Growing Up Quotes - Page 40

• You are not just anyone. One day, you're going to have to make a choice. You have to decide what kind of man you want to grow up to be. Whoever that man is, good character or bad, it's going to change the world.

  Jonathan Kent

  Character, Men, Choices

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• We owe something to the government to grow up in this great country. I'm tired of hearing people in the private sector talk like they don't owe the government anything. We do. This is a great country because we all pay into it. It's about time we all pay into it. ... If we paid the same amount of taxes we paid when Bill Clinton was president, I would be a happy guy, and the budget would be closer to balanced. You cannot give away money, whether you give it to rich or poor people. That's what George Bush did -- excuse me, trillions of dollars. You can't do that.

  Howard Dean

  Country, Tired, Rich Or Poor

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• The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail.

  Malik Bendjelloul

  Kids, Jail, Eras

  "Malik Bendjelloul's search for a genius". Interview with Hannah Lack, www.dazeddigital.com. September 1, 2013.

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• I was born in 1958, the same year NASA was established, which I like to think of as not a coincidence. I was 11 when they landed on the moon, Apollo Eleven. And, of course, everybody in the whole world was watching that. But I can tell you, at that time, nobody ever asked a girl, 'Is that something you want to grow up and do?'

  Ellen Ochoa

  Girl, Moon, Thinking

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  One of these days we're gonna have to grow up, have to get real jobs and be adults, someday, just not today.

  Kenny Chesney

  Jobs, Real, Today

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• Such are the differences among human beings in their sources of pleasure, their susceptibilities of pain, and the operation on them of different physical and moral agencies, that unless there is a corresponding diversity in their modes of life, they neither obtain their fair share of happiness, nor grow up to the mental, moral, and aesthetic stature of which their nature is capable.

  John Stuart Mill

  Pain, Differences, Agency

  John Stuart Mill (2017). “The Greatest Happiness Principle - Utilitarianism, On Liberty & The Subjection of Women: The Principle of the Greatest-Happiness: What Is Utilitarianism (Proofs & Principles), Civil & Social Liberty, Liberty of Thought, Individuality & Individual Freedom, Utilitarian Feminism”, p.148, Madison & Adams

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• I just gravitated toward (working behind the scenes by) growing up on the different sets and watching my father and other people in their different capacities...When I was 13 years old, I asked for a Super 8 camera.

  Michael Landon, Jr.

  Father, Years, People

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• As we all know, we're all highly influenced by the atmosphere that our parents create when we're growing up. And, if we do that the right way, that carries on to the next generation.

  Alex Kendrick

  Parent, Atmosphere, Generations

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Growing up, I was taught a mans word is his bond.

  Logan Mankins

  Growing, Taught

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• Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child. Nature doesn't disdain what lives only for a day. It pours the whole of itself into the each moment. We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last.

  Tom Stoppard

  Children, Thinking, Purpose

  Tom Stoppard (2014). “Shipwreck: The Coast of Utopia Play 2”, p.83, Faber & Faber

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• Sedaris, in his essay in the It Gets Better book, writes that when he was growing up nobody called him gay because you might as well have called him a warlock. Nobody knew what gay was.

  Dan Savage

  Book, Writing, Gay

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I did not grow up in the church. I'm not a church-goer now. I'm a very spiritual person.

  Malcolm D. Lee

  Spiritual, Church, Grows

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I never read comics growing up. I didn't have money and I don't like to touch paper.

  John McLaughlin

  Growing, Paper

  Source: www.comicosity.com

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• [At nine years old] I didn't really know what that meant at the time. I thought it might be in a warm summer sport like softball, but I played a variety of sports growing up - basketball, soccer and track. I really didn't care. I just wanted to be an Olympian.

  Elana Meyers

  Basketball, Summer, Softball

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• I'm not trying to snowboard for other people anymore. That just kind of comes with age and growing up. That's helped me a lot. Some of that started right after the last Olympics (in Vancouver).

  Kelly Clark

  People, Age, Trying

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• You’ve got to fight for that connection with God all the time no matter what you're going through in life. I'm growing up. I'm maturing. But I definitely think that the backbone of this is the freedom and creativity I have without the fear of failing. If I fail, what's going to happen? Nothing. I'm not looking for my self-worth in the sport.

  Kelly Clark

  Sports, Creativity, Fighting

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• The only guy that speaks at any sort of depth is, in my mind, Eminem. He's a guy that does music that talks about the struggles of addiction and before that violence, with growing up in a broken family, not being a good enough father. So, you know that's what I enjoy about it. It's harder to listen to than ever before because I have a bunch of kids and you just can't put it on.

  Marco Rubio

  Father, Struggle, Kids

  "All Eyez on Him". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. November 19, 2012.

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• There was on section in First Corinthians 13 that talks about (showing) patience, kindness, politeness, how can I demonstrate forgiveness to my children and more fully enjoy them as they're growing up and vice versa. And so, each of those has a day's journey. There are 40 days that people will go through in applying these biblical principles for their kids. We spell them out in layman's terms so it's really easy to grasp a principle.

  Alex Kendrick

  Children, Kindness, Kids

  "'Courageous' filmmaker Alex Kendrick branches out with a new book, a new Erwin Brothers comedy and a new production company". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. July 2013.

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• Growing up in New Orleans, my mom and dad were churchgoers. I would go to church with them. Also, I was going to a Catholic school so I had a fascination with the Catholic Church mainly because, in my mind, (their services) didn't take as long. I was bouncing in between my mom's Baptist church, which was called Second Zion Baptist, and going to a Catholic Church.

  Avery Johnson

  Mom, Dad, School

  "A conversation with New Jersey Nets head coach Avery Johnson". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. December 2011.

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• Growing up, I didn't have any comic books, at all. But my friend had a trunk full of them, so comic books were like candy for me. I would go over to his house for a sleep-over, and I would just be devouring everything I could get my hands on. I knew the sleep-over was going to be over, and I was going to go back to my house and it was going to be Kipling.

  James Spader

  Book, Sleep, Hands

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• Belonging to a group can provide the child with a variety of resources that an individual friendship often cannot--a sense of collective participation, experience with organizational roles, and group support in the enterprise of growing up. Groups also pose for the child some of the most acute problems of social life--of inclusion and exclusion, conformity and independence.

  Zick Rubin

  Children, Support, Independence

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• We were young. We were 23. I was a kid, growing up, that would burn and fry. I didn't understand why. We did all this study and research and learned so much about skin cells and rejuvenation and how the body works and (how) everybody is different. (We) learned what doctors do for treatment of certain things and so I changed my direction and opened up a skin-care company - healthy tanning, skin-care products and rejuvenation and all of that and it took off.

  Drew Waters

  Kids, Doctors, Cells

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Me and my family growing up, we cleared our land built our homes and all that. So, I was very well knowledgeable in the construction world. That turned into a commercial development company and construction company.

  Drew Waters

  Home, Land, Development

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I do believe that everyone growing up faces differential opportunities. With me, it was books and travel and some good teachers.

  James A. Michener

  Teacher, Believe, Book

  "Storytelling Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 10, 1991.

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• There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.

  Willa Cather

  Children, People, Deals

  Willa Cather (2015). “O Pioneers”, p.10, Xist Publishing

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