“ Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket. ”
- Marge Piercy- Copy
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“ We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves. ”
- Lynn Hall- Copy
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“ The fields were fruitful and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic. ”
- John Steinbeck- Copy
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“ I grew up to have my father's looks - my fathers speech patterns - my father's posture - my father's walk - my father's opinions and my mother's contempt for my father. ”
- Jules Feiffer- Copy
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“ I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. ”
- J. R. R. Tolkien- Copy
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“ We need new writers to create roles where women are morall central to the story. I grew up indentifying with Marlon Brando. It's time we created new myths. ”
- Emma Thompson- Copy
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“ The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before. ”
- Thorstein Veblen- Copy
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“ I liked New York when it was an up-and-down city for me, low streets and high buildings. But then, for me, it grew horizontal — monotonous. ”
- Jasper Johns- Copy
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“ If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it. ”
- Salvador Dali- Copy
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“ All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up — that growing is an ever-ongoing process. ”
- M. Scott Peck- Copy
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“ And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
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“ Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived. ”
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias- Copy
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“ He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust. ”
- Emily Dickinson- Copy
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“ I am grateful for all my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties. ”
- J. C. Penney- Copy
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“ I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on. ”
- Louise Erdrich- Copy
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“ I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married. ”
- Lewis Grizzard- Copy
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“ I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it. ”
- Salvador Dali- Copy
- 3.8K
“ If there are things you don't like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different. ”
- David Thomas- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well. ”
- Wilfred A. Peterson- Copy
- 3.5K
“ My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage. ”
- Peggy Noonan- Copy
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“ The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before. ”
- Elbert Hubbard- Copy
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