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growing-up school expectations
...You don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations would get me. ... Our parents, schools, everyone tells us things will be a certain way when we're adults and if they're not that way, we should make them be; or at least pretend. But after a certain point that just doesn't work. Chris Crutcher
growing-up way bumpy-roads
Look at pictures of me growing up. It wasn't always the way it is now. It was a bumpy road for me. Chris Evans
growing-up children parenting
If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up. Charles Spurgeon
growing-up tvs grows
I didn't grow up watching a lot of TV. Diane Kruger
growing-up hero growing
I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up. Dennis Ritchie
growing-up parent age
To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning, not as something to celebrate. Dennis Prager
growing-up influence chicks
Chick Corea was a great influence on me, musically, as I was growing up. Debra Wilson
growing-up mean political
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little. Eleanor Roosevelt
growing-up climbing habit
I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up Elbert Hubbard
book reality diaries
Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous. Alexandra Fuller
book becoming wonderful
I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.
books both longer people skin
Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so it's more ambitious. I think I get under the skin of the people a lot more than in the other books. Cory Doctorow
books grew invisible life reflected totally
I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and my life reflected in the books I was reading. Malorie Blackman
books creative kinds poems responses starting stories tapping teenagers teens themselves using
What I wanted to do was use literature and different kinds of stories and poems as a springboard, tapping into the creativity of our teens - I wanted teenagers to come up with their own creative responses to literature - using books themselves as a starting point.
book dream forgotten heart human king message pages powerful reading required
Like Dr. King I have a dream of my own, too, that the powerful message of this little book would be engraved on every human heart and will never be forgotten again. That you who read this book will feel as I do that these 120 pages ... should be required reading for all humanity. Oprah Winfrey
books god man none quest stars turn
Let none turn over books or scan the stars in quest of God who see Him not in man Johann Kaspar
book ending life page writes
Life is a book and you are the author. But the ending someone else writes so makes every page count.
books skilled
Making books is a skilled trade, like making clocks.
passionate
Obviously, we feel pretty passionate about this issue.
passion fire pathos
Preach not calmly and quietly as though you were asleep, but preach with fire and pathos and passion.
passion
The more passions you have the happier you'll be
passion medicine soul
Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions. Democritus
passion men suffering
One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures. Denis Diderot
passion heart satisfaction
The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose. Edgar Allan Poe
passion reflection effort
And because our reason violently deters us from the brink, therefore, do we the more impetuously approach it. There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him, who shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a plunge. To indulge for a moment, in any attempt at thought, is to be inevitably lost; for reflection but urges us to forbear, and therefore it is, I say, that we cannot. If there be no friendly arm to check us, or if we fail in a sudden effort to prostrate ourselves backward from the abyss, we plunge, and are destroyed.
passion impatient plunge
There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a Plunge.
passion poetry purpose
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.