Growing Quotes
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Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young gratefully' with thanks to designers, beauticians and plastic surgeons.
Edith Head
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Feeling earthquakes was part of growing up, and also preparing for them: doing earthquake drills, or having earthquake supplies. The looming feeling was part of my life. My experience of earthquakes has always been more the fear of them, or the possibility.
Karen Thompson Walker
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I think, growing up, I was seen as the perfect power forward. For a long time, I thought maybe I was supposed to be a basketball player.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
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Growing companies need commercial space, and their employees need to live nearby.
David Lichtenstein
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Growing up, I was not used to good things happening to me.
Quinton Aaron
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'Never Die Alone' is primarily a riveting genre film that neatly exhibits the director's growing assurance - Donald Goines would be proud.
Elvis Mitchell
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Bahrain 's margin of freedom is growing day after day as we head into the future with steady steps.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
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There is a growing sense among Americans outside the Beltway that while President Obama may be a good talker, he is a lousy manager.
Kathleen Troia McFarland
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I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
Gary Shteyngart
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It's silly to me to not be positive about rock advancing and growing. Really, we just want rock n' roll to be mainstream.
John Gourley Portugal. The Man
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I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.
Barry Hannah
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I didn't have a choice growing up but to be more insecure because others had more.
Shania Twain
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Like every child growing up in America, I read 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'Huckleberry Finn.' I liked them well enough, but I didn't love them.
Caroline Lawrence
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Growing up in the hot Last Vegas desert, all I wanted was to be free. I would daydream about traveling the world, living in a place where it snowed, and I would picture all of the stories that I would go on to tell.
Amy Purdy
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Growing up eating fruits and vegetables fresh from our farm added a lot to the way I taste and look at food today, and I wanted the same for my kids and other kids.
Camila Alves
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Part of growing up is realizing you learn to love so many people. It's about forming those relationships and finding what will last forever.
Dylan O'Brien
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I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was growing up. I didn't even start playing basketball until I was 14.
Earl Monroe
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How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?
Charles Lindbergh
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The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I know I always had a lot of energy growing up and I had to put it somewhere. Theater allowed me to really feel things, to laugh, to cry, to explode outward. I could do anything and it was totally accepted and appreciated. If I hadn't gone into the theater, I probably would have been a psychotic killer.
Faith Prince
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I see city finances within the context of an economic strategy... We are going to solve our financial problems by growing the economy, and I have rejected some corners that have called for a slash-and-burn approach, and I've rejected others who have called for raising taxes and leaving government as is.
Rahm Emanuel
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Growing up, I really didn't have a lot of role models.
Adam Rippon
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Growing up, I didn't really watch a lot of standup. I didn't know you could be a low-energy comedian. It was something I did daydream about, but in the way you daydream about becoming the president or something - it could never happen.
Dan Mintz
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The excitement is growing so much I think the Geiger counter of Olympo-mania is going to go zoink off the scale.
Boris Johnson