Christina Stead Quotes

A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not.

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• Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

  

  Mae West
  • Doing
  • Anything
  • Worth

• You could be worth $2 billion today and a half a billion tomorrow. It doesn't take much for this to disappear overnight.

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • Today
  • Tomorrow
  • Worth

• I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Money
  • Something
  • Worth

• 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 will just generalise it that anything that I find too disgusting is not worth an answer.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Find
  • Answer
  • Worth

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

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Up
  • America
  • Boy

• Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Education
  • Reading
  • Worth

• A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Songs
  • Worth
  • Heartbreak

• Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Nothing
  • Will
  • Worth

• Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Worth
  • Shooting
  • Dope

• 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

• 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

• All the things worth writing about are outside me. I'm a lens, not a source. And even if it's not always a comfortable journey, it's always a stimulating one.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Journey
  • Comfortable
  • Source

• 17 is the weirdest age, because you can't figure out if you want to grow up or be a child.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Up
  • Age
  • Child

• Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • You
  • Never
  • Worth

• When I was growing up in New York, we were the anomaly. Our family stayed, but back then families didn't stay. Once you had a second kid, you immediately left, so the kids could run around outside.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Grow Up

• I think in the industry we're in and the type of audience we have, we're never going to escape the idea of being young. Which I don't mind myself. I mean, who wants to grow up anyway? I don't want to grow up.

  

  Liam Payne One Direction
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Audience

• For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.

  

  Quintilian
  • Man
  • Dumb
  • Neighbor

• I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing.

  

  Alan Ladd
  • Wish

• I love Bethnal Green and where I'm from. Nothing there, especially the people, ever held me back, but I never felt that I was successful there.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • People
  • Love
  • Green

• Nearly every moment of every day, we have the opportunity to give something to someone else - our time, our love, our resources.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Time
  • Love
  • Opportunity

• A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not.

  

  Christina Stead
  • Worth
  • Grow Up
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