Mamas, don’t let your sons grow up to be Cowboys… or Oilers.
Women and men grow up with both sexes. Our mothers and fathers mean a lot to us, so it’s just a question of finding a balance between their influences. I’ve found mine. And it tends to be more on the male side. I mean male side the way we understand it in the West.
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Because we’re in a small town and somewhat isolated from the fast lane of high tech, we’ve been able to grow and concentrate on our work instead of being distracted by the competition and getting caught up in the soap opera of Silicon Valley.
We can move water easily with plastic pipes. We can move shade around with nursery cloth like a tinker toy for animals and plants. Yet we have developed this necessity to grow food with chemical fertiliser because we have forgotten the magic of manure.
In my mind, marriage is a spiritual partnership and union in which we willingly give and receive love, create and share intimacy, and open ourselves to be available and accessible to another human being in order to heal, learn and grow.
When my husband and I first became parents, we joked that our chubby baby was destined to grow into an Alex P. Keaton Reaganite – the most unlikely, and therefore hilarious, course for the child of an interracial gay couple in gentrifying Brooklyn.
When one’s dead, one’s dead… This squirrel will become earth all in his time. And still later on, there’ll grow new trees from him, with new squirrels skipping about in them. Do you think that’s so very sad?
People aren’t born strong. People grow stronger little by little, encountering difficult situations, learning not to run from them.
You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don’t know how to feel good about the work you’re doing or the life you’re leading.
Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time – I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That’s not good.
I just planted the family vegetables yesterday. You name it, I grow it.
The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.
I think you have to learn that there’s a company behind every stock, and that there’s only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies.
We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.
I do realize that God has given me so many blessings in my life. I mean, not only with football, but with the family that He’s blessed me with and the opportunity He’s given me to grow up in a home that embraces God.
My mother made countless sacrifices so that her children – and all children – could grow up in a better nation and world.
For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.
I think to be – for me to be an American is – you know, it’s one of the greatest things in the world for – you know, for me just because I’ve been able to grow up with everything. The freedom. You know, in my eyes this is the greatest country in the world.
Some argue shareholder capitalism has proven more efficient. It has moved economic resources to where they’re most productive, and thereby enabled the economy to grow faster.
Coming to the growth potential in financial services, there is enough data to show that, usually, financial services grow about twice or two and a half times of what the economy, the GDP growth rates.
I ain’t want my kids to grow up and call me Thug. I don’t want anybody to kind of look at me like that. So I’m gonna just use my real name.
A maturing process, and growth, is always painful. You ask any teenager, they will tell you, and it’s just like that for the country. We need to grow; we need to evolve.
As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down the separateness.
States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
Out of difficulties grow miracles.
It doesn’t matter where you grow up, what color you are, what religion you are. It’s just a bunch of guys that come together for a common cause. Let’s go win this game. It’s called team.
You need an attitude of service. You’re not just serving yourself. You help others to grow up and you grow with them.
I wish I could freeze time or go back in time and watch my kids grow up all over again because it is just going by too fast.
I know what hard times are like. I didn’t grow up with a silver spoon in my mouth. I’ve had struggles.
People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
I cut off my dreadlocks, but I couldn’t face throwing them away. They were so hard to grow, man. There’s a lot of work goes into those things. Some people keep a diary or a photo album to remind them of their past lives – well, I’ve got hair. Who knows? One day, maybe my grandchildren might want to see it.
Tottenham was a dope place to grow up because it’s so community-based. It’s a melting pot of cultures. I’ll always be a north London girl.
Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
As I get into it more, I want to grow as an artist, as an entertainer, and basically perfect my craft.
Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
The problem is there’s still a big kid inside me who likes to have fun. I am passionate about my cricket and I love my family, but I’m also a kid and maybe I need to grow up… And maybe I don’t.
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
India is a large market where our focus will be to grow faster than the market and add few percentage points to our market share every year.
I was born in Niagara Falls. The high school I went to had 500 kids and the school didn’t have a lot of money. The town itself was whatever. It was a good place to grow up. It was a blessing that I grew up there, because I got to find myself at a young age.
It’s easy when you grow up in fear to act out of fear. I don’t want to embrace that fear; I prefer to be kind.
When you grow up around sadness, it affects the way you see the world.
Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.
The most that hurts is I couldn’t see my kids growing up. They grow and go. Most of the time, I’m in training camps. I couldn’t see that happening. This hurts me.
The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can’t grow old in television news.
I don’t think I’ll ever be able to grow a beard.
I definitely want to grow intelligently, but I do want to stay a kid forever!
For anybody that grow a beard or have hair on their face, I welcome you to the beard game. We’re all family. I encourage that. I encourage beards.
Virtual reality has an exciting future and oodles of room to grow.
We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
I have seven kids. I want to watch my kids grow up. I want to participate in their activities. There’s a lot I wanted to accomplish beyond football. It all starts with making sure my heart’s healthy.
It used to be that almost all innovation came from the U.S. and a small number of other developed countries. That’s no longer the case, and as China and India grow, it’s changing even more. Expect a lot more Chinese and Indian Nobel prizes in the future.
Once every seven days, do something that frightens you. Every time we do something that we resist and is frightening, we actually grow in our power.
Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.
What we need is a strong education system that allows creativity to grow and encourages students to be interested in science and technology.
It was becoming clear that, from being at the top at Holy Cross, we were at the bottom at St. Peter’s. Objectively, this was very good, for it offered us a challenge and an opportunity to grow if we were ready to take it; and we surely were.
Even the bad moments, the tough ones, I’m proud of them, too. Those moments get you better, smarter, make you grow.
