#grow up

When you grow up in a totally segregated society, where everybody around you believes that segregation is proper, you have a hard time. You can't believe how much it's a part of your thinking. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#believe #believes #everybody #grow #grow up

The purpose of random testing is not to catch, punish, or expose students who use drugs, but to save their lives and discover abuse problems early so that students can grow up and learn in a drug-free environment. ↗

— John Walters

#catch #discover #early #environment #expose

When you're a girl, passion can dominate the equation, but as you grow up relationships evolve. Mad passion can grab you at first, but it can't last forever. ↗

— Jody Watley

#equation #evolve #first #forever #girl

I guess some kids around me had to grow up quickly, had all those problems. But I wasn't one of those kids, or around those kids, not at all. ↗

— Venus Williams

#grow #grow up #guess #had #i

You know how you either grow up in a Michael Jackson house or a Prince house? For me it was Michael Jackson. I could never decide whether I wanted to be Michael Jackson or marry him. ↗

— Amy Winehouse

#decide #either #grow #grow up #him

You cannot compare your athletic achievement to the importance of children and giving them a safe environment in which to grow up and enjoy life. ↗

— Steffi Graf

#athletic #cannot #children #compare #enjoy

Go West, young man, and grow up with the country. ↗

— Horace Greeley

#go #grow #grow up #man #up

Steve produced Girls Grow Up Faster Than Boys and one more. Then he and I wrote a few songs together and became good friends. He was a talented producer. ↗

— Jimmy Griffin

#faster #few #friends #good #good friends

I called my mother up and I said, 'You know, I've been to the best doctors in the world and I've spent almost half a million dollars and they're telling me I have symptoms of a P.O.W. and all I did was grow up in your home.' ↗

— Darrell Hammond

#been #best #called #did #doctors

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#grow #grow up #last #manifesting #order