Famous Quotes & Sayings

It is serious, very serious in the growing civil-military tension of this administration, which has been considerable from the very beginning. Where it's going to go I do not know, but I think it ought to stop.

It's an interesting and growing part of the bank's revenue stream.

I tried to make it as real for them as possible. The thing about being reality is that reality is not always fun. They did a big piece of growing up that day.

It's a growing sport, period. It's supposed to be one of the fastest-growing sports in the United States.

It's a growing phenomenon, I'll tell you that.

Bruce Hall

This is what I did growing up and what I like doing, ... Most of the things we're doing at Northeast I did in high school. Now it's just a matter of learning the terms.

Tamika Catchings

This is the growing stage. We need to remember, we're still the pioneers.

They're in 1A now, but they'll probably move to 2A in the next two years because they're growing so fast,

They're getting a steal in him. He's still got some growing to do, and three years from now, when he's 6-2, 215 pounds and knocking people's socks off, everybody's going to want to know how they missed out on him.

John Cornyn

There just seems to be a growing sense of momentum,

Mikko Koivu

It's a big deal. There will be guys that were my idols when I was growing up. You can always learn being around those guys.

It wasn't like the movies, where you wake up from a coma and pick up where you left off. It's like him growing up all over again.

Matt Richardson

It's a young team. I have one senior on the field. We're experiencing some growing pains.

Ian Rankin

It's a young man's book, all about the perils and pitfalls of growing up.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

I think, growing up, I was seen as the perfect power forward. For a long time, I thought maybe I was supposed to be a basketball player.

Ban Ki-moon

As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.

Dianna Agron

Growing up I wanted to be a mixture of Audrey Hepburn and Lucille Ball. Apparently I told my mum when I was eight that I wanted to be an actor.

David Alan Grier

My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the Prairie' tales, but they were tales of segregated and racist America growing up in Alabama and Mississippi, where she came from.

David McCullough

There are innumerable writing problems in an extended work. One book took a little more than six years. You, the writer, change in six years. The life around you changes. Your family changes. They grow up. They move away. The world is changing. You're also learning more about the subject. By the time you're writing the last chapters of the book, you know much more than you did when you started at the beginning.

David Rubenstein

Anybody who gives away money is mostly looking at things where they think they can make a difference. I'm trying to help people who helped me, educational institutions that helped me with scholarships, or organizations that were very useful to me in growing up.

Alan Arkin

Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.

Chris Colfer

I grew up in a conservative small town, and the gay characters I saw on TV and in movies when I was growing up were all flamboyant and obnoxious and sometimes kind of annoying.

Chloe Sevigny

I feel terrible about corporate greed. Growing up in a household that was a little more humble and didn't put so much emphasis on money and material goods, I think I have a pretty good head on my shoulders.

David Henry Hwang

I felt pretty good growing up. I didnt feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if there was going to be a movie or a television show with Asian characters, I would go out of my way to avoid them, because they portrayed all Asians as either ridiculously good or ridiculously bad; you know, the whole Charlie Chan-Fu Manchu thing.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I had parents who were working actors, who did really well in their careers, but it was a living. So it was a reality for me growing up; it wasn't a fantasy. It wasn't sitting there going, "I want to be adored." It wasn't that at all. Not to say that the screams of fans aren't a smile-raiser, but that was never the pull for me.

Bear Grylls

I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.

Audrey Tautou

After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don't know how you're going to be in six months, you don't know what you're going to want, what you're going to need.

Arne Duncan

Almost 24 million children - one in three - are likely growing up without their father involved in their lives.

Arnold Palmer

When I was growing up, they had just found radio.

Arnold Palmer

I remember what a thrill it was to attend my first Champions Dinner. Just being in the same room with some of the guys I had admired growing up and to be there because I had won The Masters was quite an honor. I still attend the dinner every year and it is one of the highlights of my time at Augusta during Masters week.

Kurt Vonnegut

Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings, lest they grow up expecting peace and order, and be eaten alive.

Charlotte Arnold

I started modeling, doing the Sears catalog kind of thing, then did a lot of commercials when I was growing up.

Charles Roven

We live in a much more complicated time than when Superman was created 75 years ago. Or even when Superman The Movie was created in the 70s. There are great advances but with those come a great many complications.We felt that the character needed to grow up in that kind of environment and had to face those kinds of colossal choices that were not going to be easy. It's difficult to figure out the right path. And even if you do good there are causalities to your choices. We thought it would be compelling.