#grown

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#bureaucracy #cold #cold war #elephant #grown

As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed. ↗

— James Allen

#choicest #dark #developed #flowers #grown

Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#america #europe #everyone #god #grown-up

At 35, I'm definitely starting to feel more like a grown-up than I ever have. There's nothing in my life that is childish or whimsical. Having fun is fantastic and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to have that to put into your work or else it's going to feel stiff. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#childish #definitely #else #ever #fantastic

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child. ↗

— Randall Jarrell

#child #facts #forgotten #grown-ups #like

We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band. ↗

— Joan Jett

#band #grown #incredible #our #really

I've definitely grown apart from a lot of my friends. Some of them don't understand the schedule, and it's not that I don't want to talk to them, it's that sometimes I am really busy and can't get back to them. ↗

— Mila Kunis

#apart #back #busy #definitely #friends

As I've gotten older and grown more independent, I think for myself, and that's how it should be. ↗

— Michelle Kwan

#grown #how #i #i think #independent

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

For me, singing is the most natural thing in the world. I've grown up with it and I know I've got that gift. ↗

— Stella McCartney

#got #grown #i #know #me