#growing

If only you could have witnessed how much I have changed: sit alone in a disused theatre and feel what I have felt, see how the world has transformed me, like the metamorphosis of a caterpillar. ↗

— Kiera Woodhull

#growing-up #independence #poetry #change

Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life. To learn something new is a timeless pleasure and a valuable treasure. And not all things that you learn are taught to you, but many things that you learn you realize you have taught yourself. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#growing #growth #inspirational #inspirational-quotes #inspiring

My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#growing-up #love #mothers #beauty

With this realization, came a growing need for men and women willing to take up arms in an effort to protect our American way of life and the freedoms so many of our ancestors died to entrench. ↗

— Jim Walsh

#american way #ancestors #arms #came #died

Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble. ↗

— Bobby Orr

#corners #doing #god #growing #growing up

I'm 36 years old, and I'm growing up. Little by little. ↗

— Elena Anaya

#growing up #i #little #old #up

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. ↗

— Dorothy Allison

#books #growing #growing up #horror #i

I'm doing a film now with a lot of guys as well, so at the end of that I will be growing a beard. ↗

— Keira Knightley

#doing #end #film #growing #guys

I did gymnastics when I was growing up and to this day I can still do the splits. ↗