Growing Up Quotes — Page 27

JL

Actor

“Growing up in Huntington Beach, you were either a traditional sports athlete, a skateboarder, or a surfer. I got my first skateboard when I was five and skated off and on over the years, did a little BMX racing as a kid, and then in my freshman or sophomore year I started getting a little bit more into skateboarding.”

Sports Growing Up Beach

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Civil Rights Leader

“Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It means trying to hold on to physical life amid psychological death. It means the pain of watching your children grow up with clouds of inferiority in their mental skies. It means having their legs off, and then being condemned for being a cripple.”

Children Pain Growing Up

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Melanie Laurent

Actress, Director

“It seems like the more you grow up the more you fear things.”

Growing Up Grows

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Louisa May Alcott

Novelist, Poet

“Don't try to make me grow up before my time.”

Trying Growing Up

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Mary McCarthy

Author

“this is the spirit of the enchantment under which Venice lies, pearly and roseate, like the Sleeping Beauty, changeless throughout the centuries, arrested, while the concrete forest of the modern world grows up around her.”

Lying Sleep Growing Up

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Meister Eckhart

Theologian, Philosopher

“The seed of God is in us. If the seed had a good, wise and industrious cultivator, it would thrive all the more and grow up to God whose seed it is, and the fruit would be equal to the nature of God. Now the seed of a pear tree grows into a pear tree, a hazel seed into a hazel tree, and the seed of God into God.”

Christian Wise Growing Up

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Michael Emerson

Actor

“My mother always told me growing up I had a punchable face. Little did I know she was predicting my television career.”

Mother Careers Growing Up

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Kris Bryant

Baseball Player

“College was really good for me. It's where I did my growing up, learning how to live on my own and to be myself. That really helped. I've eased my way into everything since then, so it doesn't feel too crazy. It's just about being the same person, whether good things come my way or bad things come my way, and to enjoy the opportunities I have.”

Opportunity Crazy Growing Up

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Loretta Young

Actress

“We can't have everything! It took a lot of growing up for me to realize this unalterable fact and to discipline myself into accepting it.”

Facts Growing Up Discipline

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D. H. Lawrence

Novelist, Poet

“Why, oh why must one grow up, why must one inherit this heavy, numbing responsibility of living an undiscovered life? Out of the nothingness and the undifferentiated mass, to make something of herself! But what? In the obscurity and pathlessness to take a direction! But whither? How take even one step? And yet, how stand still? This was torment indeed, to inherit the responsibility of one’s own life.”

Responsibility Growing Up Obscurity

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PS

Patti Smith

Musician

“Yet you could feel a vibration in the air, a sense of hastening. It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was. Now men had walked upon it, rubber treads on a pearl of the gods. Perhaps it was an awareness of time passing, the last summer of the decade. Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up.”

Growing Up Summer Moon

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PH

Pete Holmes

Comedian

“I have never been political, which for a straight white man that's kind of a byproduct of privilege growing up that I was kind of like, "Who cares who the president is, everything is coming up privilege." But now things are so scary and crazy and I have to say I'm not a fan of Trump at all. I don't agree with him in any way.”

Men Crazy Growing Up

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