(568 quotes found)
“Oh, my goodness I never thought I'd be here in my whole life growing up in Tennessee.”
Reese Witherspoon
“I wanted to be a nun. I saw nuns as superstars.... When I was growing up I went to a Catholic school, and the nuns, to me, were these superhuman, beautiful, fantastic people.”
Madonna
“Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers”
John J. Plomp
“I was pretty much a dork growing up. Going up in front of a crowd and being an idiot was a relief when I was a kid. But talking to two or three people at once and being myself was impossible. And being myself while singing a song was more than impossible; I would've rather died. I get really nervous and tend to want to be an idiot.”
Ben Folds
“In the course of an average lifetime anyone growing up in a house with such a clock (Westminster Chimes) will hear the tune over a million times.”
Dudley Moore
“That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station.”
Johnny Cash
“Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.”
Walt Disney
“Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.”
Gloria Naylor
“In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”
John Steinbeck
