Songs About Growing Quotes

#1. I don't hide anything about my life, I talk about everything. I talk about it - all kinds of things. I've done songs about bad experiences, a couple about growing up in the ghetto and being abused, sexually. Being raped. And I talk about it.

Lady Saw

#2. I'm interested in people who become culturally fluent. And when I meet young people I'm often amazed they don't quite seem to have a sense of where they're from. They're like the citizens of the airport.

William Gibson

#3. We are obligated to be more scrupulous in fulfilling the commandment of charity than any other positive commandment because charity is the sign of a righteous man.

Maimonides

#4. John Travolta, who said, My Saturday night fever was nothing compared to my Sunday morning rash. Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#5. There are two things I like stiff and one of them's jelly.

Nellie Melba

#6. In the '60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protest song. There were songs about the civil rights movement, the women's rights movement, the antiwar movement. It wasn't just Bob Dylan, it was everybody at the time.

George Clooney

#7. I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.

Edmond De Goncourt

#8. Poems mesmerized me, and I felt better when I was writing them, or trying to - more in touch with something deep and dark within myself.

Edward Hirsch

#9. My grand point in preaching is to break the hard heart, and to heal the broken one.

John Newton