Grew Quotes - Page 35

• I was a girl from Massapequa, New York. I grew up in Massapequa. I lived in a basement with one window.

  Jessica Hahn

  Girl, New York, Window

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• But what right had I to these highest joys, when all around me was nothing but misery and struggle for a moldy bit of bread; when whatsoever I should spend to enable me to live in that world of higher emotions must needs be taken from the very mouths of those who grew the wheat and had not bread enough for their children?

  Peter Kropotkin

  Children, Struggle, Taken

  "Memoirs of a Revolutionist". Book by Peter Kropotkin. Part 4, Section 3, dwardmac.pitzer.edu. 1899.

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• Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.

  Barry Commoner

  Simple, Environmental Quality, Entering

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• Growing up I wasn’t sure I was female. As I grew further I wanted to be a lesbian but I wasn’t sure I would meet even the most basic membership criteria (though eventually I created a ‘femme dyke’ persona that worked well for over fifteen years). It wasn’t until my early twenties that I was sure of at least one thing: I was an artist. Quite an accomplishment for anyone assigned female at birth in a culture that calls only male artists ‘great’.

  Del LaGrace Volcano

  Growing Up, Artist, Years

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• When I grew up I saw females doing certain things, and I thought I had to do that exactly. The female rappers of my day spoke about sex a lot . . . and I thought that to have the success they got, I would have to represent the same thing. When in fact I didn’t have to represent the same thing.

  Nicki Minaj

  Sex, Rapper, Female

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• I like playing roulette, I like dice. I grew up with gamblers.

  Chazz Palminteri

  Roulette, Dice, Grew Up

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• They grew really quickly. One minute I didn't have any tits and the next I had the biggest tits in the world.

  Tracey Emin

  World, Next, Minutes

  "Show and tell". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2001.

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• Oh, love, what an unreasoning creature it grew to be.

  Edna O'Brien

  Creatures

  Edna O'Brien (2012). “Country Girl”, p.47, Faber & Faber

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• The leaf that spreads in the light is the only holiness there is. I haven't found holiness in the faiths of mortals, or in their music, not in their dreams: it's out in the open field, with the green rows looking at the sky. I don't know what it is, this holiness: but it's there, and it looks at the sky.
  Probably though this is some conditioning the Company installed to ensure I'd be a good botanist. Well, I grew up into a good one. Damned good.

  Kage Baker

  Dream, Light, Sky

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• I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Love, Years, People

  "ZZ top". Interview With Andrew Hussey, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2004.

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• I grew up singing Mexican music, and that's based on indigenous Mexican rhythms. Mexican music also has an overlay of West African music, based on huapango drums, and it's kind of like a 6/8 time signature, but it really is a very syncopated 6/8. And that's how I attack vocals.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Mexican, Singing, Signatures

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• Well I grew up in England, and I was in the London police.

  Tony Greig

  Police, England, London

  "Investigator details charges". "NBC News Investigates", www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2004.

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• Love is infectious. You know, God is infectious-God flowing through us and us being little-baby creators and s--t. But His energy and His love and what He wants us to have as people and the way He wants us to love each other, that is infectious. Like they said in Step Brothers: Never lose your dinosaur. This is the ultimate example of a person never losing his dinosaur. Meaning that even as I grew in cultural awareness and respect and was put higher in the class system in some way for being this musician, I never lost my dinosaur.

  Kanye West

  Baby, Brother, Crazy

  "Kanye West: A Brand-New Ye". Interview with Zach Baron, www.gq.com. July 20, 2014.

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• I didn't grow up with my Kenyan family. I grew up in a small, conservative suburb of Chicago.

  Tom Morello

  Growing Up, Chicago, Conservative

  "Tom Morello on solo album, politics and racism". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. September 29, 2011.

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• 'What is the Unpardonable Sin' asked the lime-burner 'It is a sin that grew within my own breast', replied Ethan Brand 'The sin of an intellect that triumphed over the sense of brotherhood with man and reverence for God'.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Men, Brotherhood, Sin

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1876). “The snow-image and other twice-told tales”, p.102

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• It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn't just my dad's story, it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories.

  Vanessa Kerry

  Mom, Brother, Dad

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• I never got tired of watching the radar echo from an aircraft as it first appeared as a tiny blip in the noise on the cathode-ray tube, and then grew slowly into a big deflection as the aircraft came nearer. This strange new power to "see" things at great distances, through clouds or darkness, was a magical extension of our senses. It gave me the same thrill that I felt in the early days of radio when I first heard a voice coming out of a horn.

  Robert Hanbury Brown

  Distance, Tired, Science

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• I have no problem with religion, and I grew up with a strong curiosity about spiritual matters, but my searching took me away from church and community worship to the internal journey. Before my recovery began, I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter.

  Eric Clapton

  Music, Spiritual, Art

  Eric Clapton (2007). “Clapton: The Autobiography”, Broadway

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• As Tammie glow'red, amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious.

  Robert Burns

  Fun, Curiosity, Red

  "Tam o' Shanter" l. 143 (1791)

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• I grew up climbing mountains in Montana and Wyoming and my wife and I were engaged on top of a mountain peak: Hyalite Peak in Montana. It was a 15-mile hike to get to the top of that, round-trip - thankfully, she said yes.

  Steve Daines

  Mountain Peaks, Climbing, Wyoming

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• I think my thing is I grew up in the ghetto, and I was able to get a second chance. That's what I'm trying to tell kids.

  Master P

  Kids, Ghetto, Thinking

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• America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.

  Pat Buchanan

  Christian, Country, Slave Ships

  "Pat Buchanan Thinks You Should Be More Thankful For Slavery, Barry Obama". The Jezebel Interview, jezebel.com. March 24, 2008.

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• Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition... Today businesses grow through alliances - all kinds of dangerous alliances. Joint ventures and customer partnerings which, by the way, very few people understand.

  Peter Drucker

  Art, War, Two

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• And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Knowledge, Science, Intelligent

  'The Deserted Village' (1770) l. 211

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• Those of us of a certain age grew up expecting that by now we would have Rosie the Robot from 'The Jetsons' in our house. And all we've got is a Roomba.

  Juan Enriquez

  Technology, House, Age

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