Growing Quotes - Page 31

• For me, my voice and music was always an outlet. Growing up in an unstable environment and whatnot, music was my only real escape.

  Christina Aguilera

  Music, Growing Up, Real

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• I have two older sisters and one older brother and hold them largely responsible for the trouble I got into growing up. I believe as the youngest child, that is my right.

  Suzanne Collins

  Brother, Children, Growing Up

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “The Underland Chronicles #1: Gregor the Overlander”, p.316, Scholastic Inc.

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• Now I'll give you some advice, since you been asking for it. Happiness is like them plants you been yapping about. Sometimes it's growing right in your own backyard and you don't even know it.

  Cathie Pelletier

  Giving, Advice, Backyards

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• To those privileged ones -- among whom we count ourselves -- the high-resounding "isms" to which their contemporaries ask them to give their allegiance are all equally futile: bound to be betrayed, defeated, and finally rejected by men at large, if containing anything really noble; bound to enjoy, for the time being, some sort of noisy success, if sufficiently vulgar, pretentious, and soul-killing to appeal to the growing number of mechanically conditioned slaves that crawl about our planet, posing as free men; all destined to prove, ultimately, of no avail.

  Savitri Devi

  Men, Numbers, Giving

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• Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.

  Bernard Bailyn

  Sparks, Heat, Authority

  Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.305, Harvard University Press

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• The great military leaders of the past have gone, their empires have crumbled and burned to ashes. But the empire of Jesus, built solidly and majestically on the foundation of love, is still growing.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Jesus, Military, Past

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.54, Beacon Press

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• That's what everybody tells me. "I would've had a great comic-book collection, but my mother made me throw them away." But when I was growing up, my mother didn't care. As long as I was reading, she didn't care if my room was filled with comics. I could have saved everything. I was just too stupid to do it.

  Stan Lee

  Mother, Growing Up, Stupid

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• 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

  Brother, Cheer, Growing Up

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• Growing up, I was always really shy about my body.

  Marisa Miller

  Growing Up, Shy, Body

  "Marisa Miller: 'I Was Always Shy About My Body'". Patricia Ramos, OK! Magazine, November 24, 2009.

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• To thrive in this new age of hyper-change and growing uncertainty, it is now an imperative to learn a new competency - how to accurately anticipate the future.

  Daniel Burrus

  Age, Thrive, Hyper

  "Forget Lean and Agile. It's Time to Be Anticipatory" by Daniel Burrus, www.wired.com. August, 2014.

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• What I do know is, I never plan on growing up inside.

  Jack Barakat

  Growing Up, Plans, Knows

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• With increasing frequency and growing vehemence, you hear people saying they are ashamed to be Australians.

  Hugh Mackay

  People, Vehemence, Ashamed

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• Id never really considered film. If Id thought about film more growing up, I probably would have changed my name. I had no concept of my name in lights.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Growing Up, Light, Names

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• It is just a wonderful, wonderful time to be alive and to be able to be part of the ever-growing spiritual awareness that is happening around the world.

  Jon Anderson

  Spiritual, Alive, World

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• When you put a seed in the ground, it doesn't stop growing after eight hours. It keeps going every minute that it's in the earth. We, too, need to keep growing every moment of every day that we are on this earth.

  Ruth Asawa

  Eight, Needs, Earth

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• All man has to do is cooperate with the big forces, the sun, the rain, the growing urge. Seeds sprout, stems grow, leaves spread in the sunlight. Man plants, weeds, cultivates and harvests. It sounds simple, and it is simple, with the simplicity of great truths.

  Hal Borland

  Weed, Rain, Simple

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• My teenage freinds when I was growing up, they have no idea that I attained liberation but I help them. They don't need to know. I can send them energy and light and help them in their evolution.

  Frederick Lenz

  Growing Up, Teenage, Buddhism

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• The primary cause of disorder and lawlessness today, as throughout history, is the poverty of the many in contrast to the affluence of the few. But a new element of unrest has been added: a growing awareness that mass poverty is caused by defective institutions that prevent our harnessing the physical capabilities of science, engineering, management and labor to create general affluence; in other words, a growing awareness that poverty in any country that is or can be industrialized, is man's not nature's fault.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Country, Men

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• Also, now as a result of that show being on, the cruise industry is just growing all over the place. Princess Cruises, who I now represent, is the fastest growning cruise line in the world.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Princess, World, Lines

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• Our economic assistance must be carefully targeted, and must make maximum use of the energy and efforts of the private sector... Economic freedom is the world's mightiest engine for abundance and social justice... Developing countries need to be encouraged to experiment with a growing variety of arrangements for profit sharing and expanded capital ownership.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Wisdom, Justice

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• It should be clear to everyone that the nation's steadfast policy should afford every American of working age a realistic opportunity to acquire the ownership and control of some meaningful form of property in a growing national economy.

  Ronald Reagan

  Meaningful, Wisdom, Opportunity

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• I come from a small county outside of Washington DC called PG County, and me, my mom, my brother, we moved so many different places growing up. And it felt like a box. It felt like there was no getting out.

  Kevin Durant

  Mom, Brother, Growing Up

  "Behind the best moments of Kevin Durant’s MVP speech" by Jonathan Lehman, nypost.com. May 7, 2014.

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• And our size: The company this year is going to be close to $50 billion, so if that's the case and you can continue to grow that fast, I would rather put my energies to solving customer problems and growing our business than worrying about integrating and laying people off.

  Kevin B. Rollins

  Years, Worry, People

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• Over the last several quarters we have been growing faster in Asia and Europe than any other place on the planet. We have 18 percent of the global PC share, about 12 percent in Europe, and 8 percent in Asia.

  Kevin B. Rollins

  Europe, Lasts, Asia

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• I often heard about his cases and I often sat in on his trials. In the late 1960s when I was growing up I wanted to be a crusader like him but I didn't want to wear a suit and commute.

  David Guterson

  Growing Up, Trials, Literature

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