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  • Bill Bryson When I was growing up I used to think that the best thing about coming from Des Moines was that it meant you didn't come from anywhere else in Iowa. By Iowa standards, Des Moines is a mecca of cosmopolitanism, a dynamic hub of wealth and education...
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Bobbie Ann Mason When I was growing up on our 53-acre dairy farm, we were obsessed with food; it was the center of our lives. We planted it, grew it, harvested it, peeled it, cooked it, served it, consumed it - endlessly, day after day, season after season.
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    American novelist and short story writer
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  • Bruce Springsteen When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Anthony Holden When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Bailee Madison When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.
    Bailee Madison
    American actress (1999 - )
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  • Washington Irving Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Abraham Lincoln You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • John Plomp You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Buddy Hackett You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it.
    Buddy Hackett
    American actor and comedian (1924 - 2003)
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  • Aristotle Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Erica Jong Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, 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 Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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