Grew Quotes - Page 25

• I think my thing is I grew up in the ghetto, and I was able to get a second chance. That's what I'm trying to tell kids.

  Master P

  Kids, Ghetto, Thinking

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• Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition... Today businesses grow through alliances - all kinds of dangerous alliances. Joint ventures and customer partnerings which, by the way, very few people understand.

  Peter Drucker

  Art, War, Two

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• And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Knowledge, Science, Intelligent

  'The Deserted Village' (1770) l. 211

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• Those of us of a certain age grew up expecting that by now we would have Rosie the Robot from 'The Jetsons' in our house. And all we've got is a Roomba.

  Juan Enriquez

  Technology, House, Age

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• I grew up trying to play for the Toronto Maple Leafs, not Team Canada. Didn't even know it existed.

  Adam Oates

  Team, Hockey, Nhl

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• I grew up with a younger brother, so I can get pretty rowdy.

  Sarah Wynter

  Brother, Rowdy, I Can

  Buography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• She bathed with roses red,
  And violets blew.
  And all the sweetest flowres
  That in the forrest grew.

  Edmund Spenser

  Flower, Rose, Red

  Edmund Spenser (2003). “The Faerie Queene”, p.704, Penguin UK

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• If the rose puzzled its mind over the question how it grew, it would not have been the miracle that it is.

  Jack Butler Yeats

  Flower, Rose, Miracle

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• I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.

  Patricia Arquette

  Real, Hippie, Grew Up

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather.

  Margaret Mead

  Grandmother, People, Grandparent

  Margaret Mead (1992). “To Grandmother with Love: A Special Tribute”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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• I grew up in a working class family where there was no health insurance. I saw first hand the fracturing of the American dream and the bitterness that comes when there is no hope and a lot of despair. So I wanted to build the company, in a sense, that my father never got a chance to work for.

  Howard Schultz

  Inspirational, Dream, Father

  "Full of beans" by Terry Macalister, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2004.

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• We both grew into the people we wanted each other to be.

  Alec Baldwin

  People, Aging, Wanted

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• I grew up in front of these people, and now they are seeing me as an 'older' young man.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Men, People

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• I am who I am because of the people who I grew up with and where I'm from.

  Tim Duncan

  Basketball, Who I Am, People

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• I grew up in the heart of the Depression.

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Heart, Grew Up

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• The rivalry between the Lakers and Celtics endured for about eight years, and the interest grew each year.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Eight, Years

  "TalkAsia" with Stan Grant, www.cnn.com. July 8, 2005.

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• Today's parents grew up with the silly notion that music was meant to be heard.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Music, Humorous

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Fatherhood”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• As I grew older, I came to feel more responsible for any hardship or trouble my career caused my family.

  Annette Funicello

  Careers, Hardship, Trouble

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• The magnet's name the observing Grecians drew. From the magnetic region where it grew.

  William Gilbert

  Science, Names, Growth

  William Gilbert (2015). “On The Magnet”, p.20, Lulu.com

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• Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say; But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia.

  Robert Herrick

  Rubies, Lips, Jewelry

  Robert Herrick, J. N., John NOTT (M.D., of Bristol.) (1810). “Select Poems from the Hesperides, ... with ... remarks by J. N[ott], etc”, p.13

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• In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great man knew not that he was great. It took a century or two for that fact to appear. What he did, he did, he did because he must; it was the most natural thing in the world, and grew out of the circumstances of the moment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Two, Depth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.158, Penguin

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• I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Science, Two, Experience

  "World Authors 1950 - 1970". Book by John Wakeman, 1975.

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• We do two shows a night for five weeks. A lotta times we'll go upstairs and sing until daylight - gospel songs. We grew up with it...It more or less puts your mind at ease. It does mine.

  Elvis Presley

  Song, Night, Two

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• When I grew up in Flatbush, 'we played football, stickball and baseball all the time, right out there on the city streets. Football was my favorite.

  Sid Luckman

  Baseball, Football, Cities

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• I grew up in a makeup chair, to see! the women around me getting ready was so aspirational, It is about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table.

  Drew Barrymore

  Mothers Day, Girl, Mom

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