I've Watched You Grow Quotes

#1. Smitt walked up next to James and watched the planet slowly grow larger. They say the water used to be so blue you could see it from space.

Wesley Chu

#2. I watched the jealousy between them grow, and felt it was none of my fault
only Momma's! As everything wrong in my life was her fault.

V.C. Andrews

#3. Throw your grain into the see and it will come back to you

Thabiso Monkoe

#4. Messi is God, as a person and even more as a player. I knew him when he was a boy and I've watched him grow. He deserves it all.

Samuel Eto'o

#5. I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.

Obie Trice

#6. Don't hate me forever, Arty," whispered Holly. "I couldn't bear that.

Eoin Colfer

#7. I'm a stockholder. I own a lot of stocks.

Kenneth Langone

#8. I'm quite comfortable looking at myself in movies, probably because I've been doing it for so long, since I was a kid. So I sort of watched myself grow up and go through adolescence, like, basically on camera.

Winona Ryder

#9. I had a cat, though. I wanted to name the frogs, because I watched them grow, but there were too many.

Satoshi Tajiri

#10. He had always been her baby, her lovely little boy; though she had watched him change and grow with proprietary pride, she had done so with an image of laughing baby superimposed on his maturing face.

Colleen McCullough

#11. The present is our own; but while we speak,
We cease from its possession, and resign
The stage we tread on, to another race,
As vain, and gay, and mortal as ourselves.

Thomas Love Peacock

#12. I don't think you can be too ashamed of anything as long as you were being yourself. I think why people feel, um, so entitled over me is that they've watched me grow up. But that's a blessing and a curse.

Miley Cyrus

#13. No cities can grow in a dictatorship, because everything stays small when it's being watched.

Herta Muller

#14. He watched them grow, until eventually, great forests of words had risen throughout Germany ... It was a nation of farmed thoughts.

Markus Zusak

#15. She watched the coals grow cooler and wondered if worlds grew cool as well. If existence faded like heat.

Owen Egerton

#16. I am still in touch with my Secret Service agents, most of whom are retired now. They really get to be your friends. They watched me grow up, and most of them had little kids, so I was kind of giving them a warm-up of what was coming.

Susan Ford

#17. I watched my parents in their leadership callings in the Church and the community. We just grew up knowing that we should serve and do whatever we could do to make things grow.

Margaret D. Nadauld

#18. I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.

Mallory Ortberg

#19. I like the way you secretly send me a direct message when we're in the middle of a conversation.

Ariel Seraphino

#20. When Callas carried a grudge, she planted it, nursed it, fostered it, watered it and watched it grow to sequoia size.

Harold C. Schonberg

#21. Pop Salvation is a genius take on discovering who you are by becoming what you most admire. If I didn't know better, I'd think Lance Reynald watched me grow up. Marvelously endearing and insightful.

Josh Kilmer-Purcell

#22. If you watched companies such as Sony and Samsung grow, they focused first on features and then on industrial design, which made their products look and feel better.

Jefferson Han

#23. I love Wayne, I respect his talent. I've watched him grow up.

Bun B.

#24. I've watched you shoulder your responsibilities, as I've felt you grow stronger with every fight, as I've seen how all these things hurt you and yet somehow cannot defeat you, I've only fallen deeper.

Sarah Fine

#25. A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: she changes it more often.

Oliver Herford

#26. I watched them, thinking that little girls who make their mothers live grow up to be such powerful women.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#27. River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.

Zach Galligan

#28. It takes considerable getting used to. I hated it for two years. It intimidated me daily until one morning when someone pushed me on a bus and I pushed back. After I pushed back I realized I'd become a part of it.

Harper Lee

#29. After the train started he had stood on the rear platform and watched the station and the water tower grow smaller and smaller and the rails crossed by the ties narrowed toward a point where the station and the water tower stood now minute and tiny in the steady clicking that was taking him away.

Ernest Hemingway,

#30. To me, it's impolite to go out shopping with no money.

Manoj Bhargava

#31. When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.

Katey Sagal

#32. She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible to the others, yet both still existed, only in different worlds.

Susan Wiggs