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“I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.”

Ifs World Hard Would Be Kids Wanted School Jobs America Felt Parent Chance Class Careers Growing Up Growing Middle Middle Class Good School

Author:Al Franken

“Living in Sydney, I've taken the chance to start surfing again. One of my best memories of growing up is catching my first proper wave and surfing across it and my brother cheering at me from the shore.”

Firsts Memories Chance Growing Up Taken Growing Brother Wave My Brother Shore Cheer Surfing Catching Sydney Best Memories

Author:Markus Zusak

“Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family.”

Children Today America House Parent Born Chance Growing Up Growing Couple Married Europe Reverence Units Sweden Unmarried Married Couples

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“Our status as a land of equal opportunity has made us a rich and powerful nation, but it has also transformed lives. It has given people like me the chance to grow up knowing that no dream was too big and no goal out of reach.”

Source: American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone

“Any swagger is just defense. When youre reminded so much of who you are by people - not a fame thing, but with my size, constantly, growing up - you just either curl up in a corner in the dark or you wear it proudly, like armor or something. You can turn it on its head and use it yourself before anybody else gets a chance.”

People Use Turns Dark Chance Growing Up Growing Fame Who You Are Size Corners Defense Armor Curls Swagger

Author:Peter Dinklage

“I just kind of had my own impressions growing up with Hoover as a heroic figure in the 40s - actually the 30s, 40s, and 50s and beyond - but this was all prior to the information age so we didn't know about Hoover except what was usually in the papers, and this was fun, because this was a chance to go into it [ during filming 'J. Edgar Hoover' ]”

Knows Kind Age Fun Chance My Own Growing Up Growing Figures Information Paper Impression Heroic Papers Information Age Hoover J Edgar Hoover

Author:Clint Eastwood

“Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odours from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture from seeds scattered by chance.”

Culture Found Grows Chance Pleasure Growing Up Path Flower Seeds Unexpected Sparks Gladness

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler