Famous Quotes & Sayings

Demi Lovato

Growing up in America, I never really appreciated my culture. I knew what being Hispanic was, but I thought that since I didn't look Hispanic, I was white.

Alexander Herzen

We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to be a child. If we merely look to the end of the process, the purpose of life is death

Will Smith

You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.

Kyrie Irving

Growing up, I was a typical high school kid when YouTube first came out, and I was just watching a whole lot of videos of guys in the league I'm playing with now, guys that aren't in the league, and guys that came before me, just watching the moves that they do, and going out in my backyard and trying them. I did it almost every single day. And I didn't do any crazy dribbling drills or any two-ball dribbling drills. I'm really not good at two-ball dribbling. Nah, never did that. I just went out and tried the moves that I saw.

Leslie Marmon Silko

To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so numerous at Laguna Pueblo when I was growing up. I learned to read as soon as I could because I wanted stories without having to depend on adults to tell or read stories to me.

Gary Clark, Jr.

When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs.

George Galloway

My own experience of growing up as a Roman Catholic in Scotland has led me to fear independence in Scotland. The possibility of Scotland being a kind of Stormont is a real one. I wrote a book recently about Neil Lennon's year of living dangerously and in the course of it I had to revisit some of my own experiences. Of course, most Scottish people are not swivel-eyed, loyalist sectarians but there are a large number of them. A large six-figure number, and if I were living in Scotland as a Roman Catholic I would be worried about that.

George Foreman

Growing up poor, I didn't even have a lunch to take to school.

Jon M. Chu

In all my work, I try to tell great stories that people want to go to the movie theater to watch, or want to turn on, and are compelled to watch it, over and over and over again, and will make a mark when they grow up.

Henry B. Eyring

Throughout my life, the scriptures have been a way for God to reveal things to me that are personal and helpful. When I was a little boy, I was given a small Bible. If I remember correctly, it was only the New Testament.

Henry Adams

Boys naturally look on all force as an enemy.

George Gershwin

The European boys have small ideas but they sure know how to dress 'em up.

Jon Bon Jovi

I was a boy toy for a bunch of women.

Rev. Barham

And six little singing-boys, - dear little souls! / In nice clean faces, and nice white stoles.

Willie Randolph

It's nice to talk about where guys are going to finish and what guys are going to do, but to me until you knock off the big boys I think it's fair to say they are the favorites. I feel good about our chances, obviously, and preach to our players constantly about winning. But you've still got to do it first.

Ben Murphy

Any time you go on the road, especially when you've got an hour and a half bus ride, it's difficult. I thought we responded well to the bus ride, but made some little mistakes. They big played us at the beginning, then we were hanging tough with them. At the end, they just kind of wore us out. It's my fault. The boys gave a good effort. I've got to do a better job coaching as far as practice goes. I don't think we practiced very hard this week, and that's my fault.

Kevin Dixon

No matter what boys job I had, I?d never get to see her play.

Patrick Marleau

It just popped right out, and I was able to get the shot on net. It found a way in. We had some boys in front making it hard for him to see the puck.

Mark Roberts

The third biggest comic people in America want to make a comic book out of me. It's unbelievable.

Mickey Kaus

Is Hollywood so out of touch it thinks Stone's version of 9/11 is what America is clamoring for? After 'Alexander,' at that?

Walt Whitman

I shall use America and democracy as convertible terms

Scott Brown

I've criticized President Bush for his failure to use his veto pen. There's plenty of blame to go around. The question is how to solve problems. It's not bailouts. What made America great? Free markets, free enterprise, manufacturing, job creation. That's how we're gonna do it, not by enlarging government.

Robert Pittman

I understand there is considerable anxiety about America Online right now, but I want to assure you we're confident about the future. Our goal is to be in the growth mode in the second half of the year, and then get back our real momentum in 2003.

Jake Peavy

I've never had a better feeling in my life. I wanted to win with everything I had within me. I can't tell you the amount of pride you have when you put that uniform on with all of America watching.

Bill Hicks

They also have a sense of irony, which America doesn't have seeing as it's being run by fundamentalists who take things literally.

E. B. White

The way I feel about it is if it happened to me, I wish America opened their heart to me.

William Frey

These are two major waves in America. One is the black return to the South. The other is Hispanics going to places where everybody else is moving, following the jobs.