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  • Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime short years before). The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Life Quotes , Growing Up Quotes
  • The kids that are different and out there and expressive and are bold with those choices, those are the people that grow up to be people we all want to hang out with, that become celebrities or become really successful in what they do because they believe in who they are.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adam Lambert Quotes , Growing Up Quotes , Believe Quotes
  • I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Al Franken Quotes , Jobs Quotes , Growing Up Quotes
  • Our contradictions. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves ill earning money, and then spend all our money on getting well again. We think so much about the future that we neglect the present, and thus experience neither the present nor the future. We live as if we were never going to die, and die as if we had never lived.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Growing Up Quotes , Get Well Quotes
  • I guess in my house when I was growing up, I was comfortable trying to be funny. And my dad, of course, it bugged him sometimes. He was trying to rest, and I was constantly trying to say something stupid to get a reaction. But I like doing these movies. You can do it in front of the camera and then it's over. I don't have to worry about being in front of too many people.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adam Sandler Quotes , Growing Up Quotes , Dad Quotes