Growing Quotes - page 9

Living in Sydney, I've taken the chance to start surfing again. One of my best memories of growing up is catching my first proper wave and surfing across it and my brother cheering at me from the shore. (Markus Zusak)
I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn't all about hearing aids and speech classes or frustrations. View quote
Marlee Matlin
I've always been drawn to writing for young readers. The books that I read growing up remain in my mind very strongly. View quote
Meg Wolitzer
I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual. View quote
Melinda Gates
I was a handful growing up. View quote
Olivia Wilde
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place. View quote
Orison Swett Marden
You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
Growing up, I had a very busy social life. It wasn't until I was a sophomore in high school that I asked Mama if I could come into the kitchen and have her teach me how to cook something. View quote
Paula Deen
Unlike most other children, - especially unlike those of today - who are eager to become men and women as speedily as possible, I had a terror of growing up, which became more and more accentuated as I grew older. View quote
Pierre Loti
I love being Canadian. I think growing up in Canada gives you a world perspective that I certainly enjoy. View quote
Ryan Gosling
For scientists, growing cells took so much work that they couldn't get much research done. So the selling of cells was really just for the sake of science, and there weren't a lot of profits. (Rebecca Skloot)
I am occasionally enraptured by Western landscape. But I don't identify that state of mind as having to do with my own origins, having grown up in the West, although I certainly crisscrossed Nevada countless times growing up, and then as a young adult, in cars and on motorcycles. View quote
Rachel Kushner
But Grover's voice was already growing fainter. ‘Sweet dreams. Don't let me die! View quote
Rick Riordan
Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes. View quote
Annette Funicello
One nice thing about growing up Catholic is it makes you open-minded about other people's religions, since ours is nuttier than yours. View quote
Rob Sheffield
You have to grow all the time," I said. "Not necessarily get bigger. But inside your head you have to grow, kid-boy. For us human-type people, that's what's important. And that kind of growing never stops. At least, it shouldn't. You can grow, kid-boy, or you can die. That's the choice you've got, and it goes on all of your life. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
I love being the bad guy, simply because I was always so responsible, so predictable growing up. View quote
Sandra Brown
Fashion is in my blood. Growing up, I was always clacking around the house in my mother's shoes. View quote
Sophia Bush
I wanted to be a cowgirl... But, you know, it was pointed out to me that, you know, growing up in Brooklyn, there wasn't much opportunity... for cowgirlery. View quote
Susan Isaacs
Everyone else we knew growing up is the same: image of their parents, no matter how loud they told themselves they'd be different. View quote
Tana French
I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been suburban experiences. (Tom Perrotta)
Faith is not simply a private matter, or something we practice once a week at church. Rather, it should have a contagious effect on the broader world. Jesus used these images to illustrate His kingdom.: a sprinkle of yeast causing the whole loaf to rise, a pinch of salt preserving a slab of meat, the smallest seed in the garden growing into a great tree in which birds of the air come to nest. View quote
Philip Yancey
It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens. View quote
Fran Drescher
I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING. View quote
Holly Black
He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies. View quote
Holly Black