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“We never really are the adults we pretend to be. We wear the mask and perhaps the clothes and posture of grown-ups, but inside ourskin we are never as wise or as sure or as strong as we want to convince ourselves and others we are. We may fool all the rest of the people all of the time, but we never fool our parents. They can see behind the mask of adulthood. To her mommy and daddy, the empress never has on any clothes--and knows it.”

People Knows Want May Strong Parent Behinds Growing Up Wise Fool Clothes Adults Convince Mask Adulthood Daddy Posture Empresses Mommy And Daddy

Author:Frank Pittman

“The child who would be an adult must give up any lingering childlike sense of parental power, either the magical ability to solveyour problems for you or the dreaded ability to make you turn back into a child. When you are no longer hiding from your parents, or clinging to them, and can accept them as fellow human beings, then they may do the same for you.”

Giving Humans May Children Problem Would Be Turns Parent Human Beings Ability Accepting Growing Up Giving Up Adults Fellows Hiding Clinging Childlike Parental Lingering

Author:Frank Pittman

“Some parents were awful back then and are awful still. The process of raising you didn't turn them into grown-ups. Parents who were clearly imperfect can be helpful to you. As you were trying to grow up despite their fumbling efforts, you had to develop skills and tolerances other kids missed out on. Some of the strongest people I know grew up taking care of inept, invalid, or psychotic parents--but they know the parents weren't normal, healthy, or whole.”

People Knows Trying Stills Whole Care Kids Turns Grows Process Parent Effort Growing Up Grew Healthy Skills Normal Grew Up Tolerance Despite Awful Helpful Strongest Imperfect Psychotic

Author:Frank Pittman

“The knowledge that you were beaten and that this, as your parents tell you, was for your own good may well be retained (although not always), but the suffering caused by the way you were mistreated will remain unconscious and will later prevent you from empathizing with others. This is why battered children grow up to be mothers and fathers who beat their offspring”

Source: For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

“All in all, the communally reared children of Israel are far from the emotional disasters that psychoanalytic theory predicted. Neither have they been saved from all personality problems, as the founders of the kibbutz movement had hoped when they freed children from their parents. In any reasonable environment, children seem to grow up to be themselves. There is no evidence that communal rearing with stimulating, caring adults is either the ruination or the salvation of children.”

“I haven’t come from the typical path or background of someone who would make it to this level as a ballerina. When it came to my childhood-growing up in a single-parent home, often struggling financially-my mother definitely instilled in me and my siblings this strength, this will, to just continue to survive and succeed.”

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Author:Misty Copeland

“They really just taught me at an early age the values of hard work. Both my parents are two of the hardest working people that I know, so that was a big foundation for me and something I really cherish and it really helped me to grow up in that kind of household.”

People Knows Kind Two Hard Bigs Age Values Grows Parent Growing Up Taught Hard Work Foundation Hardest Cherish Household Value Of Hard Work

Author:Blake Griffin

“It is rare, I think, for parents to let their children -- of any age -- grow up and become peers.”

Thinking Children Age Grows Parent Growing Up Peers

Author:Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

“The meaning of self-esteem is to feel lovable and capable. As parents, we must love our children unconditionally and give them a sense of being nurtured. That's the lovable part. Then, we must provide structure - rules, boundaries, daily or weekly household tasks that give them a sense they are making a contribution. That's what helps kids grow up feeling capable.”

Giving Feels Children Self Helping Feelings Kids Grows Parent Growing Up Self Esteem Capable Tasks Our Children Structure Boundaries Esteem Contribution Household Lovable Love Our Children

Author:Jack Canfield

“When we were visiting New York City, I took my kids to the same playground where I went growing up. It was fun to feel that connection of having gone there as a kid and being there as a parent.”

Feels Kids Fun Parent Cities Gone Growing Up Growing New York Connections New York City Visiting Being There Playgrounds

Author:Ben Stiller

“I'm very close to my parents and we built a sailboat together when I was growing up. We're partners.”

Together Parent Growing Up Growing Built Partners Sailboat

Author:Rex Smith

“I think sitting in the car with your parents and listening to music is an essential to growing up.”

Thinking Parent Growing Up Growing Car Listening Essentials Music Is Sitting Listening To Music

Author:James Vincent McMorrow

“I had the wonderful benefit of growing up with parents that not only encouraged me to follow my dreams, but supported my aspirations through school and beyond.”

Dream School Parent Growing Up Growing Wonderful Benefits Aspiration

Author:Jason Graves

“Growing up I had lots of role models. Looking back, my parents were my first role models.”

Firsts Parent Roles Growing Up Growing Models Role Models Looking Back

Author:Kumar Sangakkara

“I had parents who were working actors, who did really well in their careers, but it was a living. So it was a reality for me growing up; it wasn't a fantasy. It wasn't sitting there going, "I want to be adored." It wasn't that at all. Not to say that the screams of fans aren't a smile-raiser, but that was never the pull for me.”

Want Wells Reality Actors Parent Careers Fantasy Growing Up Growing Fans Sitting Scream

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“When I was growing up, my parents asked me what I wanted to do, and I said that I wanted to live in Springfield. They were like, "Well, that's not how it works. There is an actor who play Homer, and someone who writes what Homer says." So, I was like, "Well, I want to write what Homer says."”

Want Writing Wells Said Play Wanted Actors Parent Growing Up Growing

Author:Jonah Hill

“Growing up, I was the weird, theatrical kid who always tried to make people be in my plays. I've always loved comedy, but when it came time to figure out what I was going to go to school for, my parents were like, "Acting?! I don't think so. No." It took me a while to get the courage to pursue it. I had to do it in secret for a little bit, and then when I got married and was out on my own, I went for it.”

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Author:Wendi McLendon-Covey

“It's okay to grow up, it's just slowing down that's the scary part. Running out of time. It's okay to grow up, but it doesn't mean you have to become like your parents.”

Mean Running Grows Parent Growing Up Like You Okay Scary Slow Down Slowing Running Out Of Time

Author:Billie Joe Armstrong

“The world changed, and the idea of having a family became feasible for homosexuals. But I was still left with the question as to what it would be like for a child to grow up with gay parents.”

World Children Stills Ideas Would Be Left Grows Parent Growing Up Changed Gay Homosexual Gay Parents

Author:Andrew Solomon

“For a long time religion made me feel guilty for being involved in music. Growing up, the religion I grew up in, the Church of Christ, encouraged a capella, but didn't allow musical instruments, so even though my parents allowed me to play trumpet in the band, and I was pretty good at it, it had this baggage.”

Feels Long Made Play Parent Christ Church Growing Up Growing Grew Involved Band Grew Up Long Time Instruments Musical Guilty Trumpets Baggage Musical Instruments Church Of Christ

Author:Gary Panter

“You can't grow up without taking a few knocks on the way. All parents know that, but children when they're growing up, they take some knocks, and nasty knocks sometimes if they've been too protected.”

Ifs Knows Way Children Sometimes Grows Parent Growing Up Growing Protected Nasty

Author:Ibn Warraq

“I don't have formal training at all, but I did grow up around design. My parents both flipped homes. A typical weekend for us was walking through model home units. I loved walking through interesting floor plans and seeing different design aesthetics.”

Different Home Grows Parent Interesting Growing Up Plans Seeing Design Walking Models Training Weekend Formal Typical Units Aesthetics Flipped

Author:Jeremiah Brent

“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

“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

“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

“I come from a great family and I was raised by wonderful parents. There is no question that I was given a lot of interesting and unique opportunities growing up...But I think people often misunderstand that I work as hard and want things just as badly as anybody else.”

People Thinking Want Hard Opportunity Given Parent Interesting Growing Up Growing Wonderful Unique Raised Great Family Unique Opportunities Wonderful Parents

Author:Abby Huntsman

“You have responsibilities and if you want to be the best in your industry you need to have a relentless dedication to your job. I was fortunate to have support from my parents and sister growing up and that helped me a lot.”

Ifs Want Needs Jobs Parent Responsibility Support Growing Up Growing Industry Fortunate Being The Best Dedication Relentless

Author:Danica Patrick

“Because when does anybody really grow up? I mean, I feel more grown up now, more in a place of solidity and peace. But I think a lot of people take on these roles as parents, or husband or wife, and immediately think 'That's it. I'm grown up now. Done.'”

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Author:Priscilla Ahn

“Growing up in Los Angeles, I was incredibly fortunate to be taken to theatre by my parents to see everything at the Music Center, at UCLA and beyond. I just adored it.”

Parent Growing Up Taken Growing Theatre Fortunate Los Angeles Ucla

Author:Dori Berinstein

“I loved my family so much when I was growing up, my parents, my sister. I wanted to be able to give them everything they ever dreamed of.”

Giving Able Wanted Parent Growing Up Growing My Family My Sister

Author:Andrew Dice Clay

“Im just lucky to have great parents. My sisters an actress. My brothers a musician. I found it hard growing up in such a... creatively driven family. I wanted to have this thing to create, myself.”

Hard Wanted Found Parent Growing Up Growing Brother Lucky Musician Actresses Driven My Brother My Sister Great Parents

Author:Grace Gummer

“My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no idea.”

Long Ideas Parent Growing Up Growing No Idea Islands Shields Long Island

Author:Alexa Ray Joel

“You know, even growing up going to school, I had teachers that were against bilingual teaching. I never understood that. My parents always had me speak Spanish first knowing I was going to speak English in school.”

Knows Firsts School Speak Parent Growing Up Knowing Teacher Growing Teaching Understood Speak English

Author:Emily Rios

“I believe in soulmates, especially growing up and seeing how much my parents loved each other. They always said that they had been married in past lives, too.”

Believe Said Past I Believe Parent Growing Up Growing Seeing Married I Believe In Soulmate Past Life

Author:Nadia Bjorlin

“Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents.”

Actors Grows Parent Growing Up Sweet Vanilla

Author:Nadia Bjorlin

“My parents were extraordinarily focused on education. It was the topic of every dinner conversation, is are you number one, are you getting all As, if not, why not. You need to do better. So my entire orientation and focus growing up was around doing your best and making sure that you were going to get the best education possible.”

Ifs Needs Parent Numbers Growing Up Focus Growing Conversation Dinner Focused Why Not Topics Orientation Doing Your Best Best Education Dinner Conversation

Author:Michelle Rhee

“I have six kids - four girls and two boys. I'm amazed that growing up in the same house, same parents with the same exposure to the same things that all my six kids can be so different. I see that as their (being) designed by God.”

Two Different Kids Girl House Parent Boys Growing Up Four Growing Six Amazed Exposure

Author:Alex Kendrick

“As we all know, we're all highly influenced by the atmosphere that our parents create when we're growing up. And, if we do that the right way, that carries on to the next generation.”

Ifs Knows Way Next Parent Growing Up Growing Generations Atmosphere Carrie Right Way Next Generation

Author:Alex Kendrick

“I had a very marginal understanding of what faith in God was growing up because, although I went to a Catholic school, without having parents who really were actively involved in faith there was no reinforcement of it. So, as a result of that I guess I just kind of thought that God was somebody that you put in a box and you put Him on a shelf and you called on him when you had crises.”

Kind School Parent Understanding Results Growing Up Growing Involved Catholic Crisis Boxes Faith In God Shelves Catholic School Reinforcement

Author:Patricia Mauceri

“When you were growing up, your mom and dad told you to look both ways before crossing the street or not to get into a car with a stranger. It's the same with the internet. We have a big responsibility and a huge role in bringing all the stakeholders to the table - users, parents, educators, law enforcement, government organisations.”

“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

“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?”

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Author:Timothy J. Russert

“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

“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

“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

“All of us growing up have come to terms with too much pain. Although we repress it, it's still there. The worst pain is that of not being wanted, of realising your parents do not need you in the way you need them.”

Way Needs Stills Wanted Pain Parent Term Growing Up Too Much Growing Worst Realising Need You

Author:John Lennon

“Growing up, music was an important part of my childhood. I see it being just as important in my children and all children's growth and development, and in a parent's connection with their children.”

Children Important Parent Growth Growing Up Growing Childhood Development Connections My Children

Author:Ziggy Marley

“When were you born, who are your parents, where did you grow up? None of us earns these things. These things were given to us. So when we strip away all of our luck and our privilege, and we consider where we'd be without them, it becomes much easier to see someone who's poor and say, "That could be me." And that's empathy.”

Given Grows Parent Born Poor Growing Up Easier Empathy Luck Privilege

Author:Melinda Gates

“When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.”

Parent Growing Up Growing Dad Involved My Dad Various Parenthood Volunteer Controversial Planned Parenthood

Author:Bill Gates

“We are born, we grow up, we live our lives as best we can. If we are thoughtful we are good parents and good partners. If we are wise we strive for integrity and intimacy. If we are fortunate we discover love and joy. If we are able, we make the world a little better than we found it.”

Ifs World Love Littles Able Joy Found Grows Parent Born Growing Up Wise Our Lives Integrity Strive Partners Intimacy Fortunate Thoughtful Good Parent

Author:Robert Reich

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