“It is just this rage for consideration that has betrayed the dog into his satellite position as the friend of man. The cat, an animal of franker appetites, preserves his independence. But the dog, with one eye ever on the audience, has been wheedled into slavery, and praised and patted into the renunciation of his nature. Once he ceased hunting and became man's plate-licker, the Rubicon was crossed. Thenceforth he was a gentleman of leisure; and except the few whom we keep working, the whole race grew more and more self-conscious, mannered and affected.” MenHas BeensSelfWholeEyeAnimalRaceAudienceDogPositionGrewConsciousCatIndependenceSlaveryRagePreservesGentlemanConsiderationAffectedAppetiteHuntingLeisurePlatesBetrayedSelf ConsciousRenunciationSatellites Book:Memories and Portraits: Stevenson's Vol. 21 Source: Memories and Portraits: Stevenson's Vol. 21
“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 no justification because it came so naturally to them. As they grew musically the mere repetition of old rock and blues tunes became increasingly less satisfying.” WaySelfRocksStyleGrewNeededConsciousStonesMereMusicalCommittedObviousTunesSatisfyingJustificationRepetitionSelf ConsciousRockersOld RockMusical Style Book:It's too late to stop now: a rock and roll journal Source: It's too late to stop now: a rock and roll journal
“My grandmother was also an active member of the tenants association and a staunch supporter of the Democratic Party, and both of my parents were extremely liberal, so I think I grew up in a household that was very politically conscious - we all watched the elections on TV, and we watched the debates. So it was an awareness that we were raised with, and as we grew into young adults, we just naturally became politically active. It was just understood that it was important, that it was our responsibility.” ThinkingImportantYoungParentPartyResponsibilityAwarenessTvsGrewMembersGrew UpConsciousUnderstoodAdultsElectionDemocraticRaisedYoung AdultActiveDebateGrandmotherAssociationHouseholdSupporterMy GrandmotherDemocratic PartyTenants Author:Scarlett Johansson
“I feel that America is like a child that grew up so strong and so fast and so tall that it became self-conscious about its size and started to stoop over so as not to offend anyone.” FeelsChildrenSelfAmericaStrongGrewGrew UpConsciousSizeTallSelf ConsciousStoops Author:Sylvester Stallone
“To me, my Dad's the greatest guy - next to Jesus Christ - who ever walked this planet. He's been that outstanding male role model in my life. And he's still the same guy I grew up around, very conscious of the image he sets forth. As he would say, 'Wouldn't do anything behind your back that I wouldn't do to your face.'” StillsFacesGuyNextJesusChristBehindsRolesPlanetsGrewDadGrew UpModelsConsciousJesus ChristMalesMy DadYour FaceRole ModelsOutstandingBehind Your BackMale Role Models Author:Aaron Tippin
“Trying to be really dark and alienating just felt exhausting to me, so I started going back to the music that I grew up with, whether it was African music or pop music. It took me away from being overly self-conscious about what I was doing.” TryingSelfFeltDarkGrewGrew UpConsciousPopsSelf ConsciousPop MusicExhaustingAfrican Music Author:St. Lucia
“I always tell people is really make sure you know why you want to do it. For me, I didnt make a conscious decision like "Oh I want to be a singer", it was like I grew up around it, I was singing because it was just natural for me to sing.” PeopleKnowsWantNaturalDecisionGrewGrew UpSingingConsciousSingers Author:Jhene Aiko
“Those of us who grew up in the '50s and '60s, we had the dream that this could be turned around, and the earth could be back in balance, and that we could level the playing field with men and women and pay, and you know, minority groups having equal opportunity. We just magically thought this was all going to happen: we were going to have clean food, and organic this, and conscious that, and it just didn't happen.” KnowsMenDreamHappensEarthOpportunityLevelsPayGroupsFieldsGrewBalanceEqualGrew UpConsciousMen And WomenCleanMinoritiesEqual OpportunityPlaying FieldsMinority Groups Author:Bonnie Raitt
“But doctors talk about cells as if they had such unlimited importance all by themselves. As if they didn't really belong to the person that has them." Teddy brushed back his hair from his forehead with one hand. "I grew my own body," he said. "Nobody else did it for me. So if I grew it, I must have known how to grow it. Unconsciously, at least. I may have lost the conscious knowledge of how to grow it sometime in the last few hundred thousand years, but the knowledge is still there, because—obviously—I've used it.” IfsYearsMayPersonsSaidStillsBodyHandsLastsUsedLostGrowsMy OwnKnownHairGrewThousandConsciousHundredDoctorsImportanceCellsThousand YearsUnlimitedForeheadsTeddy Author:J. D. Salinger
“She had always lived her best life in dreams. She knew no greater pleasure than that moment of passage into the other place, when her limbs grew warm and heavy and the sparkling darkness behind her lids became ordered and doors opened; when conscious thought grew owl's wings and talons and became other than conscious.” MomentsDreamPleasureBehindsDarknessGreaterDoorsGrewConsciousWingsHeavyWarmThat MomentPassagesLimbsOwlSparklingTalons Author:John Crowley
“The sky grew darker and the moon rose higher as the evening wore on. and without either or them being conscious of it, they began to regain the intimacy, the bond of familiarity, they had once shared.” SkyGrewHigherMoonConsciousRoseEveningIntimacyFamiliarityEither Or Author:Nicholas Sparks