Inspiring Growing Up Quotes for Every Stage of Life - page 30

One nice thing about the Third World, you don\'t have to fasten your seat belt. (Or stop smoking. Or cut down on saturated fats.) It takes a lot off your mind when average life expectancy is forty-five minutes.
One nice thing about the Third World, you don't have to fasten your seat belt. (Or stop smoking. Or cut down on saturated fats.) It takes a lot off your mind when average life expectancy is forty-five minutes.
 P. J. O'Rourke
I watched 'A Chorus Line' over and over when I was growing up, to the point that I was able to recite the entire movie.
 Sharni Vinson
My mum calls my temper 'Devilman.' They say you calm down with age, but I don't know. It never goes away.
 Vinnie Jones
Man's freedom is never in being saved from troubles, but it is the freedom to take trouble for his own good, to make the trouble an element in his joy.
All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?
 James Hillman
Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up.
 Jill Lepore
Religion is the life of India, religion is the language of this country, the symbol of all its movements.
it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.
What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.
 Sharon Creech
Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.
Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.
 Goldwin Smith
And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom. It is a positive thing. You can move about unnoticed and invisible.
 Doris Lessing
Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
Cage the People, Free the Money. The only thing that is allowed to move freely - unimpeded - around the world today is money... capital.
Sausage making and policy-making shouldn't be seen close-up.
 Donald Rumsfeld
Maturity is developed by respecting others and accepting responsibility for violating that respect.
 Wes Fesler
Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen.
The acquisition of True Temper broadens our lawn and garden product line with outstanding, highly respected brands, ... The purchase also expands USI Hardware and Tool's customer base and provides additional capacity for future growth.
 David A. Clarke, Jr
ACA is advancing an agenda of dramatic and necessary change in how medical care is delivered in the U.S.
 John E. McDonough
That tuft of jungle feathers, 
 That animal eye, 
 Is just what you say. That savage of fire, 
 That seed, 
 Have it your way. The world is ugly, 
 And the people are sad.
That tuft of jungle feathers, That animal eye, Is just what you say. That savage of fire, That seed, Have it your way. The world is ugly, And the people are sad.
 Wallace Stevens
Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
 Anita Brookner