#growing

When you're a kid growing up, and you think you're gay, you know that you're different; you're often teased and it can really destroy your self-esteem. But sports can be great for building self-esteem. ↗

— Greg Louganis

#destroy #different #gay #great #growing

I surrounded myself with women when I was growing up because I had this horrible psycho father. Now I'm trying to really appreciate and like men more. ↗

— Courtney Love

#because #father #growing #growing up #had

Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while, and that was to help me get through school. ↗

— Mia Love

#catholic school #dad #front #get #growing

You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#growing #growing up #guess #i #mountains

Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#did #eastern #few #growing #growing up

I get very caught up with things. I used to be dominated by domestic things. I had a lovely house in LA-and it became this growing, mad obsession. ↗

— Kyle MacLachlan

#caught #domestic #dominated #get #growing

Their Internet usage is growing very rapidly, and even they can do the math: If everyone in China needed an IPv4 address - just one - this country would use up one third of the entire public IP address space. ↗

— Vinton Cerf

#china #country #entire #even #everyone

The art world seems so much bigger than it was when I was growing up. ↗

— China Chow

#art world #bigger #growing #growing up #i

It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#energy #greater #growing #human #moving

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#behind #growing #leaving #less #movement