Quotes about Personal Growth

She became a very famous, very popular young girl. Before that, she was my daughter, but now I'm her father.

When I got this role, my daughter Molly said, 'Dad, you've come full circle.

I think sometimes parents and teachers fail to stretch kids. My mother had a very good sense of how to stretch me just slightly outside my comfort zone.

You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.

My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, okay, if I really focus and become a key player in business, then I can build an empire.

My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play regularly for pleasure and have even tried my hand at composing.

I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me.

Conversations with my mother, father, my grandparents, as I've grown up have obviously driven me towards wanting to try and make a difference as much as possible.

Can you cook books and feed them to your husband? Stay at home with your mother. Learn to cook and clean. Grow vegetables.

I didn't know that my sister was really my mother until I was thirty-seven years old. But life has taught me that there have been a lot of things that I didn't know.

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy.

If Terri was upset about how silly she would look, her mother was completely undone. Seems she wanted Terri in her full natural bloom, not with any blooming flower.

She's been through growing up without a mother & makes my heart all of a sudden.

I really felt the growth of myself as a human being, as a person [becoming a mother].

My mother really wanted me to be in possibly a beauty pageant, not only for if I could win, but it helped improve my self-image because of trauma in my childhood and other issues.

when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.

I grew up in a modern business environment and did not experience the kind of prejudice that my mother and grandfather experienced.

Oh my God — I'm turning into my mother!

My daughter has always had a strong sense of her own identity. From the day she was born her father and I were in love with and in awe of her and still are.

I'm not giving any guidance, OK. I mean, you know, mothers are not supposed to give guidance, right? Anyway, so he's [Sean] doing his own thing.

When I said, "I am my mother, but I'm not," I was saying my path would be my own.

Then I became a mother and it just fills every space, that isn't filled with something else important. It's just like this incredible balloon that blows up and fills life up.

All limitations are self-imposed.