Growing up in England, I was constantly surrounded by the Arthurian legend. Votes: 3
Jamie Campbell BowerGrowing a beard is a habit most natural, Scriptural, manly and beneficial. Votes: 3
Charles SpurgeonGrowing in poverty imparted a certain DNA in the life of their children. Votes: 3
Santiago "Jimmy" MelladoGrowing up, my next door neighbor was my best friend and an only child too. Votes: 3
Miranda CosgroveGrowing up on a dairy farm, you certainly learn discipline and a commitment to purpose. Votes: 2
Mike JohannsGrowing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo. Votes: 2
Zoe SaldanaI was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs. Votes: 2
Gary CheroneDivorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken. Votes: 2
Mike HuckabeeI like the challenge of growing small companies into big global companies. Votes: 0
Eckhard PfeifferIsn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair? Votes: 0
William Sloane CoffinA life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life. Votes: 0
Edward McKendree BoundsWe carry a new world in our hearts. That world is growing every minute. Votes: 0
Buenaventura DurrutiPain makes me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerCertainly the animation technology is growing like crazy. All media technology is.
Joseph Gordon-LevittGrowing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.
Lois McMaster BujoldIf you are becoming more easeful, peaceful & useful then you know you are growing.
Swami SatchidanandaThe world is growing old;Who would not be at rest and freeWhere love is never cold?
Frederick William FaberPerhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage.
Barbara KingsolverI never read comics growing up. I didn't have money and I don't like to touch paper.
John McLaughlinThat is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.
Mary Roberts RinehartFarming is not just for growing crops, it is for the cultivation...o f human beings!
Masanobu FukuokaYou have two numbers in your age when you are ten. It's the beginning of growing up.
Maud Hart LovelaceIf you are not afraid of rising, you will see that wings start growing in your body!
Mehmet Murat ildanThe opinions of men who think are always growing and changing, like living children.
Philip Gilbert HamertonThe advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
Pierre-Auguste RenoirSpiritual growth is marked by a growing realization of just how much grace you need.
Tullian TchividjianPain never really goes away; you just elevate and get used to it by growing stronger.
Philippos SyrigosGrowing up I never got into comic books at all. I didn't have any inspiration for it.
Scarlett JohanssonI started as a stand-up comedian. I wanted to be Carol Burnett when I was growing up.
Stephanie MillerI had a lot of negativity growing up, so I understand how to block the negativity out.
Dwight HowardIt is not a loss of inert, amorphous tissue, but of a growing being unique in history.
Frederica Mathewes-GreenI've tended to work at fast-growing companies that improve the way business gets done.
James L. BarksdaleI was taught to fighter like Sugar Ray Leonard and Muhammad Ali when I was growing up.
Nonito DonaireWhen we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.
Paul McCartneyDon't sacrifice your spirit for wealth. Grow your wealth by first growing your spirit.
Robert KiyosakiI've done karate quite a lot growing up so I did do a kind of quite long karate scene.
Suki WaterhouseGrowing up, my family wasn't very tight. We were more like a tour group with secrets...
Dennis MillerLow care is what we do while on our knees. Smart care is what makes the growing easier.
Janet MacunovichThis woman talk like she from so deep in the country she got corn growing in her shoes.
Kathryn StockettDance is an art, so day by day, it's growing and there are new things that can be done.
Stephen BossAll these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown.
Oprah WinfreyEvery uncomfortable experience in life gives you the choice of growing bitter or better.
Orrin WoodwardIt matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.
George MacDonaldI have the same themes over and over again. How I'm saying it keeps changing or growing.
Joyce TennesonI want to keep growing and living life to the fullest for as long as I'm on this planet.
Madonna CicconeI've always been really hot on westerns. All my life growing up, cowboy, cowboy, cowboy.
Morgan FreemanI don't want my kids growing up believing that there is nothing destructive in the world.
Chuck ConnorsIf we're not growing, we must feel guilty, because we are not fulfilling Christ's demand.
Eva BurrowsHer lord father had taught her never to steal, but it was growing harder to remember why.
George R. R. MartinI think I felt like a regular kid. Growing up in New York, I never felt I was a big deal.
Katharine WeymouthGrowing up I had lots of role models. Looking back, my parents were my first role models.
Kumar SangakkaraA cluttered refrigerator door is to a growing family what a wet nose is to a healthy dog.
Lori BorgmanI might have been curious about actors' lives when I was growing up. That's human nature.
Michael FassbenderSometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up.
Patti SmithKids are constantly evolving, learning, and growing. They aren't who they were yesterday.
Rachel VailThe whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible.
William H. SewardCome on sempai, would you please stop growing mushrooms in other people's closets? -Haruhi
Bisco Hatoriand nobody knows what's going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old
Jack KerouacYou may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books.
St. LuciaI was a typical teen growing up in the 1960s, when everybody was into gurus and meditation,
David SuchetIt can take a long time to get the rules in place that are conducive to growing, sometimes.
Jamie DimonKids arent growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas.
Kevin SpaceyI think when you get inured with the past, you get committed to the past, you stop growing.
Michael EisnerUnfortunately, a superabundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares
Peter UstinovI didnt know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didnt know any arty types.
Stephen ManganGrowing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology...
Susan SontagGrowing other leaders from the ranks isn't just the duty of the leader, it's an obligation.
Warren G. BennisGrowing up, theres a lot of pressure to be normal. But normal isnt as fun as being yourself.
Bridgit MendlerWe all have this moment, when your folks first see you as someone not growing up to be them.
Chuck PalahniukGrowing up, I wasnt sure about acting, but I knew I wanted to be part of the movie industry.
Daniella AlonsoStop wasting time! Time is growing short for you to accomplish what you came to Earth to do!
Dolores CannonI would say I used to spend 60 percent of my time just to raise capital, when I was growing.
Joe MimranAny time you can have your logo or your name on a shoe, growing up that's a dream come true.
John WallEven with the best intentions, growing apart might just be an inevitable part of growing up.
Megan McCaffertyI think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical.
Robert A. HeinleinGrowing is an important part of the business, but more important than that is to get better.
Steve MaddenYouth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.
Oscar WildeIt is the most powerful creation to have life growing inside of you. There is no bigger gift.
Beyonce KnowlesI love being a Met. It was my favorite team growing up, so to be a Met to me is very special.
David WrightI like growing up; I feel like I have an old soul. I like the age to match as much as it can.
Elizabeth GilliesWe cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves.
Havelock EllisReading Christians are growing Christians. When Christians cease to read, they cease to grow.
John WesleyEven under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.
Jonathan TropperJust being young and growing up in this business is hard. Just growing up in general is hard.
Justin BieberI ⦠noticed something striking about my growing cast of deniers. None of them were deniers.
Lawrence SolomonThe greatest menace to the world today is the growing, exploiting, irresponsible imperialism.
Mahatma GandhiEat foods made from ingredients that you can picture in their raw state or growing in nature.
Michael PollanIts not about the goal. Its about growing to become the person that can accomplish that goal.
Tony RobbinsGrowing up, you look at guys like Jeff Thomson as heroes, so going past him is pretty special.
Brett LeeThe gap between the rich and the poor cannot keep growing without nothing being done about it.
Kofi AnnanWe hated Cleveland growing up. There's a lot of people in Cleveland we still hate to this day.
LeBron JamesI watched a few of Warren Beatty films when I was growing up...my Dad loved 'Heaven Can Wait.'
Lily CollinsGrowing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death.
Martha OstensoOnce you start drinking a little of meditativeness, a little of love, you start growing wings.
RajneeshWhen I was growing up I never babysat. I was considered to 'punk rock' to be trusted with kids.
Angelina JolieGrowing up in the 70s and 80s, it took effort to be a nerd. You had to seek out the nerd stuff.
Chris HardwickThere is a banking adage that if it's growing like a weed, it's a good chance that it's a weed.
Mark ZandiCreating investment, growing the economy and creating jobs is what this government wants to do.
Peter GutweinPoetry for me has been a long pilgrimage, a journey and a growing relationship with the unknown.
David WhyteTo a young kid growing up in Canada, America seemed to be crazy about the future; dazzled by it.
Graydon CarterI didnt really watch Dallas growing up, as I was a bit young and into other things, like sports.
Jesse MetcalfeLove in its early stages rarely maintains a level, it always seems to be growing or diminishing.
Libbie BlockIn this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.
Margaret MeadMy biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal
Nassim Nicholas TalebGrowing up in music motivated me. I applied that to my education and it made me a better person.
RaekwonI love being the bad guy, simply because I was always so responsible, so predictable growing up.
Sandra BrownFashion is in my blood. Growing up, I was always clacking around the house in my mother's shoes.
Sophia BushWhole new theories of money were growing here like mushrooms: in the dark and based on bullshit.
Terry PratchettI was a big fan of Kurt Russell growing up and I always wanted to be the modern day Kurt Russell.
Adam SandlerGrowing up in a business-orientated family meant that I naturally learnt the tricks of the trade.
Anne RobinsonI always want to keep growing and keep surprising people, and showing them different parts of me.
Aubrey PlazaObeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth.
Brian AldissI don't know. I'd be a lot better off if I would've studied more when I was growing up, you know?
Brian ReganPart of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind.
David LevithanI had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be 'sexy,' even before I knew what the word was.
Dolly PartonIt takes money to run political campaigns. This is a cancer growing on the soul of our democracy.
Elizabeth WarrenThe world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual.
Finley Peter DunneThere are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!
Frank ZappaWhen I was growing up in Wakefield in the 90s I would get in fights for carrying a guitar around.
Gary JarmanThere are different ways to raise capital that were not available when I was growing my business.
Joe MimranI knew nothing but love and devotion when I was growing up. Trust me, it makes everything easier.
Julia QuinnWe Latinos are in a growing stage in the NBA. It's all part of the international basketball boom.
Manu GinobiliGrowing up is important, and I've got to do that gracefully, but also keep myself at a good pace.
Miley CyrusYoung people are growing in plain sight, there is no place for them to hide, no cocoon. It's hard
Rachel VailGrowing up sometimes forces us to confront the distance between our childhood hope and the truth.
Sara ShandlerWhenever I see Michael Jordan I'm still blown away because he was such a hero of mine growing up.
Tom BradyI think I try to speak to the heart of the woman who I know is interested in growing into herself.
Oprah WinfreySomebody somewhere is waiting on you to become what you were destined to be. Keep growing forward!
Chris HoganFree yourself emotionally - to be emotionally resilient is the best defense against growing rigid.
Deepak ChopraI'm an Asian guy growing up in London so I see myself as British, but India is part of my culture.
Dev PatelDon't regret growing older...remember that a lot of sugar is to be found at the bottom of the cup.
James SimpsonI think sitting in the car with your parents and listening to music is an essential to growing up.
James Vincent McMorrowI know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
Kate BurtonWe are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished ...
Martin LutherI think that the ability of people to accept new things is growing, and that's good for all of us.
Paula ScherGrowing up in the '60s and the '70s, things certainly seemed more simplistic and easier to digest.
Sandra BernhardNobody thought that I was going to make it to the NBA. I only had a couple of believers growing up.
Dwight HowardI think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity
Elfriede JelinekWhen I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician.
George PapandreouThe most important job you have is growing your people, giving them a chance to reach their dreams.
Jack WelchBack in the days when I was growing up, the SWAC had as good of talent as any schools in the state.
James GreenThe record is about seeing death and growing from it, and in the end, being strong and being alive.
Marilyn MansonIf the economy is growing, people want to employ more workers. If you hire more labor, wages go up.
Michael HudsonIf you open yourself as an artist, as a human being to this experience of growing, you grow anyway.
Sergei PoluninIf you work on anything long enough hopefully you'll get better and I feel like we're just growing.
Sharon Van EttenThe only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was Cats, for my birthday.
Tammy BlanchardGrowing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we're down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.
Barbara JohnsonVulnerability is a wonderful tool for awakening and for learning and for growing and for connecting.
Colleen SaidmanWe both have a lot of growing-up to do... A lot of the world to see & figure out on our own." -- Leo
Emily GiffinGrowing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun
John MellencampThere are a lot of movies I've done that come and go, and don't really establish a growing fan base.
Sean William ScottGrowing up, I realized as an actor I had to figure out how to use my platform in order to give back.
Serinda SwanSo much of growing up is an unbearable waiting. A constant longing for another time. Another season.
Sonia SanchezMy main focus is on becoming a new mom and giving the best of myself to my husband and growing baby.
Stacy KeiblerGrowing up playing jazz and improvising has had a big impact on me, and it translates into my music.
Stephen BrunerMy mom helped me. I was very shy growing up, but my shyness sort of manifested in a big personality.
Tracee Ellis RossHeaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.
William Wordsworth