#grown

They stared at her curiously, and she caught snatches of conversation in two or three languages. It wasn't hard to guess their content, and she smiled a bit primly. Youth, it appeared, was full of illusions as to how much sexual energy two people might have to spare while hiking forty or so kilometers a day, concussed, stunned, diseased, on poor food and little sleep, alternating caring for a wounded man with avoiding becoming dinner for every carnivore within range - and with a coup to plan for the end. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#maturity #rumors #sex #food

He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up. ↗

— J.M. Barrie

#barrie #children #grown-up-poetry #kesnington-gardens #london

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#deeper #did #down #grown #had

- Why are you drinking? - the little prince asked. - In order to forget - replied the drunkard. - To forget what? - enquired the little prince, who was already feeling sorry for him. - To forget that I am ashamed - the drunkard confessed, hanging his head. - Ashamed of what? - asked the little prince who wanted to help him. - Ashamed of drinking! - concluded the drunkard, withdrawing into total silence. And the little prince went away, puzzled. 'Grown-ups really are very, very odd', he said to himself as he continued his journey. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#grown-ups #problem-solving #self-respect #faith

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown older. ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

#grown #i #little #more #much

Well, I think it's real important that people understand, first and foremost, those of us that have lived in Arizona or in southern California, we have a very diverse population. The Hispanic population has been part of all of our lives since we've been born here or since we've grown up here. ↗

— Jan Brewer

#been #born #california #diverse #first

There's a passion about this because people take it very close to their hearts and they have grown up with James Bond - and so have I. But I was being criticized before I had presented anything, so it was name calling. ↗

— Daniel Craig

#anything #because #before #being #bond

I don't know what organically grown chickens are; I've never seen one. ↗

— Tony Curtis

#grown #i #know #never #organically

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown. ↗

— Samuel Daniel

#adversity #distress #examples #fair #greatest

We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#challenges #developing #energy #energy production #foreign