Famous Quotes & Sayings

Janet Jackson

Control meant not only taking care of myself but living in a much less protected world. And doing that meant growing a tough skin.

Paul O'Neill

a sign of the growing strength of the anti-terror coalition.

And we'll need that for a successful growing season this year.

And you know, making those mistakes and learning from them is part of growing up as a quarterback. There were mistakes I made last year that I won't make again.

Every day, we turn patients away, ... The growing numbers are putting a strain on our system.

Brandon Meriweather

At this point, Michael's better. Marcus still has some growing to do as a player. But Marcus is a better passer, he sits in the pocket more and looks like a quarterback. Michael looks like a running back playing quarterback.

Alan Lewis

Did your grandparents ever share any stories about growing up in the country?

Sophie Turner

Growing up, I always wanted a dog, but my parents never wanted one.

We should be able to be more balanced. We'll see how it works out. We've got a lot of growing to do. We've got a lot of time to make up.

We went through some growing pains last season and we learned from them.

We ... have experienced some law-and-order problems, and some other growing pains of the mission can be aired at this meeting.

You have to wonder how sustainable construction can be when it comes to growing the economy.

We all know that Texas is growing at a phenomenal rate. We need to make sure we can meet the state's growing needs with a stable low-price power supply.

Up until now we've just been growing things in pots, starting them out at school and then sending them home with the kids. Some of the plants lived, others didn't.

The reason is a growing need for bandwidth.

We think it's a growing trend and they're here to stay.

Orson Scott Card

I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.

Orson Scott Card

You grow a whole lot more as a writer by getting old stories out of the house and letting new ones come in and live with you until they grow up and are ready to go. Don't let the old ones stay there and grow fat and cranky and eat all the food out of the refrigerator. You have dozens of generations of stories inside you, but the only way to make room for the new ones is to write the old ones and mail them off.

Michael Nutter

We're all in this together. I learned that lesson growing up in West Philly. When I shoveled the sidewalk my parents didn't let me stop with our house. They told me to keep shoveling all the way to the corner. I had a responsibility to my community.

Every time we talk to police chiefs, wherever we are, this is a problem and the problem is growing more acute.

William Blake

Every year we are growing by leaps and bounds.

Michael Oxley

What the law really does is enshrine the principles of honestly and accountability that I learned growing up in Ohio ... You never get in trouble by doing the right thing,

Amy Weber

I started a modeling agency and I had it for about five and a half years and it was the same time I was actually working with the WWE and doing SmackDown. It was really the same principles; because me growing up I didn't have the support, I wasn't told, yes you can do that; you can do anything you want if you put your mind to it.

Alexander Herzen

We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to be a child. If we merely look to the end of the process, the purpose of life is death

Angelina Jolie

I'm looking very much forward to growing older. I want to be an exhausted older woman but with a very full life behind me and one still going.

Amos Oz

When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like ants. Writers are not hard to kill either. But not books: however systematically you try to destroy them, there is always a chance that a copy will survive and continue to enjoy a shelf-life in some corner on an out-of-the-way library somehwere in Reykjavik, Valladolid or Vancouver.

Conor Oberst

There's a major underlying idea as you grow up that you need to just save your money and get that affordable housing at the edge of town where you're away from the city where all the crime happens or whatever.

Dave Attell

Remember when you're young and you think your dad is Superman? And then you grow up and realized he's just a drunk who wears a cape.

Anna Quindlen

While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that suspects those who read too much, whatever reading too much means, of being lazy, aimless dreamers, people who need to grow up and come outside to where real life is, who think themselves superior in their separateness.

Ray Rice

I want to be someone that kids in my community look up to and want to strive to give back when they grow up.

Rush Limbaugh

Young people never do have a clue. There are some young people that do, but they've always been the exception. They always all grow up at some point. The problem is that they're all being indoctrinated by stupid leftists.

Steve Buscemi

I've always loved comedy and growing up it was the comedies that I really responded to. So I don't know how it turned out that once I started acting that I started getting a certain kind of role, that I never saw myself as growing up, so I really love when I get an opportunity to play a [comedian] role.

Sufjan Stevens

Growing up on the border there, we were always frustrated with people's pronunciations of towns in Michigan, and people mispronouncing Illinois. There are all these Native American words that no one really knows how to pronounce.