When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.
Tom Robbins
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"Alive.
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DEDRICK D. L. PITTER "Always love people for who they are, not for whom you like them to be." ~ Tom Baker
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GEORGE HALAS Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.
SOURCE UNKNOWN You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. -John Plomp.
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“What do you mean?”
“I mean, you tel...
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Mean nothing more than meow to an animal
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JOHN GREEN Now they have a riddle.
- Criminal Minds
DEYTH BANGER And what do they want!?
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JODIE SWEETIN You won't transfer, right Keiichi?"
-Rena Ryuugu
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COLIN TREVORROW When law can stop the blades of grass from growing as they grow;
And when the leaves in Summer-tim...
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AUNG SAN SUU KYI Learn from seeds; they don’t die when you throw dirt at them; they grow.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO All round me are words, and words and words,
They grow on me like leaves, they never
Seem ...
KAMALA SURAIYYA DAS I used to have acne when I was a kid growing up. You can imagine how serious that was in making you ...
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OLASOT I had to stop traveling alone because I missed so many planes. When somebody runs up to you in the a...
IYANLA VANZANT I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.
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ELISABETH FOLEY The deadline is set and they think I am their pet.
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HRITHIK ROSHAN Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.
RUSSELL BAKER The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop
MARK TWAIN The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
MARK TWAIN I'm trying to adapt - they say you have to adapt to vertigo.
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TOM ROBBINS The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook th...
TOM ROBBINS Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.
TOM ROBBINS Alas, Gulietta, this was an American frog of the last quarter of the twentieth century, a time when ...
TOM ROBBINS There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this...
TOM ROBBINS Conversation between a princess and an outlaw:
"If I stand for fairy-tale balls and dragon bai...
TOM ROBBINS There are landscapes in which we feel above us not sky but space. Something larger, deeper than sky ...
TOM ROBBINS If you believe in peace, act peacefully; if you believe in love, acting lovingly; if you believe eve...
TOM ROBBINS Now tequila may be the favored beverage of outlaws but that doesn't mean it gives them preferential ...
TOM ROBBINS But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for...
TOM ROBBINS But do we know how to make love stay?'
I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play i...
TOM ROBBINS Disorder is inherent in stability. Civilized man doesn't understand stability. He's confused it with...
TOM ROBBINS I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know.
TOM ROBBINS At the typewriter you find out who you are.
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