Economic inequality is less troubling if you live in a country where any child, no matter how humble his or her origins, can grow up to be president. – Timothy Noah
The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I diversify, the more I become like my father, which is true to who he was. – Ziggy Marley
We remain in Iraq because we know that sometimes liberty needs some nursing before it can grow on its own. – Virginia Foxx
I realized there was very little in Hollywood I would ever feel comfortable doing. If I kept one foot there and one foot in my Christianity, I would never grow. – Willie Aames
If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder. – William Greider
I couldn’t do my show without spending 12 years on the streets of Humboldt Park. It made me a better interrogator. Still, if they had taken me out of my squad car and gave me a show, I would’ve been terrible. But on ‘Springer,’ the spotlight was on Jerry and I got to grow up within the show. – Steve Wilkos
I believe the challenge the city faces is attracting continued development into the inner and western part of Jersey City. Nobody should be left behind as Jersey City continues to prosper and grow. – Vincent Frank
There’s a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you’d grow weary. – Trevor Dunn
It would have been nice for Greg to eventually grow into a mature relationship with Laura. He was moving toward that already but then took a turn into the juvenile with Paige. – William Devane
I got bullied a lot when I was a kid, and because of that I thought for the most part that I didn’t really have a childhood – I had to grow up so quick and there was no real enjoyment in that for me. – Shane Koyczan
The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture. – Sam Kean
I thought if I could understand why apes get mean and horrible and aggressive when they grow up, maybe I could understand why people get mean and horrible and aggressive and have wars. – Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
You’ll find as you grow older that you weren’t born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up. – William Dean Howells
I don’t think that left to its own devices, capitalism moves along smoothly and everyone gets treated fairly in the process. Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody’s got to look over the shoulder of that child. – Tavis Smiley
I embrace the PKI because it is a revolutionary force. PKI go forward. PKI never retreat. PKI grow. PKI be strong. Onward. – Sukarno
I don’t think patience is something that any of us grow up with in a large dose. It’s a world of instant gratification. – Tim Cope
There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access. – Vint Cerf
Usually, with me, the project is always the second thing. The film-maker comes first. Films grow out of the relationship. – Tilda Swinton
Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn’t belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great? – Sam Ervin
You can take the boy out of Philly but not the Philly out of the boy. It shapes my world view. It was a great place to grow up. – Steve Capus
We know cancer is caused ultimately via a link between the environment and genes. There are genes inside cells that tell cells to grow and the same genes tell cells to stop growing. When you deregulate these genes, you unleash cancer. Now, what disrupts these genes? Mutations. – Siddhartha Mukherjee
I always find it actually funny that the analysis is that the characters I play in comedies are the manchild, the adolescent, characters that refuse to grow up. And yet, if you look back in the history of comedy all the way back to the Marx brothers, that’s a big part of comedy. – Will Ferrell
You didn’t grow up in the shadow of John Steinbeck. He put you on his shoulders and gave you all the light you wanted. – Thomas Steinbeck
I’m in a position now where I can play certain roles and when I get older, I won’t be able to. So, I don’t have a strategy of trying to grow up too quick, I just want to kind of look at everything. – Tom Welling
I find it hard to be labelled in this new ‘super-rich’ category because we all grew up with very little. The idea that ‘to get rich is glorious’ is really a new phenomenon. I certainly didn’t grow up like that. – Zhang Xin
If you play it safe in life you’ve decided that you don’t want to grow any more. – Shirley Hufstedler