- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grow Quotes
Growth rarely happens on a straight line.
Several of these reflect on how long it can take to feel ready for the next stage, and how growing up in a certain place shapes the person you become. For related ideas on adapting over time, see our Change quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came out when I was 15 at school, and I realized I had put myself into a precarious situation. It was a very hostile environment for me, and a lot of kids had it in for me. It was a scary situation. I was very impatient. I wanted to grow up now.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
First, I wanted to be Chris Farley. When I was growing up, Chris Farley was still on the stages and fun to us. In my house, John Belushi was king. I didn't grow up when he was - I was born in '78 - the reruns of Belushi in 'Animal House,' and knowing he was at Second City, he was viewed as a king in my house.
- Envious
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always envious of the actors who get to come to work every day and really grow deep roots there, but it is really fun playing lots of different characters.
- Easy Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think that American drivers going to NASCAR are taking the easy way out because as I said, the racing is amazing; it's just that it's easier to adapt to what you grow up with. American drivers grow up with NASCAR, they know NASCAR, and that's where they want to go.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some younger drivers didn't grow up seeing racing as being dangerous. They break their little finger, and they are surprised. It's like, 'Be happy it's only that.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People change, they grow.
- Stronger
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you grow the economy, then you become stronger, and you can resist many other things.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like writing because when I grow up, I'm going to be a script writer and a director.
- Glued
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope my children will grow up to love literature, but I expect they will absorb it as readily via a screen or pod as from glued quires of printed pages.
- American Accent
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.
- Management
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- Nov 07, 2020