Inspiring Growing Up Quotes for Every Stage of Life - page 155
Not time is the measure of movement but: ...each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
John Locke
My mother preferred trees to certain kinds of people. Increasingly, as I get older I have to admit that I occasionally understand her preference.
Lucinda Roy
Bologna is celebrated for producing popes, painters, and sausage.
Investors that do the best, and have done the best, are those that stay and compound at above-average rates over the long term.
John Paulson
I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.
John Mayer
I expect of abstraction as much as what imagery does for me... to carry meaning.
Kay WalkingStick
At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.
Elena Roger
I was painfully shy when I was younger but at some point you've gotta grow up. I think the genius in the man-boy thing is you tap into a woman's motherly instincts.
Bill Burr
Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse?
John Barth
Yeah, we're sweet but savage, and I think a lot of Canadians are that way.
Bruce McCulloch
Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with.
Alexei Panshin
It feels like people talk a lot, in their relationships and in therapy. But my family wasn't like that. My dad wasn't and I wasn't. Things were said, but via the language of action.
Leigh Newman
But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing.
I want to make it clear that I do not judge or condemn any woman who has had an abortion, but every abortion is a tragedy and up to 100,000 abortions a year is this generation's legacy of unutterable shame.
Tony Abbott
It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene
Kathleen Turner
Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin.
Tracy Chapman
I'm old enough to know that a red carpet's just a rug, and I've been able to enjoy the pageantry without letting it go to my head.
Even the greatest actions of a celebrated person labor under this disadvantage, that however surprising and extraordinary they may be, they are no more than what are expected from him.
