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Image of Rush Limbaugh
It's not uncommon for young people to expect things. It's part of growing up.
- Rush Limbaugh
Collection: Growing Up
Image of John Lennon
I wanted to give five solid years of being there all the time (with Sean). I hadn't seen my first son Julian grow up, and now there's a 17-year-old man on the phone talking about motorbikes. No matter what artistic gains I get, or gold records, if I can't make a success out of my relationship with the people I love, then everything else is bullsh*t.
- John Lennon
Collection: Growing Up
Image of C. S. Lewis
The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose.
- C. S. Lewis
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Jonathan Lethem
You could grow up in the city where history was made and still miss it all.
- Jonathan Lethem
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Jonathan Lethem
As a child growing up in pre-gentrification Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, I went everywhere by bicycle. My bike was in many ways the key to my neighborhood, which, at the time, was Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. This was in the 60s and 70s, before all the white people and restaurants. I really can't underscore boldly enough the fact that I grew up in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, before it was gentrified. You could get mugged!
- Jonathan Lethem
Collection: Growing Up
Image of John Locke
A father would do well, as his son grows up, and is capable of it, to talk familiarly with him; nay, ask his advice, and consult with him about those things wherein he has any knowledge or understanding. By this, the father will gain two things, both of great moment. The sooner you treat him as a man, the sooner he will begin to be one; and if you admit him into serious discourses sometimes with you, you will insensibly raise his mind above the usual amusements of youth, and those trifling occupations which it is commonly wasted in.
- John Locke
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Frank Lampard
I read Michael Caine's biography. It was about him growing up
- Frank Lampard
Collection: Growing Up
Image of John Lewis
That's where the outrage should be, not old news, but the fact that we are preparing for the transfer of power. and we have been working with President [Barack] Obama, hand in glove, and I think that they - including the president - should step up and get his people in line and tell them to grow up and accept the fact that they lost the election.
- John Lewis
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Doris Lessing
At last I understood that the way over, or through this dilemma, the unease at writing about 'petty personal problems' was to recognize that nothing is personal, in the sense that it is uniquely one's own. Writing about oneself, one is writing about others, since your problems, pains, pleasures, emotions—and your extraordinary and remarkable ideas—can't be yours alone. [...] Growing up is after all only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what everyone shares.
- Doris Lessing
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Madeleine L'Engle
We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to the point where it's irresponsible to try to protect them from the irrational world they will have to live in when they grow up. The children themselves haven't yet isolated themselves by selfishness and indifference; they do not fall easily into the error of despair; they are considerably braver than most grownups. Our responsibility to them is not to pretend that if we don't look, evil will go away, but to give them weapons against it.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Doris Lessing
Growing up is, after all, only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what every one shares.
- Doris Lessing
Collection: Growing Up
Image of John Lennon
All of us growing up have come to terms with too much pain. Although we repress it, it's still there. The worst pain is that of not being wanted, of realising your parents do not need you in the way you need them.
- John Lennon
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Barbara Kingsolver
But nothing on this earth is guaranteed, when you get right down to it, you know ? I've been thinking about that. About how your kids aren't really YOURS, they're just these people that you try to keep an eye on, and hope you'll all grow up someday to like each other and still be in one piece. What I mean is, everything you get is really just on loan. Does that make sense?" Sure,"I said. "Like library books. Sooner or later they've all got to go back into the nightdrop.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Stephen King
Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up
- Stephen King
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Jennifer Jason Leigh
I loved acting as a kid because I was kind of shy, so it brought me out of myself. Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible. It wasn't like some idea of going to Hollywood; it was in my backyard. I lived two blocks from Grauman's Chinese Theatre growing up. It was what people did. It's an industry town. So it wasn't some far-off fantasy, it was like "Oh yeah, when you grow up, you do this because that's what people do here."
- Jennifer Jason Leigh
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Avril Lavigne
Here's to Never Growing up
- Avril Lavigne
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Laura Linney
My parents were divorced and I didn't grow up with my father, but I spent a lot of time around him, and his influence on me has been profound.
- Laura Linney
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Jonathan Kozol
Let's concede that we have decided to let our children grow up in two separate nations, and lead two separate kinds of lives. If, on the other hand, we have the courage to rise to this challenge to name what's happening within our inner-city schools, then we also need the courage to be activist and go out and fight like hell to change it.
- Jonathan Kozol
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Masashi Kishimoto
I keep thinking Naruto... That one of these days your going to finally grow up!
- Masashi Kishimoto
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Ang Lee
Even the favorite reviews, the audience response is the movie is too slow, deliberately slow. But for the Chinese audience, the biggest complaint is it happens too quick. I think the historical background that build into our genes is different. American people has never been occupied. The deep sadness and sentimentality, the cultural background that relates to melodrama that we relate to and grow up with, the propaganda, I didn't imagine the difference is so big. It's a very interesting cultural phenomenon.
- Ang Lee
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Jared Leto
It was great growing up a nomad. To this day I still love hiking and back packing.
- Jared Leto
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Aldo Leopold
When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as growing up is not actually a process of growing down; whether experience, so much touted among adults as the thing children lack, is not actually a progressive dilution of the essentials by the trivialities of living.
- Aldo Leopold
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Florence King
The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmother. A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.... The emotionally satisfying discussions that take place in Chronic Pain Outreach and Depression Resources are simply updated versions of the grandmotherly practice of hanging crepe. We could eliminate much of the isolation that support groups exist to fill and save the "traditional family" that everybody is so worried about if more couples took their aging parents to live with them.
- Florence King
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Florence King
There's something unrefined about a reading woman, they always reek of the lamp. How can she grow up to be a lady if she's always got her nose in a book? Granny Rudin
- Florence King
Collection: Growing Up
Image of D. H. Lawrence
Why, oh why must one grow up, why must one inherit this heavy, numbing responsibility of living an undiscovered life? Out of the nothingness and the undifferentiated mass, to make something of herself! But what? In the obscurity and pathlessness to take a direction! But whither? How take even one step? And yet, how stand still? This was torment indeed, to inherit the responsibility of one’s own life.
- D. H. Lawrence
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Shia LaBeouf
I got to grow up in a situation where drugs were demonic. To watch your dad go through heroin withdrawal is something that would keep you from doing any of that yourself.
- Shia LaBeouf
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Steve Ballmer
Almost three years ago, when I retired, my wife and I were talking about our philanthropic work and how does one help give opportunity, particularly to kids growing up in very disadvantaged situations.And my initial kind of sense was, the government does that primarily, and what we should mostly do is pay our taxes. My wife said, no, I don't think that's quite right for us. We need to do more. We can do better.
- Steve Ballmer
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Barbara Kingsolver
Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Stephen King
Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?
- Stephen King
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Avril Lavigne
Influences come from everywhere. I don't really feel like I had too many influences for the first record because I grew up listening to music in church, and that was pretty much it. I didn't really grow up listening to AC/DC and all those bands.
- Avril Lavigne
Collection: Growing Up
Image of John Lithgow
Growing up I didn't want to be an actor. I sort of didn't want to go into the family business; the main reason being there was something I wanted to do far more, which was be an artist.
- John Lithgow
Collection: Growing Up
Image of C. S. Lewis
It's not a question of God 'sending' us to Hell. In each of us there is something growing up which will of itself be Hell unless it is nipped in the bud.
- C. S. Lewis
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Madeleine L'Engle
To grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Collection: Growing Up
Image of C. S. Lewis
When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "hullo! i'm growing up." It is only when he looks back that he realises what has happened and recognises it as what people call "growing up.
- C. S. Lewis
Collection: Growing Up
Image of James A. Baldwin
These boys, now, were living as we'd been living then, they were growing up with a rush and their heads bumped abruptly against the low ceiling of their actual possibilities. They were filled with rage. All they really knew were two darknesses, the darkness of their lives, which were now closing in on them, and the darkness of the movies, which had blinded them to that other darkness, and in which they now, vindictively, dreamed, at once more together than they were at any other time, and more alone.
- James A. Baldwin
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Madeleine L'Engle
To grow up is to find the small part you are playing in the extraordinary drama written by somebody else.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Christian Bale
I don't think I was particularly in need of superheroes. I never had any fascination with Superman or Spider-Man or a Batman kind of character. If it happened at all, it was imagined characters that I had invented. My dad was a role model for me. He was a fascinating man. There was intrigue and entertainment growing up with him. He gave me an edict that I still pursue: “Life should never be boring."
- Christian Bale
Collection: Growing Up
Image of John Lasseter
The spirit of Route 66 is in the details: every scratch on a fender, every curl of paint on a weathered billboard, every blade of grass growing up through a cracked street.
- John Lasseter
Collection: Growing Up
Image of John Lasseter
I always loved the idea of a spy movie and part of it came from my personal love of spy movies. It started when I was growing up as a little kid in the 60s.
- John Lasseter
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Astra Taylor
One of the big myths about people growing up is that they are "digital natives;" that just because they've been raised with the Internet - that you're very adept at using the app on your phone - it doesn't mean you have any idea about how the Internet actually works.
- Astra Taylor
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Rush Limbaugh
I know it's different today than when I was growing up, and that's fine. But I have never been somebody, even when I was earning $19,000 a year, I never ran around whining and moaning about what things cost. What they cost was what they cost. And if I couldn't afford it, then I had to find a way to afford it or forget about it for now. It's just the way it was.
- Rush Limbaugh
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Christian Louboutin
I didn't even know Vogue existed when I was growing up.
- Christian Louboutin
Collection: Growing Up
Image of James Madison
The people of the U.S. owe their Independence & their liberty, to the wisdom of descrying in the minute tax of 3 pence on tea, the magnitude of the evil comprized in the precedent. Let them exert the same wisdom, in watching agst every evil lurking under plausible disguises, and growing up from small beginnings.
- James Madison
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Eva Mendes
I don't come from a wealthy or privileged background, and growing up I was always looking for the best quality at a price I could afford. My love of vintage is rooted in that. Drugstores were the mecca for the latest makeup trends and products.
- Eva Mendes
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Paul McCartney
The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.
- Paul McCartney
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Erwin McManus
So many of us have abdicated our passions for obligations, as if passion is a luxury for the young, and we must all grow up one day. We, even if reluctantly, fall into place to live a life of conformity that we describe as ‘maturity.’ We’ve made acting like an adult synonymous with living apathetic lives.
- Erwin McManus
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Margaret Mead
I did not write it [Coming of Age in Samoa] as a popular book, but only with the hope that it would be intelligible to those who might make the best use of its theme, that adolescence need not be the time of stress and strain which Western society made it; that growing up could be freer and easier and less complicated; and also that there were prices to pay for the very lack of complication I found in Samoa - less intensity, less individuality, less involvement with life.
- Margaret Mead
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Roseanne Barr
Eating cookies that you bake with your grandmother is one of the greatest social steps one must experience in order to grow up into a decent world citizen, in my opinion.
- Roseanne Barr
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Margaret Mead
We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
- Margaret Mead
Collection: Growing Up