Quotes about grow
growing-up people parent
My parents gave me the gift of irreligion, of growing up without bothering to ask people what gods they held dear, assuming that in fact, like my parents, they weren't interested in gods, and that this uninterest was 'normal.' You may argue that the gift was a poisoned chalice, but even if so, that's a cup from which I'd happily drink again. Salman Rushdie
growing-up thinking play
When I was growing up, everyone around me was fond of fooling around with words. It was certainly common in my family, but I think it is typical of Bombay, and maybe of India, that there is a sense of play in the way people use language.
growing-up kids class
In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to a middle-class kid growing up on the other side of the world. That has always fascinated me.
growing-up kids parenting
I grew up with no money. My kids will grow up with a lot of money and so it's really important to me, and it will always be a part of my parenting, to keep them conscientious and connected socially to other people. Ryan Phillippe
growing-up character thinking
There's a lot of actors I think that appear so much more together as the characters they portray as opposed to the actual people, so I know I've said this before: Hollywood's not a place where you're rewarded for growing up. Ryan Reynolds
growing-up school kids
Growing up, I was the weird, theatrical kid who always tried to make people be in my plays. I've always loved comedy, but when it came time to figure out what I was going to go to school for, my parents were like, "Acting?! I don't think so. No." It took me a while to get the courage to pursue it. I had to do it in secret for a little bit, and then when I got married and was out on my own, I went for it. Wendi McLendon-Covey
growing faster china
Chinas movie industry is growing a lot faster than that of the U.S. Wang Jianlin
growth world company
Among the worlds 500 largest companies, not one has completely relied on its own growth to develop.
growing-up pain views
Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up. Walton Goggins
growing-up growing comedy
I watched a lot of comedy growing up. Wanda Sykes
growing-up teenager want
All these teenagers tell us how much they want to grow up and then when they do they want to be young again.
growing-up hero males
When I was growing up, the really, really cool super heroes were all male - so I wanted to be them. Virginia Madsen
growing-up actors becoming
You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap. Vincent Schiavelli
growing-up guy growing
Growing up, I was always the small guy. Wayne Gretzky
growing-up kids hockey
Kids don't fight in minor hockey anymore. There's very few fights in junior and college hockey. So growing up, all these guys are not fighting.
growing-up way bigs
When I was growing up, everybody smoked, including me. When I was 14, I started. We all did it. That was just the way it was. And nowadays there's a stigma attached to it. It's a big shift. Wayne Dyer
growth care stores
You are connected to God.You are enjoying every single day you have.Then, the growth of you - and your store, if you have one - will take care of themselves.
growing-up east scarcity
I did have a lot of lack, but I never experienced it. I grew up in the east side of Detroit, in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. Even growing up in an orphanage, I never woke up saying, "I'm an orphan again today, isn't this terrible? Poor me."
growing-up believe done
When you grow up believing you are what you do, when you're done, you aren't.
growing-up journey personality
I was very shy growing up. My shyness manifested as a big personality, as opposed to the wallflower personality. It's been a journey getting comfortable in my skin. I've worked on trying to find the authentic balance between the bravado of my personality that was sort of a defense and the truth within my bigness. Tracee Ellis Ross
growing-up responsibility thinking
I realized I was growing up or something like that. You have responsibilities...you've got to think about getting your act together. I didn't even know what it had been doing to me. I didn't realize how dangerous it was. People talked in terms of drugs and I used to think in terms of...well in Ireland, everybody drinks. Nobody gives it a second thought. You're Irish number one and you're a drinker number two. That's the first two things about us Irish. Van Morrison
growing-up children eggplant
I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant. Ursula K. Le Guin
growing-up thinking littles
Growing up, I realized that fame is not what you think it is. It's a little bizarre. You have to learn how to cope with that and figure out who you are. Tyler Posey
growing-up dark differences
It was a sign of growing up, when the dark made no more difference to you than the day. Roddy Doyle
growing-up writing fiction
When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.
growing-up sea what-matters
When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.
growing-up father shoes
I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up. Rod Blagojevich
growing-up fighting east
I was the best street fighter in history when I was growing up on the Lower East Side. Hell, I never lost a street fight. Never. I thought I could lick Jack Dempsey or Joe Louis or anybody. I was fantastic. Rocky Graziano
growing-up war kids
I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid. Roberto Cavalli
growth statistics computer
Computers show up everywhere except the growth statistics. Robert Solow
growing-up track pirate
My access to music when I was growing up was through pirate radio, you know, transistor radio under the pillow, listening to one more and then 'just one more' until your favourite track comes on. Robert Palmer
growth intellectual way
The thing to understand is that if you are going to reform society you don't start with cops. And if you are going to reform intellect you don't start with psychiatrists. If you don't like our present social system or intellectual system the best thing you can do with either cops or psychiatrists is stay out of their way. You leave them 'till last. Robert M. Pirsig
growing-up expression brain
So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts. Robert Louis Stevenson