Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples.
Sometimes, when you were thinking about something, trying to understand it, it opened up in your head without you expecting it to, like it was a soft spongy light unfolding, and you understood, it mad...
I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
In my experience, growing up in Brooklyn and all that, the real tough guys didn't act tough. They didn't talk tough. They were tough, you know? I think about these politicians who try to pose as tough...
I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.
Anna is part of a generation that often seems frozen in place by their unreleting sense of irony. Virtually everything people believe in can be exposed as possessing laughable inconsistencies. And so...
I loved Superman growing up. I saw a couple of those movies in the theater, and I watched 'Superman II' 8000 times.
Just growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it's like no other place.
I was on the snowboard team at my school, but that was the only sports team I was on. I played soccer growing up in elementary school.
It struck her how sad it was that all of them had grown up on top of one another like small animals in a too-small cage, and now would simply scatter. And that would be the end of that. Everything tha...
Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.
Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.
My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had to study and work hard.
My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not...
That story you heard? About how we were all created by a super-powerful dude named God who lives up in the sky? Total bullshit. The whole God thing is actually an ancient fairy tale that people have b...
How do we teach a child--our own, or those in a classroom--to have compassion: to allow people to be different; to understand that like is not equal; to experiment; to laugh; to love; to accept the fa...
My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.
I never left because a part of me will always be in that house...
Tell your children the most important things To Be when they grow up, is to be kind and compassionate, to be loving and grateful, and to be happy and at peace with who they are, no matter of what they...
A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.