Inspiring Growing Up Quotes for Every Stage of Life - page 203

Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray
Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray
What one has to do usually can be done.
The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
 Warren G. Bennis
Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.
Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in.
 Denis Leary
My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.
 Jim Carrey
If we are to understand the interactions of a large number of agents, we must first be able to describe the capabilities of individual agents.
 John Henry Holland
Blood is thicker than water, my mother had always said when I was growing up, a sentiment I’d often disputed. But it turned out that it didn’t matter whether she was right or wrong. They both flowed out of my cupped palms.
 Cheryl Strayed
Life moves all too fast. When you feel weak, discouraged, depressed, or afraid, open the Book of Mormon and read.
Life moves all too fast. When you feel weak, discouraged, depressed, or afraid, open the Book of Mormon and read.
 Boyd K. Packer
Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward?
 David R. Brower
Maturity is the ability to harness your abilities and your energies and do more than is expected. The mature person refuses to settle for mediocrity. He/she would rather aim high and miss the mark than low-and make it.
 Ann Landers
Old age is the lubricant of belief. When death knocks at the door, skepticism flies out the window. A serious cardiovascular fright and a person will even believe in Little Red Riding Hood.
 Carlos Ruiz Zafon
That's the sacred intent of life, of God--to move us continuously toward growth, toward recovering all that is lost and orphaned within us and restoring the divine image imprinted on our soul.
 Sue Monk Kidd
If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
 Michel Foucault
If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.
 Eugene V. Debs
I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
 Danica McKellar
In terms of language, English is very dominant vis-Ã-vis African language. That in itself is a power relationship - between languages and communities - because the English language is a determinant of the ladder to achievement.
 Ngugi wa Thiong'o
This is the tragedy and woe of the hour--that we neglect the most important One who could possibly be in our midst--the Holy Spirit of God. Then, in order to make up for His absence, we have to do something to keep up our own spirits.
This is the tragedy and woe of the hour--that we neglect the most important One who could possibly be in our midst--the Holy Spirit of God. Then, in order to make up for His absence, we have to do something to keep up our own spirits.
There are no accidents so unlucky but the prudent may draw some advantage from them.