“It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality.” PeopleShouldYoungLiteratureGrowsWealthQualityGrowing UpGenerationsPityVarietyGreekLatinOur GenerationFreshness Author:James Loeb
“Growing up, I was watched by my parents and strongly critiqued. Instead of saying they loved me or showing physical attention, they would joke that I had a Roman nose - that it was roamin' all over my face. Teasing was their way of showing love, but then you are young, sometimes you can't tell the difference.” WaySometimesFacesYoungParentDifferencesAttentionGrowing UpGrowingJokesNosesTeaseShowing Love Author:Neil Strauss
“Around 80% of Liberians are unemployed and only half of all children go to primary school. Just one in 20 go on to secondary school. Young children are on the streets instead of in the classrooms. We are not giving them the opportunity to learn and they will struggle to get jobs when they grow up.” GivingChildrenSchoolJobsYoungOpportunityGrowsHalfStruggleGrowing UpStreetsGoes OnPrimariesJust OneClassroomUnemployedYoung ChildrenOpportunities To LearnPrimary SchoolSecondary School Author:George Weah
“I'm just doing the best I can now to keep this going... trying to grow up and remain young at the same time.” TryingI CanYoungGrowsGrowing Up Author:Stevie Ray Vaughan
“A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.” PeopleChildrenStillsAgeYoungOpportunityGrowsGrowing UpSillyYoung AgeSilly Things Author:Janet Jackson
“I want MIT to be the dream of every child who wants to grow up to make the world a better place. We need to reach those young explorers and bring them with us on the great adventure of discovery and innovation.” WorldWantNeedsChildrenDreamYoungGrowsGrowing UpAdventureDiscoveryInnovationBetter PlaceExplorersGreat AdventureMit Author:Susan Hockfield
“Growing up sucks, doesn't it? I understand why people wouldn't want to get old - but it'd be one thing if we became a culture obsessed with eating right, doing yoga, going to therapy and becoming at one with ourselves. That be great. But we don't do that. We seem to be obsessed with all the wrong ways to stay young.” PeopleIfsWayWantSeemsYoungCultureGrowing UpGrowingOne ThingBecomingEatingYogaTherapyObsessedWrong WayEating Right Author:Jason Reitman
“[On libraries] What's great about them is that anybody can go into them and find a book and borrow it free of charge and read it. They don't have to steal it from a bookshop... You know when you're young, you're growing up, they're almost sexually exciting places because books are powerhouses of knowledge, and therefore they're kind of slightly dark and dangerous. You see books that kind of make you go 'Oh!'” KnowsKindBookYoungDarkGrowing UpGrowingDangerousExcitingLibraryStealingSexuallyBookshops Author:Stephen Fry
“Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of TV and you grow up on false images of what love truly is.” AmericaYoungGrowsWatchesGrowing UpTvsFemale Author:Lauryn Hill
“That women are mysterious and unknowable is something every young man grows up believing. Men, on the other hand, never think of themselves as mysterious or confusing, and we are often at a loss as to why women want to figure us out.” ThinkingMenWantBelieveHandsYoungGrowsLossGrowing UpFiguresMysteriousYoung ManConfusingWomen Want Author:Chris Abani
“Many believe that Hillary Clinton was channeling President Obama during her recent speech in New York City. She focused on equality, justice, and how hard it was for her growing up as a young black man in Hawaii.” MenBelieveHardYoungBlackPresidentJusticeCitiesGrowing UpGrowingNew YorkSpeechClintonFocusedNew York CityPresident ObamaHawaiiChanneling Author:Jimmy Fallon
“When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue.” WarTogetherYoungLiteratureGrowing UpIssuesGrowingParticularPhotographReputationHeightBreakfastPrincessRoyalRoyal Family Author:Anthony Holden
“When I was growing up, I didn't do plays in downtown Boston, and my parents weren't putting me in auditions. They never thought, Oh, she has a gift! They never thought of me as an entertainer when I was a young kid.” PlayKidsYoungParentGrowing UpGrowingAuditionsBostonEntertainersDowntown Author:Mindy Kaling
“we can surmount the anger we feel. To find oneself like a young tree inside a tomb is to discover the power to crack the tomb and grow up to any height.” FeelsYoungGrowsGrowing UpTreeAngerOneselfHeightCracksTombs Book:The House In Paris Source: The House In Paris
“In New Haven, Conn., when I was growing up, there were two sorts of Irish. There were the "drugstore cowboy" micks, who hung around the Elm Street poolroom over Longley's Lunch. And there were the earnest young Irishmen who fought their way up from the Grand Avenue saloonkeeper backgrounds of their fathers, went through Yale Law School, and have now found high place by the preferment of local politics or in the teaching profession.” WayTwoBookSchoolLawYoungFoundFatherGrowing UpGrowingStreetsTeachingHavensProfessionBackgroundsLocalsLunchHungCowboyEarnestAvenuesLaw SchoolYaleHigh PlacesIrishmenTeaching Profession Book:Studs Lonigan Source: Studs Lonigan
“Sisters, while they are growing up, tend to be very rivalrous and as young mothers they are given to continual rivalrous comparisons of their several children. But once the children grow older, sisters draw closer together and often, in old age, they become each other's chosen and most happy companions. In addition to their shared memories of childhood and of their relationship to each other's children, they share memories of the same home, the same homemaking style, and the same small prejudices about housekeeping that carry the echoes of their mother's voice.” ChildrenHomeAgeTogetherYoungMotherGivenGrowsVoiceMemoriesGrowing UpGrowingShareChildhoodStyleDrawsPrejudiceChosenOld AgeComparisonCompanionEchoesChildhood MemoriesHousekeepingOlder SisterYoung MotherHomemaking Author:Margaret Mead
“If I grew up with a lot of money, where everything was just handed to me, I feel like those are the people that, a lot of time, grow up to do worse things. Or they'll start in a business really young, like eight or something, through all their schooling.” PeopleIfsFeelsYoungGrowsGrowing UpGrewGrew UpEightLots Of MoneySchooling Author:Justin Bieber
“My parents were very young when they had me. They were still growing up and learning themselves. They did the best they could, but my mom and dad split up when I was little... So that kind of made me stronger.” KindLittlesMadeStillsYoungParentGrowing UpGrowingMomDadStrongerMy MomSplitsMom And Dad Author:Justin Bieber
“I grew up in a remarkable home, the middle of seven children. My parents raised us well. They loved us well. We laughed hard growing up. But being the middle child, I couldn't figure out where I fit in the home, whether I was the youngest of the older three or the oldest of the younger three. When you don't know where you fit inside the home and you're young and you're desperate to fit in somewhere, I'd figured where I would fit outside the home. So I made some bad decisions about who I hung out with, I dropped out of high school, got kicked out of the house.” KnowsWellsChildrenMadeHardHomeSchoolYoungThreeHouseParentDecisionGrowing UpGrowingMiddleFiguresGrewFitGrew UpHigh SchoolRaisedSevenDesperateRemarkableLaughedHungBad DecisionMiddle Child Author:Tullian Tchividjian
“Each and every child in this country is valuable because they are our future as a society. We cannot afford to lose a single child to ill-health, under-education, abuse, addiction, jail, or gun violence. America's highest goal should be for every child to grow up to be a successful young adult -- healthy, educated, free, secure, and a good citizen.” ShouldChildrenCountryAmericaYoungGrowsGoalLosesGrowing UpSuccessfulViolenceCitizensHealthyHighestGunAdultsAbuseAddictionYoung AdultIllValuableEducatedSecureJailOur FutureGun ViolenceGood CitizenIll HealthSingle Child Author:John F. Kerry
“When I was growing up, my parents took in foster children. From a young age, I learned that there are a lot of children in need.” NeedsChildrenAgeYoungParentGrowing UpGrowingYoung AgeFoster Children Author:Michelle Monaghan
“I first met my husband when I was 15. He was very cool, in a band, all that kind of thing, but he took a long time to grow up. Our paths crossed again 10 years later, and after about two weeks I knew that was it. I'm glad I met him when I did, even though I was fairly young. Because I think sometimes you can crystallise into singledom.” ThinkingYearsFirstsKindLongTwoSometimesYoungGrowsGrowing UpPathWeekMetsBandHusbandLong TimeGladMy HusbandTwo WeeksVery CoolTime To Grow Up Author:Natascha McElhone
“I grew up in New York, in the Village, and I started going to Stella Adler pretty young. I was 13 or 14 years old. But I was also really shy when I was growing up.” YearsYoungGrowing UpGrowingNew YorkGrewGrew UpShyVillageStellaAdler Author:Steven Strait
“It was a free-for-all with music when I was growing up. My mother was a huge music fanatic so I was listening to everything from country to heavy metal to Indigo Girls to Elton John. I guess when I was really young I didn't like Willie Nelson, and she obviously loved him. Now I do too, I'm so thankful to her for playing his music nonstop.” CountryYoungMotherGirlGrowing UpGrowingHugeListeningHeavyMetalsFanaticsNelsonHeavy MetalIndigo Author:Tig Notaro
“The constant buzz and pressure and noise and static of the Internet, and the way it makes young people feel makes it difficult to grow up and develop the way one might want to.” PeopleWayWantFeelsMightYoungGrowsDifficultGrowing UpInternetPressureConstantNoiseStaticBuzz Author:Ethan Hawke
“When I was a kid growing up in New York, I was pretty unaware of racism. I think when we're young - before we lose our innocence - we're sort of unaware of the more flawed qualities of each other.” ThinkingKidsYoungLosesQualityGrowing UpGrowingNew YorkRacismInnocenceFlawedKids Growing Up Author:Dave Matthews
“I started reading Dickens when I was about 12, and I particularly liked all of the orphan books. I always liked books about young people who are left on their own with the world, and the four children's books I've written feature that very thing: children that are abandoned by their families or running away from their families or ignored by their families and having to grow up quicker than they should, like David Copperfield - having to be the hero of their own story.” PeopleWorldShouldChildrenBookStoriesRunningYoungReadingLeftGrowsGrowing UpFourWrittenHeroOur ChildrenFeaturesAbandonedRunning AwayIgnoredOrphanChildren's BooksDickens Author:John Boyne