Children Growing Up Quotes - Page 3

• The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  William P. Young

  Children, Healing, Healed You

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• As I look back on it now, I'm thinking of one very vital factor, that one factor being that I was afforded the luxury - the luxurious opportunity - of finally being able to put something back. As a child growing up, it was his [Frank Sinatra] efforts that put a roof over my head, food in my stomach, clothes on my back, and that got me an education and sent me to the doctor when I was sick. All those things a child could benefit from parent. I did not want to be in a position where all I had ever done was take, take, take, frankly.

  Frank Sinatra, Jr.

  Children, Growing Up, Opportunity

  "A recent interview with Frank Sinatra Jr., who died this week". Interview with Mike Holtzclaw, www.dailypress.com. March 17, 2016.

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• I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing up in India is all around you.And I think one of the gifts it gave me as a writer was this early knowledge that stories are not true.

  Salman Rushdie

  Falling In Love, Children, Growing Up

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Is there someone who passively watches his children growing up? We constantly and maximally invest ourselves into our children to realize our vision of happiness. But not for us - for those children. It's not enough that we molest ourselves, so we have to molest the children as well.

  Ruben Papian

  Happiness, Children, Growing Up

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• Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

  Chili Davis

  Love, Happy Birthday, Happiness

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• Encourage free schools and resolve that not one dollar appropriated for their support shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian schools. Resolve that neither the state nor nation, nor both combined, shall support institutions of learning other than those sufficient to afford every child growing up in the land of opportunity of a good common school education, unmixed with sectarian, pagan, or atheistical dogmas. Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church and the private school supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Children, Growing Up, School

  Speech to the Society of the Army of Tennessee, archive.org. 1875.

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• As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes watching a bunch of sari-clad dancers cavorting on a Swiss mountain to tuneless music, I would switch over to some proper drama about housing estates and single mothers.

  Simon Beaufoy

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

  "Life on the hard shoulder" by Simon Beaufoy, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2008.

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• We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

  Christopher Morley

  Birthday, Children, Kids

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• I was an only child. Growing up, we moved a lot, so I didn't have any close friends. So the animals I was around as a child - dogs, cats, and horses, and stuffed animals - became my family and friends. The only strong bonds I made as a child were with animals.

  William McNamara

  Dog, Strong, Horse

  "Animal Activist and Star of Copycat William McNamara: On Killing Dolphins and Eating Sushi". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• With the right support, a child growing up in a dysfunctional household, who was destined for a lifetime on benefits could be put on an entirely different track - one which sees them move into fulfilling and sustainable work. In doing so, they will pull themselves out of poverty.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Growing Up, Children, Moving

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• At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything.

  Alice Walker

  Country, Children, Growing Up

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• My first memory as a child growing up is of playing in the gardens, the mosque is really a gigantic garden, probably the biggest in all of East Jerusalem. Our house was about 100 meters from the mosque.

  Rula Jebreal

  Children, Growing Up, Memories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Children

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• I was a very quiet child growing up. I always knew that I was funny - I just never put it to use.

  Spoken Reasons

  Children, Growing Up, Use

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• As an African American child growing up in the segregated South, I was told, one way or another, almost every day of my life, that I wasn't as good as a white child.

  Coretta Scott King

  Children, Growing Up, White

  "Congressional Gold Medal". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 12, 2004.

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