![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 agency yes-you-can
I started a modeling agency and I had it for about five and a half years and it was the same time I was actually working with the WWE and doing SmackDown. It was really the same principles; because me growing up I didn't have the support, I wasn't told, yes you can do that; you can do anything you want if you put your mind to it. Amy Weber
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
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 lay life
As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
father son struck
Diogenes struck the father when the son swore Robert Burton
father rose wish
I said: "He cannot be so bad if he loves roses so much." "But he is a Beast," said Father helplessly. I saw that he was weakening, and wishing only to comfort him I said, "Cannot a Beast be tamed? Robin McKinley
father grace shown
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father friend jazz latin learned
I started on timbales. I had a friend who had a little Latin jazz band. His father made the timbales for us, so I learned to play on them.
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 needs hundred
You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more Bob Dylan
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 house likes
No one likes the house next door to look worse or a lot better than his own. Andy Rooney
doors needs sometimes
Sometimes you just need to go through a door. Ransom Riggs
doors knowing way
Actions are the doors and windows of being. Unless we act, we have no way of knowing what we are. Thomas Merton
doors phones people
There are some people that will not pick up a phone and call you, but if you knock on a door and talk to them, they'll talk back to you. Steve Martin