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~ Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
~ ~ Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~ ~ Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~ ~ Every gay and lesbian person who has been lucky enough to survive the turmoil of growing up is a survivor. Survivors always have an obligation to those who will face the same challenges. ~ ~ You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. ~ ~ You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. ~ ~ You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going. ~ ~ The trick is growing up without growing old. ~ ~ I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences. ~ ~ Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star. We had no idea that other people would think we were special, because there was no other lifestyle to compare it to. ~ ~ Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do. ~ ~ Don't waste your youth growing up. ~ ~ You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going. ~ ~ Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples. ~ ~ If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again. ~ ~ Growing up is a process, not an event. ~ ~ Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional. ~ ~ If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again. ~ ~ A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers. ~ ~ It started off as a hobby. I was never one to do much fishing and hunting. On occasion I did. I was mostly a homebody with a fairy tale marriage. To tell you the truth I was an egghead growing up. I was a bookworm. I kept my head in books, a sort of introverted type person. ~ ~ It comes of being by yourself when you are growing up, because you`re reading and you`re forming an opinion, and there`s no-one to argue with you, so you become dogmatic. There`s no-one to temper your opinion, so you think you`re right. ~ ~ I believe in humanity. We are an incredible species. We're still just a child creature, we're still being nasty to each other. And all children go through those phases. We're growing up, we're moving into adolescence now. When we grow up - man, we're going to be something! ~ ~ If we believe the psychiatrists, a sign of a future serial killer is a child who delights in torturing and killing animals. George W. [Bush], as a child, did exactly that. In a May 21, 2000, New York Times puff piece about the values Bush gained growing up in Midland, Texas, Nicholas D. Kristof quoted Bushs childhood friend Terry Throckmorton: 'We were terrible to animals, recalled Mr. Throckmorton, laughing. A dip behind the Bush home turned into a small lake after a good rain, and thousands of frogs would come out. Everybody would get BB guns and shoot them, Mr. Throckmorton said. Or we would put firecrackers in the frogs and throw them and blow them up. ~ ~ Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me. ~
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