Quotes about growing
growing-up sweden becoming
When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician. George Papandreou
growing-up leader want
Every leader wants to put his or her imprint on the work that they do, and grow up in specific eras.
growing-up war debt
When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I. George McGovern
growing-up years growing
I spent years growing up being told what my sexuality was. George Michael
growing-up educational school
Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot, (e) poison, and, generally speaking, (f) how to grow up into a Wild West outlaw or gangster by the time you leave school. George Mikes
growing-up white people
I didnt grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, Ive never wanted to speak to an all-white audience. G-Eazy
growing-up dust ashes
For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments. Fyodor Dostoevsky
growing-up woods midnight
One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when I was about 8, I used to enjoy just walking alone through the wood late. Eleven p.m. Midnight. Later. Christian Bale
growing-up dad character
I don't think I was particularly in need of superheroes. I never had any fascination with Superman or Spider-Man or a Batman kind of character. If it happened at all, it was imagined characters that I had invented. My dad was a role model for me. He was a fascinating man. There was intrigue and entertainment growing up with him. He gave me an edict that I still pursue: “Life should never be boring.
growing-up rejection supportive
Growing up in a family of actors, what's great about it is that they're very supportive and they understand what it's like to be an actor - the rejections, the highs and lows... and having a common language with them is great because you have shorthand speech. Chris Pine
growing-up home safe
I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go. Chris Isaak
growing-up ocean fishing
I didn't grow up in the ocean -- as a matter of fact -- near the ocean -- I grew up in the desert. Therefore, it was a pleasant contrast to see the ocean. And I particularly like it when I'm fishing. George W. Bush
growing-up two doubt
We must be willing to change chairs if we want to grow. There is no permanent compatibility between a chair and a person. And there is no one right chair. What is right at one stage may be restricting at another or too soft. During the passage from one stage to another, we will be between two chairs. Wobbling no doubt, but developing. Gail Sheehy
growing awakening aging
If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
growing-up down-and shut-up
I won't sit down And I won't shut up And most of all I will not grow up Frank Turner
growing-up want educated
As you grow up and get educated in the business, you go from, 'I want to do movies' to 'I want to work. In whatever. Felicity Huffman
growing-up children character
As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up. Felicity Jones
growing-up divorce thinking
I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.
growing-up school kids
I went to Paterson Public School No. 6. At the time, it was the worst school in the city. Ain't nobody want their kids to go to School 6; it was that bad. But it was where we lived. If you grow up in a bad area, there are bad things around it. Fetty Wap
growing-up growing cups
I'm a tulip in a cup. I stand no chance of growing up Fiona Apple
growing-up children childhood
To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child. Henning Mankell
growing-up pain father
You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs. Catharine MacKinnon
growing-up pain father
Imagine that for hundreds of years your most formative traumas, your daily suffering and pain, the abuse you live through, the terror you live with, are unspeakable not the basis of literature. You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.... You learn how to leave your body and create someone else who takes over when you cannot stand it any more. You develop a self who is ingratiating and obsequious and imitative and aggressively passive and silent you learn, in a word, femininity.
growing-up children people
We're growing up with a very illiterate bunch of children who have somehow been taught that film is fact when, in fact, it's invention. Hopefully, an historical film will inspire people to go and read about the history but in the end it is a work of fiction and selection. As for the armour itself, no it wasn't particularly comfortable. Cate Blanchett
growing-up war sacrifice
You don't get it, Clary. You don't understand what it's like to live always at war, to grow up with battle and sacrifice. I guess it's not your fault. It's just how you were brought up- Cassandra Clare
growing revelations
Our growing thought Makes growing revelation. George Eliot
growing-up kids snitch
When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching. It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters, Geoffrey Canada
growing-up father mean
Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male.
growing-up thinking mortality
I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly. Gary Shteyngart
growing-up america russia
I was very, very sick when I was growing up in Russia. The ambulance constantly came to our house. I had horrible asthma that is easily treated in America, but they didn't even have inhalers back in Russia.
growing-up anger class
Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger. Gary Oldman
growing-up kids skills
Some parents were awful back then and are awful still. The process of raising you didn't turn them into grown-ups. Parents who were clearly imperfect can be helpful to you. As you were trying to grow up despite their fumbling efforts, you had to develop skills and tolerances other kids missed out on. Some of the strongest people I know grew up taking care of inept, invalid, or psychotic parents--but they know the parents weren't normal, healthy, or whole. Frank Pittman
growing-up parent want
My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that. George J. Mitchell