They Grew Quotes
53 They Grew quotes by 51 unique authors
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When people say this isn't the America they grew up in, they're right. Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.
— Gail Collins
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We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bizarre, and they're writing some very funny…
— Matt Groening
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A lot of people my age, they grew up with me onscreen. I think that's helped keep a certain amount of longevity. When you grow…
— Kirsten Dunst
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I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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Bond always mistrusted short men. They grew up from childhood with an inferiority complex. All their lives they would strive to be big - bigger…
— Ian Fleming
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To harden the earth the rocks took charge: instantly they grew wings: the rocks that soared: the survivors flew up the lightning bolt, screamed in…
— Pablo Neruda
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GATHERING LEAVES Spades take up leaves No better than spoons, And bags full of leaves Are light as balloons. I make a great noise Of…
— Robert Frost
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You remember having friends who used to lampoon the world so effortlessly, crouching at the verge of every joke and waiting to pounce on it,…
— Kevin Brockmeier
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They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.
— S E Hinton
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Looking a dead insect in the sack of basmati that had come all the way from Dehra Dun, he almost wept with sorrow and marvel…
— Kiran Desai
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You told me once of the plants that lie dormant through the drought, that wait, half-dead, deep in the earth. The plants that wait for…
— Lucy Christopher
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We aimed for no more than to have dominion over every creature that moved upon the earth. And so it came to pass that we…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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They grew fat and happy--the horses, not the children, or Marlena for that matter.
— Sara Gruen
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...they enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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...and down they forgot as up they grew.
— E E Cummings
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No,” he responded, reaching out to trace the shell of her ear. “They grew back even more beautiful. Blue edged with silver.” Elena laughed at…
— Nalini Singh
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The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses.
— Bobby Seale
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Young people are better educated. They grew up in a society which is well connected, well informed. They are able to communicate to one another,…
— Mo Ibrahim
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People feel like they grew up with me.
— Molly Ringwald
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The early Stones were adolescent rockers. They were self-conscious in an obvious and unpretentious way. And they were committed to a musical style that needed…
— Jon Landau
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Why can't we speak another language, one we all agree on? Why when men look outside, they see houses, instead of the fields they grew…
— Ellie Goulding
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People change physically NOT personality. You may THINK someone has changed but really 1 of 4 possibilites could've happened... 1) they grew UP, 2) they…
— Yamilett Vega
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I guarantee two-faced people would stop being two-faced if they grew another face for being two-faced in the first place
— C-DASH
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20 years from now, some adults are going to say they grew up on the bad part of town, meaning there was no 4G in…
— Hussein Nishah
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My teacher went around the classroom and asked each student what they wanted to be when they grew up. When she got to me, I…
— Ritu Ghatourey
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