“I want MIT to be the dream of every child who wants to grow up to make the world a better place. We need to reach those young explorers and bring them with us on the great adventure of discovery and innovation.” WorldWantNeedsChildrenDreamYoungGrowsGrowing UpAdventureDiscoveryInnovationBetter PlaceExplorersGreat AdventureMit Author:Susan Hockfield
“Im from northern Virginia, but I grew up next to the West Virginia border, so it was hills and farmland. We had that sense of adventure you get from growing up around old farmhouses and lazy, rolling hills, you know?” KnowsNextGrowing UpGrowingAdventureGrewGrew UpWestHillsBordersLazyRollingVirginiaWest VirginiaFarmlandRolling Hills Author:Hilarie Burton
“The adventures of the boy who doesn't want to grow up has universal appeal. We all want to keep something of the child in us.” WantChildrenGrowsBoysGrowing UpAdventureUniversalAppeals Author:Tessa Jowell
“Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing up in Central Africa I read all Haggard's African novels.” PeopleAcceptingBoysNovelGrowing UpGrowingAdventureComplimentRidersVictorianHaggard Author:Walter Smith
“We provide a secure, stable space for children to grow up in, so children will be able to take risks and have adventures and do things that are unexpected. If there isn't a risk that your children can fail, then you haven't succeeded as a parent.” ChildrenParentGrowing UpFailingRiskAdventureOur ChildrenYour ChildrenUnexpected Author:Alison Gopnik
“Is this what it is to get older, to have adventures you can no longer tell your family because you are moving apart from them?...Or do you grow up and have adventures you tell no one? Are some adventures only yours alone?” MovingGrowsGrowing UpAdventure Book:My One Hundred Adventures Source: My One Hundred Adventures
“They had each other and there was a love between them that would withstand anything. Alina and I had always intuited, with no small wry pique, that, although our parents adored us and would do anything for us, they loved each other more. As far as I was concerned, that was the way it should be. Kids grow up, move on and find a love of their own. The empty nest shouldn't leave parents grieving. It should leave them ready and excited to get on with living their own adventure, which would, of course, include many visits to children and grandchildren.” WayShouldChildrenKidsMovingCoursesGrowsParentGrowing UpAdventureReadyConcernedEmptyExcitedGrievingGrandchildrenNestsChildren And GrandchildrenWryPiqueEmpty Nest Book:Dreamfever: Fever Series Source: Dreamfever: Fever Series
“Maybe that's what growing up means, in the end - you go far enough in the direction of - somewhere - and you realise that you've neutered the capacity of the term home to mean anything. [...] We don't get an endless number of orbits away from the place where meaning first arises, that treasure-house of first experiences. What we learn, instead, is that our adventures secure us in our isolation. Experience revokes our licence to return to simpler times. Sooner or later, there's no place remotely like home.” FirstsMeanEndsEnoughHomeHouseTermNumbersGrowing UpGrowingAdventureReturnCapacityTreasureEndlessAriseSecureIsolationRealisingSooner Or LaterOrbitSimpler Times Author:Gregory Maguire