I really did grow up in a world where we were taught that crime doesn’t pay and we stood up when the teacher came into the room. – Stanley R. Jaffe
When a wall is slowly covered over by earth, the materials it’s made from decay and become part of the soils around and above it, sometimes causing vegetation above and next to the wall to grow faster or slower. Satellite imagery helps archaeologists to pick up these subtle changes. – Sarah Parcak
I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something. – Stephen Fry
I didn’t grow up with a mother, so I don’t have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions. – Vanessa Lachey
Outsourcing was the bogeyman of the ’90s. Protectionists portrayed it as an evil that would take American jobs away. Yes, some jobs did go offshore as people feared, but it made the global economic pie grow bigger. – Vivek Wadhwa
Unlike other diseases, the vulnerability to cancer lies in ourselves. We always thought of disease as exogenous, but research into cancer has turned that idea on its head – as long as we live, grow, age, there will be cancer. – Siddhartha Mukherjee
It turns out that the very genes that turn on in cancer cells perform vital functions in normal cells. In other words, the very genes that allow our embryos to grow or our brains to grow, our bodies to grow, if you mutate them, if you distort them, then you unleash cancer. – Siddhartha Mukherjee
All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene. – William Ellery Channing
I guess some kids around me had to grow up quickly, had all those problems. But I wasn’t one of those kids, or around those kids, not at all. – Venus Williams
Not having a father is big. You need guidance. I know, personally, when my father died, I needed guidance; I needed somebody to show me how to be a man, how to grow up, basically how to do the right thing. – Stefon Diggs
The fact that you can remember yesterday but not tomorrow is because of entropy. The fact that you’re always born young and then you grow older, and not the other way around like Benjamin Button – it’s all because of entropy. So I think that entropy is underappreciated as something that has a crucial role in how we go through life. – Sean M. Carroll
Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction. – Theodor Adorno
As I’m starting to grow up, and things are happening, I’m going to have to take off my pants, and I want to have on some attractive underwear. When it says Versace on your underwear, people will say, ‘Man, he’s fresh to his undies.’ – Shameik Moore
When the banks grow to or when these financial institutions grow to such a size that they can’t sustain themselves, or what have you, they have problems, economic problems, or financial problems, they shouldn’t be able to look back to you and I, the taxpayer, to be bailed out. – Scott Garrett
I’m just doing the best I can now to keep this going… trying to grow up and remain young at the same time. – Stevie Ray Vaughan
Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn’t happen. – Steven Wright
Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, – till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another. – Thomas Carlyle
My goal is not necessarily to be an inspiration. I think, if anything, I want to continue to be inspired and to continue to grow as a person. – Tracee Ellis Ross
I grew up in Colorado – went back there, tried to heal myself and grow and learn, then got a call that David Lynch wanted me to fly back to Seattle so he could meet me for Twin Peaks. – Sheryl Lee
You need some inequality to grow… but extreme inequality is not only useless but can be harmful to growth because it reduces mobility and can lead to political capture of our democratic institutions. – Thomas Piketty
Did we not all grow up saying we had to have four glasses of whole milk a day for healthy bones? It’s ridiculous. It’s liquid cholesterol. – Steve Wynn
I think that most New Yorkers would object to calling me a New Yorker. I didn’t grow up here. – Sloane Crosley
How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy – I want to talk about the movie in a second – but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time? – Tavis Smiley
We’re going to move from a commodity economy where you basically grow the same kind of crops – where a kernel of corn is a kernel of corn is a kernel of corn – to an ingredient economy where there will be a kernel of corn that will be designed for fuel, there will be a kernel of corn designed for livestock. – Tom Vilsack
I’ve opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people. – Ziggy Marley