Growing Quotes

I would like to have seen my sons growing up.

Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy.

I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.

We have to mainstream everybody. No matter what their circumstances when they were growing up. Part of that is knowing that after they're finished with school, everybody in this country gets up and goes to work.

My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.

I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.

We have serious enemies and growing threats around the world. Unfortunately, we have an administration whose idea of a rogue state is Arizona.

When I was growing up, I wasn't taught how to feel or communicate feelings.

I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that's the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I was growing up.

When I was growing up, Green Day had just come out.

Venezuelans are tired of 14 years of promises and no results. The only things growing are inflation, murder and crime. The good indicators - production, education and jobs - are all falling.

In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.

But in another world, another life, probably growing up in another country, I might have been more of a dancer.

Like most North Americans, I'd been raised on the notion that milk is the first food, and everybody must like it because it's so good and so important for growing up and for being healthy.

We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up.

HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.

I permed my hair 12 years ago, because I always wanted a perm, but my mother would never let me have one! I got a lot of stick, but I didn't care - I loved the curls. The growing out was the difficult part!

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up.

At the same time it offered the hope, as it still does, that improved understanding could better the lot of mankind. For me, growing up in the 1930s, the two motivations powerfully reinforced each other.

Instead of focusing on growing jobs and reigniting our economy, President Obama focused on growing government and tried to remake the United States into the image of the debt-laden countries of Europe. His approach has been more spending, more regulation, and higher taxes.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

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.

It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

Believe it or not, I want to keep growing my audience.

When you were growing up in the 30s, 20s, of course the 40s, all black people at least in the Washington, D.C., area were required to live among themselves.

We wanted to set a good example for the growing number of divers watching.