Growing Quotes - page 5

We are growing from a cheerful small town where everyone waves off their front porch to the subway of New York City where everyone rushes by. How do you preserve the culture that has worked so well? (Jimmy Wales)
The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. View quote
Washington Irving
Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure; but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new, active, and immediate. View quote
Washington Irving
I'd always been quite quiet growing up, and singing was a way of having a voice. View quote
Leona Lewis
I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed. View quote
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning. View quote
Carl Rogers
[On libraries] What's great about them is that anybody can go into them and find a book and borrow it free of charge and read it. They don't have to steal it from a bookshop... You know when you're young, you're growing up, they're almost sexually exciting places because books are powerhouses of knowledge, and therefore they're kind of slightly dark and dangerous. You see books that kind of make you go 'Oh! View quote
Stephen Fry
The growing pains of ... being an actor, that was a little frustrating at times because you feel like you have great capacity to do many things. And yet there seems to be a misunderstanding about who you are and what you're trying to do. And that requires patience, and people eventually will understand. View quote
Matt Dillon
We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces. (Ted Turner)
If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult. View quote
Maya Angelou
This is what I've learned, in my life: Headbanging is crucial. Growing up is hard to do. There's nothing wrong with wearing a dress. View quote
Hayley Williams
There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates. View quote
Alan Moore
We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the next step to being dull. View quote
Joseph Addison
We carry a new world in our hearts. That world is growing every minute. View quote
Buenaventura Durruti
He could see Bonzo's anger growing hot. Hot anger was bad. Ender's anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo's was hot, and so it used him. View quote
Orson Scott Card
You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly. View quote
Colette
The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block, as a confidant and not as a rival. View quote
André Maurois
When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up the address of publishers on the backs of the books she owned and send off her manuscript. View quote
Kiran Desai
After any disturbance (such as two world wars coinciding with a period of growing economic and monetary incomprehensibility) we find our old concepts inadequate and look for new ones. But it unfortunately happens that the troubled times which produce an appetite for new ideas are the least propitious for clear thinking. (Rebecca West)
I am not here as a public official, but as a citizen of a troubled world who finds hope in a growing consensus that the generally accepted goals of society are peace, freedom, human rights, environmental quality, the alleviation of suffering, and the rule of law. View quote
Jimmy Carter
Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life. View quote
Erica Jong
As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it. View quote
Taryn Manning
A growing body of clinical observation has pointed to the conclusion that the family therapy must be oriented to the family as a whole. View quote
Virginia Satir