Where You Grew Up Quotes

• It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Motivational, Birthday

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

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• I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying. Doing jumps and having races. And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all of those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Growing Up, Kids, Kissing

  "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky, (pp. 73-74), 1999.

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• When you move away from where you grew up, I think you tend to have even more pride of where you came from.

  Kristopher Belman

  Moving, Pride, Thinking

  "Before Being An NBA Superstar, LeBron Was Just 'Bron'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. October 14, 2009.

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• Where you grew up becomes a big part of who you are for the rest of your life. You can't run away from that. Well, sometimes the running away from it is what makes you who you are.

  Helen Mirren

  Running, Rest Of Your Life, Sometimes

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• Growing up is never straight forward.
  There are moments when everything is fine, and other moments where you realize that
  there are certain memories that you'll never get back, and certain people that are going to change, and the hardest part is knowing that
  there's nothing you can do except watch them.

  Alden Nowlan

  Growing Up, Memories, Knowing

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• No matter where you are or where you grow up, you always go through the same awkward moments of being a teenager and growing up and trying to figure out who you are.

  Aimee Teegarden

  Growing Up, Teenager, Awkward

  "Jackson Rathbone and Aimee Teegarden Interview AIM HIGH". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 17, 2011.

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• No matter what your current condition, how or where you grew up, or what education or training you feel you lack, you can be successful in your chosen endeavor. It is spirit, fortitude, and hardiness that matter more than where you start.

  Jack Ma

  Successful, Training, Resilience

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• You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Family, Children, Growing Up

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• When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much. A calendar that showed the wrong month. I could have cried over it. I did. Where the smoke from a chimney ended. How an overturned bottle rested at the edge of a table. I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Girl, Dog, Sadness

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think you get to a certain point in your life and where you grew up stops reminding you of when you grew up. Everything changes, everything metamorphosizes.

  El-P

  Thinking, Things Change, Grew Up

  Source: www.complex.com

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• So this is where you grew up. Did you like it here? I guess you couldn't have, if you wanted to leave.' CHRISTINA 'I liked some things and hated some things. And there were some things I didn't know I had until I lost them.' TRIS

  Veronica Roth

  You Like It, Grew Up, Lost

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• What I've found is that country doesn't refer to where you grew up as much as where your heart grows down, where it takes root. Country is a state of mind. I believe what ultimately defines being country is simple: a loving heart, a helping hand, an open mind, poor in spirit.

  Clay Walker

  Country, Believe, Heart

  Clay Walker (2013). “Jesus Was a Country Boy: Life Lessons on Faith, Fishing, and Forgiveness”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Broad access to opportunity is the key to a truly equitable America. No matter who you are or where you grew up, Black Faces in White Places provides a blueprint to seizing opportunities at hand - and expanding opportunity for your entire community.

  Angela Glover Blackwell

  Opportunity, Keys, Hands

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