Growing Quotes - page 10

You can have a wrestling idea, but you need to have these momentum-shifting moves. We had the Hulkamania movement, then it shifted to the beer-drinking, Stone Cold era, we reinvented the business with growing the black beard and becoming the bad guy, what's that next level. (Hulk Hogan)
My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it was just a resounding 'No.' But if I asked for a saxophone, one would appear and next day and I'd be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning, my father would spare no expense. View quote
Hugh Jackman
Blood is thicker than water, my mother had always said when I was growing up, a sentiment I'd often disputed. But it turned out that it didn't matter whether she was right or wrong. They both flowed out of my cupped palms. View quote
Cheryl Strayed
Growing up, books were my lifeline, and I owe a debt to those writers that can never be repaid. They saved my sanity and gave me a world I could escape to. If I can pay that forward to another person, that's all I ask. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Can you believe our Ash is getting laid? Our baby is growing up. I'm so proud! View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up. View quote
Shawn Ashmore
I'm continually trying to make choices that put me against my own comfort zone. As long as you're uncomfortable, it means you're growing. View quote
Ashton Kutcher
You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U. S. ghetto. Mamma mia! Like having bat wings or a pair of tentacles growing out of your chest. View quote
Junot Diaz
Give someone who has faith in you a placebo and call it a hair growing pill, anti-nausea pill or whatever, and you will be amazed at how many respond to your therapy. View quote
Bernie Siegel
I just love expanding my horizons and growing as an artist. The only way you get to do that is by doing something that scares you or takes you out of your comfort zone. View quote
Vanessa Hudgens
Growing up, there wasn't much emphasis on being nice or naughty. As a family, there wasn't much discipline. It was more relaxed at home, which I'm grateful for. (Isla Fisher)
Growing up, I was a dancer. I wanted to be a choreographer. View quote
Gal Gadot
I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly. View quote
Gary Shteyngart
Ian Kabra rolled up his window. "My god, what's that smell?" Behind the wheel, Sinead laughed. "It's called fresh air. Growing up in London, you've probably never breathed it before." "And I hope I never breathe it again. View quote
Gordon Korman
If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace. View quote
Daniel H. Wilson
Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind. View quote
David Levithan
So if we look at progress, or evolution, or we look at accomplishment in our life, the key is to be continually moving on, expanding and growing, clarifying, developing and maturing. The opposite would be getting stuck, staying stuck, so there's no maturing, no developing, no accomplishing, no movement. View quote
Dennis Merzel
If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market were all going to help smaller companies thrive at the expense of the slow-moving giants of the Fortune 500, apparently you were wrong. View quote
James Surowiecki
I just love stories, and I love movies, learning and seeing the world. Growing up in Iowa, it was like, you wanna see the world? Movies can help you do that. View quote
Jason Momoa
Tell the story that's been growing in your heart, the characters you can't keep out of your head, the tale story that speaks to you, that pops into your head during your daily commute, that wakes you up in the morning. View quote
Jennifer Weiner
I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like that you feel everything is perishing, evanescent and going away very quickly. (Jeffrey Eugenides)
Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad... View quote
Jean Rhys
Sometimes it is the smallest thing that saves us: the weather growing cold, a child's smile, and a cup of excellent coffee. View quote
Jonathan Carroll
As a kid, I spent an awful lot of time pretending I was somebody else. I think growing up in the 1980s wasn't very exciting so you kind of create this secret life of an alternate person. You pretend to be whatever you need to be that day, so you live in that dream world. View quote
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
I spent years growing up being told what my sexuality was. View quote
George Michael