(369 quotes found)
“"“I think I’ll be a clown when I get grown….. Yes, sir, a clown. There ain’t one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I’m gonna join the circus and laugh my head off… I’m gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks. Just looka yonder, every one of ’em oughta be ridin’ a broomstick.””
Harper Lee
“You've probably noticed already that I'm dressed like a grown-up, ... I apologize to the Academy, and I promise that I will never do it again.”
Cher
“I don't think the federation has a head; its neck has just grown up and haired over.”
John L. Lewis
“Evidently there are plenty of people in journalism who have neither got what they liked nor quite grown to like what they get. They write pieces they do not much enjoy writing, for papers they totally despise, and the sad process ends by ruining their style and disintegrating their personality, two developments which in a writer cannot be separate, since his personality and style must progress or deteriorate together, like a married couple in a country where death is the only permissible divorce.”
Claud Cockburn
“Gideon is unaware of it; he's grown up in it, and accepts the shortcomings until -- it's sort of a typical Everyman situation -- you accept the shortcomings until you get shoved up against an uncomfortable wall by them and have to look at them. And that's what happens to him. It's not a voluntary process,”
Caleb Carr
“I have grown in my writing and I care about it now and I know how important it is to write stuff.”
Charles King
“This is the second quarter in a row that Cigna has grown enrollment, and provides further evidence that the turnaround at Cigna is progressing smoothly.”
Carl McDonald
“I realize that each year it has changed and grown until I know that, a decade from now, what I might say of it would seem like an echo of what has been instead of what is.”
Juliette Gordon Low
“Sweets grown common lose their dear delight”
William Shakespeare
