4,004 Quotes About Growing-up

  • Author Douglas Rushkoff
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    If you join the Boy Scouts without understanding the underlying agendas and biases of the organization, you might grow up to believe that being gay is a bad thing.

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  • Author Eleanor Roosevelt
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    Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

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  • Author Eleanor Roosevelt
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    Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

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  • Author Emily Bett Rickards
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    I was always very physical, growing up, and did sports. I like to get out and do different things, and walk in different shoes. I like change. I like challenge.

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  • Author Emily Rios
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    You know, even growing up going to school, I had teachers that were against bilingual teaching. I never understood that. My parents always had me speak Spanish first knowing I was going to speak English in school.

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  • Author Emmy Rossum
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    I've never had siblings, I didn't grow up in a big family; it was just me and my single mom. And hectic family dysfunction was actually something that I craved.

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  • Author Emmy Rossum
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    I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.

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