I was a tiny bug. Now a mountain. I was left behind. Now honored at the head. You healed my wounded hunger and anger, and made me a poet who sings about joy.
Inspiring Growing Up Quotes for Every Stage of Life - page 165
When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up the address of publishers on the backs of the books she owned and send off her manuscript.
Kiran Desai
How important is it really that you feel satisfied right now for 2 minutes, compared to getting yourself free from addiction forever?
Lee L Jampolsky
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
Openness" [story] ultimately asks this same question - can a relationship survive complete honesty? As a romantic, I want to say "Yes, of course!" But, over time, I've come to agree with Dan Savage.
Alexander Weinstein
Our enemies are also seeking the abilities to sabotage our power grid, our financial institutions, our air traffic control systems.
There is little success where there is little laughter.
Andrew Carnegie
The ultimate vision is to instate in the Muslim world the notion of multiculturalism, which is part of our heritage and history, part of the fundamental, mainstream ideals of Islam.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth – these are one and the same fight.
Ban Ki-moon
We're finally going to get the bill for the Industrial Age. If the projections are right, it's going to be a big one: the ecological collapse of the planet.
Jeremy Rifkin
Acting is something that I've done since I was so young. I always felt - certainly as a teenager - really cynical about acting. I definitely didn't feel like it was something I wanted to do, and so I really took it for granted.
Sarah Polley
In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time.
Djuna Barnes
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.
Anyone at any age is able to tell the story of his or her life with authority.
E. L. Doctorow
Most people don't manage to the utmost of their ability because they don't want to.
Robert Heller
My first thought about acting, growing up here in New York, was theater, and I feel like I need to force myself to go get my ass kicked in a rehearsal room and do one of those plays at some point.
Paul Dano
The irreversibility of time. That's the hardest thing to accept at our age, that's the most violent aspect of death.
Francine du Plessix Gray
![In decision after decision on the bench, Judge [Samuel] Alito has excused abusive actions by the authorities that intrude on the personal privacy and freedoms of average Americans.](/fotos/ec/ec269de89a9bcdde00aab32a340cee51.webp)
Growing up, I never accepted my curves, but when I got the opportunity to become a plus size model, I was able to appreciate my voluptuous body and love myself, not only on the outside, but on the inside.
Hayley Hasselhoff
