Quotes of: Grows Keyword

I still don't know what it really means to grow up. However, if I happen to meet you, one day in the future, by then, I want to become someone you can be proud to know.

5 Centimeters per Second

hat's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.

Anne of Green Gables

You wanted to believe that getting older, growing up, would change everything, transform you into the amazing person you were meant to be. But what if it didn't? What if you had to stay you forever?

The Humanity Project

In our not-yet-acknowledged secret garden lie the seeds of some of our best not-yet-written stories

How to Grow a Novel: The Most Common Mistakes Writers Make and How to Overcome Them

Encouraging employees to interact directly with the environment is just an interesting exercise until you debrief their experiences and encourage reflection.

Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go: Career Conversations Employees Want

A strength is a lot like oxygen. We don't really pay much attention to it - unless it's missing.

Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go: Career Conversations Employees Want

Children do not grow up all of a piece; look for the child of seven, especially to take many backward glances at the way he has come, while bounds and leaps unevenly ahead in his growth.

I Learn from Children

My father sacrificed his life for our family when I was growing up. He was one of the bravest, wisest, and most unselfish goats I have ever known, and I will miss his cheese dearly.

It Occurred to Me

I’ve never been able to stand up for myself while growing up, but I will stand up for you against anyone who ever threatens to hurt you in any way.

Insatiable

I was taught growing up not to be unequally yoked with unbelievers, to withdraw myself from the sinful 'others'. But we are all others. We are all sinners in someone's eyes.

Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

Ideas, which grow up within the imagination and appear so lovely to it and of a value beyond whatever men call valuable, are exposed to be shattered and annihilated by contact with the practical.

Mosses from an Old Manse

The irresponsible mother helped explain bella's maturity. She'd had to grow up early, to become the caretaker. That's why she didn't like being cared for- she felt it was her job.

Midnight Sun

Alcoholism or addiction is a disease because it fits the definition of disease. It is progressive and chronic, and left untreated, it will kill.

Not Like My Mother: Becoming a Sane Parent After Growing Up in a Crazy Family

People don't stop being bullies when they grow up. They just dress differently to fool you.

Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally

The thing is, that world doesn't exist. All growing up means is that your realize no one will come along to fix things. No one will come along to save you.

Love You Hate You Miss You

I've been praying to Jesus and the Holy Ghost for and I have also mentioned that it would help if I did not have frizzy hair.

Miss American Pie: A Diary of Love, Secrets and Growing Up in the 1970s

I couldn't stand being identified by my sexuality, I retaliated by insisting that people regard me for my intellectual worth. My intellect became a form of damage control.

Slut!: Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation

The humiliation of growing up a Jew in the Soviet Union, of cleaning piss-stained bathrooms in the States, of worshiping a country that would collapse as simply and inelegantly as the one he had abandoned.

Super Sad True Love Story

It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy.

The Swan Thieves

Though Jesus was in torture on the cross, He thought of praying for His persecutors, of caring for His mother, of securing the good thief's salvation.

Seeking Spiritual Direction: How to Grow the Divine Life Within

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn