#grow

Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget. ↗

— Matt Groening

#grown-ups #i #kid #like #most

Our fumbling government's response since Beirut - during both Republican and Democratic administrations - has been to cut and run, or to flat ignore this growing threat, apparently hoping it would go away. ↗

— David Hackworth

#away #been #beirut #both #cut

They shaved a little piece of bone off my small toe. You see, you balance yourself a certain way and this toe had grown under the other ones. So he cut it loose, where I could balance myself and it makes me walk straight. ↗

— Merle Haggard

#bone #certain #certain way #could #cut

It was just you had to be strong, and if you weren't strong you're a victim and you're not going to make it. That was the reality when I was growing up. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#going #growing #growing up #had #i

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#always #becoming #child #christmas #day

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#grow #i #may #only #quieter

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#grow up #hands #life #muddled #must

People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical. ↗

— Keith Haring

#artist #becoming #boom #collecting #combined

You don't have to live in the country and grow your own food to be green. ↗

— Shalom Harlow

#food #green #grow #live #own

I kind of got my big break with 'The Princess Diaries' and during the press rounds for that everyone asked me: 'Did you always want to be a princess growing up?' And the truth was, no I wanted to be Catwoman. ↗

— Anne Hathaway

#asked #big #big break #break #diaries