Quotes about grow
growing-up daddy parent
My parents divorced, and I didn't have much of a daddy growing up. Pink
growing-up able hell
You ought to be able to grow up in a place and not have to get the hell out of it when you turn eighteen. Philipp Meyer
growing-up work-out house
I like to work out. I work out hard when I get to it, but it's so sporadic, I'm not sure it counts at all! I eat pretty much anything, but I eat high-quality food. There was never a packet of chips or box of candy in my house when I was growing up. Ever. Rachael Taylor
growing-up anger today
Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Peter Medawar
growing-up giving-up years
We are told from childhood onward that everything we want to do is impossible. We grow up with this idea, and as the years accumulate, so too do the layers of prejudice, fear and guilt. There comes a time when our personal calling is so deeply buried in our soul as to be invisible. But know that it's still there. Paulo Coelho
growing-up mistake lying
All life's battles teach us something, even those we lose. When you grow up, you'll discover that you have defended lies, deceived yourself, or suffered foolishness. If you're a good warrior you will not blame yourself for this, but neither will you allow your mistakes to repeat themselves.
growing-up get-well thinking
Our contradictions. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves ill earning money, and then spend all our money on getting well again. We think so much about the future that we neglect the present, and thus experience neither the present nor the future. We live as if we were never going to die, and die as if we had never lived.
growing-up nerd want
I want my grandkids to grow up in the great outdoors. The last thing I want is for them to grow up to be nerds. Phil Robertson
growing-up different mythology
There is a sort of mythology that grows up about what happened, which is different from what really did happen. Peter Higgs
growing-up blow men
Suddenly, Westerns, which were our action films and what the working man went to see to blow off steam and have a good time, became boring to most people growing up from the Eighties on, because they're kind of pastoral. Quentin Tarantino
growing-up boys play
Oh gosh, well, you know, growing up in the '70s being a young boy there, you know, there were still exploitation movies, where, you know, were, you know, still opened up every week and, you know, played - sometimes they would play it at the local, you know, mall theater.
growing-up thinking california
I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California. Phillip Lim
growing-up long way
We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us. Philip Yancey
growth earning economic
We have seen economic growth. But we have not seen earnings growth. Mike Farrell
growing-up opportunity engineering
Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready. Naveen Jain
growth progress process
Capitalism, by its nature, entails a constant process of motion, growth and progress. Nathaniel Branden
growing-up fun people
Growing up, I had a ton of friends, and I had a great life, but people still made fun of me sometimes. Molly Tarlov
growing-up kids black
When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs. Molly Ringwald
growing-up kids growing
Growing up, I thought I'd have at least five kids. Minnie Driver
growing-up faults doe
Blaming your faults on your nature does not change the nature of your faults. After growing up on a dairy farm, everything in life seemed easy Mike Johanns
growing-up commitment discipline
Growing up on a dairy farm, you certainly learn discipline and a commitment to purpose.
growth progress doe
Whatever the composition of a firm, if it is to do good business it should be a place where everyone is encouraged to progress toward complexity- or at the very least a place that does not make it more difficult to achieve personal growth. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
growth
Develop what you lack.
growth doe purpose
If only you could see the whole picture, if you knew the whole story, you would realize that no problem ever comes to you that does not have a purpose in your life, that cannot contribute to your inner growth. Peace Pilgrim
growing-up children kids
Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas Paula Poundstone
growing-up children giving
Intuitively, one would assume if you don't grow up with other children you might not learn that easy give and take. What often happens is that there are some only children who act that way, and that stands out more than the only children who seem to get along with others. Peter Thomas
growth stuff today
In the '30s, the Keynesian stuff worked at least in the sense that you could print money without inflation because there was all this productivity growth happening. That's not going to work today. Peter Thiel
growing-up kids games
When we grow up," she said, "we'll have amazing families. Our dens will be better than this. Your kids and my kids will play together in a humongous room with every kind of toy and game." "Except I won't have kids," Dan said. "I'll come over myself and play... Peter Lerangis
growing-up book mean
I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In 'The Colour of Magic' most of the city is set alight. It's a joke, in much the same way that the Earth is destroyed almost at the start of Douglas Adams's 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.' Terry Pratchett
growing-up dad father
Look at Satan. Created as an angel, grows up to be the Great Adversary. Hey, if you’re going to go on about genetics, you might as well say the kid will grow up to be an angel. After all, his father was really big in Heaven in the old days. Saying he’ll grow up to be a demon just because his dad became one is like saying a mouse with its tail cut off will give birth to tailless mice. No. Upbringing is everything. Take it from me.
growing-up book animal
And Sam Vimes thought: Why is Young Sam's nursery full of farmyard animals anyway? Why are his books full of moo-cows and baa-lambs? He is growing up in the city. He will only see them on a plate! They go sizzle!
growing-up fall light
There are no medium-sized trees in the deep forest. There are only the towering ones, whose canopy spreads across the sky. Below, in the gloom, there's light for nothing but mosses and ferns. But when a giant falls, leaving a little space ... then there's a race - between the trees on either side, who want to spread out, and the seedlings below, who race to grow up. Sometimes, you can make your own space.
growing-up kids names
I'm first generation American, and my parents were both from Nigeria. And so I always say that I'm literally an African American. So my last name is Famuyiwa, it's different. And so that was a part of my experience from people not being able to pronounce it to not sort of having sort of a shared, common history with a lot of the kids that I was growing up with because my parents were from Africa. Terry Gross