Amy Krouse Rosenthal Quotes

If you want to grow up to be a big, strong pea, you have to eat your candy," Papa Pea would say.

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

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• One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Up
  • Never
  • Period

• I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for a long time, and sadly, now I can never realize that. But I'd like to do comedy.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Time
  • Long
  • Movie

• I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Music
  • Love

• I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don't know what to tell them.

  

  Mackenzie Rosman
  • People
  • Up
  • Funny

• I wasn't allowed to have sugar as a kid. We didn't have candy or soda or anything, so Easter and Halloween were my favorite times 'cause I could eat as much candy as I wanted.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Kid
  • Candy
  • Halloween

• I had a lot of fun working with John Candy. We had a pretty good rapport.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Pretty

• My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • Up
  • Children
  • Father

• If your dad always has candy, how cool is he? Coolest dude in the world. My kids think I'm cool.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • World
  • Kids
  • Dad

• The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Up
  • World
  • Long

• I don't ever want to grow up. That's boring.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Up
  • Want
  • Grow

• The trials my father went through were things most young black males have to go through. There was nothing he shielded from me, because it doesn't matter how you grow up, those who oppress will oppress. It's all completely relatable; everyone feels NWA.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Up
  • Father
  • Black

• Whatever adults don't understand, because they didn't grow up with it, is the thing they're going to be afraid of and try to legislate out of existence. It happened with videogames, it happened with television, it happened with pinball parlours and rock and roll.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Grow

• We don't walk around wearing candy stuff all day or colorful stuff. It's like, I walk around wearing black.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Black
  • Day
  • Walk

• I'm not an eye-candy kind of girl.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Girl
  • Kind
  • Candy

• I think it's important not to grow up too fast. I'm 26 now, and I still can't wait for Christmas Day. The inner seven-year-old isn't buried too deeply in me.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • Up
  • Important
  • Day

• What is it to be normal, at 12, at 78? What is it like when you can't grow up?

  

  Karen Bender
  • Up
  • You
  • Grow

• I'm fishing for men with a certain kind of bait, and the bait that I am offering is not a candy; it's a very specific thing that I'm offering, which is a deep gospel and a deep conversion.

  

  Larry Norman
  • Men
  • Deep
  • Fishing

• Few men in their 70s looked as good as my father did. What was his secret? Genes, maybe, since he didn't exercise or diet, and he kept a candy drawer, drank a pot of black coffee every day, and read in the middle of the night. Still, he took such joy in being a dad - and in life in general - and his happiness showed.

  

  Jennifer Grant
  • Life
  • Good
  • Men

• To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can't see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Life
  • Great
  • God

• There are casting directors with lots of imagination, but also some with not as much imagination.

  

  Max von Sydow
  • Imagination

• Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Good
  • Dying
  • Here

• Strength and success- they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it.

  

  John Steinbeck
  • Success
  • Criticism

• If you want to grow up to be a big, strong pea, you have to eat your candy," Papa Pea would say.

  

  Amy Krouse Rosenthal
  • Candy
  • Grow Up
  • Pea