Growing Quotes

• A solitary child growing up in Africa, you're really quite dependent on books.

  

  John Rhys-Davies
  • Up
  • Growing

• In terms of growing as a songwriter, I'm just a guy who understands the craft better. I understand what I want to do with it. I think that's where I've grown. Have I fully achieved that? No, but I don't think you ever do. There's always room to grow.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • Guy
  • Growing

• We know that to compete for the jobs of the 21st century and thrive in a global economy, we need a growing, skilled and educated workforce, particularly in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math. Americans with bachelor's degrees have half the unemployment rate of those with a high school degree.

  

  Mark Pocan
  • School
  • High
  • Science

• I'm an off-road racecar driver. And I think every woman in my life has told me that's not a sensible hobby. But when I was growing, even more than I wanted to be funny, I wanted to be a racecar driver. That's all I thought about. I worked for a race team when I was 15 and I traveled with them.

  

  Dax Shepard
  • Life
  • Funny
  • Team

• To get married and have a family, is to grow up and mature. It's the only way. You can read philosophy books for a hundred years, but if you don't get married and have a family you will never get it. They soften you and shape you, mature you. Absolutely.

  

  Richard Matheson
  • Philosophy
  • Married
  • Hundred

• Growing up, my mates and I would have rather been Sid Vicious or members of the Royal Family.

  

  Colin Firth
  • Up
  • Family
  • Growing

• It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best without consulting the wisdom of mankind.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Money
  • Power
  • Control

• The outside world told black kids when I was growing up that we weren't worth anything. But our parents said it wasn't so, and our churches and our schoolteachers said it wasn't so. They believed in us, and we, therefore, believed in ourselves.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Up
  • World
  • Kids

• If you're a white male growing up in this society, you're constantly receiving encouragement to go on in science in the form of all the images that you're receiving.

  

  Eileen Pollack
  • Up
  • Society
  • Science

• For any athlete growing up, the Olympics is the one thing you watch with your family, and it's the one thing you dream about. Seeing your country's flag go up as you get a gold medal is the best thing you can achieve.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Up
  • Country
  • Family

• 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

• I had, probably, a more challenging experience growing up than most middle-class chicks.

  

  Jennifer Hale
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Growing

• I see similarities in the sports I played growing up in the sense of how I tackle a role when I get a job. A lot of effort goes in on an individual basis. There is a lot of time spent by yourself working on your craft and what you have to do. But, at the end of the day, you're there to serve the movie just like you would the rugby team.

  

  Luke Bracey
  • Up
  • Time
  • Job

• Autism is the fastest growing developmental disability in our nation.

  

  Mary Bono
  • Growing
  • Autism

• When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church.

  

  Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Church

• At the global level, there are a growing number of city-based bike-sharing programs that take advantage of mobile devices to reserve your bike, keep track of it, and collect data that helps to improve the service.

  

  Lisa Gansky
  • City
  • Service
  • Bike

• Going to a therapist is not something you do when you're growing up as a street kid in Toronto.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Up
  • Growing

• I was the youngest of six kids, so yeah, feeding myself was important, but it's not like I was obsessed with food growing up.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Up
  • Important
  • Kids

• To pitch a perfect game wearing pinstripes at Yankee Stadium, it's unbelievable. Growing up a Yankee fan, to come out here and make history, it really is a dream come true.

  

  David Wells
  • Up
  • History
  • True

• That's the most important thing for me is just figuring out how and if I'm growing as an artist.

  

  Karyn Kusama
  • Important
  • Growing

• I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Up
  • Growing Up
  • Relationships

• In an ever changing world, you never learn it all, even if you keep growing into your 90s.

  

  John P. Kotter
  • World
  • Growing

• Ohio does have an energy industry, but we're diversified. We're one of the fastest growing states in the country. We came back from the dead.

  

  Sean Hannity
  • Country
  • Energy
  • Growing

• I think soccer in America is growing exponentially, and it's just going to keep getting bigger.

  

  Kelley O'Hara
  • America
  • Growing
  • Soccer

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