Growing Quotes

I am concerned about the growing problem of sexual abuse and exploitation of our children.

I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless, there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing.

There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?

Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?

People ask me from time to time what it was like growing up with Henry Fonda as my father. I say, Ever see Fort Apache? He was like Colonel Thursday.

Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.

As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.

I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.

Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from the sciences to music to writing to literature.

I'd pull my little brother on our motorcycle on an inner tube behind it. We would go fishing, we would hunt some, growing up.

With new jobs, new ideas, and growing confidence that our brightest days lie ahead, Wisconsin is on the move.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up.

As a kid when I was growing up, as any kid, you think you know every thing and I was no different to that.

Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better.

I never listened to country music growing up.

A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.

We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.

My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing.

I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid.

Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I'm a kid too and am growing up with them. The things they're interested in tend to really influence me.

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

Growing up I always used to shop in Oxfam. I'd find things for 50p and then take them home, cut them up and make them into something new.

At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future.

It was always a fantasy of mine growing up - my favorite program was always 'Little House on the Prairie' - so I always wanted to wear those looks. When I was a child, I wouldn't let my mom put me in anything but calico dresses and now... whaddaya know, every day I'm in a calico dress, basically, so it's kind of funny.

My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.

Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.

I feel I am a little bit older. Reckon I will start growing a beard next week.

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

It was so inspiring for me to watch tennis growing up. I thought I was really good playing, until my brother told me I wasn't!