Top 1200 Grown Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on April 15, 2025.
Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.
In the child, we see the grown-up. I see the problem differently.
I'd rather be a boy playing with a paper plane, than to be a grown man playing with a woman's heart.
Things certainly aren't the way you imagine them when you're a kid and dreaming big dreams about what your life as a grown-up will look like.
I like to think that I've grown as an actor and things have changed, and I think so.
It'll be kids next. I like the grown-up stuff. I like having a house. I've got dogs.
It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its breaking point.
Afghanistan has safe zones... so it's possible to send grown-ups back to that country. We can't empty Afghanistan.
I've always enjoyed gaming, but even as I got older, and I started to get deeper into writing and all this stuff that is my grown-up job, I couldn't play as much as I used to.
I worry about how accessible cosmetic surgery has become. Of course, if it has genuinely helped people, and their confidence has grown as a result; who am I to form an opinion?
I know people think that acting is not quite the occupation of grown-ups, but it is actually the ultimate learning process: You get a multitude of experiences, all for the price of one life.
I have grown up watching plays at Shivaji Mandir and used to participate in plays in school, too.
Mom was a very creative and artistic person and papa is a producer. I've grown up in an extremely colourful environment at home and I haven't been exposed to anything else.
You can tap into culture by exploring what's grown or produced in the region, like going into the Blue Mountains in Jamaica to visit a coffee plantation or a rum distillery in Barbados.
My company in the U.S., Pratt Industries U.S.A., has grown from scratch to become a billion-dollar business based on recycling, as well as the largest Australian-owned employer of U.S. citizens.
You know, the more grown-up you are, the more you like Proust.
I decided that, if I were to write a teen series, I'd want to set it in a place that was familiar to me - Manhattan, where I'd grown up - and I'd model the characters on myself and my friends.
One of the surprises of being a grown-up is embracing the fact that you see your friends when you are both available. It's not like you hang out all the time.... It's just the reality.
I think I always knew I would be a writer some day, but it wasn't until I was grown and had children of my own that I turned to telling Native American stories.
Loyalty to the leader reaches its highest peak when the follower has personally grown through the mentorship of the leader.
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.
When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove. Vance Law Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.
Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.
I kiss you and kiss you, With arms around my own, Ah, how shall I miss you, When, dear, you have grown.
I love performing live, especially when I get in the zone. But the studio is really becoming a place I have grown to love.
I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
I feel privileged to have grown up in Germany so it was a heavy blow for me to be portrayed as somebody who isn't integrated and who doesn't live his life according to German values.
I've grown into that more aggressive, more selfish basketball at times.
I have grown up in an environment of equality, so feminism is equality for me.
I was never a big networker, but I was a spin doctor, all those shock shows, that's how I got my first backers. But fashion's a scary industry to be in, especially if you've not grown up with it.
True beauty must come, must be grown, from within.
I'm a grown man. I ain't got time for all that 'you say, she say.'
People are so afraid to say the word 'comic'. It makes you think of a grown man with pimples, a ponytail and a big belly. Change it to 'graphic novel' and that disappears.
I have never grown up, but I will never stop growing.
I am a grown-up but I am still a kid at heart.
There is nothing in the animal world, to my mind, more delightful than grown cats at play. They are so swift and light and graceful, so subtle and designing, and yet so richly comic.
What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
It's taken a while, but I've finally grown up and got my head around the fact that the healthier the food you eat is and the more exercise you do, the lighter you'll be. It really is that simple.
I've grown up around that sort of petty crime, getting into trouble and trying to get out of it. What's funny is my dad was an inspector in the police, so I was known as the grass.
I am a businessman at the end of the day. I have grown up with Excel sheets. I start out writing my novel with spreadsheets and the milestones in each chapter highlighted.
I had grown up in a privileged, upper-caste Hindu community; and because my father worked for a Catholic hospital, we lived in a prosperous Christian neighborhood.
Although my grandmother was a strict parent and abided my grandfather's kosher diet, as a Nana, she had grown away from religion and was almost unbelievably permissive.
I've had X-rays on both eyes, the bone has grown back and I have plates over each one, so I'm like a Terminator now and ready to walk through walls.
I'm super supportive of locally grown foods and farmers. Here in L.A., I know all of my farmers markets and go there weekly.
I don't really read non-fiction, but I have grown up on a steady diet of Wodehouse and, of course, science fiction.
I'm not afraid of a rant, am I? I've got to that point where I've just become a woman; I think I've just grown.
My imagination is closer to a child's imagination than to a grown-up's.
Throughout the years, I've grown up in front of the limelight as a model and an actress and I believe makeup plays an important part in building the confidence to feel beautiful.
I've grown up with a really strong group of women around - my mum, sister and auntie, and I've had the same five girl mates since school.
I grew up in Lambeth, I went to normal schools and I've grown up in a city where people say what they think.
The only really effective apologia for Christianity comes down to two arguments, namely, the saints the Church has produced, and the art which has grown in her womb.
Film has become a marketed commodity, and the opportunities and audiences for art cinema have grown smaller. There is a general downturn in cultural literacy, perhaps because of television.
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.
I'm a professional, and I know what I have to do. I know where I've failed and how I've grown up.
Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the human undertakes, and he must do it as a child.
I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.
Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.
O Risen Christ! O Easter Flower!
How dear Thy Grace has grown!
From east to west, with loving power,
Make all the world Thine own.
It's a difficult thing to lose a child, a grown-up child.
I think, as a skater, I started out really strongly, and as I have grown in the public eye, I have had my rough seasons that most people don't get as much attention for.
