There needs to be more variety on television so young girls growing up don’t feel pressured to look one specific way. Tall, thin, curvy, short, whatever you are, you are beautiful.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Children learn about the nature of the world from their family. They learn about power and about justice, about peace and about compassion within the family. Whether we oppress or liberate our children in our relationships with them will determine whether they grow up to oppress and be oppressed or to liberate and be liberated.
Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!
I’m a strong supporter of comfort breeds complacency. Growing up poor I wasn’t comfortable, my mom had to work so hard and I woke up one day and decided I was not going to come home until I could help her pay the bills.
Values hold the team together, provide stability for the team to grow upon, measure the team’s performance, give direction and guidance and attract like-minded people.
Gospel music was the thing that inspired me as a child growing up on a cotton farm, where work was drudgery and it was so hard that when I was in the field I sang all the time. Usually gospel songs because they lifted me up above that black dirt.
My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.
I wasn’t aware that the world thought I was so weird and bizarre. But when you grow up, like I did, in front of 100 million people since the age of 5, you’re automatically different.
I am Peter Pan. He represents youth, childhood, never growing up, magic, flying.
Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet, but they are never lost for good.
You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.
Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author.
I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
Our children are the rock on which our future will be built, our greatest asset as a nation. They will be the leaders of our country, the creators of our national wealth, those who care for and protect our people.
Our children are the rock on which our future will be built, our greatest asset as a nation.
Through education comes understanding. Through understanding comes true appreciation. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once they grow up.
Don’t waste your youth growing up.
I played futsal growing up in Baurd. In futsal, you need to think quickly and play quickly, so it’s easier for you when you move to normal football.
I’ve grown up, everyone’s got to grow up. But there’s something inside me, I’m always going to have that little sort of – how do you say? – child streak.