Best growing-up & persons Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”

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Author:Anne Frank

“Growing up, I can remember singing along with my ma all of the time. I wouldn't say she necessarily 'taught' me how to sing, but she was definitely the first person to inspire me to sing and the first to intrigue me vocally. I've always had a natural ear for music, though.”

Firsts Persons I Can Remember Natural Growing Up Growing Inspire Taught Singing Ears Intrigue First Person

Author:Elliott Yamin

“I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face that looked like me. Whenever there was an Asian person on television, it would be a huge event, me calling to my older sister 'There's an Asian person on television!' It was unheard of back then.”

Knows Persons Would Be Faces Growing Up Saws Growing Events New York Television Huge Calling Like Me Asian Unheard Older Sister

Author:Yunjin Kim

“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.”

“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.”

“My father was a naturalist and a very spiritual person, who had a great desire to pass on his knowledge to others, so that they could receive the benefits of Jiu Jitsu as well. Growing up in this environment, I learned the art of Jiu Jitsu is actually a method through which one strives for self-perfection.”

Wells Persons Art Self Spiritual Desire Father Growing Up Environment Growing Benefits Perfection Method Strive Strife Naturalist Jiu Jitsu Self Perfection

Author:Carlos Gracie, Jr.

“Something awful happens to a person who grows up as a creative kid and suddenly finds no creative outlet as an adult.”

Persons Happens Kids Opportunity Grows Creative Growing Up Adults Awful Outlets Creative Outlets

Author:Judy Blume

“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 don't think I was talking specifically about Steve Jobs. It was just a general philosophy about one person grows up and he's kind of managing companies and every day he's working making sure this is in place and that's in place.”

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Author:Steve Wozniak

“Im pretty shy when I go home because I was pretty shy growing up, and I think I go back to that person.”

Thinking Persons Home Growing Up Growing Shy

Author:Kerry Condon

“When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.”

“I'm always changing. I still have the same morals and values and foundation of who I was, growing up in Jacksonville, FL, but I'm such a different person from who I was when I was 17. You live and you learn and you grow.”

Persons Stills Different Values Grows Moral Growing Up Growing Foundation You Live And You Learn You Live And Learn

Author:Ashley Greene

“Inasmuch as every family is a part of a state, and these relationships are the parts of a family, and the virtue of the part must have regard to the virtue of the whole, women and children must be trained by education with an eye to the constitution, if the virtues of either of them are supposed to make any difference in the virtues of the state. And they must make a difference: for the children grow up to be citizens, and half the free persons in a state are women.”

Ifs Children Persons States Whole Eye Grows Differences Education Half Growing Up Virtue Citizens Constitution Regard Making A Difference

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

“My mother taught me to focus on being myself and not to worry what other people think about you. I know that as long as I'm a good person I'll stay on the right path. From my dad I learned that when someone tells you “No” it's only the beginning of a conversation. They both have always let me know that I can do anything I want to do as long as I don't give up. They are the most important role models in my life because they are exactly who I want to be when I grow up. They are supportive and understanding and I try every day to remember what they've taught me.”

“I grew up as a very sarcastic person. I was always the class clown, and to date girls I had to be really funny. I was really skinny growing up.”

Persons Girl Class Growing Up Growing Grew Grew Up Sarcastic Clown Skinny Very Sarcastic Sarcastic Person

Author:Kurt Fuller

“I think I've always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual way we interacted with imaginary worlds was as characters: a bench was 'your' boat, leaves on a lawn were the fins of sharks out to get 'you.'”

Thinking World Way Persons Character Growing Up Growing My Friends Boat Usual Imaginary Benches Sharks Lawns Fins Imaginary World

Book:Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London

Source: Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London

“If you don't connect yourself to your family and to the world in some fashion, through your job or whatever it is you do, you feel like you're disappearing, you feel like you're fading away, you know? I felt like that for a very very long time. Growing up, I felt like that a lot. I was just invisible; an invisible person. I think that feeling, wherever it appears, and I grew up around people who felt that way, it's an enormous source of pain; the struggle to make yourself felt and visible. To have some impact, and to create meaning for yourself, and for the people you come in touch with.”

“All persons who bear the blessed title of parent have the personal responsibility to see that their children are growing up fully appreciative of the rights of God and their fellowmen.”

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Author:J. Edgar Hoover

“We must be willing to change chairs if we want to grow. There is no permanent compatibility between a chair and a person. And there is no one right chair. What is right at one stage may be restricting at another or too soft. During the passage from one stage to another, we will be between two chairs. Wobbling no doubt, but developing.”

Ifs Want May Persons Two Grows Growing Up Doubt Stage Willing Developing Permanent No Doubt Chairs Passages Compatibility Willing To Change

Book:Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life

Source: Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life

“The goal in raising one's child is to enable him, first, to discover who he wants to be, and then to become a person who can be satisfied with himself and his way of life. Eventually he ought to be able to do in his life whatever seems important, desirable, and worthwhile to him to do; to develop relations with other people that are constructive, satisfying, mutually enriching; and to bear up well under the stresses and hardships he will unavoidably encounter during his life.”

“The roots of a child's ability to cope and thrive, regardless of circumstance, lie in that child's having had at least a small, safe place (an apartment? a room? a lap?) in which, in the companionship of a loving person, that child could discover that he or she was lovable and capable of loving in return. If a child finds this during the first years of life, he or she can grow up to be a competent, healthy person.”

Source: Many Ways to Say I Love You: Wisdom for Parents and Children from Mister Rogers

“Different persons growing up in the same language are like different bushes trimmed and trained to take the shape of identical elephants. The anatomical details of twigs and branches will fulfill the elephantine form differently from bush to bush, but the overall outward results are alike.”

Persons Different Form Language Results Growing Up Growing Shapes Details Branches Elephants Identical Twigs

Book:Word and Object

Source: Word and Object

“As a kid, I spent an awful lot of time pretending I was somebody else. I think growing up in the 1980s wasn't very exciting so you kind of create this secret life of an alternate person. You pretend to be whatever you need to be that day, so you live in that dream world.”

Thinking World Needs Kind Persons Dream Kids Secret Growing Up Growing Exciting Awful Pretending Secret Life Dream World

Author:Jonathan Rhys Meyers

“Very good training to just be a person is growing up in Canada. People say a lot of things about Canada, like that it's boring, but if you look around the world, you can praise boring. It's a very civilized place to grow up. I'm very proud of it.”

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Author:Mike Myers

“I didn't grow up acting. I really just started, literally, when I was 18. I just feel like it's a thing of always just experiencing it and growing, as a person.”

Feels Persons Grows Acting Growing Up Growing Growing As A Person

Author:Dylan O'Brien

“The thing that I loved about growing up Mormon is that I had morals and standards instilled in me as a kid - like, you need to be a nice person, and a thoughtful person, and if anybody is trying to dog that, then I think that's rude.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Trying Persons Kids Moral Growing Up Nice Growing Dog Like You Standards Thoughtful Rude Nice Person

Author:Julianne Hough

“One challenge of growing up in the twenty-first century will be to acquire a self-definition that can encompass person and planet, socially constructed self and transcendent being, organism and machine.”

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Author:Walter Truett Anderson

“And, as my father used to tell me growing up, "Play it beautiful, play it beautiful." He said, "I don't care if you don't hit all of the notes. If you don't move a person's heart, it's not music."”

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Author:Christopher Parkening

“I grew up in a family that my father was a very, very, a person with so many ideas, so many new visions and dreams. For me to grow up in that family, that also helped me to have a vision to create and open boundaries and things. So I think it's like, it just comes from the family.”

Thinking Persons Ideas Dream Father Grows Vision Growing Up Grew Grew Up Boundaries Visions And Dreams New Vision

Author:Hafez Nazeri

“I did not grow up in the church. I'm not a church-goer now. I'm a very spiritual person.”

Persons Spiritual Grows Church Growing Up

Author:Malcolm D. Lee

“Growing up in the sport, I've been able to separate what happens on the track with what happens away from the track. That track is totally different. I'm not the same person when I put that helmet one.”

Persons Different Happens Able Sports Growing Up Growing Track Helmet

Author:Trevor Bayne

“Most times a person grows up gradually, but I found myself in a hurry... Hoping to find an answer, I uncovered an article about the common goldfish. "Kept in a small bowl, the goldfish will remain small. With more space, the fish will double, triple, or quadruple in size." It occurred to me then that I was intended for larger things. After all, a giant man can't have an ordinary-sized life.”

Men Persons Found Grows Space Answers Common Growing Up Ordinary Size Fishes Giants Articles Bowls Goldfish

Author:John August

“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 didn't necessarily want to be famous growing up, but I knew I would be a good famous person because I'm not offended if somebody comes up to me and knows things about me and wants to engage me in a conversation.”

Ifs Knows Want Persons Would Be Growing Up Growing Conversation Come Up Offended

Author:Nate Berkus

“I have a sort of sisterly feeling toward him [Ben Affleck]. I want him to do well and grow up and be a happy person and a fully realized man.”

Men Want Wells Persons Feelings Grows Growing Up Want Him Happy Person Sisterly

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“My kids are growing up and it's hard to accept they are their own person and they're independent.”

Persons Hard Kids Accepting Growing Up Growing Acceptance Independent

Author:Ray Romano

“Growing up, I was a very shy, wallflower type. I was not a nerd, but not popular. I was just invisible, like that person you probably didn't know you were in school with.”

Knows Persons School Growing Up Growing Type Invisible Shy Nerd

Author:Jenna Fischer

“Growing up in music motivated me. I applied that to my education and it made me a better person.”

Persons Made Growing Up Growing Motivated Better Person

Author:Raekwon

“Watching children grow up, you learn a lot about life and about being a better person - you learn a lot about what's really important in the world and what isn't.”

World Children Persons Important Grows Growing Up Better Person Being A Better Person

Author:Sharon Stone

“I didn't grow up as a religious person under any sort of system or anything like that, I just felt like I've always been sort of intrigued by that - how it can make people's lives better - I mean, it's a powerful thing. So I was interested in thinking about that kind of stuff.”

People Thinking Kind Mean Persons Grows Felt Stuff Religious Powerful Growing Up Intrigued Religious Person

Author:Panda Bear

“It's just cheaper to be White in America than it is to be Black, because of educational advances, because of the police incidents, because of the poverty we grow up in as African-Americans. So, it's just cheaper in this country if you're born a Caucasian than being born a Black person.”

Ifs Persons Country America Grows Black Born White Poverty Growing Up Police Educational African American Incidents Cheaper Black Person Caucasian

Author:Warren Ballentine

“Sometimes I'll say, "I wrote that book," and the person will look at you as if you're really strange. One time that happened to my daughter on a plane. She was sitting next to a girl who was reading one of my books and my daughter said, "My mother wrote that book." And the girl started to quiz my daughter, asking her all sorts of questions, like what are the names of Judy's children and where did she grow up. My daughter thought it was so funny.”

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Author:Judy Blume

“My dream of course, as a writer and a person who's an entertainer, is: Grow up to be Mindy Kaling, don't grow up to be Mindy Lahiri.”

Persons Dream Courses Grows Growing Up Entertainers

Author:Mindy Kaling

“Growing up in Atlanta, it brings a particular swagger about a person. There are three or four places in the country where people think of fashion: One is LA, obviously. Another is New York. And I think Atlanta has to be in the top five cities where fashion is very big.”

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Author:Cam Newton

“Even growing up, if I dealt with any pressure to be a certain way, I knew that as an artistic lane, dancing was the one that was a little more freed up - like no one in my family is really doing that, I can be that person.”

Ifs Way Littles Persons I Can Certain Growing Up Growing My Family Pressure Dancing Artistic Lanes

Author:Jillian Hervey

“I also know that I have represented for us a certain kind of journalist and for me over the years when an older Black person comes and tells me how proud they are of me and the way I represent us on television, or when a younger person says to me, 'Hey Mr. Gordon, I watched you growing up and my parents made me watch you,'.”

Knows Way Years Kind Persons Made Certain Parent Black Watches Growing Up Growing Television Proud Hey Journalist Black Person

Author:Ed Gordon

“Young women grow up in a really negative world today online and in person.”

World Persons Today Young Grows Growing Up Negative Online Young Women World Today

Author:Ariel Winter

“I think that people all grow up and have their same personalities, but you can say, "Oh, I can see the roots of this personality, which I didn't like, but then you grew up, and I can still see you as that person, but I do really like you now." Which is sort of how I feel about children - I mean, about children who I knew when I was a child and grew up with, and they're still my friends, and children that I know as children who I see growing up, and every year I like them more.”

People Thinking Knows Feels Years Mean Children Persons Stills I Can Grows Growing Up Growing Like You Grew Personality Grew Up My Friends Roots Really Like You

Author:Ann Patchett

“The fact is that in my prep school, I went to a boarding school, 39 young men graduated from that prep school. Five years later, a quarter of us were in SDS, in Students for Democratic Society. Not because we were particularly chosen or because we were as I say, we were lucky but we were mainly luckily to grow up at a time where this black freedom movement was really defining the moral character of what it meant to be a citizen and a person.”

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