Growing Quotes

• And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.

  

  Arthur Bryant
  • Great
  • Growing
  • Brain

• In most places and times in human history, babies have had not just one person but lots of people around who were really paying attention to them around, dedicated to them, cared to them, were related to them. I think the big shift in our culture is the isolation in which many children are growing up.

  

  Alison Gopnik
  • People
  • Up
  • Children

• I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Up
  • Music
  • Listening

• HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.

  

  David Geffen
  • Friends
  • Growing
  • Lost

• Ultimately, the only wealth that can sustain any community, economy or nation is derived from the photosynthetic process - green plants growing on regenerating soil.

  

  Allan Savory
  • Growing
  • Community
  • Green

• When I was growing up in Chicago, my family and I used to go to a local chain, Hackney's, for burgers and their French fried onion loaf. I probably haven't been to one in 25 years, and yet, I once saw Donald Trump from behind in an office building and the first thing that flashed in my mind was his hair looked like that onion loaf.

  

  Jami Attenberg
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Family

• Growing up in the days when you still had to punch buttons to make a telephone call, I could recall the numbers of all my close friends and family. Today, I'm not sure if I know more than four phone numbers by heart. And that's probably more than most.

  

  Joshua Foer
  • Heart
  • Today
  • Four

• The mobile Internet is growing, fueled by increasing smartphone penetration and better networks.

  

  Chua Sock Koong
  • Growing

• Disneyland will always be building and growing and adding new things... new ways of having fun, of learning things, and sharing the many exciting adventures which may be experienced here in the company of family and friends.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Family
  • May
  • Friends

• 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

• Here's the truth: even if countries like the United States curb our emissions, if growing countries like India - with soaring energy needs - don't also embrace cleaner fuels, then we don't stand a chance against climate change.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Truth
  • Energy
  • Growing

• Some of my favorite records growing up were Christmas albums. The ones I liked best were the albums that you could listen to from start to finish. You could put them on while you're decorating the tree or driving around looking at Christmas lights.

  

  Chris Young
  • Up
  • Tree
  • Driving

• I don't know who I touch and who I don't. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don't have any secrets. I don't know the reasons I've been so well received.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• New York had a big influence on me growing up, and I was really part of the club scene - the Mudd Club and Studio 54. When you're living in New York, you are just bombarded with style, trying to figure out how to be cool and how to feel relaxed at the same time.

  

  Dylan McDermott
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• Growing up under the heavy hand of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, it was drummed into me that attending weekly mass was not an option. It was a must to avoid eternal damnation, which was not a prospect filled with many positives. Hell fire was perpetual, and no parole would be offered.

  

  Bill O'Reilly
  • Up
  • School
  • Hand

• My experiences growing up in both a Chinese American household and the Catholic Church define much of who I am.

  

  Gene Luen Yang
  • Up
  • American
  • Church

• Growing up, I thought it would be great if I could do big theaters. Now we're doing arenas.

  

  Jeff Dunham
  • Up
  • Great
  • Growing

• I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Up
  • Work
  • Growing

• Like most North Americans, I'd been raised on the notion that milk is the first food, and everybody must like it because it's so good and so important for growing up and for being healthy.

  

  Marvin Harris
  • Up
  • Good
  • Important

• Telling my grandchildren stories of my growing up is some of our favorite times spent together. They want to know what it was like and what I did as a child. They seem to be especially interested in the organic and simplistic setting I grew up in.

  

  Lidia Bastianich
  • Up
  • Together
  • Grandchildren

• Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

  

  Phyllis Diller
  • Up
  • Kids
  • House

• 5G will be a major technology in growing industrial digitalisation, creating and enhancing industry digitalisation use cases such as immersive gaming, autonomous driving, remote robotic surgery, and augmented reality support in maintenance and repair situations.

  

  Borje Ekholm
  • Reality
  • Support
  • Technology

• With three boys in the house, my mother was always on us when growing up about keeping our faces clean, washing behind our ears, and brushing our teeth. So I still take my morning routine seriously.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Up
  • Mother
  • House

• I like health-conscious cooking, but growing up in the South, I do love southern cooking; southern France, southern Italy, southern Spain. I love southern cooking.

  

  Clarence Clemons
  • Up
  • Health
  • Cooking

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