Growing up, politics never trickled down to the areas we come from. But people from Obama's camp, and Obama himself, reached out to me and asked for my help on the campaign. We've sat and had dinner, and we've spoken on the phone. He's a very sharp guy. Very charming. Very cool.
Jay-Z

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.
Richard Wagner

I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up.
Dennis Ritchie

Being a kid and growing up is such a cool part of life.
Devon Werkheiser

C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.
Dennis Ritchie

It's really important to me to keep growing and keep finding new things.
Andrea Martin

The bottom line is the Kiss Army is growing by leaps and bounds.
Ace Frehley

Growing old is not growing up.
Douglas Horton

My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.
Mark Hoppus

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
Joseph Addison

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
Charles Caleb Colton

I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew.
Martin Scorsese

Fashion is in my blood. Growing up, I was always clacking around the house in my mother's shoes.
Sophia Bush

If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older.
Bob Geldof

Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child. It's now gotten very limited. They only make action movies and hard-core exploitation movies. Women get raped; men get shot.
Jessica Hagedorn

I still feel like I have a lot of growing up to do 'til I find the voice. Everybody has their own voice and their own thing they want to say to the world.
Sasha Alexander

Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
Gary Oldman

Intimacy is a wonderful thing. It's frustrating that growing up I thought it was wrong. It isn't. Exploring your sexuality is important when you're growing up.
Amanda Seyfried

Having loved the Stones all the time I was growing up, I wasn't about to see them go and split up. It got very close to it in the 80s, when Mick thought that Keith hated him and vice versa.
Ron Wood

If it's not growing, it's going to die.
Michael Eisner