#growing

I found myself suddenly jealous of the time when things were simple, when days centered on creek walks and tetherball, and your biggest worry was whether you'd have riding or sailing. There were no boys, there were no secrets or rumors, and there were no regrets. Not even fear of regret. There was just a best friend and endless hours to fill with Pixy Stix and laughing so hard you couldn't breathe. ↗

— Kathryn Williams

#growing-up #friendship

They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#imagination #pretend #school #imagination

Do you remember how you felt at seventeen? I do and I don't (...) Imagine you came from outer space and someone showed you a butterfly and a caterpillar. Would you ever put the two of them together? That's me and my memories. ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#memories #imagination

I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#growing-up #life #maturity #life

In order to achieve optimal economic growth, Congress must adhere to sane spending guidelines while promoting smart policies devoted to growing businesses and creating jobs. ↗

— Michael Steele

#adhere #businesses #congress #creating #devoted

Growing up, I was encouraged to get a good education, get a real job doing something I enjoyed, and, should the opportunity present itself, consider public service as just that: a chance to serve, not an end in itself. ↗

— John Sununu

#consider #doing #education #encouraged #end

I can't think of anything specific growing up that pointed me toward NASA at all. I was interested in the Moon landings just about the same as everyone else of my generation. But I never really thought about being an astronaut or working in space myself. ↗

— Laurel Clark

#anything #astronaut #being #else #everyone

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties. ↗

— Winona Ryder

#growing #growing up #i #really #sense

I am concerned about the growing problem of sexual abuse and exploitation of our children. ↗

— Jim Ryun

#abuse #am #children #concerned #exploitation

Growing up, one of my cousins was an out gay man. ↗

— Eric Stonestreet

#gay #growing #growing up #man #out