“I mean, I grew up riding. I can't ever remember not being able to ride or rope and all that stuff. It was part of my life growing up, so it was fun for me.” MeanI CanAbleRememberFunStuffGrowing UpGrowingGrewGrew UpRidingRope Author:Tim McGraw
“I think 'growing up' would mean that you are incredibly tolerant and easygoing, liked everything, curious about the world because you weren't so egotistically driven.” ThinkingWorldMeanGrowing UpGrowingDrivenCurious Author:Louise Rennison
“I remember specifically my mother telling me growing up don't put my business in the street. I was like seven, and I am like, 'What does that mean.” MeanDoeRememberMotherGrowing UpGrowingStreetsSeven Author:Karrine Steffans
“We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that want you will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted...So any nation which in its youth lives only for the day, reaps without sowing, and consumes without husbanding, must expect the penalty of the prodigal whose labor could with difficulty find him the bare means of life.” MenWantMeanUsedNationsGrowingGenerationsYouthLaborDifficultyDestroyedHardshipPenaltiesWomanhoodManhoodReapDinosaursReproachSowingProdigalsNature ConservationOlder GenerationArbor DayYouth Life Book:Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia
“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.” KnowsFeelsMeanPoorStepsPovertyGrowing UpGrowingMomRoseSorryMy MomCleaningNobilityFeel Sorry For You Author:Ricky Gervais
“Growing older is an opportunity for you to increase your value and competence as the neural connections in your hippocampus and throughout your brain increase, weaving into your brain and body the wisdom of a life well lived, which allows you to stop living out of fear of disappointing others and being imperfect. Ageless living is courageous living. It means being undistracted by the petty dramas of life because you have enough experience to know what’s not worth worrying about and what ought to be your priorities.” KnowsWellsMeanEnoughBodyValuesOpportunityBrainWorryGrowingOughtDramaConnectionsIncreasePrioritiesCourageousImperfectPettyCompetenceGrowing OldDisappointingGrowing OlderWeavingLife Well LivedAgelessBeing Imperfect Author:Christiane Northrup
“When I was growing up, when I was 11 years old I was listening to The Mothers of Invention. You know, I mean I was a Frank Zappa fan in Arkansas.” KnowsYearsMeanMotherGrowing UpGrowingFansListeningInventionFrankArkansasZappa Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“If exclusive privileges were not granted, and if the financial system would not tend to concentrate wealth, there would be few great fortunes and no quick wealth. When the means of growing rich is divided between a greater number of citizens, wealth will also be more evenly distributed; extreme poverty and extreme wealth would be also rare.” IfsMeanWould BeWealthNumbersPovertyRichGreaterGrowingCitizensFortuneFinancialPrivilegeExtremesGrantedDividedExclusiveFinancial SystemExtreme Poverty Author:Denis Diderot
“It's an irony that growing inequality could mean more money for philanthropy. In the US, quite a few of the ultra-rich have taken to heart the 19th century industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie's comment that it's a disgrace to die wealthy.” HeartMeanDiesRichTakenGrowingCenturyInequalityIronyWealthyCommentMore MoneyPhilanthropyDisgrace19th CenturyAndrewPhilanthropistUltrasCarnegie Author:Geoff Mulgan
“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.” MeanKidsGrowing UpGrowingPolicyModelsFruitFedsForeign PolicyDrsSeventiesStatesmenLoopsRuthKids Growing UpAmerican Foreign PolicyKissinger Author:Eugene Jarecki