Quotes About Growth

I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.

I just planted the family vegetables yesterday. You name it, I grow it.

They had nothing to say to each other. A five-year age gap between siblings is like a garden that needs constant attention. Even three months apart allows the weeds to grow up between you.

Within the stability of a family struggle, when there's less chaos, you can have the most soul-searching and the most digging to find out what and who you really are.

From the psychological jousting between sisters in the early family arena emerge the first tentative boundaries of their personalities.

The audience and I are friends. They allowed me to grow up with them. I've let them down several times. They've let me down several times. But we're all family.

I truly feel the best doctors are ones who are criticized by nurses, patients and family. They do not make excuses and learn from their mistakes.

I want to push myself to be brave and out of my comfort zone, but I guess I stay in my comfort zone knowing I have my family close by.

I sacrificed a lot, in terms of friendship and family, from working so much at such a young age, but I wouldn't be where I am if I hadn't.

Family is the last and greatest discovery. It is our last miracle.

What has changed for me is that I now have a huge family [Lightfoot has four children, from his first two marriages] - the result of my living.

I think of my business and investments as extension of my family.

Vulnerability and me go hand and hand now. I try to put myself first so that I can take care of my family so I try not to fight vulnerability as much now.

Truths are the last thing you learn about your family. By the time you learn, you're no longer their child.

I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself. . .

I think growing up in a big family taught me a lot of problem solving and how to share and compromise, and that's been helpful in my marriage.

You learn to read in kindergarten or first grade, and suddenly there's this other world that isn't your family or your school or your friends. It's something else.

All Church activities, advancements, quorums, and classes are means to the end of an exalted family.

The introduction of heartache began as a child.

The cool thing for me about moving to New York was that I got to create a new family.

The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps.

Whatever role we were in our family of birth, we take on this persona and in your 20s and 30s in particular, you end up thinking that's you and that isn't necessarily you.

You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being, and that of your family and your country.

I'm focusing on my family, raising my family, and staying blessed.