![Maybe that's what growing up means, in the end - you go far enough in the direction of - somewhere - and you realise that you've neutered the capacity of the term home to mean anything. [...] We don't get an endless number of orbits away from the place where meaning first arises, that treasure-house of first experiences. What we learn, instead, is that our adventures secure us in our isolation. Experience revokes our licence to return to simpler times. Sooner or later, there's no place remotely like home.](/assets/img/quote-photos/maybe-thats-what-growing-up-means-in-the-end-you-go-far-enough-in-the-directi.jpg)
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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 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 people negative
You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed. Will Smith
growing-up character stories
I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story. Emmy Rossum
growing-up house kitchen
In a house without a genuine kitchen, one of the delights of growing up is lost. James Beard
growing-up kids thinking
Oh I love horror movies, yeah. I think my favorite movie growing up was 'The Omen.' I actually wanted to be that little kid. Norman Reedus
growing-up sibling appreciate
I'd like to start off by saying that every experience no matter what it is, good or bad, you'll learn from it. That's just life. But something I've done I've regretted is probably picking on my siblings growing up, because you appreciate them so much more as you grow older. Olivia Culpo
growing-up thinking appreciated
I think I learned the most from Eminem because I spent the most time with him in the studio. Going to L.A. with Dre was a learning experience, just seeing how the dude works and being up-close and personal with a dude whose music I appreciated growing up. Obie Trice
growing-up ideas people
These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here Emile Zola
adventure writing world
I thought I was a pretty good writer, but I didn't have anything to write about. I wanted to go out in the world, have some adventures and then write about them. Shane Smith
adventure people feminist
It's not my business to remedy deaths! It's my business to tell stories. Lyra and the other heroines didn't come with placards saying, "Make this a feminist story!" I'm glad people enjoy seeing a female protagonist in a big adventure story, but I didn't do it for political reasons. Philip Pullman
adventure character quirky
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adventure wonderland care
Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." "I don't much care where –" "Then it doesn't matter which way you go. Lewis Carroll
adventure funny-travel poet
The poet is a madman lost in adventure. Paul Verlaine
adventure sacrifice challenges
We live at the edge of the world, so we live on the edge. Kiwis will always sacrifice money and security for adventure and challenge. Lucy Lawless
adventure games helping
Peter invented, with Wendy's help, a new game that fascinated him enormously, until he suddenly had no more interest in it, which, as you have been told, was what always happened with his games. It consisted in pretending not to have adventures... James M. Barrie
adventure journey men
Older men are wiser and that is much cooler to me. Ive never been one for going out clubbing or getting off my head, so I always gravitated to men who were similar. They just tended to be older. I think you have more of an adventure with an older man. And a happier journey. Emilia Fox
adventure careers ideas
My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire. John Hodgman
mean organization two
Capitalism and socialism are two distinct patterns of social organization. Private control of the means of production and public control are contradictory notions and not merely contrary notions. There is no such thing as a mixed economy, a system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism. Ludwig von Mises
mean share tolerant
Being tolerant does not mean that I share another ones belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another ones right to believe, and obey, his own conscience. Viktor E. Frankl
mean talking practice
My first goal would be to reduce the perturbation in the carbon cycle. That would mean using carbon neutral sources of energy, and changing our agricultural practices to be less disruptive and polluting. I'm not talking about a policy here so much as changing the way our infrastructure works. That's why I'm so fascinated with changing the way we build cities, because they are the most developed forms of physical infrastructure for human habitation. Annalee Newitz
mean safety drunk
Please don't drive drunk, okay? Seriously... But by all means, walk drunk. That looks hilarious. Everyone loves to watch someone act like they are trying to make it to safety during a hurricane. Amy Poehler
mean sofas said
And so that means..." "We have to rob the Henley," Simon said. Kat sank onto a truly uncomfortable sofa. "Again. Ally Carter
mean insane cameras
Insane means fewer cameras!
mean mad leaving
You are back, Cam. Which means for the first time since you left, it's okay for us to be mad at you for leaving. - Macey
mean heart spices
I mean she's Cleopatra... shouldn't she and Antony have known better? They were so different..." "Variety is the spice of life" "And from a thousand miles apart" "Absence makes the heart grow fonder
mean painful
Because even though the truth can set you free, that doesn't mean it won't be painful.