Growing up, I was a very shy kid but I felt that being on stage or playing another character would somehow open me up. And I think it did.

I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.

I wish that love could be broken down the way it breaks me down.

And in Kandahar he was taught about survival, about fighting and killing and hunting, and he learned much else without being taught, such as looking out for himself and watching his tongue and not saying...

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Not to psychologize, but it’s hard growing up in a family of 14 to ever feel like you’re the center of the universe, or that you’re that special or different. Because when it comes down...

I think everybody knows my sound because I’m me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you’ve definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don’t plan on being one of those cats that...

But I stuttered as a kid. I went to classes to help it, and it just went away around fourth grade, when I became more aware of how others spoke, I think. But also, growing...

We often lose ourselves to where we think we should be, rather than celebrate where we already are.

At that moment a very good thing was happening to her. Four good things had happened to her, in fact, since she came to Misselthwaite Manor. She had felt as if she had understood a...

Technology, outsourcing, a growing temp staffing industry, productivity efficiencies, have all replaced the middle class.

Growing up, I was in and out of trouble in group homes and other institutions, and when I was 14, I was locked up in a psychiatric hospital for a number of months for behavioral...

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.

I grew up in Berkeley and my parents were hippies, obviously, since my name’s ‘Jorma.’ I didn’t watch much television growing up because they weren’t into it at all.

I’m going to follow this invisible red thread until I find myself again… until I finally figure out… who I’m meant to be.

I wish on one of the stars for divine orchestration and save the rest of them for all of the other girls in the world who will feel like I do tonight.

No one is born a sprinter. We all learn to push ourselves up from the floor and then balance before taking that first, wobbly step. It is an individual choice where to go from there.

Coming from Haiti and growing up in Brooklyn, there’s a lot of European influence when I get dressed up. I wear a lot of fitted suits, elegant cuts; I think it’s cool to mash up...

Shame without repentance doesn’t lose power when it is spoken, it only seeks approval.

The girls show more skin these days, but I think, generally, they behave the same way as when I was growing up.

Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They’re really not. They’re just regular people who live in small towns. They grow up and try to...

Our country’s growing obsession with organized sports isn’t just hurting our children, but also our communities. As play is siphoned off to gyms and fields, fewer kids are playing in our streets, parks, and playgrounds.

Keep it simple; complexities are the worst enemies of man’s development

In honesty, there are probably a lot of stories that can be told with Batman. I like the idea of him growing older and he can’t quite do it as much anymore.

I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama school, it was with the intention of becoming an actor...

That’s so important for children when they’re growing up, to have a strong male role model.

The thing about growing old is you have to accept it – if you don’t, you’ll be as miserable as sin. You’ve got to try and find the few good things about it.

Love is my drug of choice, even if it comes laced with pain and disaster.

I think that getting responsibility and structure are huge parts of growing up.

Never stop learning. Never stop growing.

Sunday night was such a big night for television when I was growing up – you know, ‘The Wonderful World of Disney.’

No one is ever a victim of life; we are all volunteering to grow.

I was never the class clown or anything like that. When I was growing up and doing theatre in Seattle I was always doing very dramatic work. Now I can’t get a dramatic role to...

Pain is a pesky part of being human, I’ve learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something I wish we could all do without, in our lives here. Pain is a sudden...

We weren’t poor growing up on Long Island, but it wasn’t lavish – just a regular middle-class house.

I grew up poor in crappy situations… various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes growing up, be it fiction like Stephen King or Piers...

‘Tattoos’ reminds me of where I’m from, and some of the stuff I did when I was growing up. That was one of the things that was appealing about the song when I heard it...

[With comedy and wanting to make people laugh,] when you’re a child, all you want is ANY kind of laugh. You get them to laugh, and great! – you’ve succeeded. And then it’s “How FAST...

Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom.

I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself — my past and the kaleidoscope of mistakes, failures and wrong...

I’m tired of justifying why I love someone. I’m done with the explaining.

Growing up in D.C. there are so many different types of educational and professional levels. They call D.C. ‘Chocolate City’ but just because we’re all chocolate doesn’t mean we’re all the same. In D.C., everyone...

When I was a kid a growing up in Ontario, Canada, Lake Erie was so polluted, I never thought it would ever, EVER be turned around where they could start cleaning it out in my...

I think from here on it’s up to me to prove that I’m growing up and that I have other things to say, but in terms of the show it definitely gave me all of...

The places that are most likely to grow trees for carbon sequestration are places where trees aren’t growing now.

God always has a plan. This isn’t his fault. This is a test, something designed to help you grow closer to God. And. I know, somehow, God will use it.

When we’re growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

I avoid the media circus, keep my head down and try to keep growing and learning things.

I will sing whatever I’m given to sing. Growing up, I would sing anything that I was given. If the choir needed a first tenor, I would sing first tenor. If they needed a bass,...

I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That’s why I was out the door as soon as I turned 18.