Quotes with growing

  • Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
  • Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.
  • At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.
  • Like every child growing up in America, I read 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'Huckleberry Finn.' I liked them well enough, but I didn't love them.
  • To properly reflect the changes of the world and of the UN, with its growing number of member states, we would like to see an enlargement of the SC that gives room for new members, not least developing countries.
  • One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.
  • At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
  • When I was growing up I used to think that the best thing about coming from Des Moines was that it meant you didn't come from anywhere else in Iowa. By Iowa standards, Des Moines is a mecca of cosmopolitanism, a dynamic hub of wealth and education...
  • And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.
  • Between 1939 and 1945 you produced weapons and war equipment valued at thirteen billion dollars, 70 per cent of which you shipped to your allies. The same process is going on today in Canada's much larger and growing industry.
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  • Ray Kroc Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?
    Ray Kroc
    American businessman, founder McDonalds (1902 - 1984)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Joseph Stowell As we mature spiritually, we exhibit a growing capacity to care for and appreciate one another in the body of Christ, regardless of our differences.
    Joseph Stowell
    American Christian author
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  • George Eliot The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Joseph Addison We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the next step to being dull.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Arthur Hertzberg A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Bette Midler A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
    Bette Midler
    American singer, songwriter, actress and comedian (1945 - )
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  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Colombian writer (1927 - 2014)
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  • Robert Henri A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.
    Robert Henri
    American painter (born Robert Henri Cozad) (1865 - 1929)
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  • Joseph Addison Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Denis Waitley All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners... Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing... not moving toward excellence.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Max Planck An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is familiarized with the ideas from the beginning.
    Max Planck
    German physicist (1858 - 1947)
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  • Arthur Bryant And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.
    Arthur Bryant
    English historian, columnist for The Illustrated London News and man (1899 - 1985)
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  • Bertolt Brecht And when she was finished they laid her in earth
    Flowers growing, butterflies juggling over her...
    She, so light, barely pressed the earth down
    How much pain it took to make her as light as that!
    Poems, 1913-1956 To my mother [Meiner Mutter] (May 1920), trans. Jo
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Ban Ki-moon As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bill Haslam As somebody who thinks Tennessee history is important, I want to make certain that's still a part of the curriculum. I think that's critical for the people growing up in our school system.
    Bill Haslam
    American businessman and politician (1958 - )
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  • Salvador Dali At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
    Salvador Dali
    Spanish painter (1904 - 1989)
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  • Antoine Fuqua Being a kid growing up with Kurosawa films and watching Sergio Leone movies just made me love what it could do to you, and how it could influence you - make you dream.
    Antoine Fuqua
    American film director and producer (1966 - )
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  • Arthur Hays Sulzberger Between 1939 and 1945 you produced weapons and war equipment valued at thirteen billion dollars, 70 per cent of which you shipped to your allies. The same process is going on today in Canada's much larger and growing industry.
    Arthur Hays Sulzberger
    American newspaper publisher (1891 - 1968)
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