Quotes About Watching You Grow Up

#1. My favorite thing about coaching? Teaching. Being around young people, just watching a player grow and develop. You know, a young man comes in with dreams and goals and ambitions and just helping him reach (them). It's like your dad watching you grow up and like me watching my boys grow.

Tubby Smith

#2. Watching children grow up, you learn a lot about life and about being a better person - you learn a lot about what's really important in the world and what isn't.

Sharon Stone

#3. I didn't grow up watching a lot of TV.

Diane Kruger

#4. I didn't grow up watching detective shows. I've never even seen an episode of 'CSI.'

Cary Fukunaga

#5. There is a report that says that kids who watch violent TV programs tend to be more violent when they grow up. But did the TV cause the violence, or do violent children preferentially enjoy watching violent programs?

Carl Sagan

#6. I kept watching the trees, as if I could see them grow or something. They didn't. The only thing that grew was their shadows.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#7. I missed the joy of seeing our children grow and change. I thank God for watching over them during those years.

Billy Graham

#8. Sometimes friends do go from us-it will happen more and more as you grow up, Chugg. But if you really love your friends, they're never really gone. Somewhere they're watching over you and they're always there inside your heart.
-Martin

Brian Jacques

#9. What's changed? I'm a dad. That's fundamental. Watching your kids grow, you go back a bit. You can watch a bug crawling around for minutes at a time
just sit and marvel at its complexity, the utter bugness of it. I've learned to do that again.

Bob Weir

#10. The more people who come from abroad who played soccer and are brought up playing it and watching it, then come over to America and bring what they know and what they play, that's how the sport will grow.

Claudio Reyna

#11. A woman's life isn't worth a plateful of cabbage if she hasn't felt life stir under her heart. Taking a little one to nurse, watching him grow to manhood, that's what love is.

Carol Shields

#12. I love helping entrepreneurs. It's something I really have fun doing. It's like planting a little seed and watching it grow. Any time I can help somebody, that's a good thing. It's fun. If I get to make some money at it, it's even better.

Mark Cuban

#13. Katie is like my calendar, watching her grow
and change. She is growing up so fast, learning to have opinions of her own,
learning that I don't have the answers to everything. And the moment a child
begins to understand that, you know you're in trouble.

Cecelia Ahern

#14. I did grow up watching Buck Rogers and Buck Rogers didn't stop at Mars. In my lifetime, I will be incredibly disappointed if we have not at least reached Mars.

Charles Bolden

#15. I stay where I am, watching as she lies down on her belly and scoots under the bed beside me. I imagine how different this would feel if we were both on top of the bed instead of underneath it, how easily something childlike could grow adult possibilities.

Stacey Jay

#16. Watching something grow is good for morale. It helps us believe in life.

Myron Kaufmann

#17. I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.

Vera Farmiga

#18. I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.

Fleur East

#19. Grey eyes that grow sadder than sunset or rain,
Fond heart that is ever more true
Firm faith that grows firmer for watching in vain---
She'll wait by the sliprails for you.

Henry Lawson

#20. Happy Days was about a family ... although the show was shot in the 70s, it was about a family in the 50s. I realized that kids were watching their parents grow up and the parents were watching themselves grow up. That was the key to the success of our show.

Tom Bosley

#21. I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.

Jodi Picoult

#22. In Canada you grow up - we're next to the United States. We're watching whatever you're watching. We're following your news. It's obvious that we are inundated with American cultural information and political information. Whereas the opposite is not true.

Rick Mercer

#23. And I grew up watching all the British ones so when you hear that from an early age, it makes it much easier than you guys who don't grow up with Australian television or British television.

Rachel Griffiths

#24. You grow up watching certain films or admiring certain filmmakers, and to write a love letter to one and have them validate it, it's extraordinary.

Simon Pegg

#25. Ah, dear, sweet Eden. To quote the great Rhett Butler, you need to be fucked and by someone who knows how."
"What version of Gone with the Wind did you grow up watching?"
"There are a lot of liberties taken with Spanish subtitles.

Karina Halle

#26. Has it ever occurred to you that married couples endure watching their spouses grow old and feeble and senile all the time? That it's part of marriage? A hard part, to be sure, but not so hard that one just gives up on the institution altogether.

Sabrina Jeffries

#27. I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal.

Jennifer Connelly

#28. I think that kids need to grow up watching what I grew up watching - great entertainment; you know, Judy Garland and all these musicals that bring song and dance and acting all together in a polished way.

Tammy Blanchard

#29. If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That's why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat.

Lewis Black

#30. Care for your infant business or career as you would care for your infant child - with loving attention, with no expectation of any reward, being in the moment with it, accepting it as is, watching it grow, enjoying every step of the way.

Marc Allen

#31. Life involves effort and growth. You won't grow by watching a situation comedy, though you can grow by reading a book. I hope we aren't becoming a nation of watchers, because what made us great is that we've always been a nation of doers.

Ronald Reagan

#32. I hate baseball. It's dull. Nothing happens. It's like watching grass - no, Astroturf - grow

Jeff Jarvis

#33. I had a somewhat religious upbringing. Not strict, but it was there, and I'm kind of thankful for that. If you grow up just watching MTV, that's its own form of religion, and it's not even based on happiness or communal responsibility. I mean, try to construct a worldview out of that.

Win Butler

#34. The best part was watching Journey grow into this monster. The band was huge, playing these enormous gigs.

Neal Schon

#35. For me the genre of romance is about the characters. It's about following a journey between two people and watching them grow and develop and have their lives change for the better because of their presence in each other's world.

Samantha Young

#36. We're also talking a lot in the room about planting seeds that can grow over the course of the season, knowing that people might be watching them in bulk. We'd like to bury some Easter eggs and let people find them, later on.

Jenji Kohan

#37. I didn't grow up watching TV or going to McDonald's or listening to mainstream music. Like, the casting agents are looking elsewhere for the cheerleader role.

Summer Phoenix

#38. I think that people get experiences, and out of those experiences come meaning and ideas. It's like watching a rose bush grow.

Rachel Naomi Remen

#39. It's not that I want money. It's the fun of making money and watching it grow.

Warren Buffett

#40. Who didn't grow up through the '90s watching 'Friends?'

Josh Hopkins

#41. Somebody like Bowie was so interesting because when you got him off stage, he was like a businessman. But on stage, he was just dazzling. It was like watching butterflies grow.

D. A. Pennebaker

#42. How many millennia had she witnessed? Watching people, loved ons, be bron, live, grow and die was at once a thought of wonder and infinite sadness.

G.R. Matthews

#43. If I say a word that is angry, he explained, then I should never be surprised by the harm. And if I say something good, then it is like watching my own garden grow, and that is the greatest pleasure ever.

Marina Budhos

#44. Wisdom is rooted in watching with affection the way people grow.

Confucius

#45. Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.

Paul Samuelson

#46. I'd love to star in a television series of my own. I love the idea of living with a character for a number of years, watching him grow.

Michael Dorn

#47. I'm a family guy. A lot of my songs are inspired by my kids. Simple relationships. Watching them grow up, watching them share experiences with me and vice versa.

Five For Fighting

#48. Growing up watching friends grow, from friends to lovers. Opens the eyes of many every time. Proving in this lifetime, real love still lives.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#49. There was no football on TV, which meant that I was reduced to watching cricket, which is about as interesting as watching grass grow. Thankfully they had introduced Twenty20 cricket, which was a lot faster paced and more interesting. It was more like watching grass get watered. I

Renae Kaye

#50. I would love to get a place out in the country and spend my idle time just remodeling and planting seeds and watching them grow.

Joe Lando

#51. There is no comfort in change But also no learning in the Steady drone of peace. There will be no greater sorrow Than watching you go - Except for watching you grow old And tired here - Clarity awaits Elsewhere

S.D. Perry

#52. On snowboarding as an Olympic sport: Since I was 6 years old I've been in the mix and watching this grow and change. I never would have expected it to go this far.

Shaun White

#53. If the content is sufficiently engrossing, however, you don't need wraparound deep-immersion goggles to shut out the world. You grow your own. You are there. Watching the content you most want to see, you see nothing else.

William Gibson

#54. Unfortunately for humanity, God is patient enough to actually enjoy watching the grass grow.

A.E. Samaan