Quotes about growing
growing-up children self
The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self. Adults work to finish a task, but the child works in order to grow, and is working to create the adult, the person that is to be. Such experience is not just play... it is work he must do in order to grow up. Maria Montessori
growing-up children thinking
We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning. Mary Wesley
growing-up different bones
One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed. (Bone Crossed) Patricia Briggs
growing-up boys america
In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president. Pat Paulsen
growing-up children unique
One should be able to say to our children: You are a marvel! You are unique. In all the world, there is no other child exactly like you. In the millions of years that have passed, there has never been another child like you! ... and when you grow up, can you harm another who is, like you, a marvel? Pablo Casals
growing-up kids ghetto
For years I've been interested in a fundamental question concerning what I call the psychology of evil: Why is it that good people do evil deeds? I've been interested in that question since I was a little kid. Growing up in the ghetto in the South Bronx, I had lots of friends who I thought were good kids, but for one reason or another they ended up in serious trouble. They went to jail, they took drugs, or they did terrible things to other people. My whole upbringing was focused on trying to understand what could have made them go wrong. Philip Zimbardo
growing-up independent spoons
I needed to grow up and do things all adults do. It was time to stop having everything spoon fed to me. It was about being independent. Paula Creamer
growing-up school kitchen
Growing up, I had a very busy social life. It wasn't until I was a sophomore in high school that I asked Mama if I could come into the kitchen and have her teach me how to cook something. Paula Deen
growing-up hockey north-dakota
I played hockey in North Dakota growing up and watch a lot of that. Phil Jackson
growing-up culture gamer
I can't say I was much of a gamer growing up or that I am now, but I'm certainly part of that culture or it's part of, you know, the sort of time that I grew up in. Mary Elizabeth Winstead
growing-up numbers culture
When I was growing up in the mid-'50s, the Roaring Twenties were a huge part of the culture. There were a number of films and a bunch of television shows that dealt with the mythology of the underworld from that period. Martin Scorsese
growing-up cutting thinking
I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don't know how to light it. And I realize it's because I didn't grow up with light. I grew up in tenements.
growing-up kids people
I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew.
growing-up inspiration mean
I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know? LeBron James
growing-up bulls jordan
I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up.
growing-up hate people
We hated Cleveland growing up. There's a lot of people in Cleveland we still hate to this day.
growing-up struggle growing
It's always a struggle growing up in Akron.
growing-up illinois southern
My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get. Laurie Metcalf
growing
Anything that is not growing is dead. Lauryn Hill
growing-up america tvs
Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of TV and you grow up on false images of what love truly is.
growing-up father profound
My parents were divorced and I didn't grow up with my father, but I spent a lot of time around him, and his influence on me has been profound. Laura Linney
growing-up dirty talking
Growing up in a small Alaska town, domestic violence was that dirty little secret nobody talked about. We must start talking about it. For too long, we have been providing protection to the wrong people. Lisa Murkowski
growing-up responsibility thinking
I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions. Lisa Unger
growing-up kids native-american
There may be something in the fact that when I was a little kid I'd been told growing up that we had some degree of native American blood in us, I always found that a point of pride. So, when it came to cowboys and Indians I most certainly did not want to be John Wayne. I wanted to be one of the Indians. Johnny Depp
growing-up broken feel-good
You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.
growing-up believe childhood
Growing old is unavoidable, but never growing up is possible. I believe you can retain certain things from your childhood if you protect them - certain traits, certain places where you don’t let the world go.
growing-up boys erotic
The women I liked when I was growing up, as a little boy, were Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, because they had these curvaceous figures, and they were erotic to me. John Travolta
growing-up thinking speaks-out
The Beatles meant everything to me growing up, and John was part of that. I loved Lennon's persona. He knew who he was, and he knew what he represented to a worldwide public. ... I think he incited and inspired a whole group of youth to speak out and say what they felt.
growing globalization consensus
There is a growing consensus that Globalization must now be reshaped to reflect values broader than simply the freedom of capital. John Sweeney
growing-up children army
A lot of the strings that hold us like puppets are really inventions of our own minds. I'm not saying that there aren't armies and police and various ways to punish deviants, but there isn't any way to punish a large number of deviants. It's too expensive to even try. So, the solution is to colonize the minds of children as they're growing up, so that they become their own police, and to report on others who are deviating. John Taylor Gatto
growing-up engineering way
What's gotten in the way of education in the United States is a theory of social engineering that says there is ONE RIGHT WAY to proceed with growing up.
growing-up children real
I feel ashamed that so many of us cannot imagine a better way to do things than locking children up all day in cells instead of letting them grow up knowing their families, mingling with the world, assuming real obligations, striving to be independent and self-reliant and free.
growing-up pain father
Most boys or youths who have had much knowledge drilled into them, have their mental capacities not strengthened, but overlaid by it. They are crammed with mere facts, and with the opinions and phrases of other people, and these are accepted as a substitute for the power to form opinions of their own. And thus, the sons of eminent fathers, who have spared no pains in their education, so often grow up mere parroters of what they have learnt, incapable of using their minds except in the furrows traced for them. John Stuart Mill