Oprah Winfrey Quotes, Daughter Quotes, Growing Up Quotes

I wasn't remembering the gift that God had given me. I had totally put all that aside. And my daughter was growing up before my eyes, and I just wanted to grab hold of that. It goes by so fast. I wanted to watch her. I wanted to be that parent - because at that point in time, I was a single parent. Watch her go to school, and when she got home, be there. I wanted that moment.

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I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic.

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Tags : Alan Ritchson Quotes , Growing Up Quotes , Book Quotes

Now it is the blood of Jesus which saves, and it is the same blood which cleanses and sanctifies; and as we had to come lo Jesus to be plunged into the fountain, so we have to abide in Jesus by fellowship, to grow up into Christlikeness.

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That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.

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Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

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Tags : Anne Frank Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Growing Up Quotes

... people are growing up in the slack flicker of a pale light which lacks the concentrated burn of a candle flame or oil wick or the bulb of a gooseneck desk lamp: a pale, wavering, oblong shimmer, emitting incessant noise, which is to real knowledge or discourse what the manic or weepy protestations of a drunk are to responsible speech. Drunks do have a way of holding an audience, though, and so does the shimmery ill-focused oblong screen.

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So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Growing Up Quotes , Expression Quotes

When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Growing Up Quotes

I don't know who I touch and who I don't. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don't have any secrets. I don't know the reasons I've been so well received.

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For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn't grow up being told that I was a disabled child.

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Tags : Aimee Mullins Quotes , Children Quotes , Growing Up Quotes

We can be better, we can be wiser, we can be more kind. Yes we have to change. We have to grow up and stop acting like 10 years old. Yes there is much to do, much to see, much to go into.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Growing Up Quotes , Years Quotes

You've got to be a Lakers fan growing up in L.A. with all these championships.

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I'd seen 'Interview with A Vampire' and saw Dracula movies growing up, but I never thought, 'I love vampires; I have to do a show about vampires.'

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Tags : Alan Ball Quotes , Growing Up Quotes , Vampire Quotes

Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Growing Up Quotes , People Quotes

Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Growing Up Quotes , Believe Quotes

Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.

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I'm kind of glad that I was able to properly grow up before becoming a massive movie star.

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I don't know the answer. Maybe no one knows. Maybe when you grow up, you'll be the first to find out.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Growing Up Quotes , Answers Quotes

Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben, I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about. I always woke up before the plane landed.

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When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Birthday Quotes , Growing Up Quotes