“I was missing the opportunity to see my friends' children grow up, to have my son go to his friends' homes and be involved with their parents.” ChildrenHomeOpportunityGrowsParentGrowing UpMissingSonInvolvedMy FriendsMy Son Author:Karen Hughes
“Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.” KidsHoursGrowing UpGrowingMissingRecipesKids Growing Up Author:Robert Harris
“I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't.” PeopleIfsWonderGrowing UpGrowingMissing Book:Leaving Time (with bonus novella Larger Than Life): A Novel Source: Leaving Time (with bonus novella Larger Than Life): A Novel
“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?” KnowsMenChildrenHomeTodayFatherParentBornGrowing UpGrowingMissingThirdsNeighborhoodAbout FamilySingle ParentParents Home Author:Timothy J. Russert
“Since I was a kid, every Thanksgiving growing up in New York, we always watched 'The March of the Wooden Soldiers' by Laurel and Hardy. Never miss it.” KidsGrowing UpGrowingMissingNew YorkSoldierMarchHardyLaurelsLaurel And Hardy Author:Billy Crystal
“My family still lives over there [ in South Africa] .I miss them terribly. I would say that most of my life over there was probably very similar to the sort of life someone would experience growing up somewhere like Australia or in the US.” StillsGrowing UpGrowingMissingMy FamilySouthAustraliaSouth AfricaStill Life Author:St. Lucia
“When I lived in Pinetop I just wanted to leave - I thought the city was where I belonged. But now that I'm living in the city, I love it for what it is. It's brought me closer to my art and put me in the right place as far as having people around me. It's very inspiring, but I miss our little town. There's something very simple and beautiful about growing up in a small place. That's where my heart is, for real.” PeopleHeartArtRealBeautifulSimpleGrowing UpMissingMy HeartArt IsVery Inspiring Author:Zella Day
“People grow up learning to be silent about their sexuality, so where are they going to learn to talk about it when they are in a relationship? Shame, guilt, ignorance, reservation, prudishness, all kinds of different cultural systems and social stereotypes shroud sexuality in secrecy and in silence. And there's the romantic notion. "If I say in the beginning, that I am missing something, you are instantly going to think that means you are not enough."” PeopleThinkingKindMeanDifferentEnoughSilenceGrowing UpMissingIgnoranceShameGuiltSilentSexualityAll KindsStereotypeSecrecy Author:Esther Perel
“And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy that really made a tremendous amount of sense. What I liked that was missing from my experience of Christianity growing up was a sort of acceptance, a sort of being OK with being imperfect and not focusing on the sin.” FirstsMadePhilosophySinChristianityGrowing UpGrowingMissingAcceptanceBuddhismAmountFirst TimeImperfectEasternEastern PhilosophyBeing Imperfect Author:Alan Ball