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I think the reason we don't listen to our parents half the time is because we need to learn things on our… — Santana Copy Share Image
Growing up in New Orleans, when you're in seventh and eighth grade, and you're into music, and you're a dorky dude, you… — Steve Zissis Copy Share Image
My parents were mourning the death of my sister. She was killed in a car accident before I was born, and I… — Andrew Hudgins Copy Share Image
I think retirement's for old people. I'm still in the business, thank you. I have a young child of nine years old,… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I wasn't an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Growing up, it was kind of a struggle being small, since everyone would make fun of you - except for when it… — Simone Biles Copy Share Image
Growing up in my family, it wasn't important that we always be the best; it was important that we were going to… — Daphne Oz Copy Share Image
The spiritual ambiguity growing up made me really latch onto a faith - Protestantism - that was somewhat conventional. Everyone else was… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
The idea of using media for expressing yourself artistically is kind of something I learned from my mother and my father. So… — Sean Lennon Copy Share Image
I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The meaning of self-esteem is to feel lovable and capable. As parents, we must love our children unconditionally and give them a… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
I didn't feel that so much as an outsider when I started writing; I've felt that way all my life. I don't… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
It was about falling asleep with Sam's chest pressed against my back so I could feel his heart slow to match mine.… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
Why does a dad matter so much to a daughter, in particular? A dad is the one who teaches a daughter what… — Kevin Leman Copy Share Image
We are too quickly losing important landscapes in this country to development - and I worry that if we do not act… — Louis Bacon Copy Share Image
Growing up in England, you're sort of spoiled, in a way. You sort of take it for granted that within a half-hour's… — Rupert Friend Copy Share Image
I wasn't allowed to listen to a lot of music growing up. It wasn't until I started to make my gospel record… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
The music that I chose during my life, it wasn't arbitrary. It was all in my family home when I was growing… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
“...I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar-you live next to the strange… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I figured out I wanted to tell stories in college. I'm an only child who moved around a lot growing up, and… — Joe Robert Cole Copy Share Image
I was like, 18 and it was in West Virginia because I was allowed to get into the clubs in West Virginia,… — Alaska Copy Share Image
In the philanthropy game, you're going for different outcomes: saving childhood lives, having kids grow up - because they don't have malnutrition… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I'd put my arms in my shirt and told people I lost my arms. Would restart the video… — Mahmoud El Hallab Copy Share Image
“Maybe universal nostalgia doesn't exist. Maybe each of us carries our own personal version of the better times. It's at about twnety-two… — Caleb J. Ross Copy Share Image
It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different. Now I understand that I've gotten to enjoy things that… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
“How much older can you be at your age? A half minute before that you were stepping into high school, and an… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
We humans are born egocentric. The sky thunders and children believe that God is mad at them for something they've done -… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
In most places and times in human history, babies have had not just one person but lots of people around who were… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
When were you born, who are your parents, where did you grow up? None of us earns these things. These things were… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
I never solicited myself as a singer until I realized I could use that to a musical standpoint. I loved musicals growing… — Dianna Agron Copy Share Image
Growing up sucks, not all kisses are magical and most boys do not live up to your expectations. But there are times… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The child who would be an adult must give up any lingering childlike sense of parental power, either the magical ability to… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Another factor is the education and culture in which you grow up. I didn't grow up in the culture of victory, where… — Amelie Mauresmo Copy Share Image
The goal in raising one's child is to enable him, first, to discover who he wants to be, and then to become… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
Especially for me, growing up in such a small town in the middle of nowhere, the desire to be away was incredible.… — Garrett Hedlund Copy Share Image
I knew nothing about fashion growing up, because in Florida you just wear bikinis and flip-flops. But kids can be cruel, and… — Kate Upton Copy Share Image
As a Canadian it's something you grow up with. Where I'm from in Canada the ground usually freezes in late October and… — Gerad Adams Copy Share Image
I guess...on one hand, I spent way too much time watching science fiction and reading science fiction when I was growing up.… — Moby Copy Share Image