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• I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  War, People, Baltimore

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• During the four days of the storm, I became accustomed to the soft light of lamps and candles and grew to like it. When the power came on again, I discovered that I was actually disappointed. The electric lights seemed cold and impersonal; they revealed too much.

  Damon Knight

  Light, Storm, Lamps

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• I grew up in northern California in a town called Fairfield, which is kind of exactly between San Francisco and Sacramento, a small suburb. And I'm the youngest of five children.

  Tracy K. Smith

  Children, California, San Francisco

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• And on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant.

  John Milton

  Life, Tree, Middle

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 192

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• He it was that first gave to the law the air of a science. He found it a skeleton, and clothed it with life, color, and complexion: he embraced the old statue, and by his touch it grew into youth, health, and beauty.

  Barry Yelverton, 1st Viscount Avonmore

  Life, Science, Law

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• Christian children all must be Mild, obedient, good as He. . . . . For He is our childhood's pattern, Day by day like us He grew, He was little, weak, and helpless, Tears and smiles like us He knew; And He feeleth for our sadness, And He shareth in our gladness.

  Cecil Frances Alexander

  Christian, Children, Sadness

  Cecil Frances Alexander, “Once in Royal David's City”

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• It is quite easy for me to think of a God of love mainly because I grew up in a family where love was central and where lovely relationships were ever present.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Thinking, Easy

  Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.359, Univ of California Press

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• Nature is flexible and resilient. Nature likes redundancy and dispersion. It is approximate and deals in gradients. All boundaries are permeable. Nature nests small systems like molecules within larger systems like cells, which in turn are nested in systems called organs, organisms, ecosystems. We grew from ancient one-celled ancestors. Nature likes mergers: we contain multitudes of other life forms within us. We stand at the crest of four billion years, bacteria molded into wondrous form, burning with a slow fire and about to take the next step.

  Robert Frenay

  Nature, Ecosystems, Fire

  Robert Frenay (2006). “Pulse: The Coming Age of Systems and Machines Inspired by Living Things”, p.32, Macmillan

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• The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew: The conscious stone to beauty grew.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Christian, Rome

  "The Problem" l. 19 (1847)

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• In form and feature, face and limb, I grew so like my brother That folks got taking me for him And each for one another. For one of us was born a twin And not a soul knew which. . . .

  Henry Sambrooke Leigh

  Brother, Soul, Faces

  Henry Sambrooke Leigh (1869). “Carols of Cockayne”, p.9

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• I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Sky, Important

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• During this Christmas season, when the world seems to be in turmoil, wars are breaking out in different places, crime is rampant, and many things are happening that are great sins in the sight of God. But in that crib is the person who grew up to save us. And He did.

  Billy Graham

  Christmas, War, Sight

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  Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the worst from a pride in mere talent.

  Diego Rivera

  Pride, Thinking, Done

  Diego Rivera, with Gladys March (2012). “My Art, My Life: An Autobiography”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• I grew up in a home where animals were ever-present and often dominated our lives. There were always horses, dogs, and cats, as well as a revolving infirmary of injured wildlife being nursed by my sister the aspiring vet. Without any conscious intention on my part, animals come to play a significant role in my fiction: in Three Junes, a parrot and a pack of collies; in The Whole World Over, a bulldog named The Bruce. To dog lovers, by the way, I recommend My Dog Tulip by J. R. Ackerley -- by far the best 'animal book' I've ever read.

  Julia Glass

  Dog, Horse, Book

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• I grew up in Ohio, and I was a musicologist since I was little; it is all that I would ever read.

  Nina Blackwood

  Ohio, Littles, Grew Up

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• When I was very young, most of my childhood heroes wore capes, flew through the air, or picked up buildings with one arm. They were spectacular and got a lot of attention. But as I grew, my heroes changed, so that now I can honestly say that anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Hero, Air

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• Basically, as a kid I grew up to a lot of good music, and part of my appreciation for music, from being a small child, was appreciating Jamaican music.

  Adrian Young

  Appreciation, Children, Kids

  "No Doubt's Adrian Young gets irie with a reggae mix". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. October 2, 2012.

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• I conceived, developed and applied in many areas a new geometry of nature, which finds order in chaotic shapes and processes. It grew without a name until 1975, when I coined a new word to denote it, fractal geometry, from the Latin word for irregular and broken up, fractus. Today you might say that, until fractal geometry became organized, my life had followed a fractal orbit.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Latin, Order, Names

  "Encyclopedia of World Biography" edited by Thomson Gale, 1997.

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• I grew up with too much freedom. You can't define yourself.

  Moon Unit Zappa

  Too Much, Grew Up, Define Yourself

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• I grew up like Athena — covered with playing cards instead of armor — and, at the age of seven, materialized on a TV show, doing magic.

  Ricky Jay

  Tv Shows, Magic, Age

  "Secrets of the Magus" by Mark Singer, www.newyorker.com. April 5, 1993.

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• You grew up way too fast and now there's nothing to believe; and re-runs all become our history.

  John Rzeznik

  Life, Running, Believe

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• From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Feelings, Slavery, Abandonment

  Henry Charles Carey (1859). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.365

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• Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.

  Ben Stiller

  Parent, Comedian, Directors

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• Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching.

  Trofim Lysenko

  Philosophy, Teaching, Development

  Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (1948). “Soviet Biology: Report to the Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences”

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• I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you're in television, you're lying because you're just pretending to be yourself much like I'm doing now.

  John Ritter

  Being Yourself, Liars, Lying

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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