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«The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise»
Author: Alden Nowlan
| About:
Growing up
| Keywords:
adolescent, adolescents, adult, forgives, imperfect, realizes
«We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves»
Author: May Lamberton Becker
| About:
Growing up
«We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.»
Author: Zelda Fitzgerald
| About:
Advertising,
America and Americans,
Growing up
| Keywords:
complexions, founding, mail, mud
«We've had bad luck with children; they've all grown up»
Author: Christopher Morley
| About:
Children,
Growing up,
Growth,
Luck
| Keywords:
bad luck, Grown up
«When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.»
Author: Diane Arbus
(Photographer)
| About:
Adulthood,
Growing up,
Mothers
| Keywords:
catch cold, rubbers
«You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Doing Your Best,
Growing up
| Keywords:
grandfather, grandfathers, tall
«The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.»
«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.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Growing up
| Keywords:
Cicero, forgetful, Libraries, meek
«When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Growing up
| Keywords:
estate, meddle, meddle with, toys
«Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won't do that.»
Author: Walt Disney
(Producer)
| About:
Adulthood,
Age,
Elderly,
Growing up,
People
| Keywords:
inferiors, patronize, patronized, patronizes, patronizing
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