Famous Quotes & Sayings

Darrell Issa

Bureaucracies tend to grow and to brag about their growth based on how many individuals they have and how much money they spend.

Darius Rucker

When I was growing up, I always knew that if I ever got anything, I was going to give back as much as I can. I learned that all you have to be willing to do is give your time.

Dani Shapiro

When I was growing up, I had no idea that I could possibly become a writer. I wrote endlessly in journals - a practice I maintained for a long time, well into the writing life I had no idea I could ever have.

Dakota Blue Richards

You grow up a lot on set, but it doesn't change you.

Condoleezza Rice

I believe that Reverend [Florine] Thompson's hit on something. My parents, I and a lot of my friends growing up in that community had tremendous drive.

Jon Cryer

Every time one person gets a piece of information, the likelihood of that information being exposed grows exponentially. It's no longer two people. It's two people squared.

But race is not the only theme in the play. It's also about dignity, about growing old, about living your life with integrity. Those are big themes, but they are so much a part of the story that you don't really think of them as themes.

We see ourselves having a mid-teens growth rate.

We need to go through this; this is all part of growing up.

We need to get at a growing problem in Vermont.

We need to see the kind of growth in tourism that we've seen in real estate.

Billy Graham

Some of the greatest values that have influenced me through the years are those that I learned as a boy growing up on the farm. I remember mostly the love in our family, but I also remember the discipline. Then there was the work; we all had to work.

Try to work at the margins of your ignorance - that's how you grow

Edmund Spenser

True loves are often sown, but seldom grow on ground.

Benjamin Stockham

In acting, you can always grow and get better - even if you think you're at your limit.

Finley Dunne

The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual.

Meryl Streep

Let's face it, we were all once three-year-olds who stood in the middle of the living room and everybody thought we were so adorable. Only some of us grow up and get paid for it.

Without this trade barrier, China's information technology industry would have grown much faster.

With all the rest of the tournaments, that should grow to between $75,000 and $100,000.

The presidential visit is really going to be a watershed event. We feel trade growth will be very high going forward.

There are questions as to whether the growth rate is sustainable.

Bruce Sutter

I have an older son, Josh, and growing up, he just didn't care that much for baseball. And that was fine. But Chaddie, he always wanted to go to the ballpark. He just kind of took to it right away.

Gattlin Griffith

I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.

Colin Hanks

I spent a lot of time in Tower Records. I'm a huge music nerd, and Tower was instrumental to me when I was growing up.

Dan Rather

There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.

Daphne Oz

Growing up in my family, it wasn't important that we always be the best; it was important that we were going to try to be our best and give it our all.

Daniella Alonso

Growing up, I wasnt sure about acting, but I knew I wanted to be part of the movie industry.

Daniel Negreanu

I prefer being able to see my opponent. It is just different for me; I didn't grow up with the internet age really.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

There is one unmistakable lesson in American history: A community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future

Cornel West

Most importantly for me growing up, it was a spirituals, it was a gospels, it was James Cleveland, Aretha Franklin, Marion Williams; and then it was Curtis Mayfield - The Main Ingredient, The Whispers, Black Blue Magic, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Luther Vandross - that music helped me preserves my sanity, help me preserve whatever dignity I was able to preserve, helping to keep going. It was a source of tremendous strength in my life.

Colson Whitehead

Growing up devouring horror comics and novels, and being inspired to become a writer because of horror novels, movies, and comic books, I always knew I was going to write a horror novel.

Dwyane Wade

My name is very important to me. I'm representing the Wade name. I've got the name on the back of my jersey when I play. I walk around with that name. That's my family name, the name my son will grow up with. So it's very important to me to keep the level of maturity that I have.

Dwyane Wade

Growing up, I always dreamed of winning an NBA championship, never a gold. A gold was something that never crossed my mind.