Grew Quotes - Page 22

• Coming from a little suburban town, I wasn't a hip city kid. I was quite the opposite, really. Songs like 'Saturday's Kids' rang a bell for kids all over the country. That song was about the kids I grew up with.

  Paul Weller

  Country, Song, Kids

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• The sky darkened, the air grew colder, but he didn't mind. It didn't occur to him to move. This was the right place. This was where he had wanted to be.

  Pat Barker

  Moving, Air, Sky

  Pat Barker (1996). “The Regeneration Trilogy”, Gardners Books

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• I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at the world.

  Vivienne Westwood

  War, Looks, World

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• If you're walking with your lady on the sidewalk, I still like to see a man walking street-side, to protect the lady from traffic. I grew up with that, and I hate to see something like that get lost. I still like to see that a man opens the door. I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing.

  Betty White

  Hate, Men, Doors

  "Follow a lady's word: Betty White dispenses some relationship advice for the average male". Q&A, www.heraldextra.com. May 13, 2011.

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• I grew up in a family where the internalized understanding was that the kids were going to grow up into a better world. I worry, because I don't think my kids are going to have that. The world is very scary. The world would be scary without the choices the current administration made, but they just exacerbated it. And it ticks me off. I want my kids to have a good life.

  Bradley Whitford

  Good Life, Growing Up, Kids

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• I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.

  Andrew Wiles

  Love, Childhood, England

  "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". The NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.

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• Every kid has a bug period... I never grew out of mine.

  E. O. Wilson

  Kids, Bugs, Periods

  "E.O. Wilson's Advice for Future Scientists". Interview with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. June 21, 2013.

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• I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.

  E. O. Wilson

  Southern, Baptists, Adherence

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• With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.

  H. G. Wells

  Wine, Wife, Degrees

  H. G. Wells “The Works of Wells”, Lulu.com

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• To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was.

  Reese Witherspoon

  June, Play, Religion

  "Walk The Line - Reese Witherspoon interview" by Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• You remember having friends who used to lampoon the world so effortlessly, crouching at the verge of every joke and waiting to pounce on it, and you remember how they changed as they grew older and the joy of questioning everything slowly became transformed into the pain of questioning everything, like a star consuming its own core.

  Kevin Brockmeier

  Stars, Pain, Joy

  Kevin Brockmeier (2008). “The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories”, p.101, Vintage

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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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• I actually grew fond of her in a nastily superior kind of way. For she was so completely artless and optimistic and clueless, she didn't care that she smelled bad or was fat or wore clothes unlike everyone else's, she had some weird disconnect with life that kept her constantly bubbling, and you knew she would go blithely through her long horribly boring life thinking every thing was just swell (the opposite of me).

  Peter Cameron

  Clueless, Optimistic, Thinking

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.69, Macmillan

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• He has his good side and his bad side. Very dark indeed is his majesty when he wants to be. When he was young, he made a choice, like a tree does when it decides to grow one way or the other. He grew large and green until he shadowed over the whole forest, but most of his branches are twisted.

  Nancy Farmer

  Dark, Choices, Tree

  Nancy Farmer (2010). “The House of the Scorpion”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• A sickly little smile grew and died on his mouth like a fungus.

  China Mieville

  Mouths, Littles, Fungi

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• For she was a child, throwing bread to the ducks, between her parents who stood by the lake, holding her life in her arms which, as she neared them, grew larger and larger in her arms, until it became a whole life, a complete life, which she put down by them and said, "This is what I have made of it! This!" And what had she made of it? What, indeed?

  Virginia Woolf

  Children, Lakes, Ducks

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.878, Delphi Classics

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• Kitten, when did you get so tall? (Ravyn) I grew while you were in the bathroom. (Erika)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Bathroom, Kitten, Tall

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• Magic could not be measured and explained in scientific terms, for magic grew through destroying the very natural principles that made science as people knew it impossible.

  Ilona Andrews

  People, Magic, Principles

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.35, Penguin

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• I want you to steal something." I smiled. "Do you want the king's seal? I can get it for you." "If I were you," said the magus, "I'd stop bragging about that." His voice grated. My smile grew. The gold ring with the engraved ruby had been in his safekeeping when I had stolen it away.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Kings, Voice, Gold

  Megan Whalen Turner (2009). “The Thief”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• But as he grew older, he learned that a word was a powerful thing. An insult didn't have to be shouted to bleed; a vow didn't have to be whispered to make you believe. Hold a thought in your head, and that was enough to change the actions of anyone and anything that crossed your path.

  Jodi Picoult

  Powerful, Believe, Path

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• No matter where its seed fell, it made a tree which struggled to reach the sky. It grew in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps, and it was the only tree that grew out of cement. It grew lushly, but only in the tenements districts.... That was the kind of tree it was. It liked poor people.

  Betty Smith

  Sky, People, Tree

  Betty Smith (2009). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”, p.6, Harper Collins

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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, Grew Up, Mary

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

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• I had heard the old Indian legend about the red fern. How a little Indian boy and girl were lost in a blizzard and had frozen to death. In the spring, when they were found, a beautiful red fern had grown up between their two bodies. The story went on to say that only an angel could plant the seeds of a red fern, and that they never died; where one grew, that spot was sacred.

  Wilson Rawls

  Beautiful, Girl, Spring

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• That was the moment he got the idea he possessed me in a certain way, and that was the moment I grew tired of him.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Tired, Ideas, Way

  Jamaica Kincaid (2002). “Lucy: A Novel”, p.155, Macmillan

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• It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it, though it seemed to get smaler as I grew older, train included. Now it's so small it fits in my head.

  Yann Martel

  Zoos, Acres, Fit

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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