All Quotes

As I grew older - collapsing into my seventies, glimpsing ahead the cliffs of the eighties, colliding into eighty-five - poetry abandoned me.
‐‐ Donald Hall

As I grew older, farms in Kentucky provided me with many jobs in hauling hay and in cutting tobacco. In addition to helping fund my college years, these jobs helped me to meet an array of very interesting and amazing men and women.
‐‐ Robert H. Grubbs

As I grew older, I actually was prepared to go into fine arts school and do a degree. That was what I was actually settled upon when I was offered a record deal.
‐‐ P. J. Harvey

As I grew older, I came to feel more responsible for any hardship or trouble my career caused my family.
‐‐ Annette Funicello

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.
‐‐ Albrecht Durer

As I grew older, I worked less as an actor and as a model, and I went back to what I had tried to do when I was young but wasn't really available. I'm so glad now to be in my sixties and to be able to go back to school.
‐‐ Isabella Rossellini

As I grew steadily more comfortable in the kitchen, I found that, much like gardening, most cooking manages to be agreeably absorbing without being too demanding intellectually. It leaves plenty of mental space for daydreaming and reflection.
‐‐ Michael Pollan

As I grew up and began identifying myself as a feminist, there were plenty of issues that continued to make me question marriage: the father 'giving' the bride away, women taking their husband's last name, the white dress, the vows promising to 'obey' the groom. And that only covers the wedding.
‐‐ Jessica Valenti

As I grew up, I always refused to cook Indian food very vehemently, and to this day, I don't cook chapatis at home. I'd always say, 'Why do I have to do it? Why don't the men do it?'
‐‐ Gurinder Chadha

As I grew up, I became aware that there are people with special needs out there, and I have a real connection with them.
‐‐ Elena Delle Donne

As I grew up, I began to discover a little bit about the situation of black people in America and experienced an immediate empathy with the victims of such senseless discrimination. Because although the Turks were never slaves, they were regarded as enemies within Europe because of their Muslim beliefs.
‐‐ Ahmet Ertegun

As I grew up, I learned what worked for me. That's where the short dresses came from. And you can't dance in a long dress.
‐‐ Tina Turner

As I grew up, I read and loved many fairy-tale retellings and began to think about writing my own reimagining of 'Rapunzel.'
‐‐ Kate Forsyth

As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.
‐‐ Kenzaburo Oe

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.
‐‐ John James Audubon

As I grew up, I was interested in other areas, too, especially literature. It became a major love of mine. Later, it became a difficult choice for me as to whether to major in music or literature. It wasn't until my 30s that I began a profession in music.
‐‐ Tom Glazer

As I grew up, I wasn't a great buyer of albums, but I really liked 'The Jam.' I like good musicians and loved the energy of their songs.
‐‐ Anton du Beke

As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
‐‐ Natasha Richardson

As I grew up, one of my strongest allies has been my sister.
‐‐ Patti Smith

As I grow older and meet more and more people, I realise how lucky I am to have had a stable family environment. Both my parents had loving families but unstable upbringings, so they wanted us to have a more stable situation.
‐‐ Jamie Cullum

As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom.
‐‐ Dorothy L. Sayers

As I grow older, I become more and more of a Marxist - Groucho, that is. When you have lived two-thirds of your life, you know the value of a good joke.
‐‐ Karen DeCrow

As I grow older, I have a growing curiosity about my other half. My dad did a wonderful job raising me, and I wouldn't change it for the world, but at the same time there is a growing curiosity about my other half.
‐‐ Apolo Ohno

As I grow older, I just want to be a better musician, to play more.
‐‐ Joey Alexander

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
‐‐ Andrew Carnegie

As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.
‐‐ Park Chan-wook

As I grow older, I think friendship between women is a thing to cherish.
‐‐ Susan Glaspell

As I grow older, the idea takes increasing hold in me that we've misunderstood our own delicacy and diversity as human beings.
‐‐ Aram Saroyan

As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more and more.
‐‐ Jules Renard

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing - hopefully.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.
‐‐ Gavin Bryars

As I had visualized, 'Heroine' is shaping up to be a very contemporary film with a different premise and strata. This film, like most of my other films, is a blend of facts and fiction. The film has a larger span, more characters, and costumes... a journey that revolves around an actress's life and the showbiz.
‐‐ Madhur Bhandarkar

As I have been saying for more than a year now, turning this vital mission over to the Iraqi people as soon as possible should remain a topic of debate for Congress while relying on our military commanders to set up the timetable.
‐‐ Howard Coble

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by 'survival of the fittest.'
‐‐ Bill Cosby

As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.
‐‐ Candice Millard

As I have found out, recognition has its upside, its downside and - you may say - its backside.
‐‐ Pippa Middleton

As I have got older and become a father, there's less and less time for films.
‐‐ Paul Thomas Anderson

As I have got older, I have become easier on myself. It's about realising things can't be perfect.
‐‐ Harriet Walter

As I have got older, I have found myself making friends with the ease and swiftness that other people pick up fuzzballs on their jumpers. And I believe it is probably my lack of longing for 'The One' that makes me so popular.
‐‐ Julie Burchill

As I have gotten older, I am more of an independent woman, and my mom and I have our own lives, but we are still best friends and can be there for each other.
‐‐ Amanda Fuller

As I have gotten older, I've discovered the joys of being lazy.
‐‐ Julie Bowen

As I have had to meet different challenges, I realize I am coming into myself, and whatever I'm wearing is another chance for me to explore a new version of myself.
‐‐ Brie Larson

As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
‐‐ Federico Garcia Lorca

As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism.
‐‐ Christopher Dawson

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.
‐‐ Sam Abell

As I have said all along, for any trade promotion authority bill to gain my support, it must require strong, enforceable environmental and labor protections.
‐‐ Suzan DelBene

As I have said before, dancing is for anyone, but not for everyone.
‐‐ Mark Morris

As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.
‐‐ Al Gore

As I have said many times - I like Facebook. I think it is well built and run. It's cool. I think it is, in its next-step way, even visionary.
‐‐ Kara Swisher

As I have said many times - my father was a great fan of Bill Dickey's and he certainly loved the Yankees. I hope that he would be pleased.
‐‐ George Steinbrenner