All Quotes

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
‐‐ Andre Maurois

Growing old is not growing up.
‐‐ Douglas Horton

Growing old on screen is not for the faint of heart.
‐‐ George Clooney

Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
‐‐ Anthony Powell

Growing older doesn't bother me.
‐‐ Angie Dickinson

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.
‐‐ Kenny Rogers

Growing older, you respect the whole culture behind Nirvana.
‐‐ Ashton Irwin

Growing our economy means supporting our small businesses, and one straightforward way to do this is to help business owners with the cost of health insurance for their workers.
‐‐ Suzan DelBene

Growing richer every day, for as rich and poor are relative terms, when the rich are growing poor, it is pretty much the same as if the poor were growing rich. Nobody is poor when the distinction between rich and poor is destroyed.
‐‐ James L. Petigru

'Growing Stronger' emerged from a need to relate my life experiences as well as my constant struggle to prevail each day, and as a reminder to myself of the importance of never giving up.
‐‐ Thalia

Growing the mycelium of the Chaga mushroom under laboratory conditions provides an ecologically friendly alternative supply of this unique medicinal mushroom.
‐‐ Paul Stamets

Growing up a lonely only child prepared me for the years of solitude spent as a writer; years spent in the company of people who don't exist, imaginary people you have conversations with. It's a paid form of madness, this writing stuff.
‐‐ Debi Gliori

Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thing was I developed no special skills. I don't have any resentment because I am a performer and I've always felt that, but it did take its toll socially.
‐‐ Dana Plato

Growing up, all I did was write about the fact that I'm from where I'm from. I was a big champion of where I was from and Wisconsin in general, and the Midwest.
‐‐ Justin Vernon

Growing up and going out to bars in Australia - people do random things; cheesy pick-up lines... you got to laugh. It's sweet. Some people come up with cracker lines, and you really can't be mean to them.
‐‐ Nicky Whelan

Growing up around Amish farmland, I enjoyed the opportunity to witness firsthand their love of family, of the domestic arts - sewing, quilting, cooking, baking - as well as seeing them live out their tradition of faith in such a unique way.
‐‐ Beverly Lewis

Growing up around British music, you realise how much depth there is to it... my stuff is different to the likes of Pitbull for that reason.
‐‐ Calvin Harris

Growing up, around the dinner table my father and I didn't talk sports. We talked business.
‐‐ Jared Kushner

Growing up as a child actress, there was much I got to do and yet so much that I missed out on. Therefore, when I had kids, I made it a point to make sure that they could do anything and everything that they dreamed of. A great education was definitely right at top of my list!
‐‐ Kim Richards

Growing up as a chubby kid with a ton of imaginary friends and a Cyndi Lauper obsession, I learned about rejection early on and was constantly trying to avoid it.
‐‐ Beth Ditto

Growing up as a city kid is a joyous time!
‐‐ Theophilus London

Growing up as a dancer, the stage is really where I love to be performance wise.
‐‐ Jacob Artist

Growing up as a high jumper, I said if I could ever jump 2.40, I'd be pretty satisfied with my career. It's definitely a barrier for high jumpers.
‐‐ Derek Drouin

Growing up as a kid, I wanted to be a ninja. In martial arts, even though I did Chinese kung fu, I always wanted to be this secret samurai or a ninja. There's something about ninjas that was very appealing to me as a kid. So of course, I was climbing a lot of trees and other things and getting up to mischief - good mischief.
‐‐ Ray Park

Growing up as a kid in Detroit, way back, there was a movie station that would show old kinescope reproductions of old movies, and I remember seeing Bela Lugosi for the first time and being duly frightened out of my wits.
‐‐ Edward Herrmann

Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
‐‐ Adam Oates

Growing up as a kid, we moved all over the country on a fairly frequent basis, from New Jersey to Texas, California, Illinois... we moved 21 times in my first 17 years.
‐‐ J. Michael Straczynski

Growing up as a singer, and a cast member, and now as an adult, a songwriter, I get the luxury of choosing the kinds of songs that I want to sing, because I'll write, you know, hundreds of songs. Even though only 12 appear on the album. That's 12 that I've chosen to sing of my catalog.
‐‐ Jason Mraz

Growing up as a young black girl in Potomac, Maryland was easy. I had a Rainbow Coalition of friends of all ethnicities, and we would carelessly skip around our elementary school like the powerless version of Captain Planet's Planeteers.
‐‐ Issa Rae

Growing up as a young kid, I was in a restaurant. So, you know, I always had a very good understanding of the nuances. And in a way, that was a bad thing. Because it kind of programmed me to believe that if you're going have a restaurant, this is what you need to do, and this is the way it's going to be run.
‐‐ Grant Achatz

Growing up as an amateur, I wasn't much of a power puncher. I was more of a speed guy.
‐‐ Nonito Donaire

Growing up as an Asian American in this society, there were a lot of times where you feel isolated or out of place as an Asian. And growing up in White America, that's absolutely my experience. And I think that's why I got into acting because I wanted to be anybody else but Asian.
‐‐ Ming-Na Wen

Growing up as an athlete, I started skating very young. My parents didn't know anything about the sport, so they went with the flow. I had two great coaches who gave great advice and gave guidelines for my parents. My parents let the coaches dictate what was going on on the ice.
‐‐ Kristi Yamaguchi

Growing up, before my mom would cook our rice, she would rinse the rice out and pour it out three times. And after the fourth pour, she'd pour it into a little bowl, and she'd rinse her face with that. It's known to help whiten the skin and nourish it because essentially inside the water you have all the essential nutrients from the rice.
‐‐ Michelle Phan

Growing up, being watched from the outside... it's kind of very taxing and maybe I should just do some kind of manual labor-it might be more relaxing. But I can't, it's not in my nature.
‐‐ Jennifer Connelly

Growing up, books were my lifeline, and I owe a debt to those writers that can never be repaid. They saved my sanity and gave me a world I could escape to. If I can pay that forward to another person, that's all I ask.
‐‐ Sherrilyn Kenyon

Growing up Catholic has been a gift.
‐‐ Moira Kelly

Growing up devouring horror comics and novels, and being inspired to become a writer because of horror novels, movies, and comic books, I always knew I was going to write a horror novel.
‐‐ Colson Whitehead

Growing up, dinner was when we would sit down, the whole family, and we would talk about our days and just create memories with one another. Now some of my favorite memories are eating and making food with my son.
‐‐ Tia Mowry

Growing up doing those Kiwanis Clubs, doing those Cub Scout banquets, doing those church shows, I learned to find that sensibility that most people could laugh at - that all ages and demographics could laugh at.
‐‐ Jeff Dunham

Growing up during the Cold War, I remember the seemingly imminent threat of nuclear war. In primary school we were taught to 'duck-and-cover' for protection. But even as children hiding under wooden desks, we recognized the inadequacies of this strategy.
‐‐ Mike Quigley

Growing up during the Depression, I worked for the Forest Service and CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps). I tend to work very, very hard. I wouldn't change that for anything.
‐‐ Raymond Burr

Growing up eating fruits and vegetables fresh from our farm added a lot to the way I taste and look at food today, and I wanted the same for my kids and other kids.
‐‐ Camila Alves

Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.'
‐‐ Marilyn Manson

Growing up, Guess always had these amazing billboards and cool affordable clothing. I wore it then, and I still wear it now! It's come full-circle. When I design the clothes, I have a very good team around me, showing me different pieces and cuts.
‐‐ Tiesto

Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?
‐‐ Elizabeth Janeway

Growing up, I absolutely loved skateboarding and dirt bike riding with my brother and the neighborhood kids.
‐‐ Daniella Monet

Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional baseball player instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not.
‐‐ Casey Kasem

Growing up, I always dreamed of winning a major championship.
‐‐ Jeev Milkha Singh

Growing up, I always dreamed of winning an NBA championship, never a gold. A gold was something that never crossed my mind.
‐‐ Dwyane Wade