4,004 Quotes About Growing-up



  • Author Grace Paley
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    I'm really sorry for people growing up right now, because they have some cockeyed idea that they can get by with their eyes closed; the cane they're tapping is money, and that won't take them in the right direction.

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  • Author Gwyneth Paltrow
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    I have a sort of sisterly feeling toward him [Ben Affleck]. I want him to do well and grow up and be a happy person and a fully realized man.

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  • Author Gwyneth Paltrow
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    For me when I was growing up, some of the happiest times were when we went to a small island called Nantucket off Massachusetts.

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  • Author James Patterson
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    I want to be a scientist who studies the ocean when I grow up. I would go out to sea, and scuba dive, and find new things, and National Geographic will hire me.” Sure, Nudge. Probably around the time I become president.

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  • Author Jane Pauley
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    My son has been known to throw a book at the television set when he called for me to come play and I was obviously busy in the box. But I'm told that children of television performers grow up thinking that all mommies or daddies work on TV and that it's no big deal.

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