Quotes about grow
growing-up dad kissing
I think my dad was happy. I phrase it like this because he seldom showed much emotion. Hugs and kisses wwere a rarity for me growing up, and when they did happen, they often struck me as lifeless, something he did because he felt he was supposed to, not because he wanted to. Nicholas Sparks
growing-up real thinking
That's the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more than that, you think you're entitled to live it. So far, though, it wasn't working out as planned.
growing-up thinking parent
Spending time with you just feels...right,somehow. Easy, like the way it's supposed to be. Like it is with my parents. They're just comfortable together, and I remember growing up thinking that one day I wanted to have that, too.
growing-up thinking guy
There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, mainly because they're pathetic; and the latter, frankly are hard to find.
growing-up kids people
Friends come and go, clothing is packed and unpacked, households are continually purged of unnecessary items, and as a result, not much sticks. it's hard at times but it makes a kid strongs in ways that most people can't understand. Teaches them that even though people are left behind, new ones will inevitably take their place; that every place has something good and bad to offer. It makes a kid grow up fast.
growing-up acting ham
I definitely knew that I loved acting from the very beginning. I was such a ham growing up. Wherever the camera was, I wanted to be right in front of it. Naya Rivera
growing-up husband thinking
I first met my husband when I was 15. He was very cool, in a band, all that kind of thing, but he took a long time to grow up. Our paths crossed again 10 years later, and after about two weeks I knew that was it. I'm glad I met him when I did, even though I was fairly young. Because I think sometimes you can crystallise into singledom. Natascha McElhone
growing-up existential young
I'm really enjoying growing up. I feel like so much of my life was in an existential crisis when I was young, and I don't feel as bogged down by that anymore. Natasha Lyonne
growing-up pay attention
When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention. Mr. T
growing-up school successful
I remember being asked when I was in high school what do I want to do when I grow up and the answer is so indicative - I would like to have been a successful playwright. Mitchell Hurwitz
growing-up thinking rejection
I wasn't thinking about history. I was thinking about how we were going to end segregation at lunch counters in Atlanta, Georgia.We would have never thought about making history, we just thought: Here is our chance to get out our sense of rejection at this kind of racial discrimination. I don't know that there was a time that anybody growing up in the South wasn't enraged about being segregated and being discriminated against. Marian Wright Edelman
growing-up kids parent
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.
growing-up pain children
Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It means trying to hold on to physical life amid psychological death. It means the pain of watching your children grow up with clouds of inferiority in their mental skies. It means having their legs off, and then being condemned for being a cripple. Martin Luther King, Jr.
growth progress subsidies
By holding down natural wage growth in labor-intensive industries, immigration serves as a subsidy for low-wage, low-productivity ways of doing business, retarding technological progress and productivity growth. Mark Krikorian
growing-up life-lesson rocks
I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities. Mark Hoppus
growing-up nice apology
When I was growing up skateboarding, a bunch of friends and I went to this thrift store and as we were leaving I jumped up and passed gas in my friend's face. I turned around and it wasn't my friend, it was this nice old lady who was just walking out of the store. That was probably one of the more awkward apologies I've had to make in my life.
growing-up differences parent
My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.
growing-up worry stuff
I would probably say, 'Don't worry so much about stuff as you grow up.'
growing-up lessons wake-up
Sometimes you just have to get a shock to grow up and wake up, and I've had lots of shocks because it's as though I don't learn the lessons, so something new comes and hits me. Marianne Faithfull
growing-up thinking parent
My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience. Nicholas A. Christakis
growing-up thinking forever
As you're growing up, it's odd, because directors don't expect you to grow up. They think you'll be young forever, but as an actor, there is an awkward period when you're too young for old or too old for young, and it can be an odd time. Nicholas Hoult
growing-up teenager book
Until I was 16, I read nothing but science fiction. I loved William Gibson and I still do. But my favourite book when I was growing up, for a long time, was 'Snow Crash' by Neal Stephenson, which I must have read about a dozen times when I was a teenager. Ned Beauman
growing-up artist childhood
Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist. Ned Rorem
growing-up kids thinking
Dr. Barney stared at me, his lips puckered. What was he so serious about? Who hasn’t thought about killing themselves, as a kid? How can you grow up in this world and not think about it? Ned Vizzini
growing-up mcdonalds people
People who grow up in a region doubtless have a better cultural awareness of their own cuisine, but it's also true that a lot of locals go to McDonald's, Applebee's and the like. Nathan Myhrvold
growing
Nothing can expand without it growing Mike Parry
growing-up school kids
Growing up in a multicultural family, I never really felt that I was different - even though I was from most of the kids in my school. Especially with music, I try to just approach it as an equal. Priscilla Ahn
growing-up husband mean
Because when does anybody really grow up? I mean, I feel more grown up now, more in a place of solidity and peace. But I think a lot of people take on these roles as parents, or husband or wife, and immediately think 'That's it. I'm grown up now. Done.'
growing-up okay many-friends
I never had that many friends growing up so I learned to be okay with just me.
growing-up goldfish privacy
When my sister and I were growing up, she was made out to be the goody-goody one. I have as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl. Princess Margaret
growing-up grief grows
Grief diminishes when it has nothing to grow upon. Publilius Syrus
growth
At the beginning of all growth, everything imitates. Pramoedya Ananta Toer
growth racing important
I am not the kind of designer who is racing to the finish line, so while collaborations are important for our growth, each and every one has to be strategic and well-timed with what we have going on internally. Prabal Gurung