Grew Up Quotes - Page 5

• I grew up in the Methodist church and taught Sunday school, and one of my favorite passages of scripture is, 'in as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.'' Matthew 25:40.

  Elizabeth Warren

  School, Sunday, Church

  "Elizabeth Warren's Speech at the Democratic National Convention". www.realclearpolitics.com. September 5, 2012.

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• I don't want to analyze myself or anything, but I think, in fact I know this to be true, that I enter the world through what I write. I grew up believing, and continue to believe, that I am a screw-up, that growing up with my family and friends, I had nothing to offer in any conversation. But when I started writing, suddenly there was something that I brought to the party that was at a high-enough level.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Growing Up, Party, Believe

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• Whatever art offered the men and women of previous eras, what it offers our own, it seems to me, is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. The town I grew up in had many vacant lots; when I go back now, the vacant lots are gone. They were a luxury, just as tigers and rhinoceri, in the crowded world that is making, are luxuries. Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in unsupervised play.

  John Updike

  Art, Exercise, Men

  "A Few Words In Defense Of The Amateur Reader" by John Updike, www.nytimes.com. February 19, 1984.

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• Bond always mistrusted short men. They grew up from childhood with an inferiority complex. All their lives they would strive to be big - bigger than the others who had teased them as a child. Napoleon had been short, and Hitler. It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.

  Ian Fleming

  Children, Men, Childhood

  Ian Fleming (1992). “Goldfinger”, Chivers North Amer

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• I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, well fed, well clothed, well housed. I went to school and there were libraries with all the world in them and after school I played in orange groves and in Little League and in the band and down at the beach and every day was an adventure. . . . I grew up in utopia.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Beach, Children, School

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2013). “Pacific Edge: Three Californias”, p.300, Orb Books

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• Hey, times are tough, and thirty gold coins can do a lot of good. But I guess you wouldn't know about needing money, since you grew up like a little princ..." (Rapunzel glares) "Prin... soner. I mean, prisoner! A prisoner in a tower, such a shame, that.

  Shannon Hale

  Mean, Gold, Towers

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• There are two kinds of houses in the neighborhood where I grew up-the ones where the parents stayed married, and the ones where they didn’t.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Two, House, Parent

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Good In Bed”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• It had occurred to Sean once - on a bender about ten years before with some buddies, Sean and a bloodstream full of bourbon turning philosophical - that maybe they HAD gotten in that car. All three of them. And what they now thought of as their life was just a dream state. That all three of them were, in reality, still eleven-year-old boys trapped in some cellar, imagining what they'd become if they ever escaped and grew up.

  Dennis Lehane

  Dream, Philosophical, Boys

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• Hallie and I... were all there was. The image in the mirror that proves you are still here. We had exactly one sister apiece. We grew up knowing the simple arithmetic of scarcity: A sister is more precious than an eye.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Eye, Simple, Mirrors

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• God forbid I should bleed to death, eh? Then you'd have to cart around my rotting corpse. (Kyrian) Could you be any more morbid? Jeez, who was your idol growing up? Boris Karloff? (Amanda) Hannibal, actually. (Kyrian) You're trying to scare me, aren't you? Well, it won't work. I grew up in a house with an angry poltergeist and two sisters who used to conjure demons just to fight them. Buster, I've seen it all and your gallows humor isn't working on me. (Amanda)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Growing Up, Fighting, Idols

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• The years went by, and Mary Alice and I grew up, Slower than we wanted to, faster than we realized.

  Richard Peck

  Years, Mary, Faster

  Richard Peck (1998). “A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories”, Dial

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• Valentine had long ago observed that in a society that expected chastity and fidelity, like Lusitania, the adolescents who controlled and channeled their youthful passions were the ones who grew up to be both strong and civilized. Adolescents in such a community who were either too weak to control themselves or too contemptuous of society's norms to try usually ended up being either sheep or wolves- either mindless members of the herd or predators who took what they could and gave nothing.

  Orson Scott Card

  Strong, Valentine, Passion

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.235, Tor Books

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• I grew up in front of these people, and now they are seeing me as an 'older' young man.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Men, People

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• I am who I am because of the people who I grew up with and where I'm from.

  Tim Duncan

  Basketball, Who I Am, People

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• Today's parents grew up with the silly notion that music was meant to be heard.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Music, Humorous

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Fatherhood”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Science, Two, Experience

  "World Authors 1950 - 1970". Book by John Wakeman, 1975.

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• I don't care if you broke, you grew up broke... you grew up rich. You only get 24hrs in a day! We all only get 24 hours in a day. It's what we do with it that makes the difference!

  Eric Thomas

  Life, Motivational, Differences

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• It's nice that I've grown up with the same friends since I was 12, I have a very close knit set of them... I grew up with a lot of people who a lot of other people regarded as heroes, and no one ever came to me for advice, no one ever came to me for protection, and so I don't ever really think I've been looked at as a hero.

  Robert Pattinson

  Family, Friends, Nice

  "PopSugarUK Meets Remember Me Cast Part One: Robert Pattinson on Fighting, Father Figures and Friends". PopSugarUK interview, www.popsugar.co.uk. March 29, 2010.

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• Animals are being exploited in such an unbelievable way; it's not acceptable. PETA is trying to get your attention, and they're successful at it. ... If you talk to people who grew up on a farm, they'll tell you that they had an experience where they were taking care of a cow, and one day their parents took it away and killed it. It's a torturous experience for them, and that's when they became hard. People are taught to be grown-up or whatever, and that's dumb. That bond they had with that cow or chicken was real.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Real, Successful, Animal

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• Because I can't seem to escape it. It's a way for me to address and counter my questions about what it means to be human, or, in my case a Dominican human who grew up in New Jersey.

  Junot Diaz

  Mean, Writing, Addresses

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• I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty.

  Brittany Snow

  Birthday, Party, Parent

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• Who doesn’t? I cry and smile every day. I grew up scared, because I was so skinny and had no boobs. It’s only now that I just think, Sod it! Everyone’s different. I’m contented and happy as I am.

  Kaya Scodelario

  Thinking, Skinny, Different

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• I think someone in the union has the right to a private vote, and that's why I'm anti-card check. I grew up in a union family. My grandfather was a coal miner; he was in the union.

  Jim Renacci

  Thinking, Coal Miners, Grandfather

  "Exclusive Interview with Jim Renacci, GOP Candidate in OH-16". Interview with Mytheos Holt, www.nationalreview.com. September 1, 2010.

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• Our generation grew up with the Review as a fact of life. It was America’s literary magazine. To our minds, it still is. It has launched our favorite writers. It has made a special claim for the quarterly as such, being both timely and lasting, free of the news of the day or the pressure to please a crowd. Most of all, the Review has shown, repeatedly, that works of imagination can be as stylish and urgent as the flashiest feature reporting, and can do more to refocus our picture of the world.

  Lorin Stein

  Our Generation, America, Imagination

  "Editor's Note". www.theparisreview.org. 2010.

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• I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again.

  Carrie Underwood

  Listening, Albums, Want

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