I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.

The larvae you see today would grow into a large butterfly tomorrow. Size is what you see now, allow the clock to tick, then check on the size again.

I feel a resurgence of my 6-year-old self… that little warrior, goddess of a girl reminding me of who I was when I was little, before the world got its hands on me.

He could pour himself into my little paper cup heart and my emptiness would finally have a meaning.

I’m growing very talented at watching blood and guts on screen because I have zero emotional response.

Growing up, I was not used to good things happening to me.

Six Beliefs That Set the Course of Your Life1. If you don’t believe the impossible can happen, then you are right.2. When you feel like you are less than others, then you are right.3. When...

No matter where you are or where you grow up, you always go through the same awkward moments of being a teenager and growing up and trying to figure out who you are.

I am a student at heart, even a child can teach me something new.

I’ve raised three kids: my wife and I have three kids. I’ve observed through direct contact the adults they are now is partially the product of where they came from and what we did. With...

What makes you adorable is how much you’re able to contribute towards the improvement of the lives of people around you

If we didn’t have the rest of the world growing, the United States economy would be in much worse shape than it is today.

I actually was the accompanist for a couple of the musicals I was in growing up.

It’s a growing trend. Viewers are our customers, but so are advertisers. And advertisers want different ways to reach our viewers.

People need stories…we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books.

Hope, in anything but myself, is just way too dangerous right now…

Angry Birds is one of the fastest-growing online products I’ve seen, growing even faster than Skype, and the company has done a brilliant job of extending it across different platforms and merchandise.

When I was growing up in L.A. in the late ’70s and early ’80s, Michael Jackson’s was the first face on TV that looked like mine.

A farmer is helpless to grow grain; all he can do is provide the right conditions for the growing of grain. He cultivates the ground, he plants the seed, he waters the plants, and then...

Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I’m on the creative end of things, I’m discovering that they’re even...

We were wiser as children if not for anything else but for our ability to always reflect. Reflection is a powerful tool to move forward into an enlightened stage of wisdom. Children reflect everyday about...

Before, I wanted to say: “I found love!” But now, I want to say: “I found a person. And he belongs to me and I belong to him.

When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

My heart only grows more powerful the more my flowing love goes unabsorbed, unobserved, and unappreciated.

Growing up, I was always in my high school musicals and everything, but I kind of stopped doing all that when I finished school and acting became my main priority.

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.