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Growing Up Quotes & Sayings

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood. - Sir Peter B. Medawar


Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behaviour of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections? - Elizabeth Janeway


Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. - James Arthur Baldwin


Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, horoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms! - Erica Mann Jong


The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt. - Max Lerner


Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying. - Nikki Giovanni


Few great men could pass Personnel. [Growing Up Absurd] - Paul Goodman


The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up. - Evelyn Waugh


When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon on a riverbank we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major-league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish. - Dwight David Eisenhower

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