Dear God, " she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry..have too much to eat. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>Let me...
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Betty Smith
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. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up...
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Stephen Chbosky
Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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Virginia Woolf
I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another. It's been going on for quite some time now, without me knowing it. I've found that growing up can mean a lot of things. For...
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Taylor Swift
I've screwed everything up royally. I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.
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Cassandra Clare
More Quotes By Frances Mayes
..we all do it. We talk about people we don't like until they become famous. Then we love 'em.
Big don't mean ugly, and thin sho don't mean pretty. If a person wants to be pretty, they gotta walk pretty, talk pretty and act pretty. Can't nobody take pretty from you.
The pain of what happened next lives in our collective memory. It mauls our souls each day. Yet it must be told. Silence guarantees no healing. It promises that the child's life would be forgotten and that its mission might, one day, be thought significant....
The power of speech does not rely upon meaning. Words carry energy all by themselves. They vibrate through the air, with the intention of the speaker, shaping consciousness and touching hearts whether understood or not.
You can't lie a lifetime, son. Either you gon' tell the truth, or the truth's gon' tell on you
