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When I Grow Up Quotes

“You cannot be anything you want to be. But you can be everything God wants you to be.”

Sweet Spot When I Grow Up What God Wants

Book:Cure for the Common Life: Living in Your Sweet Spot

Source: Cure for the Common Life: Living in Your Sweet Spot

“What she actually wanted was to see the world, the way Father had when he was a young man. She had found all sorts of geography books and atlases in the library---books about the Orient, full of steaming rain forests and moths the size of dinner plates ("ghastly things," according to Father), and about Africa, where scorpions glittered like jewels in the sand. Yes, one day she would leave Orton Hall and travel the world---as a scientist. A biologist, she hoped, or maybe an entomologist? Something to do with animals, anyway, which in her experience were far preferable to humans. Nanny Metcalfe often spoke of the terrible fright Violet had given her when she was little: she had walked into the nursery one night to find a weasel, of all things, in Violet's cot. "I screamed blue murder," Nanny Metcalfe would say, "but there you were, right as rain, and that weasel curled up next to you, purring like a kitten.”

Dare To Dream Entomology Zoophilist When I Grow Up

Book:Weyward

Source: Weyward