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“Our purpose is to grow up and become love”

“To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.”

“In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance.”

Years School Sex Church Numbers Growing Up Growing Ignorance Multitudes Settlement

Author:John Strachan

“Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.”

Grows Friendship Growing Up Fashion Haphazard

Author:Christopher Morley

“If we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then the boy can grow up and become truly masculine.”

Ifs Men Purpose Grows Quality Boys Growing Up Higher Release Warrior Fierce Hook Masculine Higher Purpose

Book:Wild at Heart Field Manual: A Personal Guide to Discover the Secret of Your Masculine Soul

Source: Wild at Heart Field Manual: A Personal Guide to Discover the Secret of Your Masculine Soul

“In a house without a genuine kitchen, one of the delights of growing up is lost.”

House Lost Growing Up Growing Delight Genuine Kitchen

Book:The Armchair James Beard

Source: The Armchair James Beard

“I'm pretty happy with who I am. I like myself and what I'm doing. I don't need to be the world's greatest director or the most famous -- or the richest. I don't need to make a whole lot of great films. I can do my job and I can do it pretty well. This is the realization I've come to, later in life. It's called growing up.”

World Needs Wells I Can Whole Jobs Film Can Do Growing Up Growing Directors Who I Am Realization I Can Do It Great Film Later In Life

Author:John Carpenter

“If you begin to face your fears, something bittersweet is going to happen to you: You'll grow up.”

Ifs Happens Faces Grows Growing Up Bittersweet Face Your Fears

Book:Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live

Source: Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live

“When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only white man in this unit full of black men.”

Men Culture Black White Growing Up Growing Shock Australia Units White Man Nigeria Culture Shock

Author:Bruce Beresford

“I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.”

Kids Growing Up Growing Instruments Musical Musical Instruments

Author:Kevin James

“The stultifying effect of the movies is not that the children see them but that their parents do, as if Hollywood provided a plausible adult recreation to grow up into.”

Ifs Children Grows Parent Growing Up Effects Adults Hollywood Movie Recreation Plausible

Book:Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

“Look at pictures of me growing up. It wasn't always the way it is now. It was a bumpy road for me.”

Way Looks Growing Up Growing Bumpy Roads

Author:Chris Evans

“I lost my passion for work. No, that's a negative statement. I just had a bigger passion for something else, for my son, and growing up with him.”

Passion Lost Growing Up Growing Son Negative Bigger Statements My Son My Passion Passion For Work

Author:James Caan

“I didn't have any pets growing up.”

Growing Up Growing Pet

Author:Ben Barnes

“We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.”

Book Memories Growing Up Growing Television Wrinkles Madeleines Wrinkle In Time

Author:Dan Brown

“My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.”

Years Wells Doe Has Beens Art Book Different Artist Father Known Growing Up Growing Effects Painting Paint Well Known

Author:John Dyer

“Everyone, when you're a teenager and you're growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it's not.”

Knows Feels Enough Life Is Growing Up Growing Tvs Like You Screens Teenager Dramatic

Author:Ben Folds

“Growing up, we didn't have anything. My mum wasn't well, so I was in three care homes then foster homes before me and my little brother went back to her. I was passed from pillar to post.”

Wells Littles Home Care Three Growing Up Growing Brother Posts Mum Pillars Little Brother My Little Brother

Author:Rebecca Ferguson

“I like listening to old soul music. I like Sam Cooke. When I was growing up, the first things I was listening to was Whitney Houston and Cher. They were really big inspirations for me.”

Firsts Soul Bigs Inspiration Growing Up Growing Listening Houston Music Soul Old Soul Whitney Sam Cooke

Author:Rebecca Ferguson

“Well, I'm from Indiana. So to me when I was a little kid growing up, Cincinnati was the glamorous New York of it all.”

Wells Littles Kids Growing Up Growing New York Little Kid Glamorous Indiana Kids Growing Up

Author:Ryan Murphy

“When I was growing up my favorite show was 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', and I loved all the stuff that Norman Lear did.”

Shows Stuff Growing Up Growing My Favorite Mary Lear

Author:Ryan Murphy

“A father would do well, as his son grows up, and is capable of it, to talk familiarly with him; nay, ask his advice, and consult with him about those things wherein he has any knowledge or understanding. By this, the father will gain two things, both of great moment. The sooner you treat him as a man, the sooner he will begin to be one; and if you admit him into serious discourses sometimes with you, you will insensibly raise his mind above the usual amusements of youth, and those trifling occupations which it is commonly wasted in.”

“I wasn't a big science-fiction fan growing up. But I loved Jules Verne and Sherlock Holmes. Both came into play on 'The X-Files.'”

Play Bigs Fiction Growing Up Growing Fans Science Fiction Files Holmes X Files

Author:Chris Carter

“It is hard to grow up in a society in which one's important problems are treated as nonexistent. It is impossible to belong to it, it is hard to fight to change it.”

Important Hard Problem Fighting Grows Growing Up Impossible Treated

Book:Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

“I never read comics growing up. I didn't have money and I don't like to touch paper.”

Growing Up Growing Paper

Author:John McLaughlin

“As a fairly innocent teenager, growing up in a village in Wales, I just thought, "God, I would like to go and hang about Soho and write great poetry and try to avoid drinking myself to death."”

Writing Trying Growing Up Growing Drinking Innocent Teenager Village Wales Great Poet Great Poetry Soho

Author:Andrew Davies

“I was obsessed with Jim Carrey growing up. It's why I wanted to become an actor.”

Wanted Actors Growing Up Growing Obsessed

Author:Sebastian Stan

“I was never a kind of superhero fan much growing up, I'm not a kind of comic book kid.”

Kind Book Kids Growing Up Growing Fans Comic Comic Book Superhero

Author:Joe Wright

“Growing up I never got into comic books at all. I didn't have any inspiration for it.”

Book Inspiration Growing Up Growing Comic Comic Book

Author:Scarlett Johansson

“Growing up, I always had two interests and two passions; one being public service and the other being the arts and acting.”

Art Two Passion Interest Acting Growing Up Growing Public Service

Author:Kal Penn

“You live with a writer [a mother], and you grow up with their words, their kind of fantasies, and I'd pretty much seen every single one of her plays, and been in a lot of rehearsal rooms, so it felt very natural and easy. It was lovely to get an opportunity to do that professionally as well.”

Wells Kind Play Mother Opportunity Grows Felt Easy Natural Rooms Fantasy Growing Up Lovely Rehearsal

Author:Keira Knightley

“I am a proud mother - that's another reason I love doing any kind of animation. When my son was growing up, if he was watching something animated and I was in it, that was way cooler to him than seeing me in a movie.”

Ifs Way Kind Reason Mother Growing Up Growing Seeing Son Proud My Son Animation Animated

Author:Virginia Madsen

“When I was growing up, the really, really cool super heroes were all male - so I wanted to be them.”

Wanted Growing Up Growing Hero Males Really Cool Super Hero

Author:Virginia Madsen

“It's so important to raise people to grow up to be who they are and not be forced to be who they're not. What an awful thing to do to people - it's like being in prison.”

People Important Grows Growing Up Raises Prison Awful Things To Do

Author:Marlo Thomas

“I think the way I approach things has something to do with growing up and seeing my parents go to work every day.”

Thinking Way Parent Growing Up Growing Seeing Approach

Author:Kristen Stewart

“Today the sort of thing for a guy in England growing up is that you have to suppress all your emotions. It's almost like you have to sit back and be cool.”

Today Guy Emotion Growing Up Growing Like You England Being Cool

Author:Freddie Highmore

“I was really lucky to grow up in an extremely diverse neighborhood. I grew up in a city called Southfield, and it's one of the most diverse cities in the country. Just from the different socio-economic statuses and racial and ethnic groups I was around, I was around all different types of music from the beginning.”

Different Country Grows Cities Growing Up Groups Economic Grew Type Lucky Grew Up Neighborhood Diverse Ethnic Groups Different Types Of Music Economic Status

Author:Mike Posner

“All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?”

Thinking World Want Kids Age Today School Grows Can Do Hours Growing Up Computer Birthday 60th Birthday Curfew

Author:James Hillman

“I think it's almost better to start [acting] at a later age because you have more stuff to drawm from - more life experience. When you start too young, you grow up on a set.”

Thinking Age Young Grows Stuff Acting Growing Up Life Experience

Author:Josh Duhamel

“I didn't grow up wanting to become an actor at all. I wanted to be a sports trainer and I was actually an aerobics instructor.”

Wanted Actors Grows Sports Growing Up Trainers Instructors Aerobics

Author:Eva Longoria

“I used to be a huge fan of Heavy Metal magazine growing up, and I was exposed to Cobalt there and fell in love with the character and the world. I've tried to track it down and pursue it myself to make a movie out of it. Also I felt like the thing that's cool about Cobalt is it does have a culty kind of underground quality to it that I really like.”

World Kind Doe Character Used Felt Quality Growing Up Growing Fans Huge Down And Track Heavy Pursue Used To Be Magazines Exposed Metals Heavy Metal Cobalt

Author:Zack Snyder

“I don't know what I could say specifically, except that everything I've learned as a kid of course must somehow play into what I do now. I think when everything kind of drifted away, I had to go out into the world and learn how to emotionally be okay with all that, which to me was a decades-long process. But also I happened to find my way in life, to find a living, to figure out what I wanted to be when I grow up. I think all of that now probably helps me. It probably gives me more life experience to draw from.”

“Beauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up.”

Inspiration Growing Up Growing Particular Photography

Author:Keira Knightley

“You just grow up and learn to think instead of just feel.”

Thinking Feels Grows Growing Up

Author:Anne-Marie Duff

“I have an unusual hobby: I collect pictures of people I don't know. It started when I was a kid growing up in South Florida, the land of junk stores, garage sales, and flea markets, as a kind of coping mechanism.”

Source: Talking Pictures: Images and Messages Rescued from the Past

“Growing up on the border there, we were always frustrated with people's pronunciations of towns in Michigan, and people mispronouncing Illinois. There are all these Native American words that no one really knows how to pronounce.”

People Knows Know How Growing Up Growing Towns Borders Native Native American Frustrated Michigan Illinois Pronunciation

Author:Sufjan Stevens

“I always wanted to write movies that I'd direct. I didn't come at it from a writing standpoint more than a directing standpoint, except that growing up, I didn't have the opportunity to shoot as much as I did to write.”

Writing Wanted Opportunity Growing Up Growing Direct Standpoint

Author:Noah Baumbach

“I guess I probably took New York for granted. Growing up, playing in the street, going down to the Avenue to the record store and to the grocery store and stuff like that.”

Stuff Growing Up Records Growing Streets New York Stores Granted Avenues Groceries Grocery Stores Record Stores

Author:Noah Baumbach

“Being overly identified with [a certain period of time] becomes a noose around your neck, and people don't want you to grow up, they don't want you to change, they don't want you to evolve.”

People Want Certain Grows Growing Up Periods Evolve Necks Nooses

Author:Billy Corgan

“Hip-hop wasn't actually the genre that made me want to make sound, and I couldn't actually really pinpoint what genre it was. Growing up, my favorite music was my parents' music, and eventually I started to develop some taste of my own.”

Want Made Parent Sound My Own Growing Up Growing Taste My Favorite Hip Hop Hips Genre Hops Favorite Music

Author:Grieves

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