Growing Quotes

• As any gardener will tell you, the cycles of nature require patience...Even a fast-growing vegetable like a radish requires time.

  

  M. J. Ryan
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Patience

• I definitely know that I'm quirky. I know that I'm different. Red hair definitely made me different growing up.

  

  Jayma Mays
  • Up
  • Different
  • Hair

• When I was growing up as a child, a magazine, to me, was like a finger beckoning me to the future.

  

  Joanna Coles
  • Up
  • Future
  • Growing

• I think so much of my life had me growing up under extreme poverty and really challenging conditions, with having the police in my neighborhood and seeing the impact of over-incarceration. Having a father love up on me and remind of who I was, and my strength against those conditions, really shaped why I'm an organizer today.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • Life
  • Up
  • Why

• If it be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be, An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws - the first growing out of the last... A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • Free
  • Energy
  • Law

• CGI means, just to be clear, creating any type of image with a computer. Basically, starting off with nothing, or with images and manipulating them. The way we did it, everything was actual photographed images. A lot of that stuff was shot through a microscope of chemical reactions, yeast growing, lots of weird things, by Peter Parks. We put it into a computer and collaged it, manipulated it. Meaning we digitally shaped it to fit with other images. But there was no computer-generated imagery at all.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • Mean
  • Weird
  • Computer

• I grew six, seven inches in junior year of high school, so I played guard my whole life growing up. So I think there's where I got my skill set from.

  

  Kelly Olynyk
  • Life
  • Up
  • School

• But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Growing
  • Tree

• My father is my best friend. Just growing up with him inspired me to appreciate music that much more because he appreciates music.

  

  Musiq Soulchild
  • Father
  • Friend
  • Inspired

• Part of what's cool about being an actor or being in this industry, frankly, is to be able to travel to distant lands. That's part of the deal. I always thought when I was growing up, "I wanna be an actor and go see the world.'

  

  Lake Bell
  • Up
  • World
  • Cool

• Growing up, I had one very specific idea of what a wedding should be, and that was the wedding of Fraulein Maria and Captain von Trapp in 'The Sound of Music.'

  

  Ellie Kemper
  • Up
  • Music
  • Wedding

• Mariah and Whitney Houston were my goddesses growing up.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Up
  • Whitney Houston
  • Goddesses

• When you are growing at a rapid rate, there is bound to be some inflation. I think a 5% rate of inflation is something that we should take in our stride.

  

  Adi Godrej
  • Growing

• My first priority is growing this economy in the long term, and stimulating it in the short term.

  

  Bob Menendez
  • Long
  • Growing
  • Priority

• Growing up, my mom would watch 'Notting Hill' a lot. She loves Hugh Grant.

  

  Ken Baumann
  • Up
  • She
  • Mom

• Growing up in an Ethiopian household allowed me to feel like I had an audience before I had an audience.

  

  Kelela Mizanekristos
  • Up
  • Growing

• Growing up, I found I was good at two things: Art and Math. To hear my parents say it, though, it was only, 'John is good at Math.'

  

  John Maeda
  • Up
  • Good
  • Art

• 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

• Books were a huge part of my childhood growing up. We would go on vacation, and my mom was always carting manuscripts around.

  

  David Grann
  • Up
  • Mom
  • Childhood

• I love finding out-of-the-box inspirations and blending them with what I've done in the past. And when I started to experiment with genres, it didn't sound forced. Maybe that's because it's all music that I listened to growing up, and it's all music that I love.

  

  Avicii
  • Up
  • Music
  • Done

• Growing up and seeing Shawn Johnson, for her to call me on the phone, I think my inner child was freaking out!

  

  Laurie Hernandez
  • Up
  • Growing

• When I was born, the world's population was 3.5 billion. There are now 6.8 billion people on the planet. By 2050, that's expected to rise to 9.4 billion. What's more, the Earth's resources aren't growing; they're decreasing - and rapidly.

  

  Lewis Gordon Pugh
  • People
  • World
  • Earth

• 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
  • Up
  • Good
  • Father

• And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • Great
  • Beginning

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