Quotes about grow
growing-up mistake thinking
Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up Jodi Picoult
growing-up teenager moving
I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they have to grow up and move past JK Rowling they can move to me. From Jo to Jodi!
growing-up doors faces
The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face.
growing-up mean kids
No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst.
growing-up one-day may
...as it turned out, growing up was just as she'd feared. One day when your alarm clock rang, you got up and realized you had someone else's thoughts in your head... or may be just your old ones, minus the hope.
growing-up people parent
Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.
growing-up wall smart
All teenagers knew this was true. The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face. For years, parents tell you that you can be anything, have anything, do anything. That was why she'd been so eager to grow up-until she got to adolescence and hit a big fat wall ofreality. As it turned out, she couldn't have anything she wanted. You didn't get to be pretty or smart or popular just because you wanted it. You didn't control your own destiny, you were too busy trying to fit in.
growing-up kids thinking
Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.
growing-up people missing
I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't.
growing-up winning firsts
She’s the kind of person who either dies tragically at twenty-seven, like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else grows up to win, like, the first-ever Nobel Prize for Awesome. John Green
growing-up moon tiny
Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets.
growing-up hands time-passing
Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up. Patti Smith
growing-up television ministry
But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it. Pat Robertson
growth panacea
Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many. P. Chidambaram
growing-up kids littles
Growing up as a little kid, I wasn't always this size. I got picked on a lot. Terrell Owens
growing-up children married
No one aspires as a child to grow up and enter into a domestic partnership. But they do aspire as children to grow up and be married. Ted Olson
growing-up dad team
I was a Liverpool fan simply because my dad followed them. Unfortunately I wasn't born when the team had their golden era, but I enjoyed watching the likes of Michael Owen, Robbie Fowler and Steve McManaman when I was growing up. When Liverpool won the Champions League last year, I went mad. I was shouting so loud I think I woke up the entire village where I live! Theo Walcott
growing-up crazy littles
Even idiots can grow up a little bit. It should be a bit more subdued. ... The first celebration should be subdued, and the fourth one should be crazy. Theo Epstein
growing-up children adventure
The adventures of the boy who doesn't want to grow up has universal appeal. We all want to keep something of the child in us. Tessa Jowell
growing-up questioning grows
We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us. Margaret Mead
growing-up stress book
I did not write it [Coming of Age in Samoa] as a popular book, but only with the hope that it would be intelligible to those who might make the best use of its theme, that adolescence need not be the time of stress and strain which Western society made it; that growing up could be freer and easier and less complicated; and also that there were prices to pay for the very lack of complication I found in Samoa - less intensity, less individuality, less involvement with life.
growth might soil
Everywhere the fatal spirit of imitation, of reference to European standards, penetrates and threatens to blight whatever of original growth might adorn the soil. Margaret Fuller
growing-up believe people
There's a lot of negative messaging and it beats on you after a while. And people are growing up with that stuff and they start believing it themselves. Kevin Sorbo
growing-up two parent
We moved to Ireland when I was two and we settled in Killarney, Co Kerry. Where we were living in Germany is very industrial and very grey and my parents wanted to have countryside around for my sister and I to grow up in. Michael Fassbender
growing-up human-nature curious
I might have been curious about actors' lives when I was growing up. That's human nature.
growing-up father grows
I wanted to grow up to be just like my father. Michael Bergin
growing gaps way
This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It's not politically viable; it's not morally right; it's just not going to happen. Michael Bloomberg
growing-up thinking back-to-work
[Bill Gates] wanted me to stay working at Microsoft, but I didn't think he could be CEO and we could have the family life that we both had growing up, which is what we envisioned. I knew I would go back to work at some point later to some profession. I just didn't know what. Melinda Gates
growing-up kids thinking
I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.
growing-up empathy parent
When were you born, who are your parents, where did you grow up? None of us earns these things. These things were given to us. So when we strip away all of our luck and our privilege, and we consider where we'd be without them, it becomes much easier to see someone who's poor and say, "That could be me." And that's empathy.
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