Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harold Ramis

I have tons of rescuing fantasies based on the movies I saw when I was growing up. I wanted to be Robin Hood and the Three Musketeers and the Scarlet Pimpernel.

Harold Ramis

When you grow up in Chicago, your whole family is counting on you to go to college and do something distinguished. The last thing you're thinking is that you're going to make a career in show business.

Jakob Dylan

I'm waiting for my kids to grow up and get into the Offspring and look at me like I'm a total candy-ass.

Jake Shimabukuro

Growing up, the ukulele was always a respected instrument. It's a big part of our culture. It wasn't until I started traveling outside of Hawaii that I realized people didn't really consider the ukulele to be a real instrument.

Jaimie Alexander

Chris Farley, I was a huge fan of his growing up. I would love to do something kind of slapstick and funny, maybe where I could change my look even a little bit.

Jackie Earle Haley

I don't know what I could say specifically, except that everything I've learned as a kid of course must somehow play into what I do now. I think when everything kind of drifted away, I had to go out into the world and learn how to emotionally be okay with all that, which to me was a decades-long process. But also I happened to find my way in life, to find a living, to figure out what I wanted to be when I grow up. I think all of that now probably helps me. It probably gives me more life experience to draw from.

Jackie DeShannon

I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration.

Jacki Weaver

In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.

Jack White

I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.

Jennifer Aniston

I think there comes a point where you have to grow up and get over yourself, lighten up…and forgive

Graham Norton

I loved Lucille Ball growing up.

Graham Norton

I've heard other gay people say when they were growing up they felt 'foreign.' Growing up, I was able to label these feelings as: 'I'm a Protestant.' It wasn't until I left, I thought: 'Oh, those weren't Protestant feelings.'

Frank Herbert

Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount.

George Harrison

You're asking me will my love grow. I don't know, I don't know. You stick around now it may show. I don't know, I don't know

Ha-Joon Chang

The top 10 per cent of the US population appropriated 91 per cent of income growth between 1989 and 2006, while the top 1 per cent took 59 per cent.

Gunter Grass

In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows potentially threatening new words to develop, language needs the chance to constantly renew itself.

Howard Schultz

If Vancouver did not succeed as Starbucks from '87 on, our entire international business, which is now thousands of stores and a significant amount of growth and profit, may not have existed.

Ice T

I have to grow with my audience.

Andy Serkis

Gorillas have a belch vocalization, which is sort of like, 'I'm OK, you're OK.' They do a pig grunt, which is reprimanding. They sing, they laugh, and they hoot, which grows into a chest-beating display.

For the last several years, as you know, we've demonstrated outstanding growth in student achievement, and it didn't happen by accident.

Irvin D. Yalom

Life as a therapist is a life of service in which we daily transcend our personal wishes and turn our gaze toward the needs and growth of the other. We take pleasure not only in the growth of our patient but also in the ripple effect—the salutary influence our patients have upon those whom they touch in life.

Gregory Maguire

Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met

J. R. R. Tolkien

If only that dratted wizard would leave young Frodo alone, perhaps he'll settle down and grow some hobbit-sense,' they said. And to all appearance the wizard did leave Frodo alone, and he did settle down, but the growth of hobbit-sense was not very noticable.

Isaac Asimov

If you're born in a cubicle and grow up in a corridor, and work in a cell, and vacation in a crowded sun-room, then coming up into the open with nothing but sky over you might just give you a nervous breakdown.

Iris Apfel

I just never want to completely grow up.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

Hugh Johnson

If I thought Cisco was going to grow 40 percent for one year, I would never pay two-plus the growth rate. But if I thought it was going to be a five-year deal, I would.

If home prices level off, that can knock down growth by 1 or 2 percentage points, from 3.5 percent to 1.5 percent.

Gary Hamel

There are as many foolhardy ways to grow as there are to downsize.

If growth in the U.S. slows significantly, all of Asia's exporters will feel it.

If growth comes up (increases) then we'll be able to leave all (schools) open.

I feel like I've grown and become a more consummate performer. I feel like I've chiseled out a more distinctive niche.

Philipp Meyer

I'd grown up in a working class neighborhood in Baltimore, a place hard hit by the offshoring of numerous heavy industries - steel, textile, shipbuilding.