#growing

Don't try to make me grow up before my time… ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#little-women #louisa-may-alcott #growing-up

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent they conquered. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#wisdom #growing-up

We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can. Because somewhere out there is someone who needs that story. Someone who will grow up with a different landscape, who without that story will be a different person. And who with that story may have hope, or wisdom, or kindness, or comfort. And that is why we write. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#readers #stories #write #growing-up

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#decays #familiar #growing #immediately #object

I still feel like I have a lot of growing up to do 'til I find the voice. Everybody has their own voice and their own thing they want to say to the world. ↗

— Sasha Alexander

#feel #find #growing #growing up #i

My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference. ↗

— Dave Mustaine

#big difference #dad #difference #divorced #family

Life is brief, young maiden, fall in love; before the crimson bloom fades from your lips, before the tides of passion cool within your hips, for those of you who know no tomorrow. (Gondola no Uta) ↗

— Kouhei Kadono

#girls #growing-up #life #love #women

C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#bet #faster #growing #i #java

When I was in school, I got there on the first day and everyone had long, blonde, straight hair, and I had short, dark, curly hair. I immediately felt I didn't fit in and started growing my hair. But I've learned that I'm only happy when I am truly me and feel comfortable and confident in myself. ↗

— Emmy Rossum

#blonde #comfortable #confident #curly #dark

I'm not opposed to aging - even though society is kinder on men than women when it comes to getting old. How can I look at aging as the enemy? It happens whether I like it or not and no one is set apart from growing old; it comes to us all. Youth passes from everyone, so why deny it? I'm proud of my age. I'm proud that I've survived this planet for as long as I have, and should I end up withered, wrinkled and with a lifetime of great wisdom, I'll trade the few years of youth for the sophistication of a great mind...for however long it lasts. ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#aging-gracefully #growing-old #age