They Grow Up Fast Quotes

#1. The Rule of 72 is useful in determining how fast money will grow. Take the annual return from any investment, expressed as a percentage, and divide it into 72. The result is the number of years it will take to double your money.

Peter Lynch

#2. Beards grow out so fast that if you shave every day, there isn't much of a window for anyone to use them against you - and shaved stubble is too diffuse to make a decent channel anyway.

Jim Butcher

#3. Kids these days," Dragos said quietly. "They grow up so fast."
"Supersonic fast," Pia said just as quietly.

Thea Harrison

#4. I've never wanted to grow up too fast. I wanted to wear a sports bra until I was 22! ... The allure of being sexy never really held any excitement for me. I've never been in a terrible rush to be seen as a woman.

Emma Watson

#5. Rumors spread fast, and they grow. I know. You want to either deny them, or disarm them

L.J.Smith

#6. The Council of American Builders met once a month and engaged in no tangible activity beyond listening to speeches and sipping an inferior brand of root beer. Its membership did not grow fast in quantity or quality. There were no concrete results achieved.

Ayn Rand

#7. If you're an athlete and you completely focus on the body, you're missing other components. Similarly, if you're trying to broaden your mind but not also being attentive to your sense of humour and your spirit, then you're not going to grow and develop so fast.

Aimee Mullins

#8. I think the big thing about Groupon is just people had never seen anything grow quite so fast.

Andrew Mason

#9. I think being young in a grownup world, I think it stunted me a little bit. I had to grow up too fast on the outside, but I didn't get to grow up on the inside in the way that you might if you're allowed to fail more.

Laura Benanti

#10. It's exciting to see how fast your kids learn and grow. I'm not too worried about them, particularly the ones who like to break rules and don't follow instructions; those are the ones that will do just fine because they know what's important to them.

Michael Dell

#11. I don't believe in public companies ... I would prefer to risk my own money, make any necessary changes fast and grow as quickly as possible.

Roustam Tariko

#12. I wish I could freeze time or go back in time and watch my kids grow up all over again because it is just going by too fast.

Robert Rodriguez

#13. There's a harsh reality - nothing lasts forever. You have to be ready to grow, and grow fast.

Pras Michel

#14. Over the last 10-15 years, you've seen soccer finally start to grow at a fast pace, start to get the recognition it deserves, and I think it has to do with all of the people who come to America from foreign countries.

Claudio Reyna

#15. Dedicated to readers like Penryn who have it tough at home, who had to grow up fast due to life circumstances, and who have no idea how much potential they really have. You are being fire forged, just like Penryn. And like her, you can turn your greatest trials into your greatest strengths.

Susan Ee

#16. Paradox Walnut: Burbank took a slow growing Walnut tree and made it grow fast, thus the name "Paradox".

Museum thought it was dead and cut off a branch. It was alive. OOPS!

Diana Hollingsworth Gessler

#17. If your goal is anything but profitability - if it's to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader - you'll hit problems.

Michael Porter

#18. So to all who are situated as I am, I would say
Grow up as fast as you can.

Randolph Bourne

#19. Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.

Samuel Rutherford

#20. But there's nothing like your first {child}. They grow up so fast.

Garth Stein

#21. When Asian people grow up fast they go to college at 13. White people grow up fast it's about fudge packing and triple D's at 13.

Adam Carolla

#22. Mom puts her hand on Elsa's hand, and inhales deeply from the point where they are touching, as if trying to fill her lungs with Elsa. As mums do with daughters who grow up too fast.

Fredrik Backman

#23. Did you indeed?" said Ripred. "It seems like only yesterday you were a baby bouncing on your grandpa's knee. And now you're starting wars. They grow up so fast.

Suzanne Collins

#24. Football is not played with strong arms and fast feet, it's played with heart. Grow your heart and your arms and feet will follow ... You play long enough and you might find yourself in a place where your arms and feet fail you ... That's when you find out what's in your heart.

Charles Martin

#25. It's disturbing how fast weeds take root in my garden of worthiness.
They're so hard to pull.
And grow back so easily.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#26. Either you get a chance to be a kid when you are a kid, or you don't grow up.

Howard Fast

#27. When the developed grow fast, the developing grow fast, and when the developed slow down, the developing slow down.

Arthur Lewis

#28. An unhappy childhood is supposed to make you grow up fast, but I still feel like a kid a lot of the time.

Holly Black

#29. I'd somehow always expected love to be primarily a mental state, so I still felt unaccustomed to the physical manifestation of my feelings for her: the way my stomach would grow tight, the way my chest would press in, my heart pounding blood hard and fast through my arteries.

Christina Lauren

#30. You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party ... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#31. From a personal standpoint, I'd say that, yeah, seeing how quickly children grow, you realize how fast life goes by.

Mark Romanek

#32. Don't be afraid to write bad songs and then start over and re-evaluate. Songs are like plants, in that you grow them. Some grow really fast, and others need pruning and care ... And, finally, a song needs to move you. If it doesn't move you, it will never move anybody else.

Corey Harris

#33. Where do I get my seriousness? You can't help but grow up fast when your parents get divorced. You see your mother go to get food stamps and she's making fifty dollars too much to get them, with four kids to support.

Tom Cruise

#34. We live in a world of entertainment in full color with a lot of fast action, a world in which many children grow up thinking that if it isn't fun, it is boring and not worthwhile. Even in family activities we need to strike a balance between play and work.

Joe J. Christensen

#35. Eventually, however, the denial turned into emptiness and my childhood ended.

Floyd C. Forsberg

#36. And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#37. Then of thy beauty do I question make,
That thou among the wastes of time must go,
Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake,
And die as fast as they see others grow.

William Shakespeare

#38. Albert Einstein was never clear if he believed in time travel, but had he raised a toddler, he certainly would have.

Michael R. French

#39. I always wanted to grow up fast. I longed for more than the Mississippi Delta could give.

Charley Pride

#40. Your prosperity will only grow as fast as you do.

Randy Gage

#41. We want to gently remind people that we don't have forever. In my work, I hear parents complain all the time that their children grow up so fast. But they don't take the time to sit down and talk to each other. The last bastion of getting together is around the table.

Leo Buscaglia

#42. Children grow fast in this low gravity. But they don't age so quickly - they'll live longer than we do. Floyd stared in fascination at the self-assured little lady, noting the graceful carriage and the unusually delicate bone structure.

Arthur C. Clarke

#43. Gold and silver grow, and so does every other kind of metal, the same as the hair upon my head, or the wheat in the field; they do not grow as fast, but they are all the time composing or decomposing

Brigham Young

#44. I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year.

Michael F. Easley

#45. Girls are under enormous pressures rarely experienced by their mothers, grandmothers, and other women in previous generations. Today's little girls are being enticed to grow up too fast and are encountering challenges for which they are totally unprepared.

James C. Dobson

#46. Indian manufacturing is constrained in its growth by the fact that it just can't ship goods in and out fast enough to compete with Chinese delivery time. India needs to really focus on this aspect if it is going to grow at anything above 7 percent.

Arjuna Mahendran

#47. When I am really alone some power seems to grow in me ... Conjugality made me think of a three-legged race, where two people cannot go fast and keep tripping each other because their two legs are tied together.

Brenda Ueland

#48. There were six kids in our family, and I grew up fast. I had to do a lot of things on my own. I was a rebellious teenager. That's why coming into the film business was good for me because it gave me some discipline. Once I became an actor, I had to grow up a little more.

Matt Dillon