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Growing Up Quotes by Betty Smith
- Those were the Rommely women: Mary, the mother, Evy, Sissy, and Katie, her daughters, and Francie, who would grow up to be a Rommely woman…
- Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water…
- Mother, I am young. Mother, I am just eighteen. I am strong. I will work hard, Mother. But I do not want this child to…
- There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it makes a tree…
- She told Papa about it. He made her stick out her tongue and he felt her wrist. He shook his head sadly and said, "You…
More Growing Up Quotes
- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life. — Chinua Achebe
- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
- I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very… — Margaret Atwood
- Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver. — Diane Ackerman
- Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof. — Richard Bach
- Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it. — Russell Baker
- Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war;… — James A. Baldwin
- One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when… — Christian Bale
- And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy… — Alan Ball