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 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 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

• What I look for in a role is a woman who is important - not on the sidelines, not arm candy: women who do important things.

  

  Kylie Bunbury
  • Important
  • Women
  • Candy

• I was a technology reporter. And I think everybody who covers tech at some point or another feels like a little kid with their face pressed against the glass looking in at the candy shop and going, 'Wow, it looks so cool and so much fun.'

  

  Daniel Lyons
  • Fun
  • Technology
  • Cool

• Oh yeah, I don't eat a lot of candy on tour. When I get home, man, I love candy. Oh, man, and ice cream. I can't eat it on tour because of the sugar and my throat.

  

  Hayley Williams Paramore
  • Home
  • Candy

• Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Up
  • Think
  • Wise

• I did grow up watching Buck Rogers and Buck Rogers didn't stop at Mars. In my lifetime, I will be incredibly disappointed if we have not at least reached Mars.

  

  Charles Bolden
  • Stop
  • Grow Up
  • Mars

• As I get older every year, I'm eating better. As a kid, who can turn down chips and candy? But I'm getting better.

  

  Mike Trout
  • Years
  • Eating
  • Candy

• New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Me
  • Hard
  • New York

• 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