Outgrew Them Quotes

#1. We New Yorkers see more death and violence than most soldiers do, grow a thick chitin on our backs, grimace like a rat and learn to do a disappearing act. Long ago we outgrew the need to be blowhards about our masculinity; we leave that to the Alaskans and Texans, who have more time for it.

Edward Hoagland

#2. I never outgrew my conversion to atheism at 13, but at various times was a serious cultural Jew.

Steven Pinker

#3. Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be achieved by greater simplicity in form and behavior as by ever-increasing complexity.

Stephen Jay Gould

#4. I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what the Constitution is about.

Nancy Grace

#5. In those small towns you come to realize how the cathedrals utterly outgrew their whole environment.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#6. I think it's odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters. Up to now I always thought bickering was just something children did and that they outgrew it.

Anne Frank

#7. Outgrew the media ... The negativity felt like a disease.

Billy Connolly

#8. I am Peter Pan. He represents youth, childhood, never growing up, magic, flying.

Michael Jackson

#9. One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.

Orhan Pamuk

#10. You can ignore your heart and mind, but it will always find its way home.

Shannon L. Alder

#11. In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.

Daniel Clowes

#12. Lolly nods. Though when is the right time for that? I asked her for a new sports bra since I outgrew my last one and she looked at me as if I'd just asked her to buy me a pony.

Robin Epstein

#13. Anyones allowed to dream, I say

Delta Goodrem

#14. He grinned. "I knew you loved me, Tessa."

Tessa's cheeks reddened. "One more word, and I WILL have Morgan give you the consent lecture.

Emery Lord

#15. She loved historical novels in which women dressed as men and outgrew their limited opportunities. And

Nina George

#16. There comes a crossroads in every marriage where you grow together or grow apart. I outgrew Len. He wanted me to be in that leather jumpsuit for the rest of my life and do nothing else. He constrained me. It got to a point where the marriage died or I did.

Suzi Quatro

#17. Under my bed, my shoebox of shame, and when I felt anxious or lost I would pull it out and touch all of my socks. All loners. All waiting to be reunited with their twin. I eventually outgrew the shoebox ... and by that I mean there were too many socks.

Tarryn Fisher

#18. Everyone just outgrew me. Now I think I'm just haunting them.

John Corey Whaley

#19. She felt the dampness of her palms and wiped them on the back of her black cotton skirt.

Yiyun Li

#20. I don't say Valancy deliberately murdered these lovers as she outgrew them. One simply faded away as another came. Things are very convenient in this respect in Blue Castles.

L.M. Montgomery

#21. 1 day left, today 16 years old tomorrow 17 years old... Just one DAY!

Deyth Banger

#22. I used to have a pony but I outgrew it and I do dream that one day I will live in the country and have lots of horses and be like a proper English lady who goes hunting and everything.

Georgia Jagger

#23. To snap my fingers and let it go away. Even if it takes the 3,000th hit with it, just let it all go away.

Rafael Palmeiro

#24. When I was in college, for the games of that era, I was as hard core as anyone was. I wouldn't say I outgrew it, but you always have to have a finite number of addictions.

Bill Gates

#25. I never feel more alive than when I'm on stage. On film you feel chopped up, you can be acting from the neck up, or the hand, there is a lot of close up.

Kathleen Turner

#26. It is tradition in Ireland that you're given money for your first communion.

Roma Downey

#27. Claim what is yours. You belong any where on this Earth you want to.

Tina McElroy Ansa

#28. The only reason I'm friends with any of you is because I outgrew the von Trapps, one annoying Austrian at a time.

Lisa Mantchev