Growing Quotes - Page 36

• Like paths and alleys overgrown with hardy, rank-growing weeds, the words we use are overgrown with our individual, private, provincial associations, which tend to choke the meaning.

  Stefan Themerson

  Weed, Association, Path

  Stefan Themerson (1997). “Bayamus & Cardinal Pölätüo”

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• I was the best street fighter in history when I was growing up on the Lower East Side. Hell, I never lost a street fight. Never. I thought I could lick Jack Dempsey or Joe Louis or anybody. I was fantastic.

  Rocky Graziano

  Growing Up, Fighting, East

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• There is a lot of learning I have to do and a lot of growing up I have to do.

  Bubba Watson

  Growing Up

  "The Open 2011: Bubba Watson regrets burbling about Parisian landmarks" by Lawrence Donegan, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2011.

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• We plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He's more interested in growing our character than having us look finished.

  Bob Goff

  Character, Looks, Want

  FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Jun 22, 2012

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• I think I felt like a regular kid. Growing up in New York, I never felt I was a big deal.

  Katharine Weymouth

  New York, Growing Up, Kids

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• We have broken the shackles of conservative socialism. The growing middle classes want the kind of standard of living you enjoy in the West. So what I'm selling is a lifestyle.

  Vijay Mallya

  Class, Broken, Want

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• Elmcrest CC, in Cedar Rapids, is where it all started when I was growing up. The tree-lined course has a very demanding layout that requires you to be accurate off the tee and avoid a number of well-placed water hazards on some of the holes.

  Zach Johnson

  Growing Up, Numbers, Water

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• The most successful hyperpowers are the ones where there was actual intermixing. Tang dynasty China was Chinas golden age, and contrary to what I was told when I was growing up, Tang China was founded by a man who by todays standards was no more than half Chinese. It was a mixed-blood dynasty that pulled in "barbarians" from the steppe.

  Amy Chua

  Growing Up, Successful, Men

  "The accidental hyperpower: an interview with Amy Chua". Interview with Fritz Lanham, www.chron.com. December 2, 2007.

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• I was always intrigued when I was growing up, and then in engineering school, with the idea of a perpetual machine. I think of the Wal-Mart culture as that.

  Mike Duke

  Growing Up, School, Thinking

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• Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.

  Tahj Mowry

  Growing Up, School, Eye

  "'Smart Guy' Tahj Mowry: From Child Star To Adult Actor". Interview with Brooke Obie, www.ebony.com. October 8, 2012.

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• Ultimately, the only wealth that can sustain any community, economy or nation is derived from the photosynthetic process - green plants growing on regenerating soil.

  Allan Savory

  Green Plants, Plants Growing, Community

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• As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes watching a bunch of sari-clad dancers cavorting on a Swiss mountain to tuneless music, I would switch over to some proper drama about housing estates and single mothers.

  Simon Beaufoy

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

  "Life on the hard shoulder" by Simon Beaufoy, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2008.

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• Give someone who has faith in you a placebo and call it a hair growing pill, anti-nausea pill or whatever, and you will be amazed at how many respond to your therapy.

  Bernie Siegel

  Hair, Giving, Nausea

  "The Power of Words: Revising the Doctor-Patient Relationship" by Bernie Siegel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2010.

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• Growing up, I was prone to anxiety.

  Jane McGonigal

  Growing Up, Anxiety

  "Super Girl" by Whitney Joiner, www.elle.com. June 22, 2011.

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• We human beings have a remarkable way of growing accustomed to things.

  Arthur Golden

  Way, Remarkable, Humans

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.268, Random House

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• It was natural to see the struggle for dignity for black people in America as a sister struggle of the Jewish struggle. So growing up, it was always a part of my breakfast cereal to think of myself as someone who was part of a larger struggle.

  Eugene Jarecki

  Growing Up, Struggle, Thinking

  "Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 9, 2012.

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• As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and my mother's family had fled the czars of Russia before that.

  Eugene Jarecki

  Mother, Growing Up, Father

  "Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 9, 2012.

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• I started taekwondo at 5 or 6 years old and did a bunch of kick-boxing later, too. Eventually I became a black belt and coached as well. I did some basketball and softball growing up, but most of my activity was martial arts.

  JWoww

  Basketball, Softball, Art

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• I was 23 when I learned how to cook; I grew up around the same time. It was precisely then that Thanksgiving started to mean something more. Growing up, Christmas was always about me, and eventually you, when I finally started to enjoy the giving part. But Thanksgiving is always about us.

  Rosecrans Baldwin

  Growing Up, Mean, Giving

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• So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

  Barbara Broccoli

  Growing Up, Father, Film

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• The American civil space program is growing to maturity. It has passed through the joys and crises of precocious childhood and now is being called upon to do grown-up things, like earn a living and establish permanent roots in space.

  John Noble Wilford

  Maturity, Roots, Space

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• There are a million boys growing up in the United States who have never seen a saloon, and who will never know the handicap of liquor and this excellent condition will go on spreading over the country when the wet press and the paid propogandists of booze are forgotten. The abolition of the commercialized liquor trade in this country is as final as the abolition of slavery.

  Henry Ford

  Country, Growing Up, Boys

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• For a long time, no village girl would dress her hair or bosom with the sweetest flower from that field of death: and after many a year had come and gone, the berries growing there, were still believed to leave too deep a stain upon the hand that plucked them.

  Charles Dickens

  Girl, Flower, Hair

  Charles Dickens (1852). “Christmas Books”, p.160

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• To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

  Charles Dickens

  Games, Words Of Wisdom, Delight

  Charles Dickens (1872). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.246

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• Encourage free schools and resolve that not one dollar appropriated for their support shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian schools. Resolve that neither the state nor nation, nor both combined, shall support institutions of learning other than those sufficient to afford every child growing up in the land of opportunity of a good common school education, unmixed with sectarian, pagan, or atheistical dogmas. Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church and the private school supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Children, Growing Up, School

  Speech to the Society of the Army of Tennessee, archive.org. 1875.

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