Grew Up Quotes

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  When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Children, Growing Up, Thinking

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.73, Hachette UK

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• Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Children

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• That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Children, Growing Up

  "Walt Disney World: Then, Now, & Forever". Book by Jeff Kurtti, October 7, 2008.

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• Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2)”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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• Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

  Chili Davis

  Love, Happy Birthday, Happiness

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• When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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  One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

  Michelle Obama

  Inspirational, Badass, Who I Am

  Michelle Obama, Lisa Rogak (2009). “Michelle Obama: In Her Own Words”, p.40, PublicAffairs

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• When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Growing Up, Artist, Cities

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• There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

  Philip Levine

  Memories, People, Poetry

  Philip Levine (2002). “So ask: essays, conversations, and interviews”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Teenager, School, House

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• I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Family, Issues, Political

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• I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

  Harriet Tubman

  Weed, Marijuana, Ignorant

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• One's home is like a delicious piece of pie you order in a restaurant on a country road one cozy evening - the best piece of pie you have ever eaten in your life - and can never find again. After you leave home, you may find yourself feeling homesick, even if you have a new home that has nicer wallpaper and a more efficient dishwasher than the home in which you grew up.

  Daniel Handler

  Country, Home, Order

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• I grew up in the heart of the Depression.

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Heart, Grew

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• I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.

  Charley Pride

  Boyfriend, Dad, Father

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• Well, I grew up around the magazine and was part of a generation that was embracing our sexuality.

  Christie Hefner

  Generations, Magazines, Sexuality

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I mean, I grew up riding. I can't ever remember not being able to ride or rope and all that stuff. It was part of my life growing up, so it was fun for me.

  Tim McGraw

  Growing Up, Fun, Mean

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• I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town.

  Aaron Paul

  Idaho, Towns, Small Town

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I haven't got any friends from where I grew up, but that's not to do with fame.

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson

  Fame, Grew, Havens

  "Aaron Taylor-Johnson: a star from nowhere". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2012.

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• I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.

  Akhmad Kadyrov

  Family, Religious, Age

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• I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

  Anna Quindlen

  Children, Thinking, Independent Bookstores

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.119, Ballantine Books

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• People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Voice, People, Soul

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• I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Illinois, States, Middle

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• I grew up with a deep belief that wherever our troops fought, they were on the side of the angels.

  Jane Fonda

  Angel, Troops, Sides

  "The Truth About My Trip To Hanoi". www.huffingtonpost.com.

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