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“I think, one thing that I've really come to appreciate about my parents as I've got older is you know, how wise they really were. As a kid when I was growing up, as any kid, you think you know every thing and I was no different to that. I had different opinions on a lot of different things then them but the way they raised me, in hindsight, they were right.”

Thinking Knows Way Different Kids Parent Opinion Know How Growing Up Wise Growing One Thing Appreciate Raised Different Things Hindsight You Think You Know Different Opinions

Author:Tiger Woods

“It is pretty cool to have my own video game. As a kid, growing up, it was something I never even thought of. I thought about just trying to get the new game that was coming out, so that my buddies and I, we could all enjoy it together. When I was a kid, never once in my wildest dream - even when I turned pro- that was never something that I really thought about, having my own video game. Thanks to EA, it's a reality.”

Trying Dream Reality Kids Together Games Enjoy My Own Growing Up Growing Video Thanks Coming Out Buddy Kids Growing Up Wildest Dreams

Author:Tiger Woods

“Growing up,I came up with this name: I'ma Cablinasian.”

Names Growing Up Growing

Author:Tiger Woods

“One must not consider a language as a product dead, and formed but once; it is an animate being, and ever creative. Human thought elaborates itself with the progress of intelligence; and of this thought language is a manifestation. An idiom cannot therefore remain stationary; it walks, it develops, it grows up, it fortifies itself, it becomes old, and it reaches decrepitude.”

Humans Language Grows Walks Creative Growing Up Progress Products Manifestation Human Thought Idiom Stationary

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“I want my kids to grow up to be a useful citizen.”

Want Kids Grows Growing Up Citizens

Author:Cheech Marin

“It's funny because when I was growing up, I was really into science fiction and fantasy as a kid. And, when I first became a screenwriter, I ended up really just doing historical drama and non-fiction based stuff, like Band of Brothers and stuff that didn't get made, but was also non-fiction.”

Firsts Made Kids Stuff Fiction Fantasy Growing Up Growing Brother Drama Band Science Fiction Historical Non Fiction Screenwriters Science Fiction And Fantasy

Author:John Orloff

“I think evil is our collective shadow. Each one of us has a tendency for the diabolical. If I put you in inhumane conditions, if you're not educated, if you're extremely poor, if you're humiliated, then as a child if you suffer abuse, then you will manifest even when you grow up.”

Ifs Thinking Children Suffering Evil Grows Poor Growing Up Conditions Shadow Abuse Tendencies Educated Collectives Manifest Humiliated Diabolical Inhumane

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Me growing up in the '60s and '70s, there was almost something romantic about drugs, Keith Richards taking drugs and stuff.”

Stuff Growing Up Growing Drug Keith

Author:Robert Hilburn

“I don't think you can be too ashamed of anything as long as you were being yourself. I think why people feel, um, so entitled over me is that they've watched me grow up. But that's a blessing and a curse.”

People Thinking Feels Long Grows Growing Up Blessing Curse Being Yourself Ashamed Entitled

Author:Miley Cyrus

“One of the things that's fun about that is that sometimes you grow up knowing about someone because they were famous, but you don't really know what they were like before they were famous.”

Knows Sometimes Fun Grows Growing Up Knowing

Author:Matt Ross

“I think growing up in Indiana prepares anyone for a life in comedy. I do feel like there is a certain kind of self-effacing cynicism among all Hoosiers.”

Thinking Feels Kind Self Certain Growing Up Comedy Growing Cynicism Indiana Hoosiers

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“Everyone has to grow up and that's what we're all doing; we're just doing it in different ways.”

Way Different Grows Growing Up Different Ways

Author:Karrine Steffans

“I attempt to be who I am and it's fun. At the same time, growing up doing what I'm doing can be a little crazy.”

Littles Fun Growing Up Growing Crazy Who I Am

Author:Selena Gomez

“I enjoyed acting growing up; I did musical theater. I had a secret desire to be a television and movie actress, but it wasn't something I admitted to myself that I wanted to do, I guess.”

Wanted Desire Acting Secret Growing Up Growing Television Theater Musical Actresses Enjoyed Musical Theater Secret Desire

Author:Amanda Schull

“I've always been a person afraid of the dark. I was taught that when you have complete darkness, that's when spirits walk. In our house when I was growing up, all the doors were always cracked a little bit at night so you could get light into the room.”

Littles Persons Light Spirit Night House Bits Dark Walks Rooms Darkness Growing Up Growing Doors Taught Little Bit Cracked

Author:Tony Dorsett

“I mean, like a lot of kids growing up in the early seventies, I was fed Dr. Kissinger with my Fruit Loops. He was the Dr. Ruth of American foreign policy, and the model statesman.”

Mean Kids Growing Up Growing Policy Models Fruit Feds Foreign Policy Drs Seventies Statesmen Loops Ruth Kids Growing Up American Foreign Policy Kissinger

Author:Eugene Jarecki

“Every time I look at it, It looks back at me I love the sea, its waters are blue And the sky is too And the sea is very dear to me If when I grow up and the sea is still there Then I’ll open my eyes and smell the fresh air Because the sea is very dear to me The sea is very calm and that’s why I like it there The sand is brand new and the wind blows in my hair And the sea is very dear to me.”

Ifs Looks Stills Eye Grows Water Growing Up Air Sea Sky Wind Hair Blue Calm Dear Blow Smell Brands Sand Brand New Fresh Air

Book:This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl

Source: This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl

“I come from a family who prided themselves, both sides, on memory. And I was told growing up, constantly, that I was born with a really good memory.”

Sides Born Memories Growing Up Growing Both Sides Good Memories

Author:Robbie Robertson

“I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical.”

Thinking Problem Growing Up Growing Becoming Majors Cynical Sophisticated Major Problems

Book:I Will Fear No Evil

Source: I Will Fear No Evil

“When you grow up as the daughters of George and Laura Bush, you develop a special appreciation for how blessed we are to live in this great country.”

Country Grows Growing Up Special Daughter Blessed Appreciation Great Country Laura

Author:Jenna Bush

“I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.”

Believe Children I Believe Growing Up Growing Adults Maturity Survived Outgrowing

Book:The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction

Source: The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction

“As a child growing up in the precincts of wealth, and later as a college student, newspaper reporter and resident of New York's Upper East Side, I got used to listening to the talk of financial killings and sexual misalliance that animates the conversation of the rich and the familiars of the rich.”

Source: Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion

“I love this simple maiden, She grows upon me more and more, And--ask the moon who 't was that kissed, Last night upon the shore!”

Lasts Night Asks Grows Simple Growing Up Moon Shore Last Night Maidens

Book:Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems

Source: Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems

“Good and evil grow up together and are bound in an equilibrium that cannot be sundered. The most we can do is try to tilt the equilibrium toward the good.”

Trying Together Evil Grows Can Do Growing Up Bounds Good And Evil Equilibrium Tilt

Author:Eric Hoffer

“[On libraries] What's great about them is that anybody can go into them and find a book and borrow it free of charge and read it. They don't have to steal it from a bookshop... You know when you're young, you're growing up, they're almost sexually exciting places because books are powerhouses of knowledge, and therefore they're kind of slightly dark and dangerous. You see books that kind of make you go 'Oh!'”

Knows Kind Book Young Dark Growing Up Growing Dangerous Exciting Library Stealing Sexually Bookshops

Author:Stephen Fry

“I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or something there on the beach. I was like a summer baby. But I did grow up in the South. I grew up in serious, serious Appalachia, in a very small town.”

Grows Parent Born Growing Up Serious Baby Grew Summer Grew Up Towns South Beach Vacation Small Town Virginia Carolina Cabins South Carolina Appalachia

Author:William Gibson

“I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment.”

Want Firsts Children Country Grows Growing Up Four Our Children Amendments First Amendment

Author:Frank Zappa

“The seeds of Death are sown in us when we begin to live, and grow up till, like rampant weeds, they choak the tender flower of life.”

Death Grows Growing Up Flower Seeds Weed Life Death Flower Life

Book:Clarissa: Or, The History of a Young Lady. Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life. And Particularly Showing the Difficulties that May Attend the Misconduct Both of Parents and Children, in Relation to Marriage ...

Source: Clarissa: Or, The History of a Young Lady. Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life. And Particularly Showing the Difficulties that May Attend the Misconduct Both of Parents and Children, in Relation to Marriage ...

“That's the terrible thing about growing up. You lose friends. It's inevitable. It's not like it's a surprise. But it is terrible.”

Loses Growing Up Growing Terrible Surprise Inevitable Terrible Things

Author:Paul McCartney

“Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family.”