(409 quotes found)
“(following 9/11) I grew up believing my generation would be better. We would be kinder, we would be more level-headed. We would be more loving. And so many people are missing.”
Jorja Fox
“None in a moment e'er grew wholly vile”
Juvenal
“In a city that grew up fast and changes quickly ... some of the old institutions and businesses and buildings that represent the past are a good thing to hold on to. It's kind of like looking at old family pictures.”
Tim Samuelson
“In Southern California, there's that feeling of people in transit. I grew up in Southern California, so whenever I ran across a world where your relatives stayed, and they lived a few miles away, and you have the roots that are really strong in your community, that always felt like a wonderful romantic notion. And this [movie] was about discovering this whole root system that you didn't realize you had.”
Cameron Crowe
“Save when at noon his paunch grew mutinous / For a plate of turtle green and glutinous.”
Robert Browning
“Epictetus was a peasant child born about 50 A.D. who grew up to be a well-known Stoic philosopher, ... In modern buzz-word speak, he was the inventor of 'What people think of me is none of my business.' So I got really hooked on him.”
Rodney Crowell
“Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones -- maybe only the stones -- understood.”
Annie Dillard
“We grew up in a situation where we didn't know what freedom or justice were, and therefore we didn't know what democracy was.”
Daniel Ortega
“I'm actually part of a number of minorities. I grew up being a horribly awkward kid. A terrible student. And now I find myself as a filmmaker, and you feel kind of alone in the world because you're separate from everyone else.”
Bryan Singer
“I grew up watching Burns and Allen on TV. They did some amazing things on the TV show, they did surreal things. Gracie would be conspiring with her neighbor Blanche to put something over on George.”
Rupert Holmes
