Becoming Quotes

Becoming a CoverGirl is truly an honor and a gift. It opens up a new platform for me to inspire women to feel stronger, braver and more beautiful inside and out.
Janelle Monae

Women, Beautiful, Honor

The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it's about self-revelation, becoming who you are.
Baz Luhrmann

Dream, Ugly, Universal

Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction.
Arthur Keith

Nature, Experience, Mind

It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms.
Arthur Keith

Find, Difficult, Changing

Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without becoming something else.
William Petersen

Trying, Dark, Else

I know there are lots of positives in the evolution of technology, but I also think it will be responsible for the end of a unique character, of a specific kind of geographical culture. The world is getting so small, and mass production is getting so big. Everything is in danger of becoming the same.
Laura Marling

Technology, Character, End

Youngsters have got to stop thinking about becoming the next Zuckerberg. It's a trillion-to-one chance. What they need is mater and pater to say, 'Get a job, son.'
Alan Sugar

Job, Thinking, Son

I believe employment regulations for women, whereby the prospective employer is not able to inquire about the interviewee's status regarding children, childcare, or indeed their intention of becoming a parent, are counterproductive.
Alan Sugar

Women, Children, Able

As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Become, Rather, Idea

Ever since going up to university, I have accumulated new debt, and new means of becoming indebted.
Michael Gove

Means, Since, Debt

I felt no stigma whatsoever in becoming the third Mrs. Gifford.
Kathie Lee Gifford

Felt, Third, Stigma

Laboring men can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers.
Leland Stanford

Men, Themselves, Office

I am scared of becoming a mother.
Liv Tyler

It felt natural. That is what I remember most about becoming a father halfway through my 20s. As if Mother Nature was giving me the big thumbs up.
Tony Parsons

Nature, Mother, Father

As you get older, the physical abilities decrease, which is particularly frustrating because your brain gets so good! So as you are becoming less technically or physically able, younger dancers are emerging who need the space to perform.
Deborah Bull

Good, Brain, Able

Joint-stock companies are yet in their infancy, and incorporated capital, instead of being a thing which can be overturned, is a thing which is becoming more and more indispensable.
William Graham Sumner

Capital, Companies, Infancy

I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.
Barbara Walters

Success, Religion, Time

The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.
Karl Liebknecht

Revolution, Whole, Cause

The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary.
Robert Falcon Scott

Forget, Effort, Events

I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.
Felix Baumgartner

Good, Sure, Percent

A hallmark of the Latino community is to help one another, if students are interested in a way to give back and help their communities, becoming a teacher is probably one of the very best ways of doing that.
Ellen Ochoa

Best, Teacher, Help

Becoming a mother was the single defining event of my life. It felt like the whole world shifted.
Debra Messing

Life, Mother, Single

Becoming a vampire is forever. You don't get to change your mind about it later. For me, I think that's one of the big drawbacks with anything that's permanent. How do you know how you're going to feel in five years or 10 years? Even with a tattoo.
Stephenie Meyer

Change, Mind, Big

I was an actor before becoming a comedian.
Shelley Berman

Before, Actor, Comedian

I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid.
Brian May

Chance, Getting, Less

But I'll tell you something: We had a big family discussion about it recently, my two sisters and I, and I pointed out that we all have the same genes as our mother and we're all susceptible to becoming alcoholics.
Payne Stewart

Family, Mother, Two

America is becoming more and more dependent upon imports from foreign manufacturers than we are exports from our country in all fields: in appliances, in clothing, even food. This year America may become for the first time in its history a net food importer.
Marcy Kaptur

Time, History, Food

When you reach a certain level, you live in a bubble when all you think, dream and breathe is becoming the best athlete in the world.
Katarina Witt

Best, Live, Dream

Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.
David Guterson

Time, Money, Teacher

Becoming an actress takes a lot longer than being a star. I don't want to be a star. I want to be an actress. I want to build a career.
Carol Alt

Career, Star, Takes

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