Growing Quotes
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Growing up the son of a director has made me very aware of the various turns that a directing career can take. Sometimes your films turn out exactly as you want. Sometimes they don't. I spent a lot of my childhood on sets. I think as a joke, my father gave me a line of dialogue in each of his films during the worst moments of my puberty.
Jason Reitman
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I was given an incredible gift growing up in the Chelsea, a space where it is completely fine to be yourself - you just had to figure out what that was. You didn't have to figure that out in the face of opposition at every turn.
Gaby Hoffmann
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When I was growing up, I always knew that if I ever got anything, I was going to give back as much as I can. I learned that all you have to be willing to do is give your time.
Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
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Growing up, I spent a lot of time on film sets all over the world.
Danny Huston
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So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops.
Ed Smith
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I want to work for a long, long time and keep growing in my work, and if I am very lucky and very blessed, maybe somewhere along the line there will be one movie in there that becomes a classic.
Salma Hayek
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Growing up it all seems so one-sidedOpinions all providedThe future pre-decidedDetached and subdividedIn the mass production zoneNowhere is the dreamer or the misfit so alone - Subdivisions (1982)
Neil Peart Rush
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I knew trucking was growing. It grew from the Second World War to the time that I bought the bridge. There were interstate highways being built. I thought there was opportunity.
Manuel Moroun
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I am always interested in helping and growing new tech start-ups and ideas.
John McAfee
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I loved scary movies growing up.
Katie Featherston
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A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
Bette Midler
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Growing up, I wasn't sure about acting, but I knew I wanted to be part of the movie industry.
Daniella Alonso
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I read this book when I was young. It's about a black girl growing up in Heaven, Ohio. The cover has a black girl with clouds behind her. It was the first book cover I ever saw with a girl that looked like me.
Jamila Woods
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Australia is an island surrounded by water. My fondest memories growing up were trips to the beach, walking around the harbor and playing in the beautiful parks.
Tammin Sursok
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So I got into growing grapes, not realizing that there was a heck of a lot more to it than meets the eye.
Pat Paulsen
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Growing up, my idols were Lucky Luke and Jolly Jumper. And Scottie Pippen.
Dirk Nowitzki
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Under pressure from a growing movement of people who want their money out of fossil fuels, universities, pension investors and foundations are looking to exclude coal, oil and gas stocks from their portfolios.
Frances Beinecke
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To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so numerous at Laguna Pueblo when I was growing up. I learned to read as soon as I could because I wanted stories without having to depend on adults to tell or read stories to me.
Leslie Marmon Silko
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The art world seems so much bigger than it was when I was growing up.
China Chow
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Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.
David Blaine
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Us three brothers - me, Janis, and Martins - we made a bet. We all sat down and said we were going to grow our hair out. But after a month or two, they cut their hair. But I was too young to make the decision about whether I would get a haircut, so mine just kept growing. And it was so long that I decided I should start rocking those cornrows.
Kristaps Porzingis
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I didn't even know 'Vogue' existed when I was growing up.
Christian Louboutin
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I grew up an athlete, growing up in Pittsburgh. I played basketball. I played football. I played a little bit of baseball in my earlier years.
Antoine Fuqua
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There was nothing exceptional about growing up as the son of a congressman.
Duncan D. Hunter