#rowing

Sometimes growing pains are by fits and starts. ↗

— Anne Northup

#growing #pains #sometimes #starts

My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had to study and work hard. ↗

— Coco Lee

#growing #growing up #had #hard #i

But our waking life, and our growing years, were for the most part spent in the kitchen, and until we married, or ran away, it was the common room we shared. ↗

— Laurie Lee

#common #growing #kitchen #life #married

You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith, is a good notion, but we're all partially different - it's no good imposing systems on people that it doesn't suit. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#class #democracy #different #faith #going

I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#england #glamour #going #growing #growing up

Growing up with three older brothers and being the youngest and the only girl, my mom always made me tough. She's taught me over the years how to be a strong, independent woman, how to carry yourself in a positive way and anything that my brothers can do, I can do. ↗

— Diana Lopez

#anything #being #brothers #carry #girl

My parents were very supportive when I was growing up and have been all the way through. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#growing #growing up #i #parents #supportive

The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual. ↗

— Finley Peter Dunne

#better #growing #just #turning #usual

There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#boy #growing #growing up #having #listen

When I was about nine, my siblings and I fell out of our moving van at an intersection. My dad didn’t notice for about five blocks. It was back before seat belts. It was also back before parents used any sort of common sense whatsoever. It was a time when you didn’t raise your children. You just fed them and they got bigger. ↗

— Dina Kucera

#growing-up #memoir #family