#rowing

But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#anything #course #did #growing #growing up

It is so demanding to be born into a house full of women, where everyone loves you so overwhelmingly that they end up suffocating with their love; a house where you, as the only child, have to be more mature than all the adults around.... But the problem is that they want me to become everything they themselves couldn't accomplish in life..... As a result, I had to work my butt off to fulfill all their dreams at the same time. ↗

— Elif Shafak

#women #dreams

Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there's always a library. ↗

— Michelle Rodriguez

#basically #crave #ever #got #growing

I was from such a large family that when I first met my wife, I told her: 'You can go work outside of the house and I'll stay home and continue making my cartoon strips. Maybe I'll make some commercials nearby, you know I'll do anything locally, but I would love to just stay at home and raise the kids like I did when I was growing up.' ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

#cartoon #commercials #continue #did #family

Higher education is not growing fast enough to meet the needs of Nevada. ↗

— James E. Rogers

#enough #fast #growing #higher #higher education

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is. ↗

— Kenny Rogers

#growing #old #older #perceived #upsetting

And our size: The company this year is going to be close to $50 billion, so if that's the case and you can continue to grow that fast, I would rather put my energies to solving customer problems and growing our business than worrying about integrating and laying people off. ↗

— Kevin Rollins

#billion #business #case #close #company

When I was growing up there was a product made by Sony called the Sony Walkman - a rage, everyone had to have one. Well, you don't hear about the Walkman anymore. ↗

— Kevin Rollins

#anymore #called #everyone #growing #growing up

On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of the time to abstraction from objects. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#actions #give #hand #individual #most

I'm a Conservative who believes in lower taxes. They lead to a more enterprising economy. But I'm not somebody who believes you can fund lower taxes by borrowing more money. ↗

— George Osborne

#borrowing #conservative #economy #enterprising #fund