The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight. . . It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead.
I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.
I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way.
I think there's a huge parallel that affects my musical taste, and connections that have to do with my ethnic diversity and my musical tastes and the diversity of that. And it's interesting that, growing up on the circuit, it posed such a challenge, not only to me deciding what my identity was amongst my peers, but then on the music side, it was like trying to explain or convince people especially in the music industry that there was a place for what I was trying to do. But at the same time, I think it has a lot to do with timing and even me, like, understanding it.
Growing old is partly an inescapable process of accommodation and adjustment.
I'm not Carl Lewis the athlete any more. I'm growing into a new person with new interests and new goals.
Ego: The only thing that can keep growing without nourishment.
I felt I grew up when I was about 28. I feel pretty much the same. I get reminded when I look in mirrors that I am not. Hopefully, you keep growing and keep planning things as you go along.
Human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane and when it will fade away.
I grew up at a time where I think most people had a social and political conscience. Some of the biggest changes in our country's political history happened at the time I was growing up, so I was raised to be a part of those things and to participate and I will continue to do that as much as I can.
There is a growing body of evidence that radiation in excess of what the government says are the minimum amounts we should be exposed to are actually good for you and reduce cases of cancer.
[On middle age:]. . . the very real possibility for you of growing fat as you near death and thus being seen by everyone while you are both DEAD AND FAT.
Infinite was me trying to figure out how I wanted my rap style to be, how I wanted to sound on the mic and present myself. It was a growing stage. I felt like Infinite was like a demo that just got pressed up.
When I was growing up in the 1930s and '40s anti-Semitism was rampant. It wasn't like Nazi Germany but it was pretty serious - it was part of life.
I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language.
Science for the Citizen is. . . also written for the large and growing number of adolescents, who realize that they will be the first victims of the new destructive powers of science misapplied.
I have always said the success of the show has stemmed from our audience being able to relate to the characters on different levels - being based on the universally loved Arthurian legend is only a tiny part of its success - it's a story about acceptance and growing up. The breathtaking finale of this series leaves you with no doubt that characters have been on their journeys and had their stories told - it's completely the right time to draw our telling of the story to a close.
The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.
Life is strange. You keep moving and keep growing. Before you know it, you look back and think, "What was that?"
When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.