Growing Quotes
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As a child, growing up in Hampstead, North London, I was shockingly fair-skinned. Holidays involved me spending the second and third day face-down on a bed, shrieking should anyone touch my blistered skin.
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You know, even growing up going to school, I had teachers that were against bilingual teaching. I never understood that. My parents always had me speak Spanish first knowing I was going to speak English in school.
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That's so important for children when they're growing up, to have a strong male role model.
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The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.
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Growing up, I didn't come from a musical family. Neither of my parents played an instrument, sang out loud, or listened to the radio with frequency. The record collection in the living room was only about 2 feet long - and that included 4 solid inches of Neil Diamond and Herb Alpert.
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Going to another country you're not in your house, you're with people you've never met before, and I think it's definitely a good growing experience.
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Growing up, I didn't really know who the Tuskegee Airmen were.
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Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.
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Words do cut, and they do hurt. It was one thing growing up where you were bullied, but you'd just come home. Now you can't really escape it. It's to a point where you turn off that phone, you live your life, and you try not to let the words of others offend or stop you from being you and living your life.
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Senator Udall focused his entire campaign as a social-issues warrior, and that was rejected by the people of Colorado, who embraced our plan of creating jobs and opportunity, growing energy independence, looking at education opportunities for the future, and making sure we're focused on protecting this great Colorado environment.
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I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.
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My experiences growing up in both a Chinese American household and the Catholic Church define much of who I am.
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I have achieved what I set out to achieve when I took over the leadership. The Greens have gone from strength to strength with solid election results and a growing, engaged party membership.
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Seeing games become more of a young person thing, I feel like a toy I grew up with has been left behind. I don't want to. I want this thing to be respected by adults. I want this thing to be growing with me. It's important to have games that could be more nuanced and reflective of the real world and relevant to adults.
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First of all, pharmaceutical costs are the single fastest-growing part of our health care budget.
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I've always dreamed of growing up to be Amy Poehler.
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What thousands and millions of recollections there must be in us! And every now and then one of them becomes known to us; and it shows us what spiritual depths are growing in us, what mines of memory.
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I think soccer in America is growing exponentially, and it's just going to keep getting bigger.
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Growing up in the South, I was raised to be a Negro boy. I was acutely aware how other people perceived me, and that informed my behavior. That worked for a period of time, but it could also be suffocating.
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For me growing up, I had a Christian upbringing, and I just noticed this Catholic influence in school.
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Longevity is something I never gave a second thought to. I guess it's the shadow of growing up in post WWII, but I never believed I would live past 20. Here I am though... a senior citizen... my voice and heart are stronger than ever, but boredom is the greatest enemy so I have to be careful not to slip over the edge.
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The National Forest Ski Area Permit Act of 1986 needs to be updated to reflect our growing communities.
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Music was kind of a precious commodity growing up.
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Growing up in a suburban home, the world seems so massive to you. It seems like cities are so big and so far away, and there's so much in them. So your imagination runs wild, instead of when you are born in the middle of Manhattan, you'd know, like, that this is the biggest city.
