“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
“The day I stop giving is the day I stop receiving. The day I stop learning is the day I stop growing. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.” GivingGrowingMissingShotsReceiving Author:Wayne Gretzky
“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
“But it is the best thing that we have for bringing the countries of Europe around the same table and for forging compromises so that people here can live in peace, freedom and prosperity. In a world which is growing closer together all the time, we can only survive and influence the rules if we join forces. We will miss the presence of the United Kingdom at this table.” PeopleIfsWorldCountryTogetherForceUnitedGrowingInfluenceMissingEuropeTablesProsperityKingdomsCompromiseBest ThingsUnited KingdomForging Author:Jean-Claude Juncker
“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
“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