#rowing

I think I'm finally growing up - and about time. ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

#finally #growing #growing up #i #i think

I always hated my mole growing up. I even thought about having it removed. At the time I didn't do it because I thought it would hurt, and now I'm glad I didn't. ↗

— Niki Taylor

#always #because #even #glad #growing

There's very little you're not exposed to in New York City, in terms of ideas and physical things - sights, sounds, smells, different kinds of people. But one good thing about growing up fast is you get over it fast, too. ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#city #different #different kinds #exposed #fast

To be honest, I wasn't a sci-fi geek at all. But I do love a good sci-fi film, especially one that can really take you away. And I read some reality-bending novels growing up, like stuff by Vonngeut, so I already had one part my brain open to the unnatural and unusual, and it's generally fun to venture into that world and film in it. ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#away #brain #especially #film #fun

At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#early #evolution #future #growing #growing up

Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras? ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#ever #front #good #good marriage #growing

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#a good thing #acquire #after #early #give

We enter the government essentially in a hotel that is on fire. We're throwing people from the windows into the pool to save their lives and this is the evaluation of the Olympic diving committee: Well, the splash was too big. ↗

— Austan Goolsbee

#committee #diving #enter #essentially #evaluation

Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved. ↗

— Nancy Greene

#achieved #cared #community #did #go

When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn't behave as if you were throwing a bone to a dog. You must give humbly, and thank him for allowing you to have a part in his hunger. ↗

— Giovanni Guareschi

#beggar #behave #bone #bread #crust