Growing Quotes - Page 24

• Growing up I was always prone to obsession, partly because of the way I am, but partly because after feeling so lonely for such a long time, when I found someone or something that I liked, I felt helplessly drawn to it. I suppose that accounts for some of the creepiness in my music.

  Lana Del Rey

  Lonely, Growing Up, Found Someone

  "Original Sin: An Interview With Lana Del Rey". Interview with John Calvert, thequietus.com. October 4, 2011.

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• One of the best feelings I had growing up was being completely exhausted at the end of the day after playing outside all day.

  Jennifer Pharr Davis

  Growing Up, Playing Outside, Feelings

  "Pharr Davis thrives on trail". Interview with Anna Katherine Clemmons, www.espn.com. July 2, 2013.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have a huge support base of people that love me around the world: millions of fans and supporters and growing.

  Lil B

  People, Support, Fans

  Source: www.cnn.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm first generation American, and my parents were both from Nigeria. And so I always say that I'm literally an African American. So my last name is Famuyiwa, it's different. And so that was a part of my experience from people not being able to pronounce it to not sort of having sort of a shared, common history with a lot of the kids that I was growing up with because my parents were from Africa.

  Terry Gross

  Growing Up, Kids, Names

  Source: www.npr.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think the whole thing is kind of sad, honestly, in the same way that our civilization - particularly the consumers of pop culture - has grown so used to an emasculated, bare-chested leading man that something like simply growing a mustache can impress people.

  Nick Offerman

  Men, Thinking, Civilization

  "Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Samsara-the Wheel of Existence, literally, the "Perpetual Wandering"-is the name by which is designated the sea of life ever restlessly heaving up and down, the symbol of this continuous process of ever again and again being born, growing old, suffering, and dying. (It) is constantly changing from moment to moment, (as lives) follow continuously one upon the other through inconceivable periods of time. Of this Samsara, a single lifetime constitutes only a vanishingly tiny fraction.

  Gautama Buddha

  Sea, Names, Single Life

  47 Copy quote

• One of the tragedies of our day is that too many boys are growing up without guidance of a father, or another man, to show them what it looks like to do away with that boyhood stuff. As a result, they often move into adolescence and then adulthood looking like men but still speaking, reasoning, and behaving like boys.

  Dennis Rainey

  Growing Up, Father, Moving

  8 Copy quote

• Growing old is an emotion which comes over us at almost any age; I had it myself between the ages of 25 and 30.

  E. M. Forster

  Age, Emotion, Growing Old

  4 Copy quote

• Children model the behavior of adults, on whatever scale is available to them. Ours are growing up in a nation whose most important, influential men - from presidents to the coolest film characters - solve problems by killing people. ... We have taught our children in a thousand ways, sometimes with flag-waving and sometimes with a laugh track, that the bad guy deserves to die.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Children, Growing Up, Character

  4 Copy quote

• History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost forever.

  Samuel Johnson

  Personal Knowledge, Forever, Records

  Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works”, p.16

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What earnest worker, with hand and brain for the benefit of his fellowmen, could desire a more pleasing recognition of his usefulness than the monument of a tree, ever growing, ever blooming, and ever bearing wholesome fruit?

  Washington Irving

  Hands, Tree, Brain

  4 Copy quote

• When I was growing up, I was really into 'Rent' and I actually slept on the street in New York all night to get to sit in the first few rows for it.

  Julia Jones

  New York, Growing Up, Night

  6 Copy quote

• I think the economic empowerment of women that has been growing over the past decade is at the 'inflection point' with this global recession. Women are, we believe, the solution for their families in their ability to go out and increase household income.

  Andrea Jung

  Believe, Past, Thinking

  11 Copy quote

• When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Growing Up, Ideas, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  51 Copy quote

  Show source

• People lose people, we lose things in our life as we're constantly growing and changing. That's what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It's what you gain from that loss that makes life.

  Thomas Jane

  Loss, People, Gains

  FaceBook post by Thomas Jane from Sep 18, 2011

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Growing up listening to rap music, you almost feel like you should have haters. That's an important part of being a successful musician. It's a good thing, I guess.

  Ezra Koenig

  Growing Up, Rap, Successful

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I can't stop watching 'Pan Am.' When I was growing up, my father worked as an engineer in Turkey, and we always flew Pan Am. The stewardesses were so glamorous! When they gave me a set of those golden wings, I felt very grown-up. Not only is the show's plot full of mystery and infidelity, they get the period details just right.

  Gayle King

  Growing Up, Father, Turkeys

  7 Copy quote

• Growing up in a house of five girls, I couldn't help but glance at a fashion magazine or two.

  Karlie Kloss

  Girl, Fashion, Growing Up

  4 Copy quote

• I did every sport under the sun while growing up.

  Karlie Kloss

  Sports, Growing Up, Sun

  "Model Wall: Karlie Kloss". Vogue Interview, www.vogue.com. April 16, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wasn't always this confident. Growing up as the awkward gay kid in a small town in Pennsylvania, you're constantly told, 'Don't be yourself, don't be proud of who you are.

  Carson Kressley

  Being Yourself, Growing Up, Kids

  "Carson Kressley: There’s nothing better than having Oprah in your corner". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. June 23, 2011.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I was growing up, I was obviously gay, and I got heckled every day of my life. The only way I knew how to survive was to make people laugh. If I could make them laugh, I wouldn't get hung in a locker for two hours. That's a blessing.

  Carson Kressley

  Growing Up, Gay, Blessing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Growing up, I found I was good at two things: Art and Math. To hear my parents say it, though, it was only, 'John is good at Math.

  John Maeda

  Art, Growing Up, Math

  "Jobs Added Art to STEM to Create Steam" by John Maeda, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The tree of life is growing where the spirit never dies, and the bright light of salvation shines in dark and empty skies.

  Bob Dylan

  Philosophy, Dark, Light

  Song: Death is Not The End, Album: Down In The Groove, 1988

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Each moment of your life is a brush stroke in the painting of your growing career. There are the bold, sweeping strokes of one increasing, dynamic purpose. There are the lights and shadows that make your life deep and strong. There are the little touches that add the stamp of character and worth. The art of achievement is the art of making life-your life-a masterpiece.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Art, Strong, Character

  12 Copy quote

• We need the stars... We need purpose! We need the image the Destiny to take root among the stars gives us of ourselves as a purposeful, growing species. We need to become the adult species that the Destiny can help us become! If we're to be anything other than smooth dinosaurs who evolve, specialize and die, we need the stars.... When we have no difficult, long-term purpose to strive toward, we fight each other. We destroy ourselves. We have these chaotic, apocalyptic periods of murderous craziness.

  Octavia Butler

  Stars, Fighting, Destiny

  44 Copy quote