Growing Quotes - page 100

I see enormous loves growing immense and finally crushing me. (Anaïs Nin)
My kids are growing up and it's hard to accept they are their own person and they're independent. View quote
Ray Romano
Growing up, I was a kid pretending to be an adult. View quote
Guy Pearce
The kids growing up is a separate strand to your life. However bad a day you've had, that's the most important thing, and you have to remember that. View quote
Michael Palin
The biggest benefit of Apollo was the inspiration it gave to a growing generation to get into science and aerospace. View quote
Buzz Aldrin
Let's not spend resources that we don't need to be sending astronauts back to the moon. Let's not spend expensive resources on bringing people who have reached Mars back again. Prepare them to become a growing colony. View quote
Buzz Aldrin
When I was growing up, everybody in charge, my parents and teachers, had all survived the war, and they talked about the war like it was the Kraken - you know, this huge beast that roamed the earth during their formative years. View quote
Tom Hanks
Being in the business and growing up in L.A., I think I turned out pretty OK. View quote
Emma Roberts
Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor. View quote
Lauren Graham
Growing up, I always loved Disney movies, but the first movie I remember seeing is 'Sleepers,' so I wasn't really taken to children's movies. View quote
Sarah Silverman
As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor. (Lois McMaster Bujold)
A weed is just a flower growing in the wrong place. View quote
Cecelia Ahern
When you grow up on film, people sometimes have difficulties accepting the fact that you are growing up. They always imagine you younger. View quote
Michelle Trachtenberg
Growing up, I felt insecure about my build. I didn't feel very feminine. But as time went on, I learned to completely embrace my body. View quote
Hope Solo
When it was reported to General Washington that the army was frequently indulging in swearing, he immediately sent out the following order The general is sorry to be informed that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing a vice little known heretofore in the American army is growing into fashion. Let the men and officers reflect 'that we can not hope for the blessing of heaven on our army if we insult it by our impiety and folly.' View quote
George Washington
I am trying to unlearn many lessons of gender I internalized while growing up. But I sometimes still feel vulnerable in the face of gender expectations. View quote
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I was a fat girl growing up and had to change schools because kids were so mean. View quote
Sara Bareilles
It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon. View quote
Kate Chopin
Growing up in such a stunning landscape is inevitably going to have an effect on you, whether you rebel or whether you embrace, because it's so striking. I lived on this rugged, rugged coastline with the North Sea hammering at the cliffs, and the weather changes literally every half hour. My parents met as rock climbers, so they're absolute outdoors fiends, and we were constantly up hills and under canvas and camping and tramping around. They're very fond memories and something I still love to do. View quote
KT Tunstall
I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music. View quote
Kelly Osbourne
Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
...Teenagers today are so fluid and non-binary; they're fantastically unafraid. My house [growing up] was a bit like that. I've loved men and I've loved women and I was raised to feel like I could love who I wanted. We could talk about everything in the world. View quote
Saffron Burrows
I live a very different life now, with incredible privileges, but looking back I realise that growing up in Russia gave me tools that other people don't necessarily have - such as the will to push that bit further, to make things happen, to succeed. View quote
Natalia Vodianova
We always had our own vegetables growing up and now I'm doing it with my kids at our house in the country. View quote
Stella McCartney
I mean, I'm middle class. I'm upwardly mobile. I'm not a communist; I'm not a socialist. But when I visit the prisons, when I see the new homelessness in L.A., when I see a declining middle class and the growing Occupy movement in a rich-get-richer America, I find that the remnants of colonialism are alive and well. In the barrios, on the reservations, and certainly in parts of the Sonoran desert on the American side... View quote
Richard Montoya