Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?
You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities.
I understand that absinthe makes the tart grow fonder.
People grow. It's okay to grow. Some people find that difficult to grasp.
The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.
My 'Movember' moustache was never going to be as big as Nigel Mansell's, but I tried my best. The amazing thing is that when you try to grow a moustache, you notice everyone else's. There are some amazing moustaches on the grid.
Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.
Could we grow faster? Yes. But I don't want to be the biggest. I want to be the best at what I do.
Many dogs grow up without rules or boundaries. They need exercise, discipline and affection in that order.
It's not about, 'Let me play as long as I can so I don't have to grow up.' It's about, 'Let me play as long as I enjoy it,' and when it's time to step away, I can step away gracefully even if I'm still good enough to keep playing, because I'm ready for that next phase.
Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today.
Already from your own cells scientists can grow skin, cartilage, noses, blood vessels, bladders and windpipes. In the future, scientists will grow more complex organs, like livers and kidneys. The phrase 'organ failure' will disappear.
There are times when we have to add resources to Apple, grow talent to do something that we weren't able to do before.
She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity.
I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.
The Asian nation's oil demand is expected to grow this year by 800,000 barrels per day and represents more than one-third of the total growth in global demand, according to the Energy Information Agency.
The economy in the Valley will need to grow if students want to come back and work with their specialized degrees. We need to develop more to create more opportunities.
Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.
I can't stay in L.A. too long or it starts to grow on me in a bad way.
I played cops and robbers and pirates and all the rest when I was a kid, but I didn't want to grow up and be an actor and play cops and robbers and pirates. I wanted to grow up and be that, be cops and robbers and pirates.
The story of Detroit's bankruptcy was simple enough: Allow capitalism to grow the city, campaign against income inequality, tax the job creators until they flee, increase government spending in order to boost employment, promise generous pension plans to keep people voting for failure. Rinse, wash and repeat.
As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.
If a rich person invests in a business, either directly or through stock purchases, it means business can grow and hire more people.
The Obama administration believes in experts and blue-ribbon panels. They believe in creating new agencies and boards. They believe in all that, but they just don't trust the entrepreneur's ability to grow her own business and to create jobs.
The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.
I actually just bought a ranch, and I'm going grow as much of my own foods - I've got thirty chickens, and I'm going to try to live as sustainably as possible.
Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.
Your parents would not be happy if you came home and said you wanted to grow up to be a chef or a rock star.
Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.
The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are reasonably free.
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
I'm not super nostalgic for friendships I've lost along the way. I feel like, if they were truly meaningful and really special, they would still exist. I think we grow and change, and that's okay.
Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.
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