Growing Quotes

When I was a kid a growing up in Ontario, Canada, Lake Erie was so polluted, I never thought it would ever, EVER be turned around where they could start cleaning it out in my lifetime!

When I was growing up in the '60s I would have thought that westerns would last forever.

President Bush has said that the economy is growing, that there are jobs out there. But you know, it's a long commute to China to get those jobs.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military.

Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.

Theatre is expensive to go to. I certainly felt when I was growing up that theatre wasn't for us. Theatre still has that stigma to it. A lot of people feel intimidated and underrepresented in theatre.

Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.

If it's not growing, it's going to die.

Especially while television I think is going through some growing pains or is in need of - I think current comedy is a bit, uh, not happening, you know?

Growing up I always shopped at Victoria's Secret with my mom and saw Angels like Gisele and Karolina Kurkova in the windows.

My dad was so much fun growing up.

I was the youngest of six kids, so yeah, feeding myself was important, but it's not like I was obsessed with food growing up.

Growing up, I was always the small guy.

When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove.

I think the obvious answer is I was raised in New York City, so growing up, not only myself but my family, like my father, we would watch a lot of Scorsese films.

We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up.

I think I've always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual way we interacted with imaginary worlds was as characters: a bench was 'your' boat, leaves on a lawn were the fins of sharks out to get 'you.'

Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s, I lived in the shadow of a tyrannical state.

It was just you had to be strong, and if you weren't strong you're a victim and you're not going to make it. That was the reality when I was growing up.

Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.

I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.

I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

The places that are most likely to grow trees for carbon sequestration are places where trees aren't growing now.

We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances.

I sang a lot growing up; I always loved music.

I know how I felt when I saw things like 'Fame' on television when I was growing up and how that was an exceptional magnet for me to want to explore the theater. I can only assume that 'Smash' is doing that for anyone who is halfway interested in theater already.

I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.

I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up.

It's always a struggle growing up in Akron.

When I was growing up and watching 'The Sweeney,' the notion of police officers being an inch away from the villains that they're chasing was commonplace.

I have the power of my height. Growing up, it was a total drawback. There was nothing good about it at all.

Coming from Haiti and growing up in Brooklyn, there's a lot of European influence when I get dressed up. I wear a lot of fitted suits, elegant cuts; I think it's cool to mash up a lot of different looks.

I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.

I'm totally growing up.

I've always had an affinity for growing things.

I wasn't a wrestling fan growing up; I knew who Hulk Hogan was and stuff but I didn't watch it. I started watching wrestling about three years before I got involved with WCW.

I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there's no bubble to escape into.

My favorite singer is Lauryn Hill - all time, hands down. She was my biggest inspiration growing up.

I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician.

My family... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up.

Growing up in New England, being schooled and classically trained, it needed to shake, it needed to evolve.

When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time.

I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the door as soon as I turned 18.

A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.

We have to be focused on growing the party and getting young people to see us as a viable option.

Also, now as a result of that show being on, the cruise industry is just growing all over the place. Princess Cruises, who I now represent, is the fastest growning cruise line in the world.

Growing is an important part of the business, but more important than that is to get better.

I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts.

There is a growing awareness among brands that in order to participate in conversations that are taking place across social networks, they must join these discussions on the basis of something that is meaningful to their customers.

It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.

In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.

Although there is a very large literature, still growing almost daily, on the Chinese calendar, its interest is, we suggest, much more archaeological and historical than scientific.

Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.

Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.

There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.

Growing up, I was in love with Jennifer Aniston from 'Friends.'

I turned up my nose at yoga for years. I was a rugby player growing up. But now I know. When I'm on those long international flights, like 22 hours from L.A. to Sydney, I'll get up sometimes and do yoga in the aisle just to stretch out a little bit.

Growing up in the '60s and early '70s, with the space flight and the Apollo program, I always loved planes. I always loved rockets and I always loved space travel.

I remained Ryan's companion on the Hollywood party circuit, growing inured to sex and drugs before I was in my teens.

It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

My access to music when I was growing up was through pirate radio, you know, transistor radio under the pillow, listening to one more and then 'just one more' until your favourite track comes on.

When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician.

'Slumdog' was my first movie, and I had never been to India before - I was just a teenager in the U.K. with my headphones and my Nike shoes. What did I know about growing up in a slum?

My favorite movies growing up were things like 'The Wizard of Oz,' but as I got older, I really began to admire people like Steven Soderbergh.

I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment.

At night, what you see is a city, because all you see is lights. By day, it doesn't look like a city at all. The trees out-number the houses. And that's completely typical of Seattle. You can't quite tell: is it a city, is it a suburb, is the forest growing back?

In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.

We are shrinking the size of the federal government as a percent of our economy from over 21 percent of the economy to 19 percent of the economy. At the same time, we're growing the private economy.

I didn't spend much time with my parents when I was growing up.

I was a total bad girl growing up.

Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.

The dance world was a big part of my growing up.