Quotes about growing
growing-up book hero
A WRINKLE IN TIME is one of my favorite books of all time. I've read it so often, I know it by heart. Meg Murry was my hero growing up. I wanted glasses and braces and my parents to stick me in an attic bedroom. And I so wanted to save Charles Wallace from IT. Meg Cabot
growing-up years acting
We can be better, we can be wiser, we can be more kind. Yes we have to change. We have to grow up and stop acting like 10 years old. Yes there is much to do, much to see, much to go into. Maya Angelou
growing cold growing-old
We cannot avoid growing old; but we can avoid growing cold. Max de Pree
growing-up selfish kids
...because I'm sure that as soon as things really get back to "normal," once our kids or grandkids grow up in a peaceful and comfortable world, they'll probably go right back to being as selfish and narrow-minded and generally shitty to one another as we were. Max Brooks
growing-up attitude character
There’s no tipping point where you become what you are. Character development starts when you’re growing up. Your socioeconomic background contributes. The attitude that gets you through some communities doesn’t work in corporate America. It’s not an excuse, but it does help explain Maurice Clarett
growing-up guy growing
I was a competitive guy growing up. Mark Sanchez
growing-up children army
It's not fair that a Palestinian child cannot grow up in a state of their own, living their entire lives in the presence of a foreign army that controls the movements of the parents every single day. Mark Shields
growing-up children bears
No adult can bear a child’s burden or grow up in his stead. Maria Montessori
growing-up children self
The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self. Adults work to finish a task, but the child works in order to grow, and is working to create the adult, the person that is to be. Such experience is not just play... it is work he must do in order to grow up. Maria Montessori
growing-up children thinking
We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning. Mary Wesley
growing-up different bones
One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed. (Bone Crossed) Patricia Briggs
growing-up boys america
In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president. Pat Paulsen
growing-up children unique
One should be able to say to our children: You are a marvel! You are unique. In all the world, there is no other child exactly like you. In the millions of years that have passed, there has never been another child like you! ... and when you grow up, can you harm another who is, like you, a marvel? Pablo Casals
growing-up kids ghetto
For years I've been interested in a fundamental question concerning what I call the psychology of evil: Why is it that good people do evil deeds? I've been interested in that question since I was a little kid. Growing up in the ghetto in the South Bronx, I had lots of friends who I thought were good kids, but for one reason or another they ended up in serious trouble. They went to jail, they took drugs, or they did terrible things to other people. My whole upbringing was focused on trying to understand what could have made them go wrong. Philip Zimbardo
growing-up independent spoons
I needed to grow up and do things all adults do. It was time to stop having everything spoon fed to me. It was about being independent. Paula Creamer
growing-up school kitchen
Growing up, I had a very busy social life. It wasn't until I was a sophomore in high school that I asked Mama if I could come into the kitchen and have her teach me how to cook something. Paula Deen
growing-up hockey north-dakota
I played hockey in North Dakota growing up and watch a lot of that. Phil Jackson
growing-up culture gamer
I can't say I was much of a gamer growing up or that I am now, but I'm certainly part of that culture or it's part of, you know, the sort of time that I grew up in. Mary Elizabeth Winstead
growing-up numbers culture
When I was growing up in the mid-'50s, the Roaring Twenties were a huge part of the culture. There were a number of films and a bunch of television shows that dealt with the mythology of the underworld from that period. Martin Scorsese
growing-up cutting thinking
I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don't know how to light it. And I realize it's because I didn't grow up with light. I grew up in tenements. Martin Scorsese
growing-up kids people
I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew. Martin Scorsese
growing-up inspiration mean
I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know? LeBron James
growing-up bulls jordan
I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up. LeBron James
growing-up hate people
We hated Cleveland growing up. There's a lot of people in Cleveland we still hate to this day. LeBron James
growing-up struggle growing
It's always a struggle growing up in Akron. LeBron James
growing-up exercise men
As in labor, the more one doth exercise, the more one is enabled to do, strength growing upon work; so with the use of suffering, men's minds get the habit of suffering, and all fears and terrors are not to them but as a summons to battle, whereof they know beforehand they shall come off victorious. Philip Sidney
growing-up thinking worry
Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up. Philip Roth
growing-up singing age
Harmony has always come very natural to us because we started singing harmony at an early age. We heard a lot of different music growing up. Petra Haden
growing-up kids want
I just like being a kid. I enjoy it, I don't want to grow up. Pharrell Williams
growing-up dark people
Any swagger is just defense. When youre reminded so much of who you are by people - not a fame thing, but with my size, constantly, growing up - you just either curl up in a corner in the dark or you wear it proudly, like armor or something. You can turn it on its head and use it yourself before anybody else gets a chance. Peter Dinklage
growing-up here-i-am eight
Here I am, fifty-eight, and I still don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up. Peter Drucker
growing-up son would-be
If you had a son, it would be a great thing to have him grow up to be just like Gil Hodges. Pee Wee Reese
growing-up opportunity pursuit-of-happiness
When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit. Martin Scorsese