Growth Spurt Quotes

#1. As every parent knows, children go through an adolescent growth spurt, during which they put on inches at an alarming rate. Humans are unique in this respect: most mammalian species, including apes, progress almost directly from infancy to adulthood.

Richard Leakey

#2. When I was younger I was always big; I was a fat boy at school. I had an early growth spurt, and when I went to secondary school I was tall enough to be a policeman.

Alfred Molina

#3. We move the cows every day to a new spot which allows the grass time to recuperate and go through its what I call 'the teenage growth spurt.'

Joel Salatin

#4. Of course there were plateaus, periods when my results leveled off while I internalized the information necessary for my next growth spurt, but I didn't mind.

Josh Waitzkin

#5. I did not have implants, I just had a growth spurt.

Britney Spears

#6. Your children will stop paying attention to you when they have reached your age of emotional maturity. If your child is starting to tune you out, you need to go through a growth spurt of emotional and spiritual maturity. You can never chase a child to a higher awareness; you can only lead them.

Rand Olson

#7. I was always small. I was a leadoff hitter growing up, until I was 13 or 14 years old and had a little growth spurt and started hitting home runs.

Ryan Braun

#8. God works in different ways and it shows ...
And everybody knows, love comes and goes.

Ed O.G.

#9. Oh, I try to stay as far away from karaoke as humanly possible!

Jeremy Jordan

#10. You staked a vampire with a number two pencil."
"I didn't actually check the number."
- Shane Collins and Claire Danvers from Morganville Vampires

Rachel Caine

#11. I considered myself liberated long before it became the fashion. First I liberated myself from debilitating habits, and went on to free myself of combative, aggressive thoughts. I have also cast aside any unnecessary possessions. This, I feel, is true liberation.

Peace Pilgrim

#12. Sunlight reflecting from rippled windows greatly accelerates plant growth by up to three times normal rates.

Steven Magee

#13. If I spend 100 days in a row making music there's a chance nothing will come of it. But if I spend 100 days not making music it's guaranteed that nothing will come of it. So keep working.

Moby

#14. Take your feet of of the brakes, push the pedal, give yourself the green light and be unstoppable.

Catrice M. Jackson

#15. A lot of our fiscal deficit went to fund consumption and really did not get used to build investment and infrastructure. The trouble is, you can get a spurt in GDP growth, which may not be sustainable. I would much rather build the gradient of a long-term marathon.

Uday Kotak

#16. We should think of our family. But. We must also think of ourselves.

Veronica Roth

#17. My Mozart career began as a teenager in Los Angeles, singing arias from 'Le Nozze di Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni.'

Danielle De Niese

#18. I guess play piano, you know, because that's the thing I started doing when I was a little kid.

Harry Connick Jr.

#19. Some people think that if they will do certain things, they will somehow earn the favor of God, but this misses the whole point of Christianity and ironically devolves into a me-centered approach.

David Platt

#20. I've always just loved drawing and loved cartoons. Growing up, I loved Disney films, I loved The Simpsons, and I was a big fan of the comic strip Calvin & Hobbes and the way that they would have weird fantasy and then down-to-earth funny character comedy.

Alex Hirsch

#21. But it did not much care for hunting, and then like so many geldings it spent much of its time mourning for its lost stones: a discontented horse.

Patrick O'Brian

#22. Memories, priceless. Well not really priceless, but there you go!

George Lopez

#23. Genies rarely have nightmares, for the same reason that elephants don't usually worry about being trampled underfoot. With the possible exception of bottles, there's nothing in the cosmos large enough or malicious enough to frighten them, or stupid enough to try.

Tom Holt

#24. I am confident that the next century will be better than this one.

Dalai Lama