Growing Quotes

• You have little representation of young black men in the business sector, so you have children growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods who don't hear discussions at the dinner table about what goes on in business. It's almost as if we have two nations.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Up
  • Men
  • Children

• Growing up, people would always say, 'You have such a pretty face.' It's kind of backhanded. That's the kind of things we have to stomach.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • People
  • Up
  • Pretty

• When I was growing up, in the '80s and '90s, I just never really saw myself reflected in the things that I had a liking for. It makes a difference.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Growing Up

• When I was growing up, my dad was away a lot. He did a lot of work in crisis zones, places like Uganda or Rwanda.

  

  Joe Alwyn
  • Up
  • Work
  • Dad

• I'd pull my little brother on our motorcycle on an inner tube behind it. We would go fishing, we would hunt some, growing up.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Up
  • Brother
  • Growing Up

• I really wasn't into comic books growing up.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Books
  • Growing Up

• I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended between hope for nothing and despair of everything, brought up among perfumes and poisons, consumed with love and hatred, killed by lights and shadows. My symbol is death of light and the flame of death. Sparks die in me only to be reborn as thunder and lightning. Darkness itself glows in me.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Love
  • Death
  • Beast

• I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• I sang in the choir growing up and more recently served on the worship team at my church in California.

  

  Deborah Joy Winans
  • Up
  • Team
  • Church

• I just went to the hobby shop and got an electricity kit and a chemistry kit, and I'm really excited to do experiments like squeezing an egg into a bottle and growing crystals. I'm really getting into hobbies.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer
  • Growing

• I was in a bookstore one afternoon, and I stumbled across this book called 'A Guide to Film Schools.' I always loved movies growing up and had never even conceived that it was something you could do for a living. Realizing most of them were in Los Angeles and knowing that was warm, I ended up applying.

  

  Brian Helgeland
  • Up
  • Book
  • Growing

• I listened to R. Kelly growing up.

  

  Rakim Hasheem Allen
  • Up
  • Growing

• Growing up, you hear Tupac's music, it's kind of like... it goes without saying that everyone likes Tupac.

  

  Demetrius Shipp, Jr.
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to a middle-class kid growing up on the other side of the world. That has always fascinated me.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Up
  • World
  • Listening

• When I was a kid growing up, you maybe secretly wanted to be an actor, but you never said.

  

  Peter Falk
  • Up
  • Growing

• I don't know when it started - this thing - bit it's growing, muffling me, suffocating me like poison ivy. I grew into it. It grew into me. We blurred at the edges, became an amorphous, seeping, crawling thing.

  

  Tabitha Suzuma
  • Growing

• I am actually a big sissy, and growing up, I never used to watch horror movies. 'Bambi' gave me nightmares.

  

  Danielle Panabaker
  • Up
  • Growing

• Growing up in Florida and having naturally curly hair was a bit tough. I had to learn to do treatments and masks to keep the frizz under control.

  

  Brittany Snow
  • Up
  • Control
  • Hair

• 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
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Water

• I want to pursue music in the future, but I'm taking it a step at a time and making sure I'm constantly growing.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • Time
  • Music
  • Future

• I am super close with my brother. He is my ultimate role model. Growing up and having a family break apart, you know, when my parents divorced and things like that, it was a struggle, and all we had was each other at the time.

  

  Ali Krieger
  • Up
  • Time
  • Family

• Success has nothing to do with box office as far as I'm concerned. Success has to do with achieving your goals, your internal goals, and growing as a person. It would have been nice to have been connected with a couple more box office hits, but in the long run, I don't think it makes you happier.

  

  Alan Arkin
  • Long
  • Success
  • Nice

• I played pretty darn competitive-level hockey. Then the good old knee injury. Obviously, it's a blessing in disguise, but growing up Canadian, that's our religion, that's our football.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • Up
  • Good
  • Pretty

• In the time that I have been acquainted with this region I have become increasingly aware of it as a testament of water, the origin and guide of its contours and gradients and of all the lives - the plants and small creatures, and the culture - that evolved here. That was always here to be seen, of course, and the recognition has forced itself, in one form or other, upon people in every part of the world who have been directly involved with the growing of living things. The gardener who ignores it is soon left with no garden.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • People
  • Time
  • World

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