I always wished I had a chance to meet an NFL player or even a college player when I was growing up in Los Angeles.

Of course, we all go through our own experiences. If we do not push ourselves enough, we do not grow, but if we push ourselves too much, we regress. What is enough will change, depending...

I don’t mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around… and I’m not talking just about the government!

Exist with me. We’d do so beautifully.

He looked tired but at that moment, as we sat at the kitchen table, there was something young about him. And I thought that maybe he was changing into someone else. Everyone was always becoming...

They grew; they did not talk about growing.

I have a tongue like a rose petal, and when I say I love you, it has the fragrance of truth. My words are my garden, and I’m planting our future.

Fear is something we all feel, but some people allow theirs to grow stronger than their courage.

Where I grew up – I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights – that’s every night. You hear a lot of police sirens,...

At night, what you see is a city, because all you see is lights. By day, it doesn’t look like a city at all. The trees out-number the houses. And that’s completely typical of Seattle....

U.A.E.’s continuously growing initiatives in the field of charitable and humanitarian works became a basic component of our foreign activities.

I just want your voice aimed at me again. I want to absorb the direction of your eyes…

When I was growing up in the ’60s I would have thought that westerns would last forever.

My access to music when I was growing up was through pirate radio, you know, transistor radio under the pillow, listening to one more and then ‘just one more’ until your favourite track comes on.

When I played Darth Maul, it sort of came from inside. I’m not saying it was natural, but I really enjoyed it, and I think I was tapping into my childhood, growing up with ‘Star...

There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness.

Acting was always a secret desire of mine when I was growing up.

The biggest benefit of Apollo was the inspiration it gave to a growing generation to get into science and aerospace.

I started modeling, doing the Sears catalog kind of thing, then did a lot of commercials when I was growing up.

You know, I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted...

When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time.

I don’t really have an issue with showing certain parts of my body. I’d rather not, but it’s not a big deal. Growing up in Sweden, it’s natural over there.

I’ve always enjoyed the teen angst thing. I had a lot of teen angst as I was growing up, so I think I have a lot to say about it through characters before I have...

Your personal truth is your gift to the world.

Time’ is the most threatening four letter word.

I think I’ve always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual way we interacted with imaginary worlds was as characters: a bench was ‘your’...

As long as you’re growing in your profession and you’re respected, you’re going to stay as clean as you can, because you’ve got something that you love that you don’t want to lose.

President Bush has said that the economy is growing, that there are jobs out there. But you know, it’s a long commute to China to get those jobs.

Europe has united, China is growing speedily and Russia possesses immense power in terms of fuel resources. The US administration cannot do anything about it.

When I was growing up, I never heard the word ‘racism.’ It was only in Paris I encountered that.

I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. But for the rest of my life, I am going to be with me and I don’t want...

I was an athlete growing up. I did a lot of sports: soccer, basketball, so I was always so used to hardcore training, a lot of running. I got to a point where I felt...

I’m 36 years old, and I’m growing up. Little by little.

Growing up, I was always in the kitchen. Even in third grade, I made cooking videos called ‘The Little Italian.’ Very little production value, but it was good.

Growing up, I started to realize I was surrounded by people who were passionately alive. Seventh Street felt raw, but I found it incredibly theatrical.

My favorite toy growing up was Polly Pocket. But one gift that I wanted though never received for Christmas was a pair of trampoline moon shoes. You strap them to your feet and they have...

I’ve always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl — this hunger to love other people into their highest selves and it’s what has made me irreversibly and just so forever...

I don’t ever want to hurt anyone, but I really wish there was something like a reset button on my life.

I learned to cook from my mom. Most of what I ate growing up was Italian cooking.

No matter what happens i choose to value the memories of the good times, grow from the lessons of the bad times because i don’t regret a single moment of it, every detail made me...

Politicians in Washington and Madison aren’t hearing, aren’t listening to their constituents and prioritizing getting people back to work and growing our economy.

When I was growing up in New Jersey, my mom would regularly take my sister and I into the city to see shows. I have many fond memories of standing in the half-price ticket line...

Growing up in the eighties, you could go from one style in a movie to another style, and that was okay. In the nineties, you had to obey your niche. You had to follow the...

You want to know what makes me tick, I’ll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called ‘The Hawk’s Nest.’ Nobody entered that...

Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.

I was a huge Beatles fan. We could talk about who I listened to growing up and what my sources were, but certainly the Beatles were a late, important resource for me, and I just...

When I was growing up in Nigeria – and I shouldn’t say Nigeria, because that’s too general, but in Afikpo, the Igbo part of the country where I’m from – there were always rites of...

It’s always a struggle growing up in Akron.

Growing up, all I did was write about the fact that I’m from where I’m from. I was a big champion of where I was from and Wisconsin in general, and the Midwest.

Intellectual growth is when you surpass the barrier of puerility, puzzling people with your dazzling creativity.