Grown Quotes

My character's kind of grown up with Katniss. The beginning of the story, they're more or less brother and sister than anything. They're best friends. They've been keeping each other alive. It's a little frustrating, for the character. As the character, not as me.

I'm not sure that acting is something for a grown man to be doing.

When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family.

The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid.

As I've gotten older and grown more independent, I think for myself, and that's how it should be.

My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years.

I've grown up so much here. It's been two years. I've become a woman here, I've become an actress here.

The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more on their public school systems than the poorer districts.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.

We've got a low turnover management group and executive group who've grown up in the business.

As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.

Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees.

People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

The concept of being a locavore, or one who chooses whenever possible to incorporate locally grown or locally produced food into one's nutrition plan, is of great importance.

I've grown over the years and I know how to adapt to situations, where I can go into a situation where there's a crowd of people and just take over. But pretty much I'm off to myself. And I'm totally committed to the game of football. That's why I've had so much success.

I think because I am as earnest as I am, people were accepting of my evolving into a certified, legitimate, and grown up and I did take three years off.

I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day.

When younger, I was thin as a rail. As I've grown older, I've put on weight. I have continued to love myself in all those roles. Part of my spirituality, I always tell people, is to accept yourself for who you are.

I feel that I've grown up a little bit and I'm actually ready to settle down.

Even the majority of the Sunnis have grown tired of foreign terrorists operating in Iraq.

I do like strong women in my movies. I have five sisters, so I've just grown up with that model.

I've always had an aversion to looking sexy, but I've grown out of it.

The last day of shooting, there were tears. It was this family that's grown together over the years. Many of us have worked on it since the beginning, so there's a sadness when we all go our separate ways.

It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.

We started this band as kids, and as time has gone on, we've grown and are learning to accommodate each others' differences.

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is good. But I don't know that she's ever had a real job - I mean, since she's been grown up.

As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.