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“There wasn't a lot of music in the home when I was growing up. We didn't have a piano or anything like that but my grandmother, had been a well-known piano teacher.”

Wells Home Known Growing Up Teacher Growing Piano Grandmother Well Known My Grandmother Piano Teachers

Author:George Brandis

“Everybody grows up and they have to make decisions, and they try and make the best decisions that they know how to. It's taken them their whole lives to finally step out and start making their own decisions.”

Knows Trying Whole Grows Decision Steps Know How Growing Up Taken Whole Life

Author:Justin Bieber

“If I grew up with a lot of money, where everything was just handed to me, I feel like those are the people that, a lot of time, grow up to do worse things. Or they'll start in a business really young, like eight or something, through all their schooling.”

People Ifs Feels Young Grows Growing Up Grew Grew Up Eight Lots Of Money Schooling

Author:Justin Bieber

“My parents were very young when they had me. They were still growing up and learning themselves. They did the best they could, but my mom and dad split up when I was little... So that kind of made me stronger.”

Kind Littles Made Stills Young Parent Growing Up Growing Mom Dad Stronger My Mom Splits Mom And Dad

Author:Justin Bieber

“Growing up I was involved in children's theater, so I was definitely on the path to be an actor and a singer.”

Children Actors Growing Up Path Growing Involved Theater Singers

Author:Victor Garber

“I've always been athletic. Growing up in Puerto Rico, and being in the countryside, I was always running around. I also played volleyball, basketball, and I ran track. I was always very conscious of my body.”

Body Running Growing Up Growing Basketball Conscious Track Ran Athletic Volleyball Countryside Puerto Rico Rico Always Running

Author:Joan Smalls

“I think I always felt a connection to music and to movement. Growing up, I was surrounded by R&B and Hip-Hop, and the closest thing I could find to dance was gymnastics which I watched on TV.”

Thinking Felt Growing Up Growing Movement Tvs Connections Hip Hop Hips Hops Closest Gymnastics

Author:Misty Copeland

“Surfing and music were incredible outlets for me when I was a kid. And there are some really tricky times when you're growing up and it's easy to make a wrong decision, even with a good family and community around you. Surfing and music kept me out of trouble.”

Kids Easy Community Decision Growing Up Growing Trouble Incredibles Surfing Outlets Tricky Wrong Decision Good Family

Author:Jon Foreman

“We grow up as natural optimists as Americans. Catholic priests were so hopeful as we watched the Vatican II experience. Yet, it's a punch in the belly to see what has happened in the church and the world. Dualistic thinking seems to have taken over the church and our politics to a really neurotic degree.”

Thinking World Seems Grows Natural Church Growing Up Taken Happened Degrees Catholic Hopeful Priests Optimist Belly Neurotic Vatican Ii

Author:Richard Rohr

“I grew up in a remarkable home, the middle of seven children. My parents raised us well. They loved us well. We laughed hard growing up. But being the middle child, I couldn't figure out where I fit in the home, whether I was the youngest of the older three or the oldest of the younger three. When you don't know where you fit inside the home and you're young and you're desperate to fit in somewhere, I'd figured where I would fit outside the home. So I made some bad decisions about who I hung out with, I dropped out of high school, got kicked out of the house.”

“We cannot avoid the globalization of knowledge and information. When I was a boy growing up in Kansas, I could never think about a Buddhist, or a Hindu, or Muslim, or even a Protestant - I grew up in such a Catholic ghetto. That's not possible anymore, unless you live in a cave or something. So either we have knowledge of what the other religions and other denominations are saying, and how they tie into the common thread, or we end up just being dangerously ignorant of other people and therefore prejudiced.”

“I didn't grow up in a creative environment. It was very boring town, boring everything. You go to school and you basically hate all the other kids because you don't understand them or what it's all about. At the same time I'm happy for that because I became very withdrawn and when you become withdrawn you develop your own bizarre-o personality.”

Kids School Hate Grows Creative Growing Up Environment Personality Towns Boring Bizarre

Author:Rob Zombie

“I always liked doing all sorts of different things. As a kid growing up, I was always drawing and painting - always doing art. But I also loved movies and music, so as I started doing everything, I liked every aspect. It's not really that I am a control freak; it's just that is what I love.”

Art Different Kids Growing Up Growing Painting Aspect Drawing Different Things Freak Control Freak Kids Growing Up Drawing And Painting Movies And Music

Author:Rob Zombie

“I played soccer all my life and I used to think growing up that they put the fat kid in goal or they put the kid that wasn't good with the ball at their feet in goal and I never wanted to do goalkeeper, I was always the goal scorer.”

Thinking Kids Wanted Used Goal Growing Up Growing Feet Balls Fats Soccer Goalkeepers Fat Kid

Author:Hope Solo

“A parent does not do everything for their kid. A parent that does everything for their kid produces a kid with no self-confidence. If our parents fixed everything for us and did not allow us to do anything on our own, or intervened every single time, we would all grow up to be completely dependent. The reason we grow up to be healthy adults is because our parents played this game of giving us responsibility, disciplining us when necessary, letting us try, letting us fail.”

Ifs Giving Trying Doe Self Reason Kids Games Grows Parent Responsibility Growing Up Failing Produce Healthy Adults Self Confidence Fixed Dependent

Author:Simon Sinek

“I grew up at a time where I think most people had a social and political conscience. Some of the biggest changes in our country's political history happened at the time I was growing up, so I was raised to be a part of those things and to participate and I will continue to do that as much as I can.”

People Thinking I Can Country Political Social Growing Up Growing Happened Grew Grew Up Conscience Raised Our Country Political History

Author:George Clooney

“There may be something in the fact that when I was a little kid I'd been told growing up that we had some degree of native American blood in us, I always found that a point of pride. So, when it came to cowboys and Indians I most certainly did not want to be John Wayne. I wanted to be one of the Indians.”

Want May Littles Facts Kids Wanted Found Growing Up Growing Blood Pride Degrees Native Native American Cowboy Little Kid Wayne

Author:Johnny Depp

“Growing up my whole life, my mom was telling me how incredible and special I was and that I was going to change the world. I think it's important for girls to know that they can change the world, that they do have an impact.”

Thinking Knows World Important Whole Girl Growing Up Growing Special Mom Impact Incredibles My Mom Whole Life Changing The World

Author:Ashley Greene

“I'm always changing. I still have the same morals and values and foundation of who I was, growing up in Jacksonville, FL, but I'm such a different person from who I was when I was 17. You live and you learn and you grow.”

Persons Stills Different Values Grows Moral Growing Up Growing Foundation You Live And You Learn You Live And Learn

Author:Ashley Greene

“Each and every child in this country is valuable because they are our future as a society. We cannot afford to lose a single child to ill-health, under-education, abuse, addiction, jail, or gun violence. America's highest goal should be for every child to grow up to be a successful young adult -- healthy, educated, free, secure, and a good citizen.”

“You will find as the children grow up that as a rule children are a bitter disappointment - their greatest object being to do precisely what their parents do not wish and have anxiously tried to prevent.”

Children Wish Grows Parent Growing Up Objects Disappointment Bitter Bitter Disappointment

Author:Queen Victoria

“All communication is more or less cross-cultural. We learn to use language as we grow up, and growing up in different parts of the country, having different ethnic, religious, or class backgrounds, even just being male or female - all result in different ways of talking.”

Source: That's not what I meant!: how conversational style makes or breaks your relations with others

“We marry to grow up, to escape our parents and to inherit our share of the world, not knowing who we are and who we will become, so it is left to marriage to make it clear which ones of us are growing in the same directions and which are ships meant to have passed in the night.”

World Night Left Grows Parent Marriage Growing Up Knowing Clear Growing Share Ships Who We Are Not Knowing

Book:Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others

Source: Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others

“I'm really sorry for people growing up right now, because they have some cockeyed idea that they can get by with their eyes closed; the cane they're tapping is money, and that won't take them in the right direction.”

People Ideas Eye Growing Up Growing Right Now Sorry Right Direction Tapping

Book:Conversations with Grace Paley

Source: Conversations with Grace Paley

“One loses the capacity to grieve as a child grieves, or to rage as a child rages: hotly, despairingly, with tears of passion. One grows up, one becomes civilized, one learns one's manners, and consequently can no longer manage these two functions - sorrow and anger - adequately.”

Children Two Passion Grows Loses Growing Up Tears Sorrow Capacity Function Rage Manage Manners Grieving Civilized

Book:Brief lives

Source: Brief lives

“That which happens to the soil when it ceases to be cultivated by the social man happens to man himself when he foolishly forsakes society for solitude; the brambles grow up in his desert heart.”

Men Heart Happens Social Grows Growing Up Solitude Cease Desert Soil Forsake

Author:Antoine Rivarol

“Martina Navratilova is not a 'girl,' nor is Debi Thomas or Katarina Witt, and the women skaters weren't 'cute' in 1988. The problem with describing women as girls is that they never grow up and therefore can't take positions of authority in the world of sport. But the good news is that you can change language, so ultimately you can change the picture of women in sports.”

World Problem Girl Language Grows Sports Growing Up Position Authority News Cute Good News Describing Skater

Author:Anita DeFrantz

“Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest - learning when it was better to lie, rather than to hurt someone with the truth.”

Lying Hurt Growing Up Growing Honest Hurts Someone

Book:Nineteen Minutes: A novel

Source: Nineteen Minutes: A novel

“All people, even one's own children, come with baggage. When they're little, you have to help them carry it. But when they grow up, you have to do that difficult thing of setting their baggage down and taking up your own again.”

People Children Littles Helping Grows Difficult Growing Up Down And Setting Settings Difficult Things Baggage

Author:Lucille Clifton

“Temptations are part of life, part of growing up. We grapple with them often - in some instances for our lifetime - before we come to realize that it is not so much the victory as it is the struggle that is holy.”

Realizing Struggle Growing Up Growing Victory Holy Lifetime Temptation Instance Parts Of Life

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“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

“Most of us won't see one another after graduation, and even if we do it will be different. We'll be different. We'll be adults--cured, tagged and labeled and paired and identified and placed neatly on our life path, perfectly round marbles set to roll down even, well-defined slopes.”

Ifs Wells Different Growing Up Path Our Lives Adults Rounds Defined Marble Slopes Life Path Tagged

Book:Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem

Source: Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem

“Thus, at long last, as a visible emblem of unity was daily growing in the new Palace of Justice then being erected in the Strand, half way between the historic site of Westminster the historic centre of the commercial capital of the world, there began to grow up, in the minds of reformers, the vision of a great and united Supreme Court of Justice, with uniform principles, uniform law, and uniform procedure.”

“Adolescence in my growing up period was truly "Happy Days," the title of a TV show connotating the quality of this life period.”

Shows Quality Growing Up Growing Tvs Periods This Life Titles Adolescence Tv Shows Happy Day Truly Happy

Author:Virgil Miller Newton

“we all grow up thinking our parents found us under cabbage leaves and that sex didn't exist before our personal coming-of-age.”

Thinking Age Found Sex Grows Parent Growing Up Coming Of Age Cabbage

Book:The Burning Point

Source: The Burning Point

“Humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies.”

Believe Humans Truth Lying Grows Born Growing Up

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“If you grow up where a snow mountain lifts its proud crown on the home horizon, in some strange way it becomes a member of the family.”

Ifs Way Home Grows Growing Up Strange Proud Mountain Members Snow Lifts Horizon Crowns

Author:Margaret Craven

“When one does look up at the grand trees growing up almost to the sky, one does always have longings to pray.”

Looks Doe Growing Up Growing Tree Sky Praying Longing Look Up

Author:Opal Whiteley

“the real reason I had wanted to grow up, the main reason I had been willing to even consider becoming an adult, was so I could have as many pets as I wanted.”

Real Reason Wanted Grows Growing Up Willing Becoming Adults Pet Becoming An Adult

Author:Betsy Byars

“I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.”

Thinking Made Moments Action Grows Parent Responsibility Growing Up Our Lives Consequence Blame Mess Our Actions Consequences Of Our Actions

Book:Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You

Source: Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You

“In giving our daughter life, her father and I had also given her death, something I hadn't realized until that new creature flailed her arms in what was now infinite space. We had given her disease and speeding cars and flying cornices: once out of the fortress that had been myself, she would never be safe again ... We disappoint our kids and they disappoint us, and sometimes they grow up into people we don't like very much. We go on loving, though what we love may be more memory than actuality. And until the day we die we fear the phone that rings in the middle of the night.”

“Indians still consider the whites a brutal people who treat their children like enemies - playthings, too, coddling them like pampered pets or fragile toys, but underneath always like enemies, enemies that must be restrained, bribed, spied upon, and punished. They believe that children so treated will grow up as dependent and immature as pets and toys, and as angry and dangerous as enemies within the family circle, to be appeased and fought.”

Source: Hostiles and Friendlies: Selected Short Writings of Mari Sandoz

“Throughout my childhood, my parents dropped me off at a multitude of therapists' offices in hopes that I'd avoid growing up to be the kind of asshole who writes books about them. Also because it was sometimes easier than finding a nanny.”

Writing Kind Book Sometimes Parent Growing Up Growing Childhood Easier Office Findings Therapy Multitudes Therapists Nannies

Book:I Like You Just the Way I Am: Stories About Me and Some Other People

Source: I Like You Just the Way I Am: Stories About Me and Some Other People

“Credulity as a character trait is encouraged in every child who grows up with religious training, which invariably insists on the virtue of blind faith and the sinfulness of doubting and questioning.”

Children Character Grows Religious Growing Up Virtue Doubt Training Blind Traits Questioning Blind Faith Credulity Gullibility Sinfulness Character Trait

Author:Barbara G. Walker

“Growing up in Vermont, no matter what I did, I didnt get much recognition.”

Matter Growing Up Growing No Matter What Recognition Vermont

Author:Keegan Bradley

“I'm a big kid. I never lost my childlike appreciation of things. Too many people lock it out and throw their toys away and say, okay, I'm gonna grow up and be grumpy and miserable and not think about the magical side of things anymore -- and I can't seem to stop doing that.”

People Thinking I Can Bigs Seems Kids Lost Grows Sides Growing Up Okay Appreciation Miserable Toys Locks Childlike Grumpy

Author:Andy Partridge

“At school I'd want to be so small that nobody could see me, and so my work depicts and reflects me - what it felt like to grow up in a world of pain.”

World Want School Pain Grows Felt Growing Up

Author:Willard Wigan

“I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school,it just didnt exist there.”

School Growing Up Growing High School Baseball

Author:Finn Wittrock

“Growing up, I used to watch Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, All in the Family. Those were the shows I watched growing up with my family. And, believe it or not, McMillan and Wife and Columbo.”

Believe Shows Used Watches Growing Up Wife Growing My Family Happy Day

Author:Mark Pellegrino

“I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.”

Grows Growing Up Rough 80s Detroit

Author:Buzz Aldrin

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