Quotes about growing
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 sea what-matters
When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea. Roddy Doyle
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
growing-up believe getting-old
Growing up isn't simply getting old... Growing up is when you don't believe anymore. Walt Disney
growing excited vinyl
I'm very excited about the resurgence of vinyl which seems to parallel a growing interest in live performance Saul Williams
growing-up school thinking
It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think. Sarah Dessen
growing-up mean giving
I was 23 when I learned how to cook; I grew up around the same time. It was precisely then that Thanksgiving started to mean something more. Growing up, Christmas was always about me, and eventually you, when I finally started to enjoy the giving part. But Thanksgiving is always about us. Rosecrans Baldwin
growing-up grandmother order
Eating cookies that you bake with your grandmother is one of the greatest social steps one must experience in order to grow up into a decent world citizen, in my opinion. Roseanne Barr
growing-up thinking too-late
I have a lot of growing up to do. But I think, 'Hell, is it too late?' Ronnie Wood
growing-up age three
Growing up, I missed the whole 'Three Stooges' thing. Either they weren't on the station in my hometown, or we hadn't bought a TV set yet, or they came to town too late for me. I'm pretty sure that at the right age, I would have loved them. Roger Ebert
growing venture comfort
Venture outside your comfort zone. To stop growing is to stop living. Robin Roberts
growing-up elephants different
Different persons growing up in the same language are like different bushes trimmed and trained to take the shape of identical elephants. The anatomical details of twigs and branches will fulfill the elephantine form differently from bush to bush, but the overall outward results are alike. Willard Van Orman Quine
growing want next
All the time, as an actor, you want to be asking what's next and where things are going. If you're not asking those questions, you're not growing. Willem Dafoe
growing-up evil sacred-scripture
We need not only read Sacred Scripture, but learn it as well and grow up in it. Realize that nothing is written in Scripture unnecessarily. Not to read Sacred Scripture is a great evil. Saint Basil
growing-up knowing pittsburgh
Just growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it's like no other place. Wiz Khalifa
growing-up america hearing
It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible. Warren Farrell
growing-up iraq optimism
When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building. Zaha Hadid
growing-up coffee blood
We talked about politics constantly in my family growing up in North Carolina. There were always debates. Being of Greek background, it's in our blood to drink coffee and talk politics. Zach Galifianakis
growing-up car musical
I've sung my whole life. I did a lot of musical theater growing up, I sing in the shower, sing in the car, sing everywhere really, on set at Chuck, all the time. I like it, and I've always felt like I've had a knack for it, or a talent for it, on some level, I don't know. Zachary Levi
growing-up animal people
I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous. Yvonne Craig
growing-up school musical
I want to grow up, live my life, experience things, make movies about those experiences and by the time the audience catches up, hopefully they'll have a movie there that helps them get through that next phase when the discover life isn't always like High School Musical. Zac Efron
growing-up grows profession
My profession has helped me to grow up. Zhang Ziyi
growing way connected
To me, everything is connected. We're a part of nature. We are organic beings. None of us were - all of us come out of a woman. That's the way we're growing. Ziggy Marley
growing-up parent important
I know what's it's like to grow up with ADHD and how important it is for parents, caregivers and patients, to have access to accurate information. Ty Pennington
growing-up kids thinking
All these kids who are growing up on Skrillex and all this digital music- what are they gonna think when they hear rock'n'roll? Ty Segall
growing-up land pioneers
It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up. William Graham Sumner
growing-up men ideas
Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up. Voltaire
growing-up pain men
That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain. William Butler Yeats
growing-up shapes toes
Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.
growing-up creative progress
One must not consider a language as a product dead, and formed but once; it is an animate being, and ever creative. Human thought elaborates itself with the progress of intelligence; and of this thought language is a manifestation. An idiom cannot therefore remain stationary; it walks, it develops, it grows up, it fortifies itself, it becomes old, and it reaches decrepitude. Wilhelm von Humboldt
growing-up adventure boys
Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing up in Central Africa I read all Haggard's African novels. Walter Smith
growing-up wish world
I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world. Yo-Yo Ma