Growing Quotes - Page 29

• No matter where we're born, which countries we're raised in, what cultures we come from, there are some universal experiences we all have as children. We all kind of start the same. We want the love of our parents, companionship, friends, we want to have fun, to play, and we're all hurt the first time we learn that the world is far from perfect place - it's the start of a series of epiphanies and realizations that is what growing up is all about.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Country, Hurt, Growing Up

  Interview with James Mustich, www.csmonitor.com. November 24, 2008.

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• I haven't written a novel or something that long, because I really am improvising all along and the story is growing new limbs to do what it needs to do. So there's very little planning. There's a little planning where I say, "Well, it looks like I'm going in this direction, ok, good." But there's very little forethought or intellectual justification: "Oh, look, I'm putting in a theme park because that represents dystopian America!"

  George Saunders

  America, Long, Intellectual

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We're facing growing climate change, more floods, more droughts, more crisis on a planetary level, and the systems we put in place in the twentieth century are just not going to work. We've run out of stuff. Our big problems are going to be energy supplies and food supplies. This is not a right-left issue. It's a people issue, and it cuts across all our categories.

  Margaret Atwood

  Running, Cutting, Issues

  "Margaret Atwood Interview". Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. December 2, 2010.

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• As a child growing up, you never thought about being in a videogame, then to have a game of your own and be lucky enough to set the bar with it in the gaming world, it's a dream come true.

  Tiger Woods

  Dream, Children, Growing Up

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. October 13, 2006.

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• Growing up in Atlanta I always had a sense of what fashion was, a sense of style - my parents always talked about the importance of making a first impression and that's stayed with me.

  Cam Newton

  Fashion, Growing Up, Atlanta

  "The ESQ&A: Cam Newton on His New Clothing Line". Interview with Nic Screws, www.esquire.com. April 9, 2013.

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• Growing up, the two things that made my blood boil were religious intolerance and animal cruelty. I’ve never understood it. I can’t stand to have an animal in pain.

  Ricky Gervais

  Religious, Growing Up, Pain

  Interview with Chris Heath, www.gq.com. May 15, 2013.

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• Growing old becomes clear to you at a certain point. I think it's after the age of 70 you realize - you begin to actually be convinced - you're growing older.

  Leonard Cohen

  Thinking, Age, Realizing

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• I'm a strong supporter of comfort breeds complacency. Growing up poor I wasn't comfortable, my mom had to work so hard and I woke up one day and decided I was not going to come home until I could help her pay the bills.

  Farrah Gray

  Mom, Strong, Growing Up

  TheCelebrityCafe.com Interview, thecelebritycafe.com. February 23, 2011.

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• The dissemination of pseudoscience, including such things as the fascination with near-death experiences and the growing belief by Americans -- 34 percent of them -- in reincarnation are dangerous. They help to break down the standards of reason.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Fascination, Pseudoscience, Helping

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• Growing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death.

  Martha Ostenso

  Death, Drawing, Independence

  Martha Ostenso (1934). “The White Reef”, New York, Dodd

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• people like to keep their little secrets to themselves. It's like growing mushrooms in the cellar and running down to take a look at them now and then.

  Marjorie Kellogg

  Running, Mushrooms, People

  Marjorie Kellogg (1968). “Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon”

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• Girlhood ... is the intellectual phase of a woman's life, that time when, unencumbered by societal expectations or hormonal rages, one may pursue any curiosity from the mysteries of the yo-yo to the meaning of infinity. These two particular pursuits were where I left off in the fifth grade when I discovered a hair growing in the wrong place and all hell broke loose.

  Alice Kahn

  Hair, Two, Expectations

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• Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.

  Cargill Gilston Knott

  Hands, Needs, Theory

  Cargill Gilston Knott (2015). “Life and Scientific Work of Peter Guthrie Tait”, p.1, Cambridge University Press

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• Besides the progress of industry and technique, we see a growing discontent among the masses; we see, besides the expansion ("expansion,", Fr.) of instruction, distrust and hatred expanding among nations ("s'étendre la méfiance et la haine entre," Fr.), that vie with one another ("qui rivalisent à l'envi," Fr.), by the increase of their armies and the improvement of their engines of murder ("engins meurtriers", Fr).

  African Spir

  Army, Hatred, Progress

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 37), 1937.

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• Growing old is not a thing to watch. It cannot be forgiven in others. Alone, it can be borne. Even indulged.

  Jennifer Stone

  Watches, Aging, Forgiven

  Jennifer Stone (1992). “Telegraph Avenue then”, Regent Pr

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• Any swagger is just defense. When youre reminded so much of who you are by people - not a fame thing, but with my size, constantly, growing up - you just either curl up in a corner in the dark or you wear it proudly, like armor or something. You can turn it on its head and use it yourself before anybody else gets a chance.

  Peter Dinklage

  Growing Up, Dark, People

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• Celebrity is seen by a huge amount of people and certainly myself for a while as the pinnacle of society, of success. It is revered almost religiously, both the institution and its quickly growing member base.

  Jack Gleeson

  People, Institutions, Members

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• Even though I am very tied to and close to my heritage, I learned Spanish in college; I didn't grow up with it. Growing up in South Texas is different from Miami or L.A. where it is a necessity to speak Spanish.

  Eva Longoria

  Growing Up, College, Texas

  "Interview: Eva Longoria". www.blackstarnews.com. April 19, 2006.

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• All I knew growing up was that my father was married to and loved my momma, period. He worked hard, made some money, and put it on the dresser. She spent it on the family, and he went out and earned some more. He taught me the most about love.

  Steve Harvey

  Growing Up, Father, Taught

  "Steve at Ease". Interview with Kam Williams, lasentinel.net. April 19, 2012.

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• You know, my mother's beautiful, my dad was a really handsome man, and there was a lot of talk about looks when I was growing up.

  Courteney Cox

  Beautiful, Mother, Growing Up

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• Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles.

  Eddie Murphy

  Growing Up, Listening, Groups

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• Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day.

  Tracy Morgan

  Growing Up, Careers, Choices

  Tracy Morgan, Anthony Bozza (2009). “I Am the New Black”, p.15, Spiegel & Grau

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• My life growing up was a twisted Bronx version of The Color Purple. It had a much different soundtrack and no trees, but that desperation was the same.

  Tracy Morgan

  Growing Up, Purple, Color

  Tracy Morgan, Anthony Bozza (2009). “I Am the New Black”, p.12, Spiegel & Grau

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• Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I'm very, very grateful; it's a fun job. It's a luxury.

  Angelina Jolie

  Jobs, Growing Up, Fun

  "Angelina Jolie On Marriage, Brad, Her Kids & Pregnancy", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 28, 2010.

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• The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child.

  Alia Shawkat

  Children, Growing Up, Boredom

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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