Growing Quotes
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That's the most important thing for me is just figuring out how and if I'm growing as an artist.
Karyn Kusama
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Growing up, the Opry was my Hollywood.
Ashley McBryde
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One of my favorite shots was on these, like, lava rocks - but moss was growing on it, and I was lying on it, and it was really green, and the picture was really pretty.
Lucky Blue Smith
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I was really bothered by it. I grew up around many Asian cultures, Korean one of them. A lot of my best friends were Korean growing up. I just didn't understand. Later on I realized that was built up by certain people and that was directed at me, negative energy from other things, not even resulting around the sport, but around politics, using me to stand on the pedestal as the anti-American sentiment.
Apolo Ohno
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When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business.
Jeffrey Ross Hyman
Ramones
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My maternal granddad, Leonard, was full of amazing stories. He was an orphan, with 11 or 12 brothers and sisters, and he used to tell us about growing up near the Irrawaddy river and how one brother was eaten by a crocodile.
Jamie Cullum
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Growing up, I was taught a man's word is his bond.
Logan Mankins
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There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!
Frank Zappa
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I began working quite young, writing, growing, maturing, always striving to top myself - to make people laugh hard at things they know and believe deep in their hearts to be true.
Bill Hicks
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Toxins love to get you while you're young. Lead, mercury, secondhand smoke and sundry other environmental nasties do a lot more damage when tissue is immature, vulnerable and growing than when it's mature and comparatively fixed.
Jeffrey Kluger
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The National Forest Ski Area Permit Act of 1986 needs to be updated to reflect our growing communities.
John Barrasso
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I had, probably, a more challenging experience growing up than most middle-class chicks.
Jennifer Hale
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My favorite team while I was growing up was the New Orleans Saints. My favorite player was Joe Horn.
Jacoby Jones
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I've always appreciated working with people I have chemistry with, who are friends, and where you feel that the work is growing while you are getting to know each other better.
Bjork
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When we look at the flowers, we suddenly forget so many important things. We forget that all flowers die. We forget that winter will come again. We forget that nothing really endures and that, like the flowers that die at the end of the growing season, we'll join them in the cold ground.
Jonathan Maberry
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I always wanted to be an actor, but I always loved design, and growing up in New Orleans there was such great style, great architecture. I would decorate my little apartment in New York over and over again, because it only had a couple of rooms. And I did it for friends and family on the side just for fun.
Bryan Batt
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I was quite a shy person growing up, and drag was very much a shield for me to perform behind.
Kristian Nairn
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Blaming your faults on your nature does not change the nature of your faults. After growing up on a dairy farm, everything in life seemed easy
Mike Johanns
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All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown.
Oprah Winfrey
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About why he named his daughter True and son Ocean I want those names to be their destiny, for my daughter to be honest and my son to be expansive. I try to be like a forest, revitalizing and constantly growing. … being called Forest helped me find my identity.
Forest Whitaker
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My mom was a big feminist, and when I was growing up, I wasn't allowed to have typical girl toys: she did not let me have dolls. Barbies were banned in our household. She read feminist books to me; my mom was a major feminist.
Leila Janah
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Growing up, everybody told me I was good. I was playing ping-pong with my father, and he'd say, 'That's a good shot,' but I'd mess up the next one, and I'd yell, 'Don't tell me that! I'll mess up! Just don't say anything!' You know, if someone says, 'You can't do that,' then I'm going to be, 'Yeah, you watch me.'
Allison Janney
