Top 100 Not Growing Quotes
#1. Thinking you knew something was a sure way to blind yourself. It was not growing up that slowly applied brakes to learning (Mentats were taught) but an accumulation of "things I know." New
Frank Herbert
#2. While growth may be unsustainable, de-growth is unstable.' Today's economic model cannot continue indefinitely. We live on a small planet. The population and the economy are growing, but the planet is not growing.
Anders Wijkman
#3. Everybody either wanted to take care of me or push me around, you know? I was teased a lot, sure I was, of course. Fourth grade, fifth grade, sixth grade, everybody was taking their spurts except me. I was not growing up.
Linda Hunt
#4. If we are not growing together, then we should not stay together.
Nyki Edwinna
#6. It's hard to have done all one's growing up since 33 - but that's a damn sight better than not growing up at all.
H.P. Lovecraft
#7. A "No Excuses" mindset in your family stems directly from your personal growth. If you are not growing as a person, the first impact will affect your family.
Farshad Asl
#8. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
Colette
#9. It's cool not growing old. I like being the eternal stud.
Ian Somerhalder
#10. The human being cannot live in a condition of emptiness for very long: if he is not growing toward something, he does not merely stagnate; the pent-up potentialities turn into morbidity and despair, and eventually into destructive activities.
Rollo May
#12. We all have this moment, when your folks first see you as someone not growing up to be them.
Chuck Palahniuk
#13. She had switched from counting her years not up from birth, but back from death - a grab-bag of time not growing, but shrinking, use it or lose it.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#15. When I was younger, I used to make resolutions which imagined were virtuous. I was less anxious to be what I was, than to become what I wished to be. Now, I am not far from thinking that in irresolution lies the secret of not growing old.
Andre Gide
#16. If the road behind me is not growing ever longer, then it is likely that the feet underneath me are not moving any longer. And if my feet are not moving, I have somehow, somewhere traded this most glorious journey for lesser endeavors.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#17. . . . crop restrictions not only raise the price of corn and other crops but also tend to raise farmers' total revenues and earnings." Increase your corn profit by not growing corn? Here's a wonderful kind of business where everybody can get rich if they'll just do nothing.
P. J. O'Rourke
#18. Just understanding that if you're not growing up, you're just moving backwards, and I'm a person that I always want to grow and learn and not be the smartest person in the room, because when you're not the smartest person in the room, you're always learning things.
Ndamukong Suh
#19. All the time, as an actor, you want to be asking what's next and where things are going. If you're not asking those questions, you're not growing.
Willem Dafoe
#20. ...[their] children were not growing up or being brought up, but were tumbling up.
Charles Dickens
#21. But the problem isn't actually that we are sleeping more or worrying about others - these things are necessary and good at times. The problem is that we have a habit, day after day, of not growing - of not reaching the divine potential that we have as a sons and daughters of God. The
Mark Bacera
#22. Higher education is not growing fast enough to meet the needs of Nevada.
James E. Rogers
#23. I want to do things where the talent range is difficult and that scare me. I thrive on that; if it's not scaring me then I'm not growing.
Nina Dobrev
#24. There is no legislative change that can be made to make up for an economy that's not growing and not expanding.
Martin O'Malley
#26. It is not growing fanaticism, but growing democracy, that causes my troubles. Did you ever read the life of Averroes? He was protected by kings, but hated by the mob, which was fanatical. In the end, the mob won. Free thought has always been a perquisite of aristocracy.
Bertrand Russell
#29. Over the years however, my nose grew and grew and it became apparent by the time I was fourteen that, like its owner, it was not growing straight.
Stephen Fry
#31. The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.
Hans Rosling
#32. At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown. After ostensible hard thought about who needs what, I have failed to give good gifts; I have failed to receive good gifts.
Padgett Powell
#33. I think there's nothing wrong with being fixated on superheroes when you are 7 years old, but I think there's a disease in not growing up.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#34. Change, of course, is growth, and anything that is not growing is either paralysed or it's not alive, because that's life; we always change and we grow.
Isabel Lucas
#35. More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing.
Dean Kamen
#36. If we're not growing, we must feel guilty, because we are not fulfilling Christ's demand.
Eva Burrows
#37. The trick to not growing old is to: Stay curious. Keep your teeth. Stay hopeful. Do everything gracefully, yet kick when you have to.
Carew Papritz
#38. Man is not growing better! Man is not climbing upward. Instead of progress in man himself there is degeneracy - degeneracy of body, mind, and spirit. Man is going downhill.
Billy Graham
#39. We grow in part by confessing our faults and weaknesses to each other (James 5:16; Eccl. 4:10). If we are always being strong and without needs, we are not growing, and we are setting ourselves up for a very dangerous fall.
Henry Cloud
#41. I've always felt that spiritual experience is dropping the illusion that we're not. Growing up at Londolozi nourished that sense in me from my earliest years. Mom and Dad often had to visit with the guests in
Boyd Varty
#42. All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing and not moving toward excellence.
Denis Waitley
#43. I think many people love their problems. Gives them all sorts of excuses for not growing up and getting on with life.
Louise Penny
#44. Get busy livin', or get busy dyin'. If you're not growing, you're contracting. If you're not moving forward, you're moving backward.
Reid Hoffman
#45. A business that is not growing after all, is dying.
Shawn Casemore
#46. The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better
it is just turning around as usual.
Finley Peter Dunne
#47. The country is not growing because the mental state of the people are retarded
Sunday Adelaja
#48. If we are not a little bit uncomfortable every day, we're not growing. All the good stuff is outside our comfort zone.
Jack Canfield
#49. Think of the Nets infrastructure as a source of natural building resources. Linux is not growing on the trees - it is the trees.
David "Doc" Searls
#50. We've created rules and taxes on top of every aspiration of people, and the net result is we're not growing fast, income is not growing.
Jeb Bush
#51. Most people manage pain by eating, drinking, smoking, distracting themselves, working harder. That's just managing pain, the pain that comes from not feeling fully alive from not growing.
Tony Robbins
#52. If you're growing, you're likely failing. If you're not failing, you're likely not growing.
Eric Greitens
#53. I find that, for me, personally - and this is in everyday life - if I'm not growing, if I can't be stimulated in a conversation, then I am bored. And I'm not good when I'm bored.
Farrah Fawcett
#55. Learn from your failures & go on to the next challenge. It's okay to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.
H. Stanley Judd
#56. Most young people seem to be behaving very intelligently: They look at things once in a while, but then they find it so idiotic and uncool that they just look away again. That is, provided they're not growing up in a family in which a drunk father is already watching pornos in the morning.
Volkmar Sigusch
#57. If you're not losing some friends then you're not growing up.
Timothy Goodman
#59. Your organization needs you to be the lead, not the lid. If you're not growing as a leader, you've become the lid
Saji Ijiyemi
#60. Growing up, I was a very shy, wallflower type. I was not a nerd, but not popular. I was just invisible, like that person you probably didn't know you were in school with.
Jenna Fischer
#61. Countless communities have virtually outlawed unstructured outdoor nature play, often because of the threat of lawsuits, but also because of a growing obsession with order. Many parents now believe outdoor play is verboten even when it is not; perception is nine-tenths of the law.
Richard Louv
#62. I've known a lot of religious people. My mother is very religious, but she also is very private about it. When I was growing up, she never went to church. She just prayed and read her Bible and kept it to herself. I'm not from a background of flamboyant believers. It's much more a personal issue.
Michael Shannon
#63. I see the demographics increasing, and by that I mean the notion of social acceptance is growing, not decreasing; I think the notion of fiscal responsibility is growing, not decreasing. And Republicans seem to be moving further away from those two categories than closer.
Gary Johnson
#65. Differing from Newton and Schopenhauer, your ancestor did not think of time as absolute and uniform. He believed it an infinite series of times, in a dizzily growing, ever spreading network of diverging, converging and parallel times.
Jorge Luis Borges
#66. In difficult times, we're not supposed to quit believing; we're not supposed to quit growing.
Joel Osteen
#67. When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.
Andrea Mitchell
#69. Shift from being afraid of making a mistake to being afraid of not making a mistake. If you are not making any mistakes, you are not learning or growing
Susan Jeffers
#70. My whole life growing up, both my parents told me not to swear like a sailor. After college, I recall there was finally a time where I swore, and neither one of them was correcting me, and I felt so relieved. I thought, finally; I can finally be myself and not get yelled at.
Rory Freedman
#71. One of the reasons I'm an actor is because I was no physical specimen as a child. I wasn't athletic and didn't have any prowess in that regard. Growing up in Kentucky, most little boys were trying to get into sports, and it was very competitive, so that was not to be. But I did want to do something.
Michael Shannon
#72. To be able to explore the genre of the musical is nice. It was great to be able to sing professionally, for the first time, and dance, which was something that I did growing up, but I had not done for many, many years.
Penelope Cruz
#73. I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself ...
Jennifer Haigh
#74. Christianity is an intimate, growing relationship with the person of Jesus Christ. It is not a set of doctrines to believe, habits to practice, or sins to avoid. Every activity God commands is intended to enhance His love relationship with His people.
Henry T. Blackaby
#75. Goal setting is the essence of life. Tenaciously pursue your goals not for external praise but for inner reward. It makes you a better person, parent, professional. It is important to be constantly growing.
Bob Proctor
#76. I think you grow up wanting to be a racing driver. Then it dawns on you that it's not going to happen.
Dominic Cooper
#77. If growing up means not seeing one's family and friends on the regular - all in the name of paying the bills, then growing up is overrated.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#78. I wouldn't trade growing up on the farm in Yolo (you only live once) County for anything in the world. I prefer the world I grew up in, and not the world I am growing old in.
Lorraine Rominger
#79. I don't have a hands-on fondness for animals. I did not grow up bonded to any particular nonhuman animal. I like them and I pet them and I'm kind to them, but there's no special bond between me and other animals
Wayne Pacelle
#80. When we look at that jingoism and the sexism and the racism and the homophobia, that's not who we are, and that's not the country that I want my daughter to grow up in.
Chelsea Clinton
#81. It was just you had to be strong, and if you weren't strong you're a victim and you're not going to make it. That was the reality when I was growing up.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#82. Is there someone who passively watches his children growing up? We constantly and maximally invest ourselves into our children to realize our vision of happiness. But not for us - for those children. It's not enough that we molest ourselves, so we have to molest the children as well ...
Ruben Papian
#83. Everyone grows old but not everyone grows up.
Maya Angelou
#84. Don't keep running the race of life with the same heavy load of mistakes and indecisiveness! You may grow weary and weary! Mistakes lead to discovery, but not all the time! Mind your mind, and for a moment, realize where you have reach, and drop your loads!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#85. I've struggled so much, growing up, with just feeling that my life is valid because it's not filled with these hyper-dramatic moments, and I think a lot of people of my generation feel that way. We're so inundated with hyper-drama that people crave everyday life.
Ellar Coltrane
#86. On the way home I remembered a bit of old folklore about how to boil a frog. You put it in cold water, then start turning up the heat. If you do it gradually, the frog is too stupid to jump out. I don't know if it's true or not, but I decided it was an excellent metaphor for growing old.
Stephen King
#87. I knew that I did not want to go to that juvenile diversion program because I had an intuitive sense that it would turn me irrevocably into the kind of character that I was now only rehearsing to be.
Gabrielle Hamilton
#88. I am my father's daughter. It was not up to me growing up. I was his hunting and fishing buddy, so I've been shooting my whole life.
Amber Heard
#89. Only ideas keep ideas flowing. When we close our minds to what is new, simply because we decide not to bother with it, we close our minds to our responsibility to ourselves - and to others - to keep on growing.
Joan D. Chittister
#90. Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.
Beverley Mitchell
#91. We can in fact only define a weed, mutatis mutandis, in terms of the well-known definition of dirt - as matter out of place. What we call a weed is in fact merely a plant growing where we do not want it.
Edward James Salisbury
#92. Live life to the fullest. You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece. Laugh some every day. Keep growing, keep dreaming, keep following your heart. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
#93. The coniferous forests of the Yosemite Park, and of the Sierra in general, surpass all others of their kind in America, or indeed the world, not only in the size and beauty of the trees, but in the number of species assembled together, and the grandeur of the mountains they are growing on.
John Muir
#94. I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.
Lamar Hunt
#95. When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.
Jamie Foxx
#96. I was a child during the Lebanese civil war, and I remember Israeli bombardments. So growing up, my view of Israel was completely negative. I'm not coming from a neutral place, but with time, I've had to re-examine my thinking.
Ziad Doueiri
#97. If my son wants to be a pimp when he grows up, that's fine with me. I hope he's a good one and enjoys it and doesn't get caught. I'll support him in this. But if he wants to be a network administrator, he's out of the house and not part of my family.
Steve Wozniak
#98. Many people do not allow their principles to take root, but pull them up every now and then, as children do the flowers they have planted, to see if they are growing.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#99. Because of all the things I've experienced on this journey - shrinking and growing, flying sprites, living chess pieces - not a one of them is more magical than this moment.
A.G. Howard
#100. It's so important to raise people to grow up to be who they are and not be forced to be who they're not. What an awful thing to do to people - it's like being in prison.
Marlo Thomas
