Inspiring Growing Up Quotes for Every Stage of Life - page 125

My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids wont grow up to be connected to him.
My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids wont grow up to be connected to him.
 Ram Kapoor
My kids are growing up and it's hard to accept they are their own person and they're independent.
 Ray Romano
Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with public officials.
Nice guys do not finish last. Last place is for the cowards and those too full of fear to take action.
The thing about growing up with Fred and George," said Ginny thoughtfully, "is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
We reject this illegal, barbarous, savage state that calls itself Israel. And you have to do the same.
 George Galloway
I am attached to the French language. I will defend the ubiquitous use of French.
 Francois Hollande
A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
 E. O. Wilson
Sister Carlotta, I'm on a leave of absence right now. That means I've been sacked, in case you don't understand how the I.F. handles these things. "Sacked! A miscarriage of justice. You ought to be shot.
 Orson Scott Card
Because of my mother, who gave me definitions, I knew what I was committed to in life. ... I had the most satisfactory of childhoods because Mother, small, delicate-boned, witty, and articulate, turned out to be exactly my age.
Because of my mother, who gave me definitions, I knew what I was committed to in life. ... I had the most satisfactory of childhoods because Mother, small, delicate-boned, witty, and articulate, turned out to be exactly my age.
 Kay Boyle
You stay young as long as you can learn, acquire new habits, and suffer contradictions.
 Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
I began to have an idea of my life, not as slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.
 Marion Milner
Spiritual growth thrives in the midst of our problems, not in their absence. Spiritual growth occurs in the trenches of life, not in the classroom.
 Mike Yaconelli
In this day and age of things moving so, so fast, we still long for things to stop, and we as a society love the still image. Every time there is some terrible or great moment, we remember the stills.
 Annie Leibovitz
(Yes teenage boys who are fine always cry on their mothers’ shoulders until they leave a snot trail.)
 Jordan Sonnenblick
This October, we renew the fight against domestic violence and abuse in America. Together, we can eliminate domestic violence from homes across the country and ensure that our children grow up in healthy, peaceful communities.
 Lucille Roybal-Allard
That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage.
 Jesse Helms
There was Kir, red hair combed back and That Expression on his sharp face. Even his freckles looked serious. I'd given up wondering how a freckle-faced teenager could look so much like a disapproving granny.
 Lilith Saintcrow
There is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.
There is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.
 Alan Cohen
Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works.
 Uri Geller