Quotes about growing-up
growing-up women thinking
... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably a bitterly disappointed woman. A game of chess will cure such a conceit forever. The woman that knows the most, thinks the most, feels the most, is the most. Intellectual affection is the only lasting love. Love that has a game of chess in it can checkmate any man and solve the problem of life. Charles Dickens
growing-up people needs
Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment. Alan Watts
growing-up book comic
I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic. Alan Ritchson
growing-up school boys
Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school. Alan Moore
growing-up hands world
A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand?
growing-up tired talking
Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben, I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about. I always woke up before the plane landed. Alan Bradley
growing-up vampire saws
I'd seen 'Interview with A Vampire' and saw Dracula movies growing up, but I never thought, 'I love vampires; I have to do a show about vampires.' Alan Ball
growing-up philosophy acceptance
And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy that really made a tremendous amount of sense. What I liked that was missing from my experience of Christianity growing up was a sort of acceptance, a sort of being OK with being imperfect and not focusing on the sin.
growing-up kids years
As a kid growing up, I was so in sync as a fan that that served me well through the years. I can feel the game. And I try to match where the game is with my inflection, with my - the tonal quality, with getting excited. Al Michaels
growing-up want be-kind
It's easy when you grow up in fear to act out of fear. I don't want to embrace that fear; I prefer to be kind. Akhil Sharma
growing-up play fiction
I wasn't a big science-fiction fan growing up. But I loved Jules Verne and Sherlock Holmes. Both came into play on 'The X-Files.' Chris Carter
growing-up memories book
Being a best-selling author just means the world for me. Some of my happiest memories, growing up, are being at book stores and reading books I couldn't afford, as a kid, and the midnight parties, waiting for the next Harry Potter book. The fact that I have that straw in my cap means more to me than anything I've ever accomplished before. Chris Colfer
growing-up character gay
I grew up in a conservative small town, and the gay characters I saw on TV and in movies when I was growing up were all flamboyant and obnoxious and sometimes kind of annoying.
growing-up believe loss
That women are mysterious and unknowable is something every young man grows up believing. Men, on the other hand, never think of themselves as mysterious or confusing, and we are often at a loss as to why women want to figure us out. Chris Abani
growing-up humble thinking
I feel terrible about corporate greed. Growing up in a household that was a little more humble and didn't put so much emphasis on money and material goods, I think I have a pretty good head on my shoulders. Chloe Sevigny
growing-up father doctors
My father, Arinze Ejiofor , was a musician and a doctor. Nobody's ever asked me about that combination and what growing up in that environment was like. Chiwetel Ejiofor
growing-up names light
Id never really considered film. If Id thought about film more growing up, I probably would have changed my name. I had no concept of my name in lights.
growing-up thinking people
I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life. Chinua Achebe
growing-up dad son
When I was a little boy, I told my dad, 'When I grow up, I want to be a musician.' My dad said: 'You can't do both, Son'. Chet Atkins
growing-up kids shy
To be honest, I was kind of a shy kid growing up. Dave Franco
growing-up ideas people
I never got the idea of a punishing God, just a really boring one. To see people growing up in the Carolinas who were Baptist, I knew there were others who felt God was going to send them to hell for any little thing, but not me. David Sedaris
growing-up moving book
There are innumerable writing problems in an extended work. One book took a little more than six years. You, the writer, change in six years. The life around you changes. Your family changes. They grow up. They move away. The world is changing. You're also learning more about the subject. By the time you're writing the last chapters of the book, you know much more than you did when you started at the beginning. David McCullough
growing-up trials literature
I often heard about his cases and I often sat in on his trials. In the late 1960s when I was growing up I wanted to be a crusader like him but I didn't want to wear a suit and commute. David Guterson
growing-up meditation typical
I was a typical teen growing up in the 1960s, when everybody was into gurus and meditation, David Suchet
growing-up doctors people
All roads seem to have come back to Doctor Who in our life. But, no, it was a huge part of my growing up. I was a massive fan and it certainly inspired me to get into acting and to be ... one of those people that tells stories on TV. That was a huge part of my childhood. David Tennant
growing-up ninety-nine community
Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community. David Sanborn
growing-up educational thinking
Anybody who gives away money is mostly looking at things where they think they can make a difference. I'm trying to help people who helped me, educational institutions that helped me with scholarships, or organizations that were very useful to me in growing up. David Rubenstein
growing-up boys years
You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it. Buddy Hackett
growing-up dad years
I feel like I almost didn't grow up in the business, because my parents worked so hard at sheltering us from that. I was raised in Connecticut. And I honestly wasn't aware that my dad was a celebrity until I moved to Los Angeles a year ago. Bryce Dallas Howard
growing-up land fans
I'm a huge fan of the animated film 'The Land Before Time' and that was one of my favourite animated films when I was growing up.
growing-up crazy believe
I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up Caroline B. Cooney
growing-up growing election
Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work. Caroline Kennedy
growing-up home important-values
Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up.