Grown Quotes

My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years.

I think I would have had less tumult in my life if I hadn't grown up in my particular house.

I've grown up so much here. It's been two years. I've become a woman here, I've become an actress here.

The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more on their public school systems than the poorer districts.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

We've got a low turnover management group and executive group who've grown up in the business.

As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.

Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees.

My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies.

That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.

I have grown up in the bright light of America.

Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let them go because they're just not making headway. But we have a very clear personal relationship with the authors.

I think because I am as earnest as I am, people were accepting of my evolving into a certified, legitimate, and grown up and I did take three years off.

I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day.

The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.

When younger, I was thin as a rail. As I've grown older, I've put on weight. I have continued to love myself in all those roles. Part of my spirituality, I always tell people, is to accept yourself for who you are.

I feel that I've grown up a little bit and I'm actually ready to settle down.

Even the majority of the Sunnis have grown tired of foreign terrorists operating in Iraq.

I do like strong women in my movies. I have five sisters, so I've just grown up with that model.

I've always had an aversion to looking sexy, but I've grown out of it.

The last day of shooting, there were tears. It was this family that's grown together over the years. Many of us have worked on it since the beginning, so there's a sadness when we all go our separate ways.

It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.

We started this band as kids, and as time has gone on, we've grown and are learning to accommodate each others' differences.

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is good. But I don't know that she's ever had a real job - I mean, since she's been grown up.

Our world has evolved and grown more technologically savvy. Lawmakers need to adjust to these changes.

As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.

My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.

Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men.

He's not a child but he's childlike, he's not a grown up, he's not a kid, maybe he sounds like an elf on helium, we'll play with it.