Growing Quotes

• The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers.

  

  Ayelet Waldman
  • Up
  • Real
  • Father

• The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing.

  

  Jon Meacham
  • Work
  • Great
  • Real

• Yes, I was slightly outside everything when I was growing up. My mother jokes that I was exchanged at birth. She brought us up to have traditional values. She was absolutely not part of the '60s generation.

  

  Janet McTeer
  • Up
  • She
  • Mother

• But they can't know how the dark space inside me is growing. I lie to them. I can't get out of the dark hole. 'Peace is here' it whispers.

  

  Lurlene McDaniel
  • Peace
  • Space
  • Dark

• I love the sound of voices singing together, congregational singing, anything like gospel, or folk, or sea shanties. I spent quite a bit of time in choirs growing up, and in the world-touring music group, Anuna. It's a sound with very rich texture, voices singing together.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• I must do something to keep my thoughts fresh and growing. I dread nothing so much as falling into a rut and feeling myself becoming a fossil.

  

  James A. Garfield
  • Feeling
  • Growing
  • Thoughts

• My parents listened to music in our house all the time when we were growing up. It was everything from Dolly Parton to Paul Simon... We packed in everything.

  

  Clare Bowen
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• I always wondered what it was like to be just a normal kid growing up in trying times or during a great moment in history.

  

  Kathryn Lasky
  • Up
  • Great
  • Trying

• With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Crazy
  • Horse
  • Surfing

• I was a hockey player growing up. Being a big guy and being imposing, I had to use my size to protect my teammates.

  

  Kevin Durand
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Player

• I have very distinct memories about growing up as part of what was then a very small Jewish community in Buffalo Grove, IL.

  

  Jami Attenberg
  • Up
  • Small
  • Community

• When I was in school, I got there on the first day and everyone had long, blonde, straight hair, and I had short, dark, curly hair. I immediately felt I didn't fit in and started growing my hair. But I've learned that I'm only happy when I am truly me and feel comfortable and confident in myself.

  

  Emmy Rossum
  • Long
  • School
  • Happy

• I think growing up in such a small town - before cell phones, before the Internet, before Facebook, before we had access to people's interiors - there was a great deal of space between people's lives. I spent a lot of time imagining into the lives of the people I grew up with.

  

  Bill Clegg
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Joy Division finished the 1970s on a high. Our debut album, 'Unknown Pleasures,' was doing well; we'd just finished a hugely enjoyable and successful tour. The band's profile was higher than it had ever been, and it seemed to be growing by the day.

  

  Bernard Sumner New Order
  • High
  • Joy
  • Band

• Growing up as a kid, the back of my house faced a little community airport about four or five miles from my house.

  

  Bo Jackson
  • Up
  • Kids
  • House

• Warriorship is so tender, without skin, without tissue, naked and raw. It is soft and gentle. You have renounced putting on a new suit of armor. You have renounced growing a thick, hard skin. You are willing to expose naked flesh, bone and marrow to the world.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • World
  • Armor
  • Tissue

• That messed me up, growing up in the public eye when I was a teenager. That's when everyone is trying to find themselves.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Teenager

• I loved going to superhero films growing up - you come home, and you pretend to be those people, and it ends up informing much of what you aspire to be. And that's what I will say is important about the genre.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • She
  • Growing

• When you're growing up, the most important thing is to try to not change yourself too much. Be you, because everyone else is taken.

  

  Ella Purnell
  • Up
  • Important
  • Taken

• I was very lucky growing up, and I got all my dad's and aunts' toys from the 1950s and 1960s and loved those old pedal cars.

  

  Jasmine Guinness
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dad

• The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation.

  

  John Ortberg
  • Growing
  • Practice
  • Road

• I talked to Marvel about 'Thor' at one point, but I didn't want to do Thor. It wasn't something I read growing up, really; it wasn't one of the books I loved.

  

  Louis Leterrier
  • Up
  • Growing

• I grew up in a small town in Washington State, so I wasn't really aware of costume design as a career growing up, but I loved clothes. I remember I saved all my money, and the first thing that I bought was a white blazer, which was to the horror to my parents. But I have always had a strange connection with clothing.

  

  Colleen Atwood
  • Up
  • Money
  • Remember

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