with each other, we always talk about what would make it better, what would mean more, what would say more. So we're always improving and growing.
Alice Cooper -
I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the door as soon as I turned 18.
Jessica Lange -
Man was sent into the world to be a growing and exhaustless force. The world was spread out around him to be seized and conquered. Realms of infinite truth burst open above him, inviting him to tread those shining coasts along which Newton dropped his plummet, and Herschel sailed,--a Columbus of the skies.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin -
Ultimately, I remain optimistic about not just America's future, but the direction that the world is growing.
Barack Obama
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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 -
Sloth is the fastest-growing lifestyle movement in the world, and that's because it is completely doable. If you embrace sloth, it's the last thing you'll ever have to do again.
Wendy Wasserstein -
We were under a lot of financial pressure when I was growing up.
Andrew Garfield -
I wouldn't know how to write a weak female character. I read so much epic fantasy growing up, where you have these sword-wielding, in-your-face warrior maidens.
Richelle Mead -
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 -
When I was growing up, Sunday lunch was my favorite time as a child. We would have a big Sunday English meal, and we would argue about things.
Joanna Coles
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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 -
I want to do things where the talent range is difficult and that scare me. I thrive on that; if it's not scaring me then I'm not growing.
Nina Dobrev -
When I was growing up, I heard horror stories about producers losing their houses overnight. No matter who the family is, hearing of them getting evicted is very sad.
Varun Dhawan -
God always wants us to be growing.
Joel Osteen -
I hate the idea of growing accustomed to someone and being faithful.
Claire Denis -
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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Even when you are striving, stumbling and struggling, it's exhilarating if you sense you are growing.
Brenda Poinsett -
My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.
Sandra Bullock -
It seems like when I was growing up there was more compromise, wanting to work with each other, and I think all of them - all of the lawmakers - have hearts to do what's right, and they all are passionate about it.
Joel Osteen -
I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be 'sexy,' even before I knew what the word was.
Dolly Parton