![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 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 important behind-you
To avoid having bad things happen, learning to manage your anger and to actually share how you really feel about something, and get it behind you is one of the most important aspects of growing up. William J. Clinton
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
adventure conflict drama heartache love name redeeming
I think it's a fun, redeeming story. You will go through love and drama and conflict and heartache and adventure. You name it, it's in there. Charles Feldmann
adventure democracy helping
He is very idealistic. He has many convictions. He is very pro-democracy, very compassionate, always helping out others, he's very driven. Those are more characteristics of Farris than adventurous. This is the first adventure he's been on.
adventure night ordinary
Everything was an adventure, at night, when you were where you shouldn't be, even if it was somwhere you could go perfectly well in daylight, and it was then only ordinary. Robin McKinley
adventure life-is
The adventure of life is to learn... William Arthur Ward
adventure ignorance
Adventure is putting one's ignorance into motion. William Least Heat-Moon
adventure lasts source
Travel is intensified living … and one of the last great sources of legal adventure. Rick Steves
adventure character opportunity
I love being in space. I love being challenged by great roles that a company like Marvel creates amazing movies that no only give audiences an adventure but also give us as artists an opportunity for us to be challenged to embody amazing, multilayered characters. Zoe Saldana
adventure playing
Playing live is what we do, It's an adventure for us as well as the audience.
adventure heard seemed
I heard about this opportunity, and it just seemed like an adventure.
mean snap step
Just like Rockford, everyone else will step up. Just because Snap isn't there doesn't mean it's going to be easy.
meant tried
I tried to go to the gym a while ago and hurt my foot. I thought, 'Well, exercise and I just aren't meant to be.' Sophie Winkleman
means school since six state tournament year
Going to the state tournament means lot for our team, the school and the community. I think it's been six years since they've been, and to go in my first year here, there's just nothing sweeter.
meant suited took
Hollywood never suited me, I didn't ever feel comfortable with it, it took me a couple of years but I found where I was always meant to be... Chiswick! Elizabeth McGovern
meant money pay
It is a big deal, because it is money and it's money we always meant to be able to pay (the state), but the money was never there to pay them. Bill Walton
mean wrong
What do you mean you are intercepting the wrong subject? How often does it occur? How long does it go on for?
mean people sinister
What do you mean for a change, mate? ... There are always more people more sinister than myself. Jason Statham
mean mind subject
To dally much with subject mean and lowProves that the mind is weak, or makes it so. William Cowper
meant outside painting
I think we were meant to be painting outside originally, Lorraine Kelly