Growing Quotes - Page 5

• You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Family, Children, Growing Up

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• Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

  Joseph Addison

  Passion, Admiration And Respect, Decay

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1778). “The Spectator”, p.26

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• Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.

  Julie Burchill

  Suicide, Hollywood, Sanctuary

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• Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.

  Carol Burnett

  Growing Up, Want, Astute

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• I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Growing Up, Freak, Fit

  Interview with Gus Van Sant, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 3, 2010.

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• You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Years, Age, Way

  "Earthly Paradise: Colette's Autobiography Drawn from the Writings of Her Life". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1966.

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• It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Children, Mistake, Educational

  "Helen Keller: A Life". Book by Dorothy Herrmann, University of Chicago Press, p. 56, 1999.

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• Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy.

  Reba McEntire

  Being Happy, Growing Up, Maturity

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• Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.

  Gary Oldman

  Growing Up, Anger, Fire

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• We have serious enemies and growing threats around the world. Unfortunately, we have an administration whose idea of a rogue state is Arizona.

  Mitt Romney

  Ideas, Enemy, World

  "Countdown with Keith Olbermann", www.nbcnews.com. September 17, 2010.

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  When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became.

  Jill Scott

  Mother, Growing Up, Museums

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Wisdom, Time, Past

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• I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say.

  Justin Timberlake

  Growing Up, Church, World

  Justin Timberlake, Susan Black (2003). “Justin Timberlake”, Omnibus Press& Schirmer Trade Books

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• In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Growing Up, Sacrifice, Effort

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• Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up.

  Natalie Wood

  Love, Girl, Growing Up

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• At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

  Salvador Dali

  Funny, Witty, Work

  1942 The Secret Life of Salvador Dal|¤, prologue.

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• Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.

  Beverley Mitchell

  Moving On, Cheer, Growing Up

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• I think that's good that I have to watch how I act and what I say. I think that's a part of growing up.

  Puff Daddy

  Growing Up, Thinking, Watches

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• I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way.

  Allen Iverson

  Growing Up, Hard Times, Way

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• Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Relationship, Playing Games

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• The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.

  Julius Erving

  Success, Basketball, Spiritual

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• Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

  Phyllis Diller

  Growing Up, Children, Silly

  Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints (1966)

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• Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

  Carl Jung

  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1954). “The development of personality”

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• When I was growing up, I always knew that if I ever got anything, I was going to give back as much as I can. I learned that all you have to be willing to do is give your time.

  Darius Rucker

  Growing Up, Ghouls, Giving

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

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• Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

  Samuel Ullman

  Life, Birthday, Leadership

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