Brushing my little teeth every morning of my childhood, I stood on my tippy toes, leaned over the sink and said to myself that when I am a big girl I will see from this high.Today I did the same thing...
I don't like being with grown-up people. I've known that a long time. I don't like it because I don't know how to get on with them.
One day ask your daughter the kind of mother she wants to be! One day ask your son the kind of father he wants to be! One day ask yourself the kind of parent you have been! And one day, ask yourself h...
As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.
Selena was born in a generation that had grown up on the edge. She’d grown up knowing that the little child starlet who voiced Anne-Marie on 'All Dogs Go to Heaven', Judith Barsi, had been murdered an...
You know, people ask me. They say 'Dan, three years later do you really want to be drawing cat whiskers on your face?' but they don't understand. The cat whiskers, they come from within.
Yes, you're right. It's part of growing up, I suppose. You always have to leave something behind you.ü
As long as Nelson was socked into baseball statistics or that guitar or even the rock records that threaded their sound through all the fibers of the house, his occupation of the room down the hall wa...
I didn't grow up in a Norman Rockwell house... my house was more akin to Norman Lear.
The only pressure I agree to, is my conscious and not peer pressure.
At what point in your life do you say I have had enough... money, food, clothes, these possessions that we keep killing one another for even power and dominance? One advice, look at your age and decla...
The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter
Do you ever plan to grow up, Veltan? he asked.Not if I can avoid it, no.
Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-you...
Growing up is the greatest adventure of all.
Candy. He spoke of candy. Was he still in the child's world where candy stood for something sweet enough to hold back tears? I had grown older, and had lost enthusiasm for childish delights. I wanted...
I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.
You can hide things from the world, but you can never hide things from time.
As we grow up we learn that even the person that wasn't supposed to ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it gets harder every time. You'll break...
Every single person is vulnerable to unexpected defeat in this inmost emotional self. At every moment, behind the most efficient seeming adult exterior, the whole world of the person's childhood is be...