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“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.”

Author:Robert Frost

“It would be hard to imagine Heaven without children. It wouldn't be Heaven! It would be a pretty boring place without children. What are we going to do, all get to be old people and then stagnate and that's the end of it? Once all those that are already born grow up, the place would really lack life without new generations of children! If there were no children, it would be a dead society.”

People Ifs Children Ends Hard Would Be Heaven Grows Born Growing Up Imagine Generations Boring Heavenly Old People New Generation

Author:David Berg

“Growing up during the Cold War period, I always found that, although we always thought that the world would end in some sort of nuclear holocaust, at some point, everybody was pretty hopeful.”

World War Ends Found Growing Up Growing Cold Periods Nuclear Hopeful Holocaust Cold War

Author:George Clooney

“Growing up, I had a singing teacher who was an amazing champion of mine who helped build up my confidence, and I also count my therapist as one of the best teachers that I've ever had.”

Growing Up Teacher Growing Mines Singing Champion Therapists Best Teacher

Author:Gideon Glick

“When I was growing up, Nashville was the place to go if you had songs to sell and thought you had talent and wanted to tour and be on Grand Ole Opry [radio show]. It was the big deal back in those days to play the Grand Ole Opry. And you could travel around the world saying, "Hi, I'm Willie from the Grand Ole Opry".”

Ifs World Play Shows Bigs Wanted Song Deals Growing Up Growing Talent Sells Radio Around The World Big Deal Nashville Places To Go Saying Hi

Author:Willie Nelson

“You always have to give back to the fans. I remember being a fan of television and film when I was growing up and if I would've had the opportunity to meet somebody that I watched on television, it would've made my day, it would've made my life.”

Ifs Giving Made Remember Film Opportunity Growing Up Growing Fans Television Giving Back

Author:Jon Huertas

“With me, growing up in a theater family and having them be so supportive, from the jump, and being a part of this theater community where the brass ring is working, wherever that is, and then to play a character where he's not really concerned with that and is really just concerned with the monetary aspect of the job, and then to be identified with someone who is the antithesis of your energy and where you come from, has been a very interesting and surreal ride.”

“When I was growing up, This is Spinal Tap [1984] was the ultimate comedy, and it was the kind of thing I wanted to do. But you get to a point with parody where you can't go much further because ultimately it's feeding off of somebody else's creativity.”

Kind Wanted Creativity Growing Up Comedy Growing Ultimate Feeding Parody Spinal Tap

Author:Ben Stiller

“It's a difficult position. Do you endanger your child to fight for the right thing, or do you keep your mouth shut and let your child grow up in a world where their natural rights are stripped away from them?”

World Children Fighting Grows Difficult Natural Growing Up Rights Position Mouths Our Children Your Children Right Thing Natural Rights

Author:Jamie Bell

“I want a shot for people like me to grow up and do something with themselves.”

People Want Grows Growing Up Shots Like Me

Author:Robert Reich

“In growing up, I was a child of the movies. I went to the movies every given opportunity, and that's pretty much what has informed a lot of my choices.”

Children Choices Opportunity Given Growing Up Growing Given Opportunity

Author:Morgan Freeman

“When I was growing up, I didn't see me in the movies except in certain lesser roles. If it wasn't funny, I wasn't there. Then Sidney Poitier came along, and he wasn't funny. He was just good. There's me. So that was my pattern.”

Ifs Certain Roles Growing Up Growing Patterns

Author:Morgan Freeman

“I've always been really hot on westerns. All my life growing up, cowboy, cowboy, cowboy.”

Growing Up Growing Hot Cowboy

Author:Morgan Freeman

“The women I liked when I was growing up, as a little boy, were Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, because they had these curvaceous figures, and they were erotic to me.”

Littles Boys Growing Up Growing Figures Erotic Little Boys Sophia

Author:John Travolta

“I remember being asked when I was in high school what do I want to do when I grow up and the answer is so indicative - I would like to have been a successful playwright.”

Want Has Beens School Remember Grows Answers Growing Up Successful High School Playwright

Author:Mitchell Hurwitz

“I remember what it was like to grow up in the South in the 1960s and 1970s. Discrimination isn’t something that’s easy to oppose. It doesn’t always stare you in the face. It moves in the shadows. And sometimes it shrouds itself within the very laws meant to protect us.”

Sometimes Remember Faces Moving Law Grows Easy Growing Up Protect Shadow South Discrimination Staring 1960s Shrouds

Author:Tim Cook

“It was a dangerous profession I had chosen ... because no one likes a funny kid. In fact, adults are scared silly of them and tend to warn children who act out that they are going to wind up in prison or worse. It is only when you grow up that they pay you vast sums of money to make them laugh.”

Children Facts Kids Grows Pay Laughing Growing Up Dangerous Humour Wind Adults Prison Scared Profession Silly Likes Chosen Funny Kid

Book:Leaving home: a memoir

Source: Leaving home: a memoir

“Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.”

People Ifs Children Play Grows Growing Up Duty Sorrow Children Playing

Author:Mary Oliver

“Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't grow up into.”

People Knows Children Heaven Grows Growing Up Influence Dangerous Get Away Influencing People Illegitimate Child

Author:Elizabeth Bibesco

“To grow up in intimate association with nature - animal and vegetable - is an irreplaceable form of wealth and culture.”

Form Culture Grows Nature Wealth Animal Growing Up Intimate Vegetables Association Irreplaceable

Book:Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years

Source: Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years

“A square egg in a dish of lentils won't make a marrow bend with the wind, nor will it make rhubarb grow up the milkmaid's leg.”

Grows Growing Up Wind Legs Eggs Squares Dishes Marrow Lentils

Author:Les Dawson

“I liked The Beatles a lot when I was growing up.”

Music Growing Up Growing

Author:Damien Hirst

“For example, parents who talk a lot to their children have kids with better language skills, parents who spank have children who grow up to be violent, parents who are neither too authoritarian or too lenient have children who are well-adjusted, and so on.”

Wells Children Kids Language Grows Parent Growing Up Example Skills Violent Lenient Language Skills

Author:Steven Pinker

“Growing up is when you understand you get what you give, not what you're given.”

Giving Given Growing Up Growing

Book:Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade: How to Survive Life's Smaller Challenges

Source: Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade: How to Survive Life's Smaller Challenges

“To this day, some of my closest friends say, 'Gaga, you know, everything's great. You're a singer; your dreams have come true.' But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you're growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they're true.”

Ifs Knows Said Stills Dream Certain Wonder Growing Up Growing Singers Your Dreams This Day Closest Gaga Closest Friends

Author:Lady Gaga

“I want my children to be able to meet and play and communicate with many other children on their own, not only when they are driven somewhere. I want them to grow up in an environment that is not just a place where people sleep but where people work.. and where people enjoy themselves.”

People Want Children Play Able Grows Enjoy Sleep Growing Up Environment Communicate Driven My Children

Book:Beyond Habitat by 20 years

Source: Beyond Habitat by 20 years

“We can't have everything! It took a lot of growing up for me to realize this unalterable fact and to discipline myself into accepting it.”

Facts Realizing Accepting Growing Up Growing Discipline

Author:Loretta Young

“My parents were divorced and I didn't grow up with my father, but I spent a lot of time around him, and his influence on me has been profound.”

Has Beens Father Grows Parent Growing Up Influence Profound Divorced

Author:Laura Linney

“We talked about politics constantly in my family growing up in North Carolina. There were always debates. Being of Greek background, it's in our blood to drink coffee and talk politics.”

Growing Up Growing Blood Drink My Family Coffee Debate Backgrounds Greek Carolina North Carolina Family Growing Up

Author:Zach Galifianakis

“It was a great place to grow up. There were always kids around in our neighborhood. We had a basketball hoop in the back of our house, a little front yard where you could get touch football games going. I know you think of it as a big city, but it was fun for me to grow up in New Orleans. I remember it as a very normal childhood.”

“Intuitively, one would assume if you don't grow up with other children you might not learn that easy give and take. What often happens is that there are some only children who act that way, and that stands out more than the only children who seem to get along with others.”

Ifs Way Giving Children Seems Might Happens Grows Easy Growing Up Assuming Standing Out Only Child Give And Take

Author:Peter Thomas

“I was missing the opportunity to see my friends' children grow up, to have my son go to his friends' homes and be involved with their parents.”

Children Home Opportunity Grows Parent Growing Up Missing Son Involved My Friends My Son

Author:Karen Hughes

“My father said, Don't grow up to be a woman, and what he meant by that was, a housewife ... without any interests.”

Said Father Grows Interest Growing Up Housewife

Author:Maria Goeppert-Mayer

“Growing up, Guess always had these amazing billboards and cool affordable clothing. I wore it then, and I still wear it now! It's come full-circle. When I design the clothes, I have a very good team around me, showing me different pieces and cuts.”

Stills Different Growing Up Pieces Cutting Growing Team Design Clothes Very Good Circles Clothings Affordable Billboards Good Team Full Circle

Author:Tiesto

“I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else ... I was not a Child Prodigy, because a Child Prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.”

People Knows Children Doe Kids Grows Born Growing Up Habit Prodigies

Author:Will Rogers

“Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well, I won't do that.”

People World Years Wells Children Real Remember Grows Forget Growing Up Growing Trouble Grew Up Treats Inferiors

Author:Walt Disney

“The Lord created you and me for the purpose of becoming Gods like Himself; when we have been proved in our present capacity, and been faithful with all things He puts into our possession. We are created, we are born for the express purpose of growing up from the low estate of manhood, to become Gods like unto our Father in heaven. That is the truth about it, just as it is. The Lord has organized mankind for the express purpose of increasing in that intelligence and truth, which is with God, until he is capable of creating worlds on worlds, and becoming Gods, even the sons of God”

Source: The Essential Brigham Young

“When my sister and I were growing up, she was made out to be the goody-goody one.”

Made Growing Up Growing Privacy My Sister Bowls Goldfish

Author:Princess Margaret

“I'm sure a lot of you had this experience when you're changing. You're growing as a person and people tend to treat you like you were 18 months ago, and it's really frustrating sometimes when you're growing up and you're more capable. It's the same thing with a company and the press. The press is going to have a lag time. The best thing we can do about the press is embrace them and do the best thing we can to educate them about our strategy. But to keep our eye on the prize, that is turning out some great products. the press and the stock prize will take care of themselves.”

“God said this is our land, land in which we flourish as people... we want our cattle to get fat on our land so that our children grow up in prosperity; and we do not want the fat removed to feed others.”

People Want Children Said Grows Growing Up Land Our Children Prosperity Fats Cattle

Author:Jomo Kenyatta

“Growing up isn't simply getting old... Growing up is when you don't believe anymore.”

Believe Growing Up Growing Don't Believe Getting Old

Author:Walt Disney

“I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing up.”

I Can Growing Up Growing Singing Technique I Can Read

Author:Mark Morris

“Feeling earthquakes was part of growing up, and also preparing for them: doing earthquake drills, or having earthquake supplies. The looming feeling was part of my life. My experience of earthquakes has always been more the fear of them, or the possibility.”

Feelings Growing Up Growing Possibility Preparing Earthquakes Supplies Drills Looming

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“In our culture, we grow up thinking that failure is a terrible thing, that it's a setback, or worse, the end. Often it turns out to be the beginning of something better.”

Thinking Ends Motivational Turns Culture Grows Growing Up Terrible Terrible Things Something Better Setback

Book:I Just Graduated ... Now What?: Honest Answers from Those Who Have Been There

Source: I Just Graduated ... Now What?: Honest Answers from Those Who Have Been There

“The mediocre mind has no capacity for understanding. It is stuck somewhere near thirteen years in its mental age, or even below it. The person may be forty, fifty, seventy years old - that does not matter, that is the physical age. He has been growing old, but he has not been growing up. You should note the distinction. Growing old, every animal does. Growing up, only a few human beings manage.”

“For me, growing up in hip-hop culture, it's all about having the next style, the new fashion, the new way to express yourself, the fly new beat. I can't sit still; I have no nostalgia. I don't have to have nostalgia.”

Way Stills I Can Culture Next Growing Up Growing Fashion Style Beats Hip Hop Nostalgia Hips Hops New Ways Express Yourself

Author:El-P

“Americans are brought up to believe they can grow up to be the president of the United States. Brits are told, It won't happen to you.”

Believe States Happens Grows President United United States Growing Up Brits

Author:Ricky Gervais

“Everything you do is autobiographical. Yeah, I grew up in a town called Redding and I had older brothers and sisters so it's all my memories of growing up.”

Memories Growing Up Growing Brother Grew Grew Up Towns Yeah Brothers And Sisters Older Brother

Author:Ricky Gervais

“I had great memories of growing up in a working class estate. I remember it being sunny all the time. So we're putting that on screen. It's not people wallowing in degradation.”

People Remember Memories Class Growing Up Growing Screens Estates Working Class Sunny Degradation Wallowing Great Memories

Author:Ricky Gervais

“There was a nobility in poverty when I was growing up. My mom was poor but she was planting roses and she was cleaning the steps, you know what I mean. You didn't feel sorry for yourself.”

Knows Feels Mean Poor Steps Poverty Growing Up Growing Mom Rose Sorry My Mom Cleaning Nobility Feel Sorry For You

Author:Ricky Gervais

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