I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.
I thought I'd be doing theater, really. That's all I had experience with growing up. I mean, I saw movies and television, but I don't think I really connected at a young age that that was acting, that that was part of the profession.
One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when I was about 8, I used to enjoy just walking alone through the wood late. Eleven p.m. Midnight. Later.
Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, the color of my skin and my rather peculiar background as an Ethiopian immigrant delineated the border of my life and friendships. I learned quickly how to stand alone.
I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.
...it saddens me that she has to grow up and make friends with humans. I hear the future coming for her. Stomp, stomp, stomp.
Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer
You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.
We cannot carve or forcibly preserve or cultivate belief. If it will grow, it grows as we do - mostly after we have fallen
Jump, when they say, and ask, how high? It is the only way to truly fit in. And who would want to be any different?
I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.
Growing up I often wondered how the world would be today if, since the beginning of human life, every person acted as I did.
you find yourself repeating, ‘They grow up so quickly, don’t they?’ when all you really mean is: time goes faster for me nowadays.
Things can’t stay the same forever, Annemarie. People change; they grow up. That’s the way it’s supposed to happen.
Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.
I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest - learning when it was better to lie, rather than to hurt someone with the truth.
I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
Seek justice: Make a commitment to serve the needs of the ‘least of these’ and give voice to the voiceless.
Serve others: The heart of the leader is manifested through service to others.
On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never passed beyond the stage of the cave-man.
