![My father actually lived next door to Hobie Alter [creator of the Hobie catamarans]. So growing up, we had prototypes and experimental things that we could play with; it was just fabulous. I actually bought my first surfboard in junior high. I saved my money.](/assets/img/quote-photos/my-father-actually-lived-next-door-to-hobie-alter-creator-of-the-hobie-catamaran.jpg)
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growing-up hero past
Growing up, you look at guys like Jeff Thomson as heroes, so going past him is pretty special. Brett Lee
growing-up children silly
A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things. Janet Jackson
growing-up white america
Growing up in America, I never really appreciated my culture. I knew what being Hispanic was, but I thought that since I didn't look Hispanic, I was white. Demi Lovato
growing-up everyday generations
When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got from our lives the better our lives would get, I thought, because persecution had been such a burden to Jewish families for generations. Bruce Feiler
growing-up bees idiot
I would have been a lot better off if I’d studied more when I was growing up, y’know. But you know where it all went wrong was the day they started the spelling bee. Because up until that day I was an idiot, but nobody else knew. Brian Regan
growing-up children parenting
If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up. Charles Spurgeon
growing-up children thinking
We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to be a child. If we merely look to the end of the process, the purpose of life is death Alexander Herzen
growing-up book ambition
When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like ants. Writers are not hard to kill either. But not books: however systematically you try to destroy them, there is always a chance that a copy will survive and continue to enjoy a shelf-life in some corner on an out-of-the-way library somehwere in Reykjavik, Valladolid or Vancouver. Amos Oz
growing-up real reading
While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that suspects those who read too much, whatever reading too much means, of being lazy, aimless dreamers, people who need to grow up and come outside to where real life is, who think themselves superior in their separateness. Anna Quindlen
fathers quite teens
I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar. Kazuo Ishiguro
father boys years
It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different. Alan Vega
father order able
In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he. Denis Diderot
father saw seen time twice
I only saw my father twice a year. If I'd seen him all the time I'd probably have murdered him by now. He was very strict. Joe Strummer
father government mind
In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public mind rested in the belief that it was in the course of ultimate extinction . . . . All I have asked or desired anywhere, is that it should be placed back again upon the basis that the Fathers of our government originally placed it upon. Abraham Lincoln
father eight
I've been estranged from my father since I was eight. Anna Torv
father kids thinking
I really have been enjoying performing more lately than I have in a long time and you know, it's all about that sort of centered feeling that I have now. You know, thanks to, not just my kid, but her father before her. You know, I have a kind of a grounding through them that I really relish, and I think is also good for my work, you know. Ani Difranco
father elephants circus
Kat had been picking things up since her third birthday, when Hamish and Angus's father took them all to the circus because he needed to "borrow" an elephant. Ally Carter
father years firsts
It was the first time in years I didn’t wonder if my father was out there, looking at it too.
doors answers knocking
When you hear fear knocking on the door, most of the time when you answer it there’s nothing there. It’s just you holding yourself back. Brad Goreski
doors waiting soul
Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls. Dean Koontz
doors people want
...I also have an extended family. The people who stayed. The people who became more than friends; the people who open the door when I knock. That's what it all boils down to. The people who have to open the door, not because they always want to but because they do. Diane Keaton
doors darkness heard
And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you"— here I opened wide the door; — Darkness there, and nothing more. Edgar Allan Poe
doors needs force
Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most. Victor Hugo
doors enemy gregor-the-overlander
Doors are for those who lack enemies. Suzanne Collins
doors darkness perception
There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception. Stephen King
doors house giants
There were doors that looked like large keyholes, others that resembled the entrances to caves, there were golden doors, some were padded and some were studded with nails, some were paper-thin and others as thick as the doors of treasure houses; there was one that looked like a giant's mouth and another that had to be opened like a drawbridge, one that suggested a big ear and one that was made of gingerbread, one that was shaped like an oven door, and one that had to be unbuttoned.
doors house grades
I was in seventh grade, and getting a part in Full House was huge. It opened so many doors for me. Marla Sokoloff