Quotes of: Grow-up Keyword

There are lots of real reasons to decide to leave something or someone, but there are lots of other reasons that are less valid and less real and less about a relationship than our own minds: Fear (of screwing up, of being left, of not being good eno...

Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

Hello? Do you see me? I'm working as creatively as possible and you want more and more and I'm out of juice and if you send me one more email I'm going to walk into the ocean and swallow water.

Pre Middle Age: 40 Lessons in Growing the Hell Up

Every citizen in every country in the world now grows up in two nations. Their own and Hollywood.

Nick Mancuso

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

Ned Rorem

I think this is also a great time to invest in private equity, helping companies grow from the ground up.

Jim Rogers

I want to teach my daughter the importance of exercising and eating healthy as she grows up.

Ellen Pompeo

A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.

Jack Nicklaus

This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.

Jerry Spinelli

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

J. B. Priestley

I remember as a teen being able to eat more than my father. I was growing so fast and my body couldn't keep up.

Saskia de Brauw

David Sumner: Why don't you grow up? Amy Sumner: I'm trying to!

Straw Dogs

I have had a lot of readers of my book tell me that they like it, but so far only two reviews have been listed. Could you help?

Growing Up When Times Were Simple

My love grows long, and my smile is wide. My gaze is deep, and my penchant for making up words is apopleggio.

Whenever You're Gone, I'm Here For You

When it began to grow dark, the Rat, with an air of excitement and mystery, summoned them back into the parlour, stood each of them up alongside of his little heap, and proceeded to dress them up for the coming expedition.

Kenneth Grahame

I grew up in the Bay Area until 1976, then I pretty much went all the way through primary and high school on Bainbridge, though like anybody who grows up on an island, I ran the first chance I got.

Jonathan Evison

I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that f...

Nate Berkus

We really wake up every day trying to build businesses. That is the goal of private equity. It's a misnomer out there that private equity profits by shrinking companies. In fact, it's just the opposite. Private equity creates value by growing great c...

Stephen Pagliuca

In fact, entitlement spending on programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security make up 54% of federal spending, and spending is projected to double within the next decade. Medicare is growing by 9% annually, and Medicaid by 8% annually.

Jim Ryun

I support Alice Waters in her desire that there be a vegetable garden at the White House. I don't think they should rip up the Rose Garden, because that's something that I love. They should probably dig up another patch and grow some vegetables there...

Martha Stewart

Dubai was a property bubble. Plain and simple. Go to Dubai and see what happened. It was... what I call it the 'Edifice complex' - it's just, we can grow by putting up lots and lots of buildings and trying to attract people to come here, stay here, a...

James Chanos

At the end of the day, we all crawl, exhausted, to some doorstep. Some crawl to the doorstep of their new home, the one they have sought for miles without giving up their goal, exhausted by their determination. And others crawl to the doorstep of the...

Vironika Tugaleva