Quotes about growing-up
growing-up class my-family
In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe. Aravind Adiga
growing-up book mean
But nothing on this earth is guaranteed, when you get right down to it, you know ? I've been thinking about that. About how your kids aren't really YOURS, they're just these people that you try to keep an eye on, and hope you'll all grow up someday to like each other and still be in one piece. What I mean is, everything you get is really just on loan. Does that make sense?" Sure,"I said. "Like library books. Sooner or later they've all got to go back into the nightdrop. Barbara Kingsolver
growing-up ignorance knives
Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage. Barbara Kingsolver
growing-up eras jordan
It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-80s, and we had the 85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era. Bailey Chase
growing-up italian light
Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology. Barbara Steele
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
growing-up freedom 4th-of-july
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect. Eleanor Roosevelt
growing-up careers grows
Susan Sontag: What she really wanted, throughout her career, was to grow up to be a Frenchman. Edward Abbey
growing-up obsessed garlands
Well, I was obsessed with Judy Garland growing up. Like, obsessed. Aubrey Plaza
growing-up world grew
I grew up in that world of power and politics in Washington, but when you grow up around it, you are completely unfazed by it. Alexandra Wentworth
growing-up kids thinking
I figure there are enough self-opinionated assholes trying to get their ugly little faces in front of you as it is. You ask a lot of kids today what they want to be when they grow up, and they say, 'I want to be famous.' You ask them, 'For what reason?' and they don't know or care. I think Andy Warhol got it wrong - in the future, so many people are going to become famous that one day everybody will end up being anonymous for 15 minutes. Banksy
growing-up thinking years
Actually, when I think about growing up, I feel most affected by two travels that I made working in cargo boats when I was 16 and 18. One of them crossed through the Mississippi and Baton Rouge and Mobile, Alabama, and another went all the way to Europe. On the last trip, I stayed in Europe for one year with $1,000, working everywhere I could, doing everything. Those years shaped me a lot and taught me the value of exploring different things. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
growing-up men personality
But the personality that finally emerges is largely formed by the environment in which a man happens to find himself during his development, by the structure of the society in which he grows up, by the tradition of that society, and by its appraisal of particular types of behavior. Albert Einstein
growing-up father ideas
Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often away. But when I'm asked that question I often reflect on my inability really to be able to answer it in any relative sense because I never grew up with a father doing anything else. So I just have no idea what it would be like otherwise. Alexander Downer
growing-up memories knowing
Growing up is never straight forward. There are moments when everything is fine, and other moments where you realize that there are certain memories that you'll never get back, and certain people that are going to change, and the hardest part is knowing that there's nothing you can do except watch them. Alden Nowlan
growing-up children thinking
We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to be a child. If we merely look to the end of the process, the purpose of life is death Alexander Herzen
growing-up fans modern
I was a big fan of Kurt Russell growing up and I always wanted to be the modern day Kurt Russell. Adam Sandler
growing-up hard-work people
I don't know who I touch and who I don't. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don't have any secrets. I don't know the reasons I've been so well received. Adam Sandler
growing-up dad stupid
I guess in my house when I was growing up, I was comfortable trying to be funny. And my dad, of course, it bugged him sometimes. He was trying to rest, and I was constantly trying to say something stupid to get a reaction. But I like doing these movies. You can do it in front of the camera and then it's over. I don't have to worry about being in front of too many people. Adam Sandler
growing-up kids thinking
I wasn't a kid growing up thinking, 'One day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech.' That wasn't on my mind. Adam Sandler
growing-up eye expression
Raphael continued to stare at me, in no hurry to get started. "You know the best way to get rid of a demon, right?" He asked with a serious face. I caught Ivy rolling her eyes as I shook my head. "Exorcise alot!" Ivy caught my expression of dismay. "It's okay, Beth. He's famous for his bad jokes. We're still waiting for him to grow up." "And like Peter Pan, I hope to avoid that at all costs. Alexandra Adornetto
growing-up college made
All my closest friends are the ones I made while in college or who knew me growing up. They keep me grounded, and I adore that about them. Alexander Wang
growing-up memories children
Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don't have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad. Abel Korzeniowski
growing-up real light
... people are growing up in the slack flicker of a pale light which lacks the concentrated burn of a candle flame or oil wick or the bulb of a gooseneck desk lamp: a pale, wavering, oblong shimmer, emitting incessant noise, which is to real knowledge or discourse what the manic or weepy protestations of a drunk are to responsible speech. Drunks do have a way of holding an audience, though, and so does the shimmery ill-focused oblong screen. Adrienne Rich
growing-up children war
Women have always been seen as waiting: waited to be asked, waiting for our menses, in fear lest they do or do not come, waiting for men to come home from wars, or from work, waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause. Adrienne Rich
growing-up children blow
No matter your position or place in life, it is imperative to create opportunities for children so that we can grow up to blow you away. Adora Svitak
growing-up grows
To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to. Adam Phillips
growing-up believe kids
The kids that are different and out there and expressive and are bold with those choices, those are the people that grow up to be people we all want to hang out with, that become celebrities or become really successful in what they do because they believe in who they are. Adam Lambert