#grown

I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#again #back #go #grown #hard

Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

#blessings #each #grown #i #last

Since the heady days of the 2009 Inauguration, middle-class independents have grown increasingly distant from Obama. Working-class voters - always more enamored of Clinton - have grown even more wary and distrustful of the Chicagoan. Both voting blocs pose the danger of serious defection in 2012. Without their support, Obama cannot win. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

#blocs #both #cannot #clinton #danger

I may have grown cynical from long service, but this is a tendency I do not like, and I sometimes think I'd rather be a dog and bay at the moon than stay in the Senate another six years and listen to it. ↗

— John Sharp Williams

#bay #cynical #dog #grown #i

I stepped away to find out more about myself, which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a chance to travel the world. I studied Eastern philosophy, and I've grown as a person so much. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#away #ball player #chance #difficulty #doing

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#grown #happily #life #like #looks

I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren. ↗

— Brock Yates

#four #grandchildren #grown #i #tiny

I'm one of those people who never really joined the grown-ups. ↗

— Richard O'Brien

#i #joined #never #people #really

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#grown #kids #most #off #put

I've seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn't occurred to me to take any of those stories and build on them. They seem very finished for me, so I don't feel like going back and dredging them up. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#back #build #collection #feel #finished