Growing Quotes
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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
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The toughest thing for me was growing up and being stared at and being looked at and being talked about in that particular way. Other than that it was a good childhood.
Wilt Chamberlain
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I'm really influenced by '90s hip hop. A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul were my heroes growing up.
Mat Kearney
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Reaching out to Hispanics is critical to our future. The fastest-growing, and most conservative, segment of the population are natural Republicans.
Ken Mehlman
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One of the big myths about people growing up is that they are "digital natives;" that just because they've been raised with the Internet - that you're very adept at using the app on your phone - it doesn't mean you have any idea about how the Internet actually works.
Astra Taylor
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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
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Of all bugs, growing up I just loved the pill bugs. They roll up, you play with them, you wait for them to open up, and then when you touch them they roll up again. I just love that.
John Lasseter
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Growing up, I had a ton of friends, and I had a great life, but people still made fun of me sometimes.
Molly Tarlov
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It is important to combine structural reforms and good fiscal stewardship with a growth strategy, because when your economy's growing and more revenue's coming in, that helps relieve debt.
Barack Obama
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Over the last several quarters we have been growing faster in Asia and Europe than any other place on the planet. We have 18 percent of the global PC share, about 12 percent in Europe, and 8 percent in Asia.
Kevin Rollins
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'Ders' is something I've been called since I was six by neighbors and stuff growing up.
Anders Holm
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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
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I played football growing up in junior high and high school.
Ryan Merriman
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The fans in Canada have been there since day one. They're the originals. When people say that's your roots, that's literally my roots. I've just cut this tree off and replanted it somewhere else and it started growing, but the roots are still here.
Russell Peters
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Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth.
Brian Aldiss
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Over the last 30 years there have been a steadily growing number of architects who are returning to traditional and classical principles.
John Quinlan Terry
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When you're growing up, you want to feel part of something.
Reese Hoffa
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I can't dismiss my roots as a kid growing up during the Great Depression in the ordinary midwestern town of Grand Rapids, Michigan. From the standpoint of money and material possessions, we were barely scraping by.
Richard M. DeVos
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There is a growing evidence that arts education improves student learning and thereby produces better citizens
David J. Skorton
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For scientists, growing cells took so much work that they couldn't get much research done. So the selling of cells was really just for the sake of science, and there weren't a lot of profits.
Rebecca Skloot
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The will to challenge myself is strong, but I think that's growing, the desire to stretch myself and make it hard.
Will Poulter
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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
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When asked what I'd be if I weren't a writer, I'm tempted to respond with one of father's favorite phrases, one I despised while growing up: "I hate 'what-ifs.'"
Cate Marvin
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The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
Charles Caleb Colton