Growing Quotes

I did gymnastics when I was growing up and to this day I can still do the splits.

The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.

One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.

When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot.

It is a different world than when I was growing up, and you started to just kind of maintain at thirty-five and just hope you can hope it together. People are a lot more vital than I am and doing all kinds of things and leading really important movements.

The healthcare bill not only is a monstrosity in terms of growing the government and cutting out the private sector, the way it was passed was sleazy. Every old Washington trick was used to pass the healthcare bill.

When I was growing up, I said I wanted to be a model, but people said I had no chance and when I realized my ambition, people in the business still continued to state negative stuff.

It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.

I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.

I am musical and I enjoy theatre, but I never wanted to just do theatre. I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.

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

In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years is not a problem.

My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.

My best friend growing up really put the bug in my ear about acting. We created this one hour-and-a-half improv play when we were 10 or 11 and performed it at the library. We just played off each other so well and had the best time doing it and the funniest part was, we wound up having packed houses, other people loved it too.

I've always been a strong family advocate. I had a wonderful family growing up.

I was not funny growing up.

In my time as Archbishop of Canterbury I've seen a growing sense of unity and mission.

I think the economic empowerment of women that has been growing over the past decade is at the 'inflection point' with this global recession. Women are, we believe, the solution for their families in their ability to go out and increase household income.

Presidential money is almost like the housing bubble. It's growing at such an astronomical rate, you think it can't get any bigger.

I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.

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

Their Internet usage is growing very rapidly, and even they can do the math: If everyone in China needed an IPv4 address - just one - this country would use up one third of the entire public IP address space.

Well, the security business has been growing. I think security is one of those areas where it's to some degree not linear but maybe exponential growth.

Growing up, I had a very busy social life. It wasn't until I was a sophomore in high school that I asked Mama if I could come into the kitchen and have her teach me how to cook something.

I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.

I was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing.

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.

Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family... what my mother called 'The Liar.'

When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school.

Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency.