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“As a kid growing up in the 1950s I became acutely aware of the changes taking place in American culture and I must say I didn't much like it. I witnessed the debasement of architecture, and I could see a decline in the quality of things like comic books and toys, things made for kids. Old things seemed to have more life, more substance, more humanity in them.”

Made Book Kids Humanity Culture Quality Growing Up Growing Architecture Comic Substance Decline Toys Comic Book American Culture Old Things Kids Growing Up

Author:Robert Crumb

“I have two older sisters and one older brother and hold them largely responsible for the trouble I got into growing up. I believe as the youngest child, that is my right.”

Believe Children Two I Believe Growing Up Growing Trouble Brother Responsible Older Brother Older Sister Youngest Child

Book:The Underland Chronicles #1: Gregor the Overlander

Source: The Underland Chronicles #1: Gregor the Overlander

“I like to keep people around me like the guys I have on the road with me, three of them were childhood friends of mine when I was growing up in Scotland. They don't look at me any different than when we were in primary school. So it's good to keep people like that around you. I think if you surround yourself with good honest people, they will tell you what to hear when you need to hear it.”

“That culture, of looking at catchy music as a negative thing, is weird. It has nothing to do with me, or the music I was into growing up. The Stones and the Beatles only tried to write hits. Every Motown song, every Credence Clearwater song - they were trying to write hits.”

Writing Trying Song Culture Growing Up Growing Negative Stones Catchy Motown Credence

Author:Dan Auerbach

“When you grow up in the [film] industry, the director is your father. You follow your father's lead, but you make your own way.”

Way Film Father Grows Growing Up Industry Directors Film Industry

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“Being in the hearing world was more of a challenge than being in the Deaf world, because I had to learn how to write and communicate in a way that I hadn't experienced growing up.”

World Way Writing Challenges Growing Up Growing Communicate Hearing Deaf

Author:Jack Jason

“I'm getting older and the performance onstage was definitely, it was a bit sexier, but it wasn't too much. I don't want to scare off my fans. At the same time my fans are growing up with me, and I don't want to go way over the top.”

Way Want Bits Growing Up Too Much Growing Fans Performances Scare Getting Old Getting Older Over The Top

Author:Demi Lovato

“So my biggest fun has been watching my daughters grow up. Now, unfortunately they're hitting the age where they still love me, but they think I'm completely boring. And so they'll come in, pat me on the head, talk to me for 10 minutes, and then they're gone all weekend. Right? They break my heart! So now I've got to start thinking, Well what's going to replace that fun?”

Thinking Wells Heart Has Beens Stills Age Fun Grows Break Gone Growing Up Minutes My Heart Daughter Boring My Daughter Weekend Hitting Talk To Me Breaking My Heart

Author:Barack Obama

“We should make it a crime even to attempt to pollute. Our children should grow up next to parks, not poison.”

Should Children Next Grows Growing Up Crime Our Children Poison Parks

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

“To avoid having bad things happen, learning to manage your anger and to actually share how you really feel about something, and get it behind you is one of the most important aspects of growing up.”

Feels Important Happens Behinds Growing Up Growing Share Aspect Things Happen Manage Bad Things Behind You Bad Things Happen

Author:William J. Clinton

“Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of TV and you grow up on false images of what love truly is.”

America Young Grows Watches Growing Up Tvs Female

Author:Lauryn Hill

“You grow up Latin in this country and you're a third class citizen from the word go, and so you have to deal with everything around you from that point of view and trying to feel entitled.”

Feels Trying Country Grows Views Deals Class Growing Up Citizens Thirds Point Of View Latin Entitled

Author:John Leguizamo

“I never even watched football growing up. I just play the game.”

Play Games Growing Up Growing Football

Author:Terrell Owens

“The only guy that speaks at any sort of depth is, in my mind, Eminem. He's a guy that does music that talks about the struggles of addiction and before that violence, with growing up in a broken family, not being a good enough father. So, you know that's what I enjoy about it. It's harder to listen to than ever before because I have a bunch of kids and you just can't put it on.”

Knows Mind Doe Enough Kids Guy Father Speak Enjoy Struggle Growing Up Growing Violence Broken Harder Depth Addiction Bunch Good Enough Broken Family

Author:Marco Rubio

“When you grow up in Bel Air and shop only in expensive boutiques on Rodeo and Robertson, you develop a kind of allergy to anything unpretty -clothes, cars... even people... you start thinking that if you hang around unattractive people, their homeliness can be contagious.”

People Ifs Thinking Kind Grows Growing Up Air Car Clothes Expensive Shops Contagious Unattractive Allergies Rodeo

Author:Nicole Richie

“I grew up in the Valley, and I didn't know any of our neighbors. I think when you grow up like that, there's always sort of a fantasy of a place where everybody knew each other, and you had that safe sort of feeling.”

Thinking Knows Feelings Grows Fantasy Growing Up Grew Safe Grew Up Neighbor Valleys

Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino

“For years I've been interested in a fundamental question concerning what I call the psychology of evil: Why is it that good people do evil deeds? I've been interested in that question since I was a little kid. Growing up in the ghetto in the South Bronx, I had lots of friends who I thought were good kids, but for one reason or another they ended up in serious trouble. They went to jail, they took drugs, or they did terrible things to other people. My whole upbringing was focused on trying to understand what could have made them go wrong.”

“Helpless lust and unreasoning anxiety were just part of growing up.”

Growing Up Growing Anxiety Lust Helpless

Book:Imago

Source: Imago

“I grew up in a small town where you know everyone, .. I've been told all my life that I come from too small a town to compete with some of the guys that competed in a higher level growing up. And that kind of drove me through college and drove me in the minor leagues, because I got to face all those big 5- A [school district] guys in the minors.”

Knows Kind Bigs School Faces Guy Levels Growing Up Growing College Grew Higher Grew Up Towns League Minors Small Town Higher Level School Districts

Author:Roy Oswalt

“That women are mysterious and unknowable is something every young man grows up believing. Men, on the other hand, never think of themselves as mysterious or confusing, and we are often at a loss as to why women want to figure us out.”

Thinking Men Want Believe Hands Young Grows Loss Growing Up Figures Mysterious Young Man Confusing Women Want

Author:Chris Abani

“Growing up closes so many doors. The modern world doesn't allow for miracles, so we don't see them. It's a very precious gift, an open mind, but it's not passive. You've got to nurture it like a bed of roses; otherwise it will wither and die. Make sure you don't close off your mind to things you find strange. Sometimes they may be the only truth.”

World Mind May Sometimes Dies Growing Up Growing Doors Modern Strange Bed Miracle Rose Passive Nurture Modern World Open Mind Precious Gifts Bed Of Roses

Author:Tim Lebbon

“Why does a dad matter so much to a daughter, in particular? A dad is the one who teaches a daughter what a male is all about. It's the first man in her life--the first man she loves, the first male she tries to please, the first man who says no to her, the first man to discipline her. In effect, he sets her up for success or failure with the opposite sex. Not only that, but she takes cues from how Dad treats Mom as she grows up about what to expect as a woman who is in a relationship with a man. So Dad sets up his daughter's marriage relationship too.”

Source: Be the Dad She Needs You to Be: The Indelible Imprint a Father Leaves on His Daughter's Life

“. . . if we have children. When they are just born we do everything for them. We are omnipotent, they are completely dependent on us, but then when they grow up you must take back your influence on them, to give them freedom.”

Ifs Giving Children Wisdom Grows Born Growing Up Influence Dependent Omnipotent

Author:Jürgen Moltmann

“I never envisioned myself playing for the U.S. Olympic team -- growing up, I never envisioned playing in the NBA, to be real with you. I never envisioned that type of stuff. So this is like a dream that I never had come true. It's like I'm a part of what's really going on. It's still very hard for me to believe that I am really going to be a part of the biggest thing in the whole entire world.”

World Believe Stills Real Hard Whole Dream Stuff Growing Up Growing Team Type Nba Being Real

Author:Carmelo Anthony

“That's what everybody tells me. "I would've had a great comic-book collection, but my mother made me throw them away." But when I was growing up, my mother didn't care. As long as I was reading, she didn't care if my room was filled with comics. I could have saved everything. I was just too stupid to do it.”

Ifs Long Made Book Care Mother Reading Rooms Growing Up Growing Stupid Filled Saved Comic Collections Comic Book

Author:Stan Lee

“Imagine that for hundreds of years your most formative traumas, your daily suffering and pain, the abuse you live through, the terror you live with, are unspeakable - not the basis of literature. You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.... You learn how to leave your body and create someone else who takes over when you cannot stand it any more. You develop a self who is ingratiating and obsequious and imitative and aggressively passive and silent - you learn, in a word, femininity.”

“There is a sort of mythology that grows up about what happened, which is different from what really did happen.”

Different Happens Grows Growing Up Happened Mythology

Author:Peter Higgs

“Growing up, I was always really shy about my body.”

Body Growing Up Growing Shy

Author:Marisa Miller

“The "cumulative effects" of unbridled commercialism, however difficult to assess, constitute one key to the impact of growing up in the core of the world's marketing system. Minimally, it suggests unpreparedness for, and lack of interest in, the world that exists outside the shopping mall.”

World Difficult Interest Growing Up Growing Effects Keys Impact Marketing Core Shopping Malls Cumulative Commercialism

Author:Herbert Schiller

“The world is a violent child none of us will get to see grow up.”

World Children Grows Growing Up Violent

Book:Zazen

Source: Zazen

“What I do know is, I never plan on growing up inside.”

Knows Growing Up Growing Plans

Author:Jack Barakat

“The clergy profession is fundamentally self-defeating. Its stated purpose is to nurture spiritual maturity in the church - a valuable goal. In actuality, however; it accomplishes the opposite by nurturing a permanent dependence of the laity on the clergy. Clergy become to their congregations like parents whose children never grow up, like therapists whose clients never become healed, like teachers whose students never graduate.”

“I read Michael Caine's biography. It was about him growing up”

Growing Up Growing Biographies

Author:Frank Lampard

“Id never really considered film. If Id thought about film more growing up, I probably would have changed my name. I had no concept of my name in lights.”

Ifs Light Film Names Growing Up Growing Changed Concepts

Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor

“Jon Snow had dreamed of leading men to glory just as King Daeron had, of growing up to be a conqueror. Now he was a man grown and the Wall was his, yet all he had were doubts. He could not even seem to conquer those.”

Men Seems Growing Up Doubt Growing Wall Kings Glory Snow Conquer Conqueror Jon Snow

Book:A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five

Source: A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five

“I believe that the world will be a safer place if there is enough food to go around, that it will be a more stable place if children grow up with opportunities instead of frustrations. Furthermore, I can only assume that if the United States plays a role in helping to create prosperous societies, we will have friends to call on in times of need.”

Ifs World Needs Believe Children I Can States Enough Play Helping Opportunity I Believe Grows United Poverty Roles United States Growing Up Assuming Frustration Stable Prosperous Time Of Need

Author:Bill Gates

“Many believe that Hillary Clinton was channeling President Obama during her recent speech in New York City. She focused on equality, justice, and how hard it was for her growing up as a young black man in Hawaii.”

Men Believe Hard Young Black President Justice Cities Growing Up Growing New York Speech Clinton Focused New York City President Obama Hawaii Channeling

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work' with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.”

Men Should Reason Enough Dream Seems Grows Results Growing Up Mystery Subjects Revolution Men And Women Miracle Bread Reason Why Dictatorship Dictator Circus Servitude

Author:Aldous Huxley

“Everyone grows old but not everyone grows up.”

Grows Growing Up

Author:Maya Angelou

“I didn't grow up with a mother telling me what was under my clothes was bad or evil.”

Mother Evil Grows Growing Up Clothes

Author:Charlize Theron

“Kids arent growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas.”

Ideas Kids Growing Up Growing Television

Author:Kevin Spacey

“The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.”

People Inspirational Humans Children Has Beens Ends Games Grows Race Growing Up Reader Internet Human Race Free Speech Nuisance Till The End

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I found growing up that love and sexuality was a wonderful way to understand existence. When we love it takes us beyond ourselves, otherwise we're just absorbed with the preoccupations that we invent.”

Way Found Existence Growing Up Growing Wonderful Sexuality Rama Preoccupation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“My teenage freinds when I was growing up, they have no idea that I attained liberation but I help them. They don't need to know. I can send them energy and light and help them in their evolution.”

Knows Needs I Can Ideas Helping Light Energy Growing Up Growing Buddhism Evolution Liberation No Idea Teenage Rama Energy And Light

Author:Frederick Lenz

“People a thousand years from now - this is the way we were in the provinces north of New York at the beginning of the 20th century. This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our living and in our dying.”

People Way Years Book Language Growing Up Growing Century Dying New York Thousand Thousand Years 20th Century Provinces Marrying Our Town

Book:Our town: a play in three acts

Source: Our town: a play in three acts

“In a manner akin to the influence of Tiger Woods on the other side of the Atlantic, Thierry Henry has helped kick down a few of the remaining bigoted stereotypes. Through his undisputable class and dignity, Henry has made a deep-seated difference to race relations in this country. Racism will flounder whenever white children grow up with a black man as their hero. That so few comment on Henry's colour is a silent tribute to his impact.”

“There is a report that says that kids who watch violent TV programs tend to be more violent when they grow up. But did the TV cause the violence, or do violent children preferentially enjoy watching violent programs?”

Children Kids Grows Causes Enjoy Watches Growing Up Violence Television Tvs Program Violent Reports

Author:Carl Sagan

“I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.”

Knows Sports Growing Up Growing Dyslexia

Author:Bruce Jenner

“It works in the comic book, but as the audiences have gotten older and more sophisticated, I think the stories need to grow up with them. This is a story about a couple of rival gangs and what goes wrong in a couple of days.”

Thinking Needs Book Stories Artist Grows Audience Growing Up Couple Comic Sophisticated Comic Book Gang Rivals

Author:Todd McFarlane

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