Growing Up Quotes

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I didn't grow up in the ocean -- as a matter of fact -- near the ocean -- I grew up in the desert. Therefore,… — George W. Bush
When I was growing up, all the women in my house were using needles. I've always had a fascination with the needle, the magic power… — Louise Bourgeois
But I do think the idea that basic cooking skills are a virtue, that the ability to feed yourself and a few others with proficiency… — Anthony Bourdain
We have to teach our boys the rules of equality and respect, so that as they grow up gender equality becomes a natural way of… — Beyonce Knowles
That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain. — William Butler Yeats
The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is;… — Meister Eckhart
Love and appreciate your parents. We are often so busy growing up; we forget they are also growing old. — John Spence
My father and his brothers were all lawyers, so I think that the expectation was probably for me to grow up to be an attorney,… — Steve Case
I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America… — Claudio Reyna
When I was growing up, we used to play basketball in a park that was never shoveled when it snowed. The basketball rims were never… — DeForest Soaries
I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the… — Cate Blanchett
Respect children because they're human beings and they deserve respect, and they'll grow up to be better people. — Benjamin Spock
When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent… — David Antin
Susan Sontag: What she really wanted, throughout her career, was to grow up to be a Frenchman. — Edward Abbey
Look at Satan. Created as an angel, grows up to be the Great Adversary. Hey, if you’re going to go on about genetics, you might… — Terry Pratchett
Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a bit… — John Hume
Growing up, I was always the small guy. — Wayne Gretzky
Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again — Pericles
It's very hard to grow up in a perfect family when you're not perfect. — E. L. James
I beat my children daily, with a shoe, because I don't want them to grow up fairies. At 9 p.m. I promptly play The Wall… — Thom Yorke
I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13.… — Warren Christopher
The American Beauty Rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which… — John D. Rockefeller
It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of… — William Graham Sumner
My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady, and the other was to be independent. The study of law was… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The vast majority of people are born, grow up, struggle and go through life in misery and failure, not realizing that it would be just… — Napoleon Hill

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