#growing up

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me. ↗

— Carol Burnett

#about #done #felt #grandmother #growing

It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#assumptions #communism #during #era #evolved

I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers. ↗

— Lance Burton

#also #always #books #came #chavez

My parents were so relaxed by the time I was growing up that I got away with a lot more. ↗

— Rose Byrne

#by the time #got #growing #growing up #i

As I was growing up, it was made clear that the fat me wasn't welcome, that a thin person was expected and awaited, and impatiently so. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#expected #fat #growing #growing up #i

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#aware #did #everything #growing #growing up

I just didn't work that much while the kids were growing up. ↗

— Jill Clayburgh

#growing up #i #just #kids #much

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#books #child #growing #growing up #i

Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball. ↗

— Jennie Finch

#amazing #baseball #baseball players #basketball #board

Everything changes as a mother. Yes, work has changed. The projects that I choose are even more important to me now. The world he's growing up in and the kind of stimulus that is out there; they are so precious and I'd do anything to protect him. ↗

— Jennifer Connelly

#changed #changes #choose #even #everything