Growing Quotes

I think - I think you have a conscience growing up in a loving family with a nurturing community. And I think what happens is, and that's part of the problem of being in the closet which is a very sick place. I mean it's self loathing. It's self denial. And you keep that separate.

My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had to study and work hard.

When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician.

We must put together countries that produce drugs, countries that traffic, and countries that consume, and through this multilateral effort really stop the growing of crime.

Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.

So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops.

I think that's good that I have to watch how I act and what I say. I think that's a part of growing up.

Though there is growing division among the Ukrainian military ranks as to loyalty in this revolution, the possibility of violence looms over the entire situation.

Chick Corea was a great influence on me, musically, as I was growing up.

I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up.

Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

When I was growing up there was a product made by Sony called the Sony Walkman - a rage, everyone had to have one. Well, you don't hear about the Walkman anymore.

Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes.

I always knew I wanted to be a character in the movies. When I was growing up, I had to have a lot of surgery, and I spent a lot of time recovering at home and in the hospital. Watching movies took me away from my own problems and gave me a total escape.

I spent a lot of time in Tower Records. I'm a huge music nerd, and Tower was instrumental to me when I was growing up.

I've always dreamed of growing up to be Amy Poehler.

Growing up in college, in high school, I was the focal point.

I think it would be very scary and very confusing if I didn't understand where people are coming from, but I've felt the exact same way for so many other bands, growing up. It's not really a big deal.

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.

When I was growing up, I installed refrigerators in supermarkets. My father was an electrical engineer.

Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thing was I developed no special skills. I don't have any resentment because I am a performer and I've always felt that, but it did take its toll socially.

Politicians in Washington and Madison aren't hearing, aren't listening to their constituents and prioritizing getting people back to work and growing our economy.

What I am saying is, all health care has a problem with costs. Medicare is growing slower than the private insurance plans. Why? Because of their efficiency. They don't have to give money to shareholders. Why should be defending shareholders?

In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.

Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get by.

Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.

A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals.

I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.

I'm always changing. I still have the same morals and values and foundation of who I was, growing up in Jacksonville, FL, but I'm such a different person from who I was when I was 17. You live and you learn and you grow.