When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football.
Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me.
Growing up on a dairy farm, you certainly learn discipline and a commitment to purpose.
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up.
My family... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up.
The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it.
A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.
Do not be afraid to experience your emotions; they are the path to your soul. Emotions erupt to remind us we are alive, that we are human. And to let us know we are growing. Trust yourself enough to feel what you feel.
It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It's as simple as that.
Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to questions that only your inmost feeling in your most hushed hour can perhaps answer.
I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.
Whenever there is negativity in you, if you can be aware in that moment that there is something in you that takes pleasure in it or believes it has a useful purpose, you are becoming aware of the ego directly. The moment this happens your identity has shifted from ego to awareness. This means the ego is shrinking and awareness is growing.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?
Now I'm growing and I can see my faults. I can look at myself objectively and say I can't blame anyone else; it was my own damn fault.
I was a handful growing up.
I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.
Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.
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