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“Smoking is, if not my life, then at least my hobby. I love to smoke. Smoking is fun. Smoking is cool. Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult. It makes growing up genuinely worthwhile. I am quite well aware of the hazards of smoking. Smoking is not a healthful pastime, it is true. Smoking is indeed no bracing dip in the ocean, no strenuous series of calisthenics, no two laps around the reservoir. On the other hand, smoking has to its advantage the fact that is a quiet pursuit. Smoking is, in effect a dignified sport.”

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“Where do I get my seriousness? You can't help but grow up fast when your parents get divorced. You see your mother go to get food stamps and she's making fifty dollars too much to get them, with four kids to support.”

Helping Kids Mother Grows Parent Support Growing Up Too Much Four Dollars Fifty Stamps Divorced Seriousness Food Stamps

Author:Tom Cruise

“I didn't grow up in a mom-and-pop, Ozzie and Harriet type of environment, but who did.”

Grows Growing Up Environment Mom Type Pops

Author:Lucinda Williams

“When people talk about how in America, anybody can grow up to be President, I'm not sure George Bush is exactly what they had in mind.”

People Mind America Grows President Growing Up Not Sure

Author:Will Durst

“I didn't grow up in one of those restrictive Christian households where you couldn't do this or that. We were brought up with a great collection of good morals and good values, but we also had fun. We'd go to church on Sunday, but then have ice cream, roller skate or play in the park afterwards.”

Play Christian Values Fun Grows Church Moral Growing Up Ice Parks Collections Sunday Household Cream Ice Cream Skates Had Fun Good Moral Church On Sunday Good Values

Author:Yolanda Adams

“A child in India grows up with the idea that you have to make choices that will create a better future. In fact, your whole life is a continuum of choices, so the more conscious you are, the greater your life will be.”

Children Ideas Whole Facts Life Is Choices Grows Growing Up Greater Conscious India Whole Life Better Future Continuum

Author:Deepak Chopra

“I am convinced that most people do not grow up ... our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias.”

People Children Stills Real Self Grows Growing Up Convinced Innocent Shy Real Self Magnolias

Book:Letter to My Daughter

Source: Letter to My Daughter

“Our children will grow up confused, not respecting the Bible or anything else that is sacred.”

Children Grows Growing Up Our Children Sacred Confused

Author:Charles Wesley

“There is an enormous difference between growing old in the Lord and growing up in Him. One is automatic and requires no effort at all ... just aging. But the other is never automatic, or easy. It calls for personal discipline, continual determination, and spiritual desire. Churches are full of sleepy saints who are merely 'logging time' in God's family.”

Spiritual Desire Easy Differences Church Effort Lord Growing Up Growing Discipline Determination Aging Saint Enormous Growing Old Sleepy Logging

Book:Growing Up in God's Family: Bible Study Guide

Source: Growing Up in God's Family: Bible Study Guide

“Growing up, I didn't know about families who were missing a father, because there weren't any in our neighborhood. Today over a third of American children are born into single-parent homes. Is this all men's doing?”

Knows Men Children Home Today Father Parent Born Growing Up Growing Missing Thirds Neighborhood About Family Single Parent Parents Home

Author:Timothy J. Russert

“Antichrist Superstar is also about me wanting to grow up and be something that people would adore...instead I grew up and became something that people hated.”

People Grows Growing Up Grew Grew Up Hated Adore Superstar Antichrist

Author:Marilyn Manson

“All these kids who are growing up on Skrillex and all this digital music- what are they gonna think when they hear rock'n'roll?”

Thinking Kids Growing Up Growing Rocks Digital Rock N Roll Digital Music

Author:Ty Segall

“Growing up under Saddam's rule, I witnessed many injustices occurring everyday in my country and yet I could not do anything to prevent them.”

Country Growing Up Growing Everyday Injustice Saddam

Author:Zainab Salbi

“I just thank god that I didn't grow up with so much money or privilege because you had to create ways to make it happen.”

Way Happens Grows Growing Up Privilege Thank God Make It Happen

Author:Kim Basinger

“I thought highly of myself growing up. I still do. There's not really much somebody can say to me to bring down my confidence or anything.”

Stills Growing Up Growing

Author:ASAP Rocky

“I was pretty spoiled growing up, creatively and artistically; we were exposed to a lot of different things. I remember watching my brother's friends struggle to get to the level he was at musically and wondering why they were having such a hard time.”

Different Hard Remember Levels Wonder Struggle Growing Up Growing Brother My Brother Hard Times Different Things Exposed Spoiled

Author:Stephen Bruner

“Growing up playing jazz and improvising has had a big impact on me, and it translates into my music.”

Bigs Growing Up Growing Impact Jazz Translate Improvising Big Impact Playing Jazz

Author:Stephen Bruner

“I'll always be the baby in the family. I'm the youngest sister, but growing up with so many boys, it makes you tough. You get teased. There's no tiptoeing around each other. You say it the way it is; you're honest.”

Way Boys Growing Up Growing Honest Baby Tough

Author:Nicola Peltz

“Some of what makes growing up hard for famous kids is that they don't have room to do immature stuff. I was really happy that I could go to school and hang out behind the alley and be somewhat irresponsible.”

Hard Kids School Stuff Rooms Behinds Growing Up Growing Hanging Out Irresponsible Really Happy Immature Alleys

Author:Tavi Gevinson

“We were such fans of Sleepy Hollow, in all of its iterations - growing up with the Disney show, and then Tim Burton's and, obviously, the most important being Washington Irving's short story. It evokes and invokes a very specific feeling and tone.”

Important Stories Shows Feelings Growing Up Growing Fans Tone Short Story Hollow Evoke Sleepy Invoke

Author:Alex Kurtzman

“To me Donnie Darko was about adolescence. And about how, as soon as you start to grow up and you sort of move out into the world, you realize everything is so trippy. That anything can be anything.”

World Moving Grows Realizing Growing Up Adolescence Trippy

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“I've never wanted to be a fireman, in my life. I've never really wanted to grow up and be anything other than a film director.”

Wanted Film Grows Growing Up Directors Fireman Film Directors

Author:David Gordon Green

“As somebody who wanted to be creative, growing up, I remember always thinking that the thing I had going against me was Orange County because it seemed like all of the comedy was coming out of New York, and it still is, to a certain extent.”

Thinking Stills Wanted Remember Certain Creative Growing Up Comedy Growing New York Coming Out Be Creative Orange County Always Thinking Orange County

Author:Mitchell Hurwitz

“I had a cookie business there, with my brother, when we were growing up, called the Chip Yard, and that became the inspiration for the banana stand. My father said that he wanted us to develop a work ethic, so we'd sit there selling cookies, all day.”

Said Inspiration Wanted Father Growing Up Growing Brother Ethics Selling My Brother Yards Work Ethic Chips Cookies Bananas

Author:Mitchell Hurwitz

“I wanted to be an actor because it gave me the opportunity to express myself in ways I wasn't comfortable expressing myself, as a kid growing up in St. Louis.”

Way Kids Wanted Actors Opportunity Growing Up Growing Comfortable Kids Growing Up

Author:Scott Bakula

“When we were growing up, our mother taught us never to have your belly button exposed.”

Mother Growing Up Growing Taught Exposed Buttons Belly Taught Us Belly Buttons

Author:Mary-Kate Olsen

“It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.”

Different Growing Up Growing Treasure Being Different Specialness

Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“I was very fortunate to grow up with parents who love to travel, so I traveled from a young age. My dad's a heart surgeon and goes to conferences all over the world. By the time I was seven, I traveled outside the country for the first time. We went to Paris. The next year, we went to London, and then Brussels.”

World Years Firsts Heart Country Age Young Next Grows Parent Growing Up Dad First Time Seven My Dad London Fortunate Paris Traveled Conferences Young Age Next Year Surgeons Brussels

Author:Candice Accola

“A lot of the strings that hold us like puppets are really inventions of our own minds. I'm not saying that there aren't armies and police and various ways to punish deviants, but there isn't any way to punish a large number of deviants. It's too expensive to even try. So, the solution is to colonize the minds of children as they're growing up, so that they become their own police, and to report on others who are deviating.”

Way Trying Mind Children Numbers Growing Up Growing Solutions Army Police Various Invention Expensive Reports Strings Puppets Large Numbers Deviants

Author:John Taylor Gatto

“When I was a kid I think the thing I remembered most about The Exorcist was Linda Blair being possessed by the devil, and how scary that was. It had a lot of parallels for me because the movie was challenging different ideas about faith and it was looking at religion in a darker way. Growing up I was afraid of being possessed by the devil, as an adult I'm afraid of being possessed by the world, by ignorance, and not holding on to my beliefs and what I feel strongly about.”

Thinking World Way Feels Ideas Different Kids Belief Challenges Growing Up Growing Ignorance Devil Adults Scary Remembered Possessed Parallels Holding On Blair Different Ideas Exorcist

Author:Marilyn Manson

“Growing up knowing that I wanted to be a sportscaster and knowing that the best school in the country was right in my back yard, I certainly knew all there was to know about Marty Glickman and about people like Bob Costas and Marv Albert and all of the other greats that have passed through there.”

People Knows Country Wanted School Growing Up Knowing Growing Bob Yards Best School Marty

Author:Beth Mowins

“As a kid growing up, I was so in sync as a fan that that served me well through the years. I can feel the game. And I try to match where the game is with my inflection, with my - the tonal quality, with getting excited.”

Feels Trying Years Wells I Can Kids Games Quality Growing Up Growing Fans Excited Through The Years Kids Growing Up Sync

Author:Al Michaels

“I wanted to be Marv Albert or Bob Costas. Those were my favorites growing up. Still are!”

Stills Wanted Growing Up Growing Bob

Author:Dave Pasch

“I remember growing up, getting the Colorado Springs Sun in the morning and the Denver Post in the afternoon, and my dad just inhaling both of them, and me waiting to get the sports page from him. I fell in love with the craft. I remember being 9 years old and playing baseball in the backyard and coming in and writing little newspaper articles for my dad.”

Writing Years Littles Remember Sports Waiting Morning Sun Growing Up Growing Dad Pages Spring Baseball My Dad Newspapers Crafts Posts Articles Afternoon Backyards Colorado Denver Playing Baseball

Author:Pat Forde

“I learned the game on the radio. Russ Hodges and Lon Simmons were the Giants broadcasters when I was growing up in the Bay area, and they taught me about the game. They taught me about the subtleties of the game, but they also gave me the game and let me enjoy it. That's the main thing, whether it's TV or radio. You have to give the fans the game, and if it's a Giants broadcast, the vast majority are Giants fans. In terms of story lines, most would be about the Giants.”

Ifs Giving Stories Would Be Games Enjoy Term Lines Growing Up Growing Fans Taught Tvs Areas Let Me Majority Radio Giants Subtlety Broadcasters Bay Area

Author:Jon Miller

“We humans are born egocentric. The sky thunders and children believe that God is mad at them for something they've done - parents divorce and children believe it's their fault for not being good enough. Growing up means putting aside our egocentricity for truth. Still, some people cling to this childish mind-set. As painful as their self-flagellation may be, they'd rather believe their crises are their fault so they can believe they have control. In doing so they make fools and false gods of themselves.”

Source: Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series

“Growing up sometimes forces us to confront the distance between our childhood hope and the truth.”

Sometimes Force Growing Up Growing Childhood Our Children Distance

Author:Sara Shandler

“I spent two of my checks in telemarketing when I was 18 years old on my first pair of Gucci slippers, and this was before H&M and Zara. You couldn't just find cool stuff growing up, and for me, I care about cool stuff, it means a lot to me and people like me.”

Years Firsts Mean Two Care Stuff Growing Up Growing Checks Pairs I Care Slippers Gucci Cool Stuff Zara

Author:Kanye West

“When I was growing up, they had just found radio.”

Found Growing Up Growing Radio

Author:Arnold Palmer

“When I was growing up, I said I wanted to be a model, but people said I had no chance and when I realized my ambition, people in the business still continued to state negative stuff.”

People Said Stills States Wanted Stuff Chance Growing Up Growing Ambition Models Negative I Realized My Ambition

Author:Katie Price

“I'm healthy enough to still skate, so I gotta go because growing up I didn't have - I mean, I grew up in Montana so... there was kind of a little half-pipe in my yard, and that was the extent of the skate terrain in Montana. So I've got to go out and make up for lost time.”

Kind Mean Littles Stills Enough Lost Half Growing Up Growing Grew Healthy Grew Up Yards Pipe Skates Montana Terrain Lost Time

Author:Jeff Ament

“Being such a tomboy growing up, that was one thing that changed me as a person, as well. It broadened me, like me cracking myself open in a certain way.”

Way Wells Persons Certain Growing Up Growing One Thing Changed Like Me

Author:Agyness Deyn

“I still don't know what I want to do when I grow up.”

Knows Want Stills Grows Growing Up

Author:Sophia Loren

“When I was growing up, I had a G.I. Joe doll, and now, to see a recreation of my character as an action figure ... it's strange. Because Worf doesn't really look like Michael Dorn without makeup, it's easier to separate myself from these recreations, but it's still strange, flattering, and weird all at the same time.”

Looks Stills Character Action Growing Up Growing Figures Strange Easier Makeup Dolls Recreation Flattering Without Makeup Action Figures

Author:Michael Dorn

“Growing up is important, and I've got to do that gracefully, but also keep myself at a good pace.”

Important Growing Up Growing Pace

Author:Miley Cyrus

“We need not only read Sacred Scripture, but learn it as well and grow up in it. Realize that nothing is written in Scripture unnecessarily. Not to read Sacred Scripture is a great evil.”

Needs Wells Evil Grows Realizing Growing Up Written Sacred Scripture Sacred Scripture

Author:Saint Basil

“In this great country of ours, it is inexcusable that so many children grow up in poverty and despair. The well-being of our children must be the national priority and the responsibility of every individual.”

Wells Children Country Individual Grows Responsibility Poverty Growing Up Despair Our Children Priorities Well Being Great Country

Author:Jimmy Carter

“When I was growing up, everybody in charge, my parents and teachers, had all survived the war, and they talked about the war like it was the Kraken - you know, this huge beast that roamed the earth during their formative years.”

Knows Years War Earth Parent Growing Up Teacher Growing Huge Beast Survived Parents And Teachers Formative Years Kraken

Author:Tom Hanks

“Don't waste your youth growing up.”

Growing Up Growing Youth Waste

Author:Pablo Picasso

“As I have pointed out time and again, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to send little kids to school than it is to let them grow up into young thugs who have to be sent to prison, not to mention the savings in the wear and tear on the nerves, property, and safety of the rest of the citizenry.”

Littles Kids School Young Grows Hell Growing Up Tears Safety Prison Property Saving Nerves Little Kid Savings Cheaper Thug Citizenry

Author:Molly Ivins

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