Top 24 One Day When My Children Are Grown Quotes
#1. The question is never 'who am I?' It's 'who do I want to be?
Dianna Hardy
#2. I think I always knew I would be a writer some day, but it wasn't until I was grown and had children of my own that I turned to telling Native American stories.
Joseph Bruchac
#3. Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart it don't mean a thing.
Toni Morrison
#5. Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#6. A total commitment to anxiously serve the Lord and others is the surest way to overcome temptations of the adversary.
James M. Paramore
#7. There are very few high-quality garments being produced at all. A very, very, very small amount. So small that most people never even see it in their lifetimes. People are wearing rags, basically.
Elizabeth Cline
#8. You folks feeling the economic pinch? Are you a little fed up with the economic news? It's bad. The department stores, this holiday season, no Santa Claus. They're laying off department-store Santa Clauses. So more bad news for John McCain.
David Letterman
#9. Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index.
Julie Burchill
#10. I love England. I live and work here. My children have grown up here. I see no conflict between this and praying that my countrymen in Scotland never have to live another day under Conservative rule from London.
John Niven
#11. Meditation doesn't lead to enlightenment because in meditation the ego is trying to destroy the ego.
Donald O'Donovan
#12. On Spaceship Earth there are no passengers; everybody is a member of the crew. We have moved into an age in which everybody's activities affect everybody else.
Marshall McLuhan
#13. THERE WAS A TIME"
"There was a time, everything was fine.
You got drunk on the day like it was wine.
And all the children,
They put flowers in their hair.
And all the grown-ups,
They put daggers there instead.
Marc Bolan
#15. People are weak when they are alone. (Haruki Murakami)
Haruki Murakami
#17. Imagine you're so far away no matter what you do, no matter what you say, you couldn't stop the world for a moment.
Tegan Quin
#18. Perhaps all grown-ups were just children carefully putting on their grown-up disguises each day and then acting accordingly.
Liane Moriarty
#19. Because people who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they'd never admit in normal conversation. It's a way for people to be honest without telling the truth.
Chuck Klosterman
#20. A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#21. Sergeant Colon owed thirty years of happy marriage to the fact that Mrs. Colon worked all day and Sargent Colon worked all night. They communicated by means of notes. They had three grown-up children, all born, Vimes had assumed, as a result of extremely persuasive handwriting.
Terry Pratchett
#22. In those minutes, he pretended that they were his parents, and he was home for the weekend from law school to visit them, and this was his room, and the next day he would get up and do whatever it was that grown children did with their parents.
Hanya Yanagihara
#23. We might as well get started. Help to pass the timey-wimey. Do you have to talk like children? What is it that makes you so ashamed of being a grown-up? Oh. The way you both look at me. I'm trying to think of a better word than dread.
Warrior Doctor
#24. O men, grown sick with toil and care, Leave for awhile the crowded mart; O women, sinking with despair, Weary of limb and faint of heart, Forget your years to-day and come As children back to childhood's house.
Phoebe Cary
