Growing Quotes - Page 35

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Buffys very similar to me to me when I was growing up. A child in an adult world, sort of trapped between the two. Does Buffy go to the prom or does she save the world from demons?

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Children, Growing Up, Two

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• Sunday night was such a big night for television when I was growing up - you know, The Wonderful World of Disney.

  Scott Bakula

  Growing Up, Sunday, Night

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• Im from northern Virginia, but I grew up next to the West Virginia border, so it was hills and farmland. We had that sense of adventure you get from growing up around old farmhouses and lazy, rolling hills, you know?

  Hilarie Burton

  Growing Up, Adventure, Virginia

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• I was a big Dave Winfield guy growing up.

  Willie Geist

  Growing Up, Guy, Dave

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• When I was growing up, so many of the important changes for African-Americans were being made in the United States Supreme Court and were being made by lawyers. I followed the court very intensely and wanted to do that for my life.

  Leah Ward Sears

  Growing Up, African American, Important

  "Georgia High Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. August 2, 2005.

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• Growing up in Texas, you were either pretty or smart. Smart didnt get you very far, because there werent too many job opportunities for women. I wondered why you couldnt be both.

  Morgan Fairchild

  Jobs, Growing Up, Smart

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• Growing up, I wasn't allowed dolls, and my brothers weren't allowed guns. I inherited my brothers' clothes. I was never dressed in pink, and they were never dressed in blue; there were none of those rules that people still bizarrely subscribe to.

  Natascha McElhone

  Brother, Growing Up, Gun

  "What I know about men". Interview with Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2008.

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• I don't like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade.

  Billy Crystal

  Height, Fifth Grade, Grades

  "Fictional character: Sam Kamin". "My Giant", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• I decided to start embracing and wearing my natural hair, but there was only one problem; I didn't know what to do with it or how to style it. Growing up, all I knew was my relaxed, processed hair, so I had to go through this learning phase.

  Kimberly Elise

  Growing Up, Hair, Style

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• For the growing number of people seeking to approach the ideas of Gurdjieff, Toward Awakening by Jean Vaysse offers reliable guidance, as well as evidence of the continuing vitality of this remarkable teaching. It may be counted as among the small handful of books that communicate something of what Gurdjieff brought.

  Jacob Needleman

  Book, Teaching, Ideas

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• The days of television as we knew it growing up are over. You have a bigger, wider world audience on the Internet, larger than any American television series. People don't watch television in the same context as before. Nowadays they watch their television on the Internet at their convenience. That's the whole wave, and it's now - not the future.

  Criss Angel

  Growing Up, People, Over You

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• Wonder Woman was on TV when I was growing up, and I knew Lynda Carter was part Latina. It gave me a great sense of pride.

  Constance Marie

  Growing Up, Pride, Wonder Woman

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• Growing up, I lived a moderate lifestyle with my family.

  Liam Hemsworth

  Growing Up, My Family, Lifestyle

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• I didnt know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didnt know any arty types.

  Stephen Mangan

  Dad, Growing Up, Actors

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• Growing up, I didn't have television. My dad would make up stories and tell me stories, so my imagination ran wild. When I did see films, which was very few and far between, that was such an interesting medium that was so new to me. It wasn't something that was just part of my life, so it was really appealing and so different that I enjoyed that.

  Shiloh Fernandez

  Growing Up, Dad, Imagination

  "Shiloh Fernandez Exclusive Interview RED RIDING HOOD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 10, 2011.

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• I don't want my kids growing up believing that there is nothing destructive in the world.

  Chuck Connors

  Growing Up, Believe, Kids

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

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