Top 100 I Grow Quotes
#1. You've captured my flag but I captured your imagination. It's true you regulate what I grow, regulate what i know, and to pray or to play I got to pay you a fee, pero we both know that you wish you could dance like me.
Vincent Torres
#2. The older I grow, the more I realize how unfit we are for relationships. We are all such antagonists. It's part of the human condition to be deeply unfaithful to constancy. I do believe that.
Vivian Gornick
#3. I remember being asked when I was in high school what do I want to do when I grow up and the answer is so indicative - I would like to have been a successful playwright.
Mitchell Hurwitz
#4. For the first time I realize how perilous peace can be. I appreciate the tightrope that my grandfather has spent his whole life trying to walk. And now, more than ever, I grow terrified that I'm going to make us all fall down.
Ally Carter
#5. I grow very impatient with prose writers who don't pay attention to the cadence of the sentence. If you start as a poet, you're wooed by the music of language; you want to put that into your practice.
Alison Hawthorne Deming
#6. I grow into my death.
My life is small
and getting smaller. The world is green.
Nothing is all.
Mark Strand
#7. What I do is sometimes - at least in Germany - met with wounding campaigns. I always face the question: should I grow myself a thick skin and ignore it, or should I let myself be wounded? I've decided to be wounded, since, if I grew a thick skin, there are other things I wouldn't feel any more.
Gunter Grass
#8. I'm cheating on the man I'm cheating on my husband with, Anna thought. I grow less decent every passing day.
Jill Alexander Essbaum
#9. When you're asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, you obey that.
Andrew Forrest
#10. Growing up, we didn't have any money - we shopped where you picked your shoes out of a bin. When I was little, I said, 'When I grow up, I'm going to have nice shoes.'
Sherri Shepherd
#11. As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.
H. Rider Haggard
#12. Atticus Finch. That's who I want to be when I grow up. He's the greatest guy ever - a good dad, a good lawyer, doing the right thing. And he knows he's not supposed to win, but he's doing it anyway.
Sean Patrick Maloney
#13. I just planted the family vegetables yesterday. You name it, I grow it.
Steve Zahn
#14. I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.
Victor Hugo
#15. I fancied you'd return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
From the poem Mad Girl's Love Song
Sylvia Plath
#17. I'm very fortunate to have parents who have kept me grounded, so I hopefully won't end up in a bad situation when I grow up.
Raven-Symone
#18. When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen.
Richard M. Nixon
#21. I grow old ... I grow old ...
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
T. S. Eliot
#22. Dad?"
"What?" A small bird rises from a tree in front of us.
"What should I be when I grow up?"
The bird disappears over a far ridge. I don't know what to say. "Honest," I finally say.
Robert M. Pirsig
#23. When I grow up I am going to be a ballerina. I will be in Giselle. It will be so much fun being a ballerina.
Karen Kain
#24. Peeta and I grow back together. There are still moments when he clutches the back of a chair and hangs on until the flashbacks are over. I wake screaming from nightmares of mutts and lost children. But his arms are there to comfort me.
Suzanne Collins
#25. My design is organic, I don't control architecture, I grow it
Marco Casagrande
#26. When I'm challenged, I grow. I never want to be in a situation where I'm not challenged and not afraid. One of my favorite feelings is stepping into a film and knowing that I'm a little bit afraid of what I have to accomplish.
Nikki Reed
#27. As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I'm successful, I never feel like I'm anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I'm never content.
J. Cole
#28. Until I figure out what I'm going to do when I grow up, I'm not going to be grown up.
Kay Panabaker
#29. The older I grow and the more I abandon myself to God's will, the less
I value intelligence that wants to know and will that wants to do; and
as the only element of salvation I recognize faith, which can wait patiently,
without asking too many questions.
Umberto Eco
#30. The great Master Gardener, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, in a wonderful providence, with his own hand, planted me here, where by his grace, in this part of his vineyard, I grow; and here I will abide till the great Master of the vineyard think fit to transplant me.
Samuel Rutherford
#31. Give it time, I thought. I grow on people; I'm like an industrial solvent, I'll wear you down...
Wilton Barnhardt
#32. To make this world a whole lot brighter,
when I grow up I'll be a writer.
Lee Bennett Hopkins
#33. I love books. I hope when I grow up to be able to have lots of them.
L.M. Montgomery
#35. When I grow up I am going to be the gangster we are all looking for.
Le Thi Diem Thuy
#36. I myself am more and more inclined to agree with Omar and Satchel Paige as I grow older: Don't try to rewrite what the moving finger has writ, and don't ever look over your shoulder.
Ogden Nash
#37. Being part of the whole, as I grow so does that which contains me.
Chris Matakas
#39. I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy is hounding me day in and day out. I'm quite amazed sometimes by the way they go about it. I grow a beard and it lands up in the editorial in The Times of India.
Amitabh Bachchan
#40. If all this tree is from mom and all this tree is from him
where do I grow my own branches?
Thalia Chaltas
#41. You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't.
Anthony Doerr
#42. I told myself, 'When I grow up, I want to make pictures that can inspire and nourish people.' Immediately, when I was 10, I started photographing nature. I built a darkroom. My first really good darkroom, not just down in the cellar, was when I was 14.
Bill Atkinson
#43. The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I grow tired.
Harlan Ellison
#45. I grow and I shrink. I run and I crawl.
Follow my voice, though I have none at all.
I never do leave here, but I travel around
I float through the sky and I creep through the ground.
I keep my cache in a vault although I have no wealth,
Seek my decay to safeguard your health.
Richelle Mead
#46. I read as if time were running out, because technically it is. As I grow older I find I'm increasingly impatient with mediocre entertainments; I want books that will take my breath away and realign my vision - Barbara Kingsolver
Pat Williams
#47. I grow tired of 18th century moralities in a 20th century space-atomic age
Charles Bukowski
#48. I grow aware of various forms of man and of myself. I am form and I am formless, I am life and I am matter, mortal and immortal. I am one and many
myself and humanity in flux.
Charles Lindbergh
#49. But when I lean over the chasm of myself -
it seems
my God is dark
and like a web: a hundred roots
silently drinking.
This is the ferment I grow out of.
More I don't know, because my branches
rest in deep silence, stirred only by the wind.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#50. I love my husband, but it is nothing like a conversation with a woman that understands you. I grow so much from those conversations.
Beyonce Knowles
#51. I'm still the same guy. My name is still Greyson Chance from Oklahoma. I grow much taller. But nothing really changes.
Greyson Chance
#52. That raccoon is my goddamn role model. He is the worst and best Patronus ever, and I want to be just like him when I grow up.
Jenny Lawson
#53. Certain aspects of dying are still a mystery to me now, but as I grow and study life more, the end of my life becomes more of a certain truth.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#54. I don't really know how I grow. I can only see the changes when I look at the films.
Kim Ki-duk
#55. I started out as an idea, but I ended up something more. Not much more to be honest. It's not like I grow up to become some great war hero or any sort of all-important savior...
Brian K. Vaughan
#56. As I grow through love, so grows my joy, ever more present, ever more constant.
M. Scott Peck
#57. I want to marry her, when I grow up to be a man.
Tamora Pierce
#59. Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.
Richard Cecil
#60. I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth.
Matt Damon
#61. I grew up in Austria, and for me real comfort food is Wiener Schnitzel. Wiener Schnitzel and mashed potatoes because it reminds me of my youth ... It reminds me when I grow up and it feels very comforting.
Wolfgang Puck
#62. When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#63. I know that when I watch TV, I want to be transformed and transported, not just by the characters that I grow to love over the hours and seasons of watching but also the world that it plants me into.
Jon Favreau
#64. I hope that in my thirties I grow as a writer, push into new territory.
Karen Russell
#65. As I grow older part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.
Bebe Moore Campbell
#66. I finally decided what I want to be when I grow up - late.
Brian Spellman
#67. The older I grow the more do I love spring and spring flowers. Is it so with you?
Emily Dickinson
#68. Mom: A doctor, Lily? AND your own business? I want to be you when I grow up.
Colleen Hoover
#69. Right now I'm just thinking about school and trying to get those grades and keep them up! In case I become a Norma Desmond when I grow up, I can have something to fall back on!
Anna Chlumsky
#70. Finally she said, "When I grow up, I'm going to live out here. I'll probably be a Miss Somebody, too ... "
Don't grow up," I told her. "It only gets more confusing.
Julianna Baggott
#71. I don't get depressed; I grow a tumor instead.
Woody Allen
#72. I want to be a scientist who studies the ocean when I grow up. I would go out to sea, and scuba dive, and find new things, and National Geographic will hire me.
Sure, Nudge. Probably around the time I become president.
James Patterson
#74. Somedays I grow tired of life and long for the next great adventure.
Atticus
#75. My beard towards heaven, I feel my nape support / The back of my head, I grow the breast of a harpy / And my brush as it drips continually / Upon my face, makes it a gorgeous floor.
Michelangelo
#76. I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.
David Hobson
#77. Did I grow up wanting to clean houses?" She raised an eyebrow, as if checking that he had seriously asked that question. "Um, no. I wanted to be a professional scuba diver. But I had Tanze
Jojo Moyes
#78. I am sure as I grow older I will understand more about my own feelings and how to put them in a song.
Michael Tolcher
#79. I grow impatient, little girl." "Then learn to wait,
Rosamund Hodge
#80. I grow increasingly aware, and in more ways than expected that I am at the center of my own field; and whether it be folly or wisdom, it is a very pleasant feeling.
Heinrich Hertz
#81. I am inclined to think that as I grow older I will come to be infatuated with the art of revision, and there may come a time when I will dread giving up a novel at all.
Joyce Carol Oates
#82. The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
Booker T. Washington
#83. People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.
George Bernard Shaw
#84. You're in my heart, you're in my soul. You'll be my breath, should I grow old.
Rod Stewart
#85. I grow beyond my family's limitations and live for myself. It is my turn now.
Louise Hay
#86. Look at my papa here; he's been dead all these years, and yet he is more real to me than almost anybody else. He never goes out of my life. I talk to him and consult him all the time. The older I grow, the better I know him and the more I understand him.
Willa Cather
#87. I grow spiritually when I accept responsibility for my life.
Louise Hay
#88. With each year that's gone by, and as I grow up and get older, I've become more mature, of course, but you have a sense of who you are, and you find confidence in that.
Hope Solo
#89. As I grow older, I put all life's bulls**t aside. I think the process of the laying off of the bulls**t starts around 40. Before that, most men have their heads stuck in their ass. After 40, you see things differently. You've found yourself. You're accepting yourself and what you got from life.
Dennis Quaid
#90. The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn't yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion.
Katherine Dunham
#91. Often, I grow irritated before the first tile has been placed on the Scrabble board. This generally occurs when one of my opponents has insisted upon bringing a dictionary to the table, making it clear that he will be consulting it throughout the game.
Craig Brown
#92. With lack of sleep and too much understanding I grow a little crazy, I think, like all men at sea who live too close to each other and too close thereby to all that is monstrous under the sun and moon.
William Golding
#94. I like to think I grow as a writer from every new experience.
Jason Aaron
#95. I am greedy for both Hollywood and Bollywood. For me, Bollywood is not new, as it is something that I grow up on ... I know the plot ... stories and characters that are written and made. I haven't got the right opportunity to show my work in Bollywood.
Tena Desae
#96. Teddy, Vern, Chris: I don't shut up. I grow up. And when I look at you, I throw up. Aghhh!
Gordie: And then your mom goes around the corner and she licks it up.
Stephen King
#97. I do love you, my Florence. Will you always be so sensible?"
"No. I quite expect to become very silly as I grow older. Everyone seems to.
A.S. Byatt
#98. As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.
Park Chan-wook
#99. Nobody every says, "When I grow up, I want to be a junkie.
Chris Mendius
#100. Hopefully, every character that I take on, as I grow older, becomes more interesting. Obviously, as I grow older, I have more to bring to the table and more experiences that I've lived myself, so I'm hoping that I can color my characters, more and more.
Diane Kruger
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
