Growing famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.
-- Aaron Koblin -
If I have this child? Why wasn’t it obvious to me that I already had a child, who was growing inside of me? Once you are pregnant, there is no if. That child, though tiny and in an early stage of development, already exists!
-- Abby Johnson -
The bottom line is the Kiss Army is growing by leaps and bounds.
-- Ace Frehley -
I'm young. I'm 22. I'm still growing. I just feel like it's time for me to go up. After this fight, there really wouldn't be a reason for me to stay. I'm just going to go up and give the lightweights hell.
-- Adrien Broner -
Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.
-- Alan Arkin -
There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates.
-- Alan Moore -
No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.
-- Albert Claude -
A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by demanding completion of sorts.
-- Alberto Manguel -
Photography's future is infinite and bright. It's growing exponentially, so that's great, but for me as a practitioner, that exponential growth makes it even more problematic. And so for me, it's got me more engaged with storytelling.
-- Alec Soth -
I am like the she-wolf / I broke with the pack / I fled to the mountains / Growing tired of the flatlands.
-- Alfonsina Storni -
Whether they will or not, Americans must now begin to look outward. The growing production of the country demands it.
-- Alfred Thayer Mahan -
It's about the connecting force from form to form. It's the toe bone connecting to the shoulder bone. It's the bacterial kick of life force, something growing out of nothing, forming itself out of something else. Form never stops. And form is always environmental.
-- Ali Smith -
When we get together and rehearse, which is always living with each other, we always talk about what would make it better, what would mean more, what would say more. So we're always improving and growing.
-- Alice Cooper -
That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.
-- Alice Munro -
Ultimately, the only wealth that can sustain any community, economy or nation is derived from the photosynthetic process - green plants growing on regenerating soil.
-- Allan Savory -
I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way.
-- Allen Iverson -
I have the power of my height. Growing up, it was a total drawback. There was nothing good about it at all.
-- Allison Janney -
I've grown up with kids watching me and as they're growing up, I'm growing up.
-- Amanda Bynes -
I was always depressed growing up. There wasnt a reason for it, I just was. I was sad and morose. I cried a lot, I wrote a lot, and I read a lot; and that was how I dealt with it.
-- Amanda Hocking -
I haven't had a lot of celebrities around me growing up
-- Amber Tamblyn -
You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young.
-- Amy Grant -
When I was growing up I actually was into Bon Jovi!
-- Amy Ryan -
The dance world was a big part of my growing up.
-- Amy Sherman-Palladino -
I was a ballerina for 10 years growing up, but I stopped.
-- Amy Smart -
I see enormous loves growing immense and finally crushing me.
-- Anais Nin -
The army of the emboldened and gleefully ill-informed is growing.
-- Andrew Breitbart -
No matter how much it's growing, the Internet still is a pretty specific demographic. It doesn't necessarily represent the general populace.
-- Andy Samberg -
Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay.
-- Ann Coulter -
Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser.
-- Ann Landers -
When there is a river in your growing up, you probably always hear it
-- Ann Zwinger -
Instead, he sat in the parlor of his family's Fifth Avenue mansion, growing older by the minute just like everybody else.
-- Anna Godbersen -
Sometimes growing pains are by fits and starts.
-- Anne Northup -
November is usually such a disagreeable month as if the year had suddenly found out she was growing old and  could do nothing but weep and fret over it.
-- Anne Shirley -
Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes.
-- Annette Funicello -
Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.
-- Anthony Burgess -
What I am saying is, all health care has a problem with costs. Medicare is growing slower than the private insurance plans. Why? Because of their efficiency. They don't have to give money to shareholders. Why should be defending shareholders?
-- Anthony Weiner -
Keep going is keep growing only if one keeps adding values in others' lives through the path of his life's journey
-- Anuj -
A man's past keeps growing, even when his future has come to a full stop.
-- Aravind Adiga -
Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.
-- Aristotle -
Growing numbers of corporate executives are aware of the inextricable link between the well being of our families and the well-being of our nation. Nowhere is this link manifest so strongly as with the problem of hunger.
-- Arnold Hiatt -
Pain makes me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
We human beings have a remarkable way of growing accustomed to things.
-- Arthur Golden -
Growing old-it's not nice, but it's interesting.
-- August Strindberg -
Listen to the pregnant woman. Value her. She values the life growing inside her. Listen to the pregnant woman, and you cannot help but defend her right to abortion.
-- Ayelet Waldman -
What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish.
-- Ayn Rand -
With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive.
-- B. H. Liddell Hart -
There's one issue that will define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other, and that is the urgent and growing threat of a changing climate.
-- Barack Obama -
The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.
-- Barbara Johnson -
It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
Transformationally motivated people are the growing edge of a great continuity of souls reaching back to the very earliest times.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard -
In human history there has been a continuous and growing impulse toward the regeneration and transformation of humanity.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard -
Science is triumphant with far-ranging success, but its triumph is somehow clouded by growing difficulties in providing for the simple necessities of human life on earth.
-- Barry Commoner -
By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid only of standing still.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of standing still. Forget your mistakes, but remember what they taught you. So how do you become better tomorrow? By becoming better today.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Because we are continually growing in the Lord, preachers and lay people alike must be open to the Lord's correction.
-- Benny Hinn -
Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.
-- Bernard Bailyn -
We were a fast-growing company, and I was a demanding boss.
-- Bernard Ebbers -
Give someone who has faith in you a placebo and call it a hair growing pill, anti-nausea pill or whatever, and you will be amazed at how many respond to your therapy.
-- Bernie Siegel -
One thing they don't tell you about growing old - you don't feel old, you just feel like yourself. And it's true. I don't feel eighty-nine years old. I simply am eighty-nine years old.
-- Betty White -
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
-- Beverly Cleary -
I was supposedly living this glamorous life, but I was crippled by the idea of growing old and where do I go next? The whole age thing—in our industry, it's everything.
-- Beverly Johnson -
I believe that God left certain drugs growing naturally upon our planet to help speed up and facilitate our evolution.
-- Bill Hicks -
Our nation's infrastructure needs are tremendous, and they're growing.
-- Bill Lipinski -
We're only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends working nearby.
-- Bill Mollison -
I don't like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade.
-- Billy Crystal -
Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.
-- Billy Graham -
Suffering is part of the human condition, and it comes to us all. The key is how we react to it, either turning away from God in anger and bitterness or growing closer to Him in trust and confidence.
-- Billy Graham -
Come on sempai, would you please stop growing mushrooms in other people's closets? -Haruhi
-- Bisco Hatori -
I've always appreciated working with people I have chemistry with, who are friends, and where you feel that the work is growing while you are getting to know each other better.
-- Bjork -
The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.
-- Bob Barr -
If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older
-- Bob Geldof -
We plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He's more interested in growing our character than having us look finished.
-- Bob Goff -
Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional.
-- Bob Monkhouse -
I'm constantly searching for ways to do better because I believe life is an evolution. It's not about reaching an end goal and hanging up your hat...It's about continually growing.
-- Bobbi Brown -
Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.
-- Bobby Cannavale -
Indian cinema seems to be growing very well at its own pace.
-- Brad Pitt -
There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.
-- Bram Stoker -
There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify.
-- Brandon Routh -
Even when you are striving, stumbling and struggling, it's exhilarating if you sense you are growing.
-- Brenda Poinsett -
Faithfulness requires the courage to risk everything on Jesus, the willingness to keep growing, and the readiness to risk failure throughout our lives.
-- Brennan Manning -
Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth.
-- Brian Aldiss -
Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?
-- Brigitte Bardot -
I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.
-- Bruce Jenner -
Dedication, absolute dedication, is what keeps one ahead. A sort of indomitable obsessive dedication and the realization that there is no end or limit to this because life is simply an ever-growing process, an ever-renewing process.
-- Bruce Lee -
Man, he is constantly growing and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas or way of doing things, that's when he stops growing
-- Bruce Lee -
L.A. Woman is amazing, but when I was growing up I was into the Who.
-- Bruce McCulloch -
There is a lot of learning I have to do and a lot of growing up I have to do.
-- Bubba Watson -
That world is growing in this minute.
-- Buenaventura Durruti -
We carry a new world in our hearts. That world is growing every minute.
-- Buenaventura Durruti -
I started growing my hair in December '89. I was seventeen. I signed my record deal and said I ain't combing my hair no more. I don't have too.
-- Busta Rhymes -
In the end, Tuesday's vote represented a repudiation of virtually every notion Democrats embraced in recent weeks as they tried to disregard the growing evidence that they were headed for a historic defeat. Now, the vote is in, and the voters' message can no longer be discounted.
-- Byron York -
It's not a question of God 'sending' us to Hell. In each of us there is something growing up which will of itself be Hell unless it is nipped in the bud.
-- C. S. Lewis -
The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose.
-- C. S. Lewis