I was able to see faith as more than just a comfort to the weary or a hedge against death; rather, it was an active, palpable agent in the world.
Inspiring Growing Up Quotes for Every Stage of Life - page 160
Like so many other kids with special needs, I have been bullied. Kids in elementary school made me eat sand, and those same boys would walk behind me, teasing me. Finally I had enough, and I told them to grow up.
Lauren Potter
The best heroes in the world are the reluctant ones. Courage isn't fearlessness - it's acting in the face of fear.
Tess Gerritsen
I hope the film will help mothers and fathers to be aware that 15 is a very vulnerable age.
Ellen Muth
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FEAR is an acronym in the English language for 'False Evidence Appearing Real'.
Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.
They must move from a psychological state of victimization to a psychological state of accepting responsibility. The Palestinians must leave behind their revolutionary adolescence and demonstrate that they have reached political maturity.
Ari Shavit
Nobody can successfully defy the master of the hemisphere [America], in fact of the world, hence the savagery.
I'm a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write books, famous authors are a lot more meaningful to you than TV and movie stars.
We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in need.
Jan Egeland
You can't be 20 on Sugar Mountain.
Neil Young
I loved movies as a teenager and saw as much American cinema as I could, but I hated the English films of the early 60s and had absolutely no point of identification with them.
Stephen Rea
Every youth movement presents itself as a loan to the future, and tries to call in its lien in advance, but when there is no future all loans are canceled.
Greil Marcus
I'm a Navy brat. You find that a lot of stage actors are Army or Navy brats, because they have the ability to make a big impression, make friends, and then leave just a few months later.
John Michael Higgins
Acting is not my language at all.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris L. Ernst
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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.
