Growing Up Quotes - Page 5

• Every time I look at it, It looks back at me I love the sea, its waters are blue And the sky is too And the sea is very dear to me If when I grow up and the sea is still there Then I’ll open my eyes and smell the fresh air Because the sea is very dear to me The sea is very calm and that’s why I like it there The sand is brand new and the wind blows in my hair And the sea is very dear to me.

  Esther Earl

  Eye, Blow, Hair

  Esther Earl, Lori Earl, Wayne Earl (2014). “This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl”, p.38, Penguin UK

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• I come from a family who prided themselves, both sides, on memory. And I was told growing up, constantly, that I was born with a really good memory.

  Robbie Robertson

  Memories, Sides, Born

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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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• 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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• 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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• I love this simple maiden, She grows upon me more and more, And--ask the moon who 't was that kissed, Last night upon the shore!

  George Arnold

  Moon, Simple, Night

  George Arnold (1866). “Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems”, p.30

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• Good and evil grow up together and are bound in an equilibrium that cannot be sundered. The most we can do is try to tilt the equilibrium toward the good.

  Eric Hoffer

  Evil, Trying, Together

  "Reflections on the Human Condition". Book by Eric Hoffer. Section 26, 1973.

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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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• 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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• 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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• The promise of learning is a delusion.... Tomorrow would alter the sense of what had already been learned, that the learning process is extended in this way, so that from this standpoint none of us ever graduates from college, for time is an emulsion, and probably thinking not to grow up is the brightest kind of maturity for us, right now at any rate.

  John Ashbery

  Maturity, College, Thinking

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”, Penguin Group USA

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 99% of my life I was lied to. I just found out my mom does more dope than I do(Damn!). I told her I'd grow up to be a famous rapper, make a record about doing drugs and name it after her (-Oh, thank you!).

  Eminem

  Mom, Dope, Rapper

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• For me, my voice and music was always an outlet. Growing up in an unstable environment and whatnot, music was my only real escape.

  Christina Aguilera

  Music, Real, Voice

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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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• 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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• I like to keep people around me like the guys I have on the road with me, three of them were childhood friends of mine when I was growing up in Scotland. They don't look at me any different than when we were in primary school. So it's good to keep people like that around you. I think if you surround yourself with good honest people, they will tell you what to hear when you need to hear it.

  Johnny Reid

  School, Thinking, Scotland

  "Johnny Reid headlining Fredericton's Maritime Countryfest". "Information Morning Fredericton" with Terry Seguin, www.cbc.ca. June 20, 2015.

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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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