#grown

They never say to you, 'What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies?' Instead, they demand 'How old is he? How many brothers has he? How much money does his father make?' Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#love

America has survived and grown stronger through September 11th and subsequent wars with Afghanistan and Iraq and those who seek to do us harm. We have faced - and met - tremendous challenges ramping up a public health and safety system to protect Americans from future threats. ↗

— Christopher Bond

#america #challenges #faced #future #grown

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends. ↗

— Chanakya

#by the time #children #darling #first #five

I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#freedom #french #french fries #fries #government

I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it. ↗

— George Grosz

#anything #atmosphere #destruction #felt #great

A grownup is a child with layers on. ↗

— Woody Harrelson

#grownup #layers

As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble. ↗

— Emmylou Harris

#citizens #civility #each #educated #get

Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been. ↗

— Paris Hilton

#being #every #grown #happier #i

I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and all the grownups wanted were more scales and drudgery out of me. ↗

— Lara St. John

#been #drudgery #ear #everything #grownups

I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale. ↗

— Rachel McAdams

#complicated #different #different places #discovered #fairytale