Where You Grew Up Quotes

• 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.

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  Jack Ma

  Successful   Training   Resilience  

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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.

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  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.

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  El-P

  Thinking   Things Change   Grew Up  

  Source: www.complex.com

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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.

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  P. J. O'Rourke

  Family   Children   Growing Up  

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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.

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

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  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational   Motivational   Birthday  

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

  2010

• 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.

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  Alden Nowlan

  Growing Up   Memories   Knowing  

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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.

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  Helen Mirren

  Running   Rest Of Your Life   Sometimes  

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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.

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  Angela Glover Blackwell

  Opportunity   Keys   Hands  

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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.

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  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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• 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.

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  Stephen Chbosky

  Growing Up   Kids   Kissing  

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

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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

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  Veronica Roth

  You Like It   Grew Up   Lost  

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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.

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  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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