Grow Quotes

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.

~ Elizabeth Taylor

If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain idle - and watch it slowly, inexorably, go to seed like a sedentary body.

~ Michael Merzenich

My nieces and my nephews think the only thing that I do is 'Ice Age.' That's fine with me because pretty soon they'll grow up enough to realize that I suck or that my time has passed, whichever it might be.

~ Denis Leary

At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.

~ Peter Ustinov

To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning, not as something to celebrate.

~ Dennis Prager

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

~ Doris Day

A lot of the time with child actors, you get the feeling they're trying to have a kind of poise or presentation that's beyond their years that might be put on, but also might be because they've spent years just hanging out with adults and they don't even have a sense of what it's like to grow up with kids their own age.

~ Alessandro Nivola

You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.

~ Maurice Chevalier

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

~ Dorothy Canfield Fisher

I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.

~ Jamie Lee Curtis

Playing and fun are not the same thing, though when we grow up we may forget that and find ourselves mixing up playing with happiness. There can be a kind of amnesia about the seriousness of playing, especially when we played by ourselves.

~ Lynda Barry

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

~ Carl Jung

I feel like going to class every morning is so humbling. You're always working to improve, and you're always being critiqued on your next performance. It's not about what you've done. There's always room to grow.

~ Misty Copeland

I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so many siblings. We were all just a year or two apart, and we were always so supportive of each other. I learned everything from my older brother and sister and taught it to my younger sisters.

~ Joaquin Phoenix

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

~ Richard Bach

The idea was that you could grow a system like the Internet one network at a time and then interconnect them. In some sense, the most important thing was the invention of the architecture protocols that enabled the Internet.

~ Vint Cerf

I think a common misperception about attuning and tending to a child's needs so constantly is that they don't grow in their independence, but I think that the opposite is true.

~ Alanis Morissette

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

~ Anthony J. D'angelo

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.

~ Edward Young

Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up.

~ Patty Murray

I would fain grow old learning many things.

~ Plato

You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning.

~ Karlie Kloss

I grow old learning something new every day.

~ Solon

We must educate and train our children to compete and succeed in the 21st century. Our kids are not going to grow up to compete with children in Alabama or Mississippi. They're going to grow up to compete with kids in India, and China, all over the world; children who are learning to compete and succeed in the 21st century themselves.

~ Marco Rubio

We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

~ Bill Gates

As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.

~ Victoria Moran

If you can't afford organic food and are unable to grow your own, it's crucial to wash all inorganic produce very carefully to minimize the toxins you consume. Soak everything for 20 minutes in water with vinegar and salt or water with fresh lemon juice and salt.

~ Suzanne Somers

When you grow up close to poultry and fields and gardens and open-air markets, you can't help but develop an instinct for quality food.

~ Alain Ducasse

That's a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible.

~ Daryl Hannah

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

~ Anaïs Nin

I never felt I had anything to hide. I never felt being gay was anything to be ashamed of, so I never felt apologetic. I didn't have issues with it, didn't grow up with any religion, so I didn't have any religious, you know, issues to deal with as far as homosexuality is concerned. So, I accepted it very easily. For me, it wasn't that big a deal.

~ Martina Navratilova

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

~ Calvin Coolidge

I still love the theology of the Mormon religion and think it is a wonderful way to grow up.

~ Katherine Heigl

Humans are creatures of habit. If you quit when things get tough, it gets that much easier to quit the next time. On the other hand, if you force yourself to push through it, the grit begins to grow in you.

~ Travis Bradberry

As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allotted for vacation.

~ John Battelle

When I was growing up, you didn't know there was a women's national team. Now girls grow up dreaming of playing for Canada.

~ Christine Sinclair

I think the best thing about being pregnant would definitely have to be seeing just my belly grow and seeing, like, wow, there is, you know, something inside of me.

~ Tia Mowry

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

~ Robert Browning

I'm just doing the best I can now to keep this going... trying to grow up and remain young at the same time.

~ Stevie Ray Vaughan

Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues to grow thinner, the satirist's task becomes ever more difficult.

~ Graydon Carter