Growing Up Quotes - Page 5

• When you grow up as the daughters of George and Laura Bush, you develop a special appreciation for how blessed we are to live in this great country.

  Jenna Bush

  Daughter, Country, Appreciation

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• I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Children, Believe, Maturity

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.44, Ultramarine Publishing

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• The seeds of Death are sown in us when we begin to live, and grow up till, like rampant weeds, they choak the tender flower of life.

  Samuel Richardson

  Death, Weed, Flower

  Samuel Richardson (1774). “Clarissa: Or, The History of a Young Lady. Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life. And Particularly Showing the Difficulties that May Attend the Misconduct Both of Parents and Children, in Relation to Marriage ...”, p.229

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• The Canadian kid who wants to grow up to be Prime Minister isn't thinking big, he is setting a limit to his ambitions rather early.

  Mordecai Richler

  Ambition, Kids, Thinking

  Quoted in Time (Canadian ed.), 31 May 1971

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• It seems like a cliche, but you do grow up a lot faster when you travel a lot, go through things like this interview, spend time away from home and hang around with other actors. It's inevitable that you're not going to have a so-called normal childhood.

  Matt Dillon

  Home, Childhood, Interviews

  "Matt Dillon Meets Fame... Diffidently". The Boston Globe, November 03, 1983.

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• I have two older sisters and one older brother and hold them largely responsible for the trouble I got into growing up. I believe as the youngest child, that is my right.

  Suzanne Collins

  Brother, Children, Believe

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “The Underland Chronicles #1: Gregor the Overlander”, p.316, Scholastic Inc.

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• When you grow up in the [film] industry, the director is your father. You follow your father's lead, but you make your own way.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Father, Directors, Way

  "Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio Talk THE WOLF OF WALL STREET, THE DEPARTED, THE AVIATOR, GANGS OF NEW YORK, Jack Nicholson, and Much More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 9, 2014.

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• Being in the hearing world was more of a challenge than being in the Deaf world, because I had to learn how to write and communicate in a way that I hadn't experienced growing up.

  Jack Jason

  Writing, Challenges, Way

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Historically different groups find different things in each comics, as with *X-Men*. Gay readers find parallels to living a closeted lifestyle or choosing to come out and be openly gay. Black readers find a relevance to their lives growing up in America as a black guy. Picked-on brainy kids find a metaphor for being an outsider. It's a simple enough, and direct enough metaphor that it has different shades for different people. And so each reader to some degree gets out of it what they bring to it. That's one of the things I think that makes *X-Men* such a strong property.

  Tom Brevoort

  Strong, Kids, Gay

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• As a child growing up in the precincts of wealth, and later as a college student, newspaper reporter and resident of New York's Upper East Side, I got used to listening to the talk of financial killings and sexual misalliance that animates the conversation of the rich and the familiars of the rich.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  New York, Children, College

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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• One of the things that's fun about that is that sometimes you grow up knowing about someone because they were famous, but you don't really know what they were like before they were famous.

  Matt Ross

  Fun, Knowing, Sometimes

  Source: collider.com

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• Everyone has to grow up and that's what we're all doing; we're just doing it in different ways.

  Karrine Steffans

  Different, Way, Grows

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I attempt to be who I am and it's fun. At the same time, growing up doing what I'm doing can be a little crazy.

  Selena Gomez

  Fun, Crazy, Who I Am

  "Q&A: Selena Gomez on turning 21, Bieber, new album". Interview with Mesfin Fekadu, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. July 26, 2013.

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• I mean, like a lot of kids growing up in the early seventies, I was fed Dr. Kissinger with my Fruit Loops. He was the Dr. Ruth of American foreign policy, and the model statesman.

  Eugene Jarecki

  Mean, Kids, Drs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Thinking, Cynical, Becoming

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “I Will Fear No Evil”, p.358, Penguin

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• [On libraries] What's great about them is that anybody can go into them and find a book and borrow it free of charge and read it. They don't have to steal it from a bookshop... You know when you're young, you're growing up, they're almost sexually exciting places because books are powerhouses of knowledge, and therefore they're kind of slightly dark and dangerous. You see books that kind of make you go 'Oh!'

  Stephen Fry

  Book, Dark, Library

  "Room 101", (1994-).

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• I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment.

  Frank Zappa

  Country, Children, Four

  Appearance on CBS Morning News, September 18, 1985.

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• Sure thou did'st nourish once! and many springs, Many bright mornings, much dew, many showers, Passed o'er thy head; many light hearts and wings, Which now are dead, lodg'd in thy living bowers. And still a new succession sings and flies; Fresh groves grow up, and their green branches shoot Towards the old and still-enduring skies; While the low violet thrives at their root.

  Henry Vaughan

  Morning, Spring, Heart

  Henry Vaughan, “The Timber”

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• That's the terrible thing about growing up. You lose friends. It's inevitable. It's not like it's a surprise. But it is terrible.

  Paul McCartney

  Surprise, Inevitable, Terrible

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• Growing up, I looked up to real women. I didn't go in for hero worship and I still don't. Everybody has feet of clay.

  Lucy Lawless

  Real, Hero, Feet

  "Visiting Warriors - Xena and Hercules Flex Their Muscles at NATPE". The Times-Picayune, January 14, 1997.

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• When you grow up in that (multi-ethnic) environment, you see the world differently. Being a mixed-race child, I didn't always see colour in people, I really didn't. It was other people that made me see the colour all the time.

  Halle Berry

  Children, Race, People

  "Halle Berry Is No Stranger to Hard Work". Interview with Steven Rea, www.ocregister.com. April 14, 2007.

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• Both parents' rights must be in balance so children can grow up with a balance between both parents.

  Warren Farrell

  Children, Rights, Parent

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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• As a kid growing up in the 1950s I became acutely aware of the changes taking place in American culture and I must say I didn't much like it. I witnessed the debasement of architecture, and I could see a decline in the quality of things like comic books and toys, things made for kids. Old things seemed to have more life, more substance, more humanity in them.

  Robert Crumb

  Book, Kids, Old Things

  "The R. Crumb Handbook". Book by Robert Crumb and Peter Poplaski, 2005.

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• That culture, of looking at catchy music as a negative thing, is weird. It has nothing to do with me, or the music I was into growing up. The Stones and the Beatles only tried to write hits. Every Motown song, every Credence Clearwater song - they were trying to write hits.

  Dan Auerbach

  Song, Writing, Trying

  "The Black Keys on new album, rabid fans and Lana Del Rey". Interview with Mark Savage, www.bbc.com. May 13, 2014.

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• I'm getting older and the performance onstage was definitely, it was a bit sexier, but it wasn't too much. I don't want to scare off my fans. At the same time my fans are growing up with me, and I don't want to go way over the top.

  Demi Lovato

  Scare, Getting Older, Want

  "Demi Lovato, at 19, takes control of her own life". Interview with The Associated Press, www.dailyfreeman.com. October 1, 2011.

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