![[On growing up in a large family with little money:] ... to take a bath ... we just had a pan of water and we'd wash down as far as possible, and we'd wash up as far as possible. Then, when somebody'd clear the room, we'd wash possible.](/assets/img/quote-photos/on-growing-up-in-a-large-family-with-little-money-to-take-a-bath-we-ju.jpg)
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growing-up thinking black
I can't eat beans - all beans. I think because I'm half Cuban. So growing up, we were always eating black beans and rice, and I think I just said, 'Enough with it,' and I can't even stand to taste it anymore. Ryan Lochte
growing-up doors next
Growing up, there was always music around, whether across the street, or on the next-door neighbor's stereo. So, as in life, music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion. Music is amazing. Tyler Perry
growing-up want honest
When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen. Richard M. Nixon
growing-up police groups
I'm from Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. So, you grow up around police officers. Some of them are in your family, some of them you have encounters with. I had a young police officer we were friends with in our group. Tracy Morgan
growing-up thinking accepting
Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up. Robert Smith
growing-up school acting
Acting was my after-school activity. I never planned on growing up and becoming an actor. Sara Paxton
growing-up writing loss
She knew the intensity of adolescence, and knew no cure for it except growing up. And then one has age and experience, and mourns the loss of intensity. Maybe it's why musicians and mathmaticians are said to peak young-poetry needs the fire of an unbounded universe. Sara Paretsky
growing-up kids thinking
I think so much of what informs us as performers is what we had to endure as kids growing up. I was the youngest in my family. I always got a lot of attention. Sandra Bernhard
growing-up college musical
I did a lot of theater growing up, and in college I was in the musical 'Chicago.' Sarah Shahi
water body made
The metal blade hit her shoulder and passed cleanthrough her body as if she were made of water. HISSS! Rick Riordan
water tree waste
We are proposing buildings that, like trees, are net energy exporters, produce more energy than they consume, accrue and store solar energy, and purify their own waste, water and release it slowly in a purer form. William McDonough
water tears towers
If you took every tear cried by everyone on earth on one single day and put them in a container, how big would that container need to be? Could you fill a water tower? Three water towers? It's one of those unknowable things. There has to be an answer, but we'll never know what it is. Rebecca Stead
water environmental degradation
In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families. Wangari Maathai
water baptism grace
If, therefore, there is any grace in the water, it is not from the nature of water but from the Spirit's presence there. Saint Basil
water touching deeds
There is no work better than to please God; to pour water, to wash dishes, to be a cobbler, or an apostle, all are one; to wash dishes and to preach are all one, as touching the deed, to please God. William Tyndale
water needs problem
The public perceives there are problems with the water system, and with the efficiency of the system. We need some leadership and to provide expertise in the area of efficiency. Will Rogers
water say-anything drink
Say anything that you like about me except that I drink water. W. C. Fields
water mouths tongue
I am her friend, and her tongue is in my mouth. I can speak her sentiments for her, though Ethel Waters can do very well indeed in speaking for herself. Zora Neale Hurston
littles courses
Of course, I didn't kill them. They're just taking a little ... siesta, that's all. Carl Jung
littles doe draws
A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesnt just draw things. Renzo Piano
littles should duty
it is necessary that we should all have a little of the will to die, because otherwise we would find the performance of our biological duty of death too difficult. Rebecca West
littles consideration rationale
Fear travels fast. Love travels a little more slowly. Rationale takes a little more consideration. Russell Brand
littles watergate
What was Watergate? A little bugging!
littles sometimes neurotic
I guess I can be a little neurotic sometimes, but can't everybody? Rebecca Romijn
littles painting surprise
To his surprise he also discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible to be bad at something, whether painting or poetry, that you cared about a great deal. Richard Russo
littles path behind-you
Life's supposed to be about making the path a little gentler for those traveling behind you. Reba McEntire
littles too-much way
Way, way, way back I played a little bit, but I am definitely not a golfer. You know, it just takes too much time anyway during the course of the day. Robert Duvall