“When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'” PeopleJobsMotherParentEducationGrowing UpGrowingDaughterIndiaChinaDinnerMy DaughterStarvingHomeworkChina And IndiaWorld Is Flat Author:Thomas Friedman
“Im grateful for my health, glad Im making people laugh, glad my wife still likes me after a lotta years, grateful my daughter is growing, glad I dont take myself too seriously, glad L.A. has Astro Burger, grateful to be coming home to Harlem soon. Its a gratitude list. It works.” PeopleYearsStillsHomeLaughingWifeGrowingGratitudeDaughterGratefulMy WifeListsGladLikesMy DaughterComing HomeMaking People LaughBurgersHarlem Author:David Alan Basche
“I wasn't remembering the gift that God had given me. I had totally put all that aside. And my daughter was growing up before my eyes, and I just wanted to grab hold of that. It goes by so fast. I wanted to watch her. I wanted to be that parent - because at that point in time, I was a single parent. Watch her go to school, and when she got home, be there. I wanted that moment.” MomentsHomeEyeWantedSchoolRememberGivenParentWatchesGrowing UpGrowingDaughterMy DaughterThat MomentSingle Parent Author:Oprah Winfrey
“As the daughter of immigrants, growing up in New York City, you are either at the table or on the menu.” CitiesGrowing UpGrowingNew YorkDaughterTablesImmigrantsNew York CityMenus Author:Grace Meng
“Listening to learn isn't about giving advice--at least not until asked--but about trying to understand exactly what someone means,how it is that someone looks at and feels about her particular situation.... Listening to learn from a daughter in adolescence, conspiring with her thoughts and feelings, keeps a mother in touch with a daughter's growing and changing self.” GivingFeelsTryingLooksMeanSelfFeelingsMotherSituationGrowingAdviceParticularListeningDaughterAdolescenceThoughts And FeelingsGiving AdviceConspiring Author:Elizabeth Debold
“When I was growing up in the 50s it wasn't quite the same. Fathers were more protective and now they see all of the possibilities for their daughters.” FatherGrowing UpGrowingPossibilityDaughterProtective Author:Nancy Pelosi
“God, she's growing up, and I don't know when it happened, man. I used to buy her Minnie Mouse panties and little Winnie the Pooh underwear. I was helping my wife fold cloths. I picked up a pair of skimpy underwear. I looked at my wife and said: "When you gonna wear these for me?" She goes, "I can't. They're your daughter's." "Aaaaaaahhhhhh! No, No, No!" There was nothing to them! The how-to-wash tag was the biggest piece of cloth on there.” KnowsMenLittlesSaidI CanHelpingUsedGrowing UpPiecesWifeGrowingHappenedDaughterMy WifePairsMiceFoldsUnderwearTagYour DaughterPantiesMinnieMinnie Mouse Author:Bill Engvall
“My mom's younger sister was born with Down syndrome. I was close to my grandmother when I was growing up. I remember talking to my grandmother about politics, and she told me that she regularly voted for the Democrats because she knew that they were going to look out for people like her daughter. That made an impression on me, too.” PeopleLooksMadeRememberBornTalkingGrowing UpGrowingMomDaughterDemocratMy MomImpressionGrandmotherMy GrandmotherLike HerSyndromesYounger SisterDown Syndrome Author:Josh Earnest
“I am my father's daughter. It was not up to me growing up. I was his hunting and fishing buddy, so I've been shooting my whole life.” WholeFatherGrowing UpGrowingDaughterWhole LifeShootingFishingHuntingBuddyHunting And Fishing Author:Amber Heard
“I don't want my children to be at a disadvantage, growing up in the limelight, because then they have to live up to an identity already cut out for them, relating all the time to being so-and-so's daughter or so-and-so's son.” WantChildrenGrowing UpCuttingGrowingIdentitySonDaughterMy ChildrenDisadvantagesLimelight Author:Chrissie Hynde
“Those are all real things that I experienced, not with [my daughters] growing up but with the, you know - I'm trying not to step into something and get a call, "Dad why'd you say that?"! But we'd go to games [where score wasn't kept], and I'd get it, but I wouldn't get it, because I think there's a real value in winners and losers, in not everybody getting a trophy - it makes you work hard, you appreciate what it takes, to say, "Why didn't we win?" You shouldn't be condemned for losing.” ThinkingKnowsTryingRealHardValuesGamesWinningStepsGrowing UpGrowingHard WorkDadLosingDaughterAppreciateWinnerScoreMy DaughterLoserReal ThingsTrophiesReal ValueWinner And Loser Author:Billy Crystal
“I have a daughter, and fairies meant a lot to her growing up.” MotherGrowing UpGrowingDaughterFairy Author:Michael Sheen
“There are 10,000 books in my library, and it will keep growing until I die. This has exasperated my daughters, amused my friends and baffled my accountant. If I had not picked up this habit in the library long ago, I would have more money in the bank today; I would not be richer.” IfsLongBookTodayDiesGrowingHabitDaughterMy FriendsLibraryMy DaughterMore MoneyLong AgoAmusedAccountantsBaffled Author:Pete Hamill
“That mirror, that's one I hate to let go, he said. That was my daughter's the whole time she was growing up. It probably seen her more than me--everything from a baby up to twenty years old. Sometimes I wonder if all that might still be inside it. Got to make an impression on a thing, reflecting the same person every day.” IfsYearsPersonsSaidStillsSometimesWholeMightHateWonderGrowing UpGrowingBabyLetting GoDaughterI HateTwentiesMirrorsImpressionMy DaughterReflectingSometimes I Wonder Author:David Wroblewski
“To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it's a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else's body. It also makes me quite astonishingly calm at the thought of death: I know whom I would die to protect and I also understand that nobody but a lugubrious serf can possibly wish for a father who never goes away.” KnowsHeartSelfBodyRunningDiesFatherWishRealizingGrowingAtheismTerribleLessonsProtectDaughterCalmAtheistLimitationPhrasesFrightenedFatherhoodEvokeBeing A DadSerfsYeatsThoughts Of Death Author:Christopher Hitchens
“Hello, my sister, Libby, also your daughter, is snogging a potato in my bed. What are you going to do about it?' Dad started yelling uncontrollably. I wonder if he is having the male menopause? If he starts growing breasts, I will definitely be running away with the Circus.” IfsRunningWonderGrowingDadBedDaughterMalesBreastsMy SisterRunning AwayHelloPotatoesCircusYellingYour DaughterMenopauseSnogging Author:Louise Rennison
“Who can describe the transports of a beam truly parental on beholding a daughter shoot up like some fair and modest flower, and acquire, day after day, fresh beauty and growing sweetness, so as to fill every eye with pleasure and every heart with admiration?” HeartEyePleasureGrowingFlowerDaughterFairsAcquireAdmirationModestSweetnessTransportBeamParental Author:George Fordyce
“I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing up. I can remember how romantic I was, not just about love, but romance in the classic sense - the romantic ideals: of honor and truth, of loyalty, sacrifice and fairness. Those were the elements that made a story satisfying to me.” MadeI CanIdeasStoriesRememberRomanceMotherThreeMemoriesMy OwnGrowing UpGrowingSacrificeHonorElementsDaughterIdealsLoyaltyClassicSatisfyingFairnessThree Daughters Author:Francine Pascal