Virginia Woolf Quotes

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

Virginia Woolf

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• Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents' then-illegal and interracial marriage.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Up
  • War
  • Parents

• Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Night

• Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.

  

  Jack Herer
  • Nature
  • Growing
  • Survival

• Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Small

• The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Children
  • Growing

• I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Life
  • Done
  • Feeling

• So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Up
  • Time
  • Father

• I haven't always been confident. I actually suffered with low self-esteem growing up. Eventually, I got to a point where I was just like, 'OK, this is taking too much energy.' After that, I started accepting myself for who I was, and I was like, whoever is not going to accept it, they weren't really meant to be in my life in that way.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Life
  • Up
  • Energy

• I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Growing
  • Like
  • Glamour

• People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Culture
  • You
  • Order

• If you are explaining, you are losing.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • You
  • Losing
  • Explaining

• I was a fan of T-Pain's music growing up. I bought 'Epiphany' and 'Rappa Ternt Sanga.'

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• In 1998, I self-published online in order to get a traditional deal.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Order
  • Deal
  • Traditional

• I have always had a dream to take part in an Olympic Games, and losing my leg didn't change anything.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Dream
  • Change
  • Losing

• You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Growing
  • Matter
  • Grandfather

• PepsiCo is a $63 billion company. Half the company is snacks, and half the company is beverages. We have a glorious snacks business and a glorious beverage business. We are extremely profitable. We are growing.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Business
  • Growing
  • Company

• I gained, I think, 65 pounds when I was pregnant. And I will say to moms out there, 'Don't stress about losing it. It will happen when it happens.'

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • Think
  • Stress
  • Losing

• I really love Scrabble. I played it with my mother growing up. We took it everywhere with us. We didn't know then about the two letter words. Who knew that AA, or more controversially, ZA, or QI were words? We were a games family generally.

  

  Meg Wolitzer
  • Up
  • Family
  • Mother

• The wish to acquire is in truth very natural and common, and men always do so when they can.but when they cannot do so, yet wish to do so by any means, then there is folly and blame.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Truth
  • Natural
  • Common

• I don't spend time thinking about an aesthetic out of which I create or an ideal toward which my body of work is heading. It's amazing, when I read interviews with other poets, to see how articulately they discuss their own writing, as if they were sharing long-held theories on the work of Pope or Keats. I'm happy enough that I've poured the best of myself into the poems themselves.

  

  Albert Goldbarth
  • Create
  • Poets
  • Interviews

• Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Growing
  • Order
  • Losing