“We are so prone to expect to become good Christians by some sudden experience that lifts us all at once to higher ground without the gradual climb. We forget that we are to "grow in grace" and that normal growth is not a matter of fits and starts.” MatterChristianGrowsGrowthForgetGraceHigherFitNormalChristian InspirationalLiftsClimbsGood ChristianHigher Ground Author:Vance Havner
“When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about females, they were girls who were going to grow up to be famous like Betsy Ross, Clara Barton, or Harriet Tubman. No one ever wrote about plain, normal, everyday girls.” IfsGirlReadingGrowsFictionGrowing UpGrowingNormalFemaleHistoricalMalesEverydayHistorical FictionClaraBetsy Ross Author:Kathryn Lasky
“It was a great place to grow up. There were always kids around in our neighborhood. We had a basketball hoop in the back of our house, a little front yard where you could get touch football games going. I know you think of it as a big city, but it was fun for me to grow up in New Orleans. I remember it as a very normal childhood.” ThinkingKnowsLittlesBigsKidsRememberGamesHouseFunGrowsCitiesGrowing UpChildhoodFrontsFootballBasketballNormalNeighborhoodYardsNew OrleansFootball GameBig CitiesTouch Football Author:Eli Manning
“It seems like a cliche, but you do grow up a lot faster when you travel a lot, go through things like this interview, spend time away from home and hang around with other actors. It's inevitable that you're not going to have a so-called normal childhood.” HomeSeemsActorsGrowsGrowing UpChildhoodNormalFasterInevitableInterviewsEnd TimesSpend TimeClicheAway From HomeTime Away Author:Matt Dillon
“Questions are not happenstance thoughts nor are questions common problems of today which one picks up from hearsay and booklearning and decks out with a gesture of profundity questions grow out of confrontation with the subject matter and the subject matter is there only where eyes are, it is in this manner that questions will be posed and all the more considering that questions that have today fallen out of fashion in the great industry of problems. One stands up for nothing more than the normal running of the industry. Philosophy interprets its corruption as the resurrection of metaphysics.” MatterPhilosophyProblemEyeRunningTodayGrowsCommonSubjectsFashionIndustryNormalPicksCorruptionFallenResurrectionGesturesConsideringMetaphysicsConfrontationSubject MatterDeckProfundityHappenstanceHearsay Author:Martin Heidegger
“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.” PeopleKnowsTryingStillsWholeCareKidsTurnsGrowsProcessParentEffortGrowing UpGrewHealthySkillsNormalGrew UpToleranceDespiteAwfulHelpfulStrongestImperfectPsychotic Author:Frank Pittman
“Babies are born with neither good nor bad character. Normal people - as they grow, learn and are trained - develop better or worse dispositions and habits of conduct.” PeopleCharacterGrowsBornBabyHabitNormalDispositionBad Character Author:Edwin J Delattre
“I sometimes read that it's time for German democracy to finally grow up. I don't see it as a sign of maturity if we treat military missions as something normal.” IfsSometimesGrowsGrowing UpDemocracyMilitaryNormalTreatsMissionsMaturity Author:Guido Westerwelle
“Our resources will diminish in the coming decades at a time when hunger for energy grows dramatically in China and other parts of Asia. Eventually, it will just be impossible to fly - normal flights will become as expensive as flying with the Concorde.” EnergyGrowsImpossibleNormalResourcesHungerChinaDecadesFlyingFlightExpensiveAsiaDiminishConcorde Author:Hermann E. Ott
“Normal people, who grow up with compassion, never amount to anything. They're the ones who end up gluing those little dots on the highway. Or, putting glue on the dots for the guy who glues dots on the highway. Screwed up people, who weren't coddled or raised with compassion, we get stuff done. Sure, we feel a little alone and abandoned, but, we're... very... happy. Why can't you love me, daddy?” PeopleFeelsLittlesEndsDoneGuyGrowsStuffCompassionGrowing UpAmountNormalRaisedAbandonedVery HappyDaddyHighwaysDotsGlueScrewed Up Author:Christopher Titus
“Don't we have to respond to people who don't seem normal to us? Will my child grow up able to accept that not everyone looks the same?” PeopleLooksChildrenSeemsAbleGrowsAcceptingGrowing UpNormalMy Children Author:Nancy Burson
“The areas in which I teach are working-class history and African-American Studies and at its best the critical study of whiteness often grows out of those areas. The critical examination of whiteness, academic and not, simply involves the effort to break through the illusion that whiteness is natural, biological, normal, and not crying out for explanation.” GrowsNaturalEffortClassTeachBreakStudyCryNormalIllusionAreasCriticalAfrican AmericanExplanationAcademicWorking ClassExaminationBreak ThroughWhiteness Author:David Roediger
“I mean can you walk to school on your own? Can you study science? Can you study math? Can you go to a normal school? Do you need to go to a special school? What is going to become of you when you grow up? Are you going to have to live on social security and SSI?” NeedsMeanSchoolSocialGrowsWalksGrowing UpStudySpecialSecurityNormalMathSocial Security Author:Sheena Iyengar
“Since I didn't grow up going to school dances, etc., I didn't have the normal . . . I grew up in a very different way so a lot of the childish concerns or teenage concerns weren't my concerns. My concerns were survival.” WayDifferentSchoolGrowsGrowing UpGrewNormalGrew UpSurvivalConcernDifferent WaysEtcTeenage Author:Rose McGowan
“I would feel like my life was a success if my children grow into well-adjusted, happy, functioning members of society. Capable and happy and normal.” IfsFeelsWellsChildrenGrowsMembersNormalCapableMy Children Author:Natalie Maines
“It was great for me getting a chance to grow up as a normal kid just out of the spotlight, versus all of them growing up in New York. They always had that intense media and spotlight on them.” KidsGrowsChanceGrowing UpGrowingMediaNew YorkNormalIntenseVersusSpotlight Author:Tiffany Trump
“What is a normal child like? Does he just eat and grow and smile sweetly? No, that is not what he is like. The normal child, if he has confidence in mother and father, pulls out all the stops. In the course of time, he tries out his power to disrupt, to destroy, to frighten, to wear down, to waste, to wangle, and to appropriate . . . At the start he absolutely needs to live in a circle of love and strength (with consequent tolerance) if he is not to be too fearful of his own thoughts and of his imaginings to make progress in his emotional development.” IfsNeedsTryingChildrenDoeMotherCoursesFatherGrowsProgressEmotionalDevelopmentWasteNormalToleranceCirclesAppropriateFearfulHave ConfidenceMother And FatherStrength And LoveEmotional Development Author:Donald Woods Winnicott
“War is like a monster," he says, almost to himself. "War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and grows." He's looking at me now. "And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.” MenWarGrowsNormalDevilMonsters Book:The Knife of Never Letting Go Source: The Knife of Never Letting Go
“When you grow up--and from the look of things, you have awhile--but you learn things never go back to normal simply because everyone's sorry. Sorry is ridiculous.” LooksGrowsGrowing UpNormalSorryRidiculous Book:Special Topics in Calamity Physics Source: Special Topics in Calamity Physics
“Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he’s been robbed. The fact is that most putts don’t drop, most beef is tough, most children grow up to just be people, most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration, most jobs are more often dull than otherwise. Life is like an old-time rail journey—delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride.” PeopleLifeChildrenFactsRunningJobsBeautifulLife IsGrowsLordGrowing UpSuccessfulImagineJourneyDegreesWasteNormalToughSpeedTricksDustSmokeBlissDullMutualImagine ThatDelayThrillingLife Is LikeShoutingBeefRailTolerationOld TimeVistasSuccessful Marriage Author:Jenkin Lloyd Jones
“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.” PeopleThinkingStatesUsedGrowsNormalSlaveToleranceOppression Book:Assata: An Autobiography Source: Assata: An Autobiography