A Quote by E. O. Wilson

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

E. O. Wilson

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Ardent Bug Did Grew Grow Grow Up Naturalist Never One Thing Out Period Thing Up

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E. O. Wilson
American - Scientist
Born: June 10, 1929

Every kid has a bug period... I never grew out of mine.

E. O. Wilson

Make your kids go out and play. Kids ought to grow up the way you and I grew up and we grew up fifty years apart or maybe more. But we did the same things. Now who's out playing in the afternoon? Nobody.

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Jody Williams

I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or something there on the beach. I was like a summer baby. But I did grow up in the South. I grew up in serious, serious Appalachia, in a very small town.

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I never really wanted to grow up. I grew up really young. I moved out when I was 13 - that's when I started acting.

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I did not grow up in poverty. But I did grow up with a poor boy's sense of longing, in my case not for what my family had never had, but for what we had had and lost.