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

• In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Up
  • America
  • Boy

• 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

• I think the role of the Bond woman has changed so much over the years that it now doesn't follow a typical archetypical view. Before, it was very much a beautiful woman who didn't contribute much and who usually ended up getting killed or was arm candy for Bond. But now the women in a Bond movie have so much more to offer.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Up
  • Women
  • Movie

• 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

• After Cadbury, the candy company, separated from Dr. Pepper, the soft drinks maker, Cadbury was able to substantially lower its debt load. The profits of Cadbury, the candy company, zoomed.

  

  Nelson Peltz
  • Candy

• I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.

  

  Boris Vian

• There may often be excuse for doing things poorly in this world, but there is never any excuse for calling a poorly done thing, well done.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • Done
  • May

• The whole idea that vehicles in the future will communicate with each other is a really big deal. It's a big deal for safety... and it's an opportunity to engage the automobile in the work of ensuring collision avoidance.

  

  Anthony Foxx
  • Work
  • Future
  • Opportunity

• I think innovation as a discipline needs to go back and get rethought and revived. There are so many models to talk about innovation, there are so many typologies of innovation, and you have to find a good innovation metric that truly captures the innovation performance of a company.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Good
  • Discipline
  • Innovation

• 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