Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me.
Loretta Lynn

You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.
Loretta Lynn

You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up.
Dylan Moran

The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you're a farmer and you're growing a genetically engineering food crop, those genes are going to flow to the other farm.
Jeremy Rifkin

I surrounded myself with women when I was growing up because I had this horrible psycho father. Now I'm trying to really appreciate and like men more.
Courtney Love

The Sierra Club is a very good and a very powerful force for conservation and, as a matter of fact, has grown faster since I left than it was growing while I was there! It must be doing something right.
David R. Brower

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
Washington Irving

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
Matthew Arnold

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

David and Dad didn't get along too well growing up. I mean we all got along, but it was harder on David, because David wasn't going to be the son that Dad wanted. But now they're like best friends.
Amy Sedaris

Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.
Maya Lin

With a growing population, there is a growing need for more water delivery and storage.
Joe Baca

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

What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
Beverly Cleary

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
Beverly Cleary

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

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

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

Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star. We had no idea that other people would think we were special, because there was no other lifestyle to compare it to.
Liza Minnelli

Growing old is not growing up.
Douglas Horton