Quotes about growing
growing-up scary darkness
When you grow up in one town and your life revolves around it, you are very aware of any darkness on the edge of town. That's because it's scary and it's inviting. Melissa Etheridge
growing-up culture firsts
I'm a first-generation American, so I had friends from several cultures while growing up, including Indian and Iranian friends. Michael Steger
growing-up kids writing
Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from the sciences to music to writing to literature. Michael P. Anderson
growing-up real block
I remember queuing around the block in Sheffield when I was growing up. At that time, going to the cinema was really something special - there was something about the style of the real thing that is immeasurable nicer than multiplexes. Michael Palin
growing-up war australia
I want the marginality to come into the center. This is the thing I was conscious of growing up, when I later lived in England. I saw all these war movies that came out shortly after the war, and they were all about the war being fought by Englishmen or Americans, there were no other "allies" in it - from India or Australia, etc. Michael Ondaatje
growing-up war fate
That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.
growing-up growing latino
When I was growing up, I lived in a neighborhood that was largely Latino and I thought I was Latino! Meagan Good
growing-up thinking maturity
"How does one grow up?" I asked a friend. She answered, "By thinking!" May Sarton
growing-up hug beginners
The beginner hugs his infant poem to him and does not want it to grow up. But you may have to break your poem to remake it.
growing-up college imagination
The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place. Matthew Sweet
growing-up aging guides
No one will guide you in the right direction, in the end you have to learn for yourself. You have to grow up yourself. Matthew Macfadyen
growing-up thinking growing
I wasn't attractive when I was growing up, and I don't think I am now. Matthew Lewis
growing-up musician fantasy
I still have a fantasy of being a musician when I grow up. Maya Rudolph
growing-up healthy west
I grew up in Ann Arbor, about 25 miles west of Detroit. And when you grow up in that area, you get a healthy dose of Motown automatically. Mayer Hawthorne
growing-up rocks parent
I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul, Motown, jazz, Frank Sinatra, everything.
growing-up white littles
Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice. Maya Lin
growing affinity growing-things
I've always had an affinity for growing things. Maynard James Keenan
growing-up differences long
Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience. Maya Angelou
growing-up people damn
Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older.
growing-up grows
Everyone grows old but not everyone grows up.
growing-up fun knowing
One of the things that's fun about that is that sometimes you grow up knowing about someone because they were famous, but you don't really know what they were like before they were famous. Matt Ross
growing-up rocks singers
When you grow up, you're told that rock 'n' roll is the only authentic way to express yourself. Live instrumentation, singer, live drums. You're told that's the best medium to communicate. Matt Tong
growing-up kids hard-work
I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work. Matt Taibbi
growing-up book romance
Growing up, I mostly read comic books and sci-fi. Then I discovered the book 'Jane Eyre' by Jane Austen. It introduced me to the world of romance, which I have since never left. Also, the world of the first-person narrative. Meg Cabot
growing-up first-love scary
We can all agree that first loves can be a scary thing, and that growing up is hard to do.
growing-up book hero
A WRINKLE IN TIME is one of my favorite books of all time. I've read it so often, I know it by heart. Meg Murry was my hero growing up. I wanted glasses and braces and my parents to stick me in an attic bedroom. And I so wanted to save Charles Wallace from IT.
growing-up years acting
We can be better, we can be wiser, we can be more kind. Yes we have to change. We have to grow up and stop acting like 10 years old. Yes there is much to do, much to see, much to go into.
growing cold growing-old
We cannot avoid growing old; but we can avoid growing cold. Max de Pree
growing-up selfish kids
...because I'm sure that as soon as things really get back to "normal," once our kids or grandkids grow up in a peaceful and comfortable world, they'll probably go right back to being as selfish and narrow-minded and generally shitty to one another as we were. Max Brooks
growing-up attitude character
There’s no tipping point where you become what you are. Character development starts when you’re growing up. Your socioeconomic background contributes. The attitude that gets you through some communities doesn’t work in corporate America. It’s not an excuse, but it does help explain Maurice Clarett
growing-up guy growing
I was a competitive guy growing up. Mark Sanchez
growing-up children army
It's not fair that a Palestinian child cannot grow up in a state of their own, living their entire lives in the presence of a foreign army that controls the movements of the parents every single day. Mark Shields
growing-up children bears
No adult can bear a child’s burden or grow up in his stead. Maria Montessori