#growing

I'm still growing I take each day, one day-at-a-time. I'm always thinking and dreaming. As long as this heart keeps beating, there will be new things coming along. ↗

— Roy Haynes

#always #beating #coming #day #dreaming

They called themselves an army. They were planning on recruiting more armies. They were planning on splitting up and forming smaller cells and going into different areas, recruiting more members and just growing until they had started a full scale war in this country. ↗

— Patty Hearst

#armies #army #called #cells #country

There has been a growing consensus across the country - from statehouses to the White House and the halls of Congress - that we need to take dramatic steps to improve our secondary schools. ↗

— Ruben Hinojosa

#been #congress #consensus #country #dramatic

We're meant to stay connected to our hearts, you see. Feeling our feelings, present in the moments we're given. But we don't do that. And that's when we get in trouble. ... We mature and take responsibility for ourselves and others, and that's a good thing. But we're never meant to lose that alive quality, to get cut off from our true hearts. Growing up isn't the same thing as shutting down. ... We can fight it. We have to fight it. Because when our hearts shut down, we become mere shells of who we once were. We don't laugh—not honestly, not from the heart. We don't dream. We don't feel our feelings or use our gifts. We end up trying to just survive instead of live. It's like we've handed our hearts over to the enemy of our souls and said, 'Here you can have it. I'm giving up. ↗

— Denise Hildreth Jones

#living #our-hearts #dreams

I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question. ↗

— Lamar Hunt

#answer #asked #fastest #get #growing

Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#growing-up #age

Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect. ↗

— Vin Scully

#baseball #effect #growing #growing up #inside

I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow. ↗

— Magnus Magnusson

#both #edinburgh #glasgow #got #growing

What’s so beautiful about girls?” I would implore. And the secret society of adults would reply with a smirk and wink as if I was merely a boy who couldn’t possibly have the mental maturity to comprehend such grown-up concepts as love and bleeding vaginas; “You’ll understand someday, James. ↗

— Jake Vander Ark

#growing-up #puberty #puppy-love #the-perfect-girl #age

He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love. ↗

— Alan Hollinghurst

#happy #insecure #insecurity #line-of-beauty #love