#owing

People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They said things like, "If this were the Middle Ages, you'd be married and you'd own a farm with about a million chickens on it." They were trying to kick you out of childhood. Once you were gone, there was no going back, so you had to hold on as long as you could. ↗

— Heather O'Neill

#growing-up #maturity #age

I'm at that age where I watch such things with two minds, one that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa. ↗

— Alan Bradley

#laughter #age

If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the American Dream is alive and well, and where the United States remains the leading force for peace and prosperity in a highly competitive world, you should vote for Barack Obama. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#american #american dream #barack #barack obama #class

And there goes Juantorena down the back straight, opening his legs and showing his class. ↗

— David Coleman

#class #down #goes #his #legs

We have to get away from the class warfare and recognize that we are growing jobs by helping small business. ↗

— Norm Coleman

#business #class #class warfare #get #growing

My access to music when I was growing up was through pirate radio, you know, transistor radio under the pillow, listening to one more and then 'just one more' until your favourite track comes on. ↗

— Robert Palmer

#comes #favourite #growing #growing up #i

The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give. ↗

— Howard Cosell

#competition #derived #done #give #gotten

I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

#born #custody #fond #i #i am

What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted. ↗

— Oliver Cromwell

#god #himself #histories #our #planted

Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#decaying #everything #growing #growing up #only