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  • Barbara Kingsolver It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Bel Powley It sounds so negative of me to say, but I don't feel like there were many coming-of-age films when I was growing up. I think that when I was a teenager, I felt really misrepresented in the teenage roles that I was watching onscreen. Especially in women.
    Bel Powley
    English actress (1992 - )
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  • Anne Sullivan It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.
    Anne Sullivan
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Hector Hugh Munro It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.
    Hector Hugh Munro
    British Novelist, Writer (1870 - 1916)
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  • Calista Flockhart It's so funny how my name has always been such a big deal. When I was growing up, my family was always moving. I had to meet new people all the time. And they'd laugh.
    Calista Flockhart
    American actress (1964 - )
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  • Benjamin Cardozo Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.
    Lecture at Yale University Law School (1923)
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Charles Dickens Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Let's not spend resources that we don't need to be sending astronauts back to the moon. Let's not spend expensive resources on bringing people who have reached Mars back again. Prepare them to become a growing colony.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Caroline Lawrence Like every child growing up in America, I read 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'Huckleberry Finn.' I liked them well enough, but I didn't love them.
    Caroline Lawrence
    English American author (1954 - )
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  • James Baldwin 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.
    Nobody Knows My Name (1961)
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • B. C. Forbes Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit, they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed dignity to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulnesss of spirit is the twin brother of optimism, and optimism is the stuff of which American business success is fashioned. Resist growing up!
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Brenda Song My dad loves to cook. I'm half Thai, and growing up, that's all we ate in my house. My dad was very big on the idea that dinnertime and cooking time was also family time.
    Brenda Song
    American actress (1988 - )
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  • Beverly Sills My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.
    Beverly Sills
    American operatic soprano (1929 - 2007)
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  • Bobby McFerrin My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up.
    Bobby McFerrin
    American jazz vocalist (1950 - )
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  • Bob Menendez My first priority is growing this economy in the long term, and stimulating it in the short term.
    Bob Menendez
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Bode Miller My mom played the recorder. But not having electricity, we had minimal exposure to music. As I got a little older, we had Walkmans and things that were battery-powered, but it would have been nice to be growing up in the iPod era. A tape only has six songs on a side.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Albert Claude No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Minor White No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Once you start drinking a little of meditativeness, a little of love, you start growing wings.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Bill Ford One of the things I've had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and other companies for most of my life, is seeing how CEOs start to believe in their own infallibility. And that really scares me.
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