Grown Quotes

We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

Grown men have been seen fleeing after reading the menu posted outside.

If I had grown up in any place but New Orleans, I don't think my career would have taken off. I wouldn't have heard the music that was around this town. There was so much going on when I was a kid.

Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe.

If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

It's all about fair trade, and helping people eating locally grown stuff. We're recycling everything. We're trying to tour in the most conscious way possible, environmentally and socially.

Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.

Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown... they are so stupid and do not notice that I am standing up straighter!

Once your kids are grown and you know that you're completely healthy, consider canceling your life insurance policy.

We all grew up, our grandmothers and mothers had about three channels to watch, so we watched those soaps and now, a generation has grown up with the Internet and computers and video games.

When looking at the evidence of feeding on large prey, you can see every size tooth from hatchling to adult in one spot. The babies may have been fed in the nest until they were full grown, like in eagles and hawks.

When I was younger, I used to hate Germany. I hated the country, the people, the language, the culture, everything! But over the years I've grown to really appreciate the German people.

I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.

I've grown up with dogs and love dogs.

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

Emmys are wonderful and I'm thrilled to death that I have mine. But they're representative of a specific achievement, where this sort of thing is representative of how you've grown in your own industry.

As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

I attribute a lot of the success to Live 105, of course, because it's something they've nurtured and grown.

It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around.

It's a quality of my life that I wouldn't change for the world, having grown up with such a humble background.

We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, but most people in developed countries are still, by historical standards, extraordinarily well off.

If I'd seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I'd intervene. If my father died and left my mother destitute, it's your instinct to take care of her. So when I started to think about it in those terms, it started to make sense to me.

Let's just say I was really bad. Now I have grown into myself. I have changed.

The fact that my grown kids like to hang out with me, I mean, it just - I don't think it really can get any better than that, I don't think.