Top 495 Grown Quotes

I want to know where my food comes from and the conditions in which it’s grown. I also want to embrace traditional British produce, and seasonality.
Sheherazade Goldsmith
My parents didn’t exercise, so it was not something I saw was good for you or fun. I wish I had grown up knowing to do that.
Christina Hendricks
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
Langston Hughes
History is admirably dangerous. It is not the soft option. Teachers need to be grown up and brave. Sensitivity is fine, but it stops at the door of honest narrative.
Simon Schama
I definitely want to have kids. I’ve grown up around lots of people who were having kids when I knew them, because a lot of them were a lot older than me. And I saw the wonderful change in them.
Daniel Radcliffe
There was a big question as to whether or not different generations have grown up differently.
Melissa Joan Hart
I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can’t be grown up unless you’re moaning about your job.
Robert Smith
I’ve grown so accustomed to my life in L.A., going to a Coffee Bean or getting breakfast at Kings Road Cafe. I’ve seen a lot of the world, but the diversity we have here is different. It’s a mishmash, which is a nice comfort.
Maz Jobrani
All the women I’ve grown up with at ‘SNL’ and other areas, and even the women that work with Judd Apatow, all those women are powerful, assertive women that have great material, and they just produce themselves.
Paula Pell
Man has evolved a mutual relationship with nature on earth, but his power to change its surface has grown so tremendously that this may become a curse instead of a blessing.
Walter Gropius
I think that there is a generational change, where new generations that have grown up always having access to the internet have a somewhat different view in terms of personal information and what needs to be kept private.
Marissa Mayer
When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, have you grown old.
Samuel Ullman
I said ‘No, I’ve aged, but grown up? No’.
Jake Lloyd
I long for the day when advertising will become a business for a grown man.
Howard Gossage
We live in a twilight sort of world where, unfortunately, the perception of the seriousness of abortion – has grown progressively obscured in the minds of many of our contemporaries.
Sean Brady
I feel incredibly lucky to have grown up with creative parents and around creative people, many of whom live with anxiety. My mum would sometimes say that it was a beautiful thing, and that it would come in handy when making music – and it’s made me a more empathetic person.
Mabel
As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I’ve grown up, I’ve decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.
Veronica Roth
I am a grown man who is an entertainer with a specific type of humour and if you don’t like it, that’s okay, I owe you nothing.
Bianca Del Rio
Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem is to bring a work of art in that medium into another medium formed on different principles and heard and understood in a different way.
Robert Fitzgerald
Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife.
Iain Duncan Smith
I’d grown up in a working class neighborhood in Baltimore, a place hard hit by the offshoring of numerous heavy industries – steel, textile, shipbuilding.
Philipp Meyer
As we get older, it’s important for us to help hand back some of what we’ve gained as we’ve grown older. It should be one of your responsibilities – it’s almost like being a mentor.
Ciara
My dad was a baggage handler at Heathrow and careful with money. He worked hard and had three jobs when I was young. I wish I’d inherited his care for money. Sadly, I’ve grown up to be rather scatty when it comes to finances.
Gary Numan
I don’t know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it’s just what I’ve, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I’ve kinda grown up with it.
Natalie Portman
I am a believer in nutrient timing and supplementation, through 8Zone. I love eggs, apples, wild fish, leafy greens, brown rice, pasta, oatmeal, home grown Washington Potatoes, and cooking with coconut and olive oils.
Apolo Ohno
I've always had an aversion to looking sexy, but I've g

I’ve always had an aversion to looking sexy, but I’ve grown out of it.
Kristen Stewart
My children are grown now, they are more independent.
Vanessa Paradis
I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do. But I do find it a bit bizarre that people find it bizarre that I’ve grown up.
Mandy Moore
You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
Walt Disney
Nobody took me too seriously but I was grown up even as a baby.
Sharon Stone
When you look at the increase in the number of scripted series and the number of unscripted hours, the pool of producers hasn’t grown at the same rate. So I think there’s a bit of a creative tax on the system.
Nancy Dubuc
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
Nikolai Gogol
My kids, who are grown now and living in L.A., are used to me packing up and taking off to somewhere weird.
John Sandford
Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I’ve learned so much. I’m happier than I’ve every been.
Paris Hilton
When I was in college, my parents’ house burned down, and took a lot of the possessions I’d grown up with. That’s probably one thing that made me realize material stuff is not really that important.
Rick Riordan
I think people recognize me if I am going out to dinner or if I am staying in a hotel. They are not quite sure at first because I have grown up a lot.
Emma Bunton
Maintaining the dignity of my subjects has grown to be, over the years, an imperative in my work, both in the taking of the pictures and in their presentation.
Sally Mann
I often say television is not a job for grown men. You go to a set, they pick out your clothes for you, they tell you where to stand, what to say, and your chair has your name on it in case you can’t find a place to sit.
Danny Bonaduce
I don’t know if it’s just my age or the climate or the high altitude or some of those old-cowboy values rubbing off on me, but I’ve grown slightly mellower living in Wyoming. I think if you ride into the West on a high horse, you pretty soon end up in a pile of manure.
Alexandra Fuller
I made physical objects because I know how to do something on the computer. That struck a chord with me: Most women of my generation have grown up with technology but lack the handmade creative skills of former generations. This is a big opportunity to fill that gap.
Brit Morin
In our culture, I think that there is no markers anymore. Young men don’t really have something that says you’re a grown up now, until you have a baby.
Antoine Fuqua
By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
Samuel Daniel
Who cares about the men who steered your breakfast cereal through winter storms? How ironic that the more ships have grown in size and consequence, the less space they take up in our imagination.
Rose George
Maybe when my kids are grown up, I can go back to Broadway. It would be great someday, I suppose.
J. K. Simmons
I was showing up at the studio all the time with no bag, being like, ‘I don’t want to have a backpack. I’ve had backpacks my whole life, and I’m a grown man now. I should have something better.’
Mike D
Facebook’s headquarters is a two-story building at the end of a quiet, tree-lined street. Zuckerberg nicknamed it the Bunker. Facebook has grown so fast that this is the company’s fifth home in six years – the third in Palo Alto. There is virtually no indication outside of the Bunker’s tenant.
Jose Antonio Vargas
Wolverine is a world-weary old warrior. His rage issue notwithstanding, I see him as someone with the tortured soul of a poet, but one who has seen too many friends and lovers die. Even with that, he has grown into a leader and a true hero.
Jonathan Maberry
At my parents house, there are three dogs. I’ve grown up with these four-legged creatures all my life.
Abhay Deol
With big, emotional roles it’s very easy, especially if you’ve grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character.
Laura Linney
It’s the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may not be long before we’re paying somebody not to.
Franklin P. Jones
Man, I had a good time working on ‘Grown Ups 2.’ First of all, when I read the script, it is hands-down the funniest script I’ve ever read. It’s laugh-out-loud funny.
Stone Cold Steve Austin
When I originally came from ‘Cheetah Girls,’ I was making music that was real to me but not believable. I think there was a disconnect there. I am a grown woman, and I’ve been through a lot. The most important thing about my music is that we don’t jump the gun and throw anything out there.
Adrienne Bailon
Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up.
D. B. Sweeney
The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid.
Lyn Nofziger
I had a hard time with that hockey. I hadn’t grown up skating, so that was my biggest challenge. We worked on it and worked on it. But then when we first shot it, it was so hard for me.
Woody Harrelson
I have a fan base that goes everywhere from 5 to – I don’t even know what age, but grown adults.
Christina Milian
The Science Coalition, which grew out of an initial con

The Science Coalition, which grew out of an initial concept at Harvard and at MIT, has now grown to an informal group of about 60 research universities.
Charles Vest