Growing up Quotes · Page 101

I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the…

— Yo-Yo Ma

When I was growing up, I had friends that were there my entire life. You didn't really get a chance to discover…

— Bridget Everett

Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.

— C. S. Lewis

When I was growing up, I was watching fairly standard American cinema.

— Andrew Haigh

There was a period of time when I studied ballet a lot when I was growing up.

— India Eisley

For me, I love Marc Anthony a lot. He's one of my dad's favorite artists, and I listened to him a lot…

— Lauren Jauregui

It's essential that a part of you not grow up. Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty.

— Robin Quivers

I like to say I listened to three genres of music growing up: classical, jazz and Taylor Swift.

— Laufey

Growing up as a kid, I watched Jeremy Shockey... Tony Gonzalez... Antonio Gates. I looked up to them. I watched what they…

— Rob Gronkowski

Growing up in England, people told you why you couldn't do things. Suddenly, I had a publisher banging on my door, and…

— Nick Bantock

Musicals are made of several climaxes that keep growing and growing; when you think it's over, it still continues growing up in…

— Alexandre Desplat

A lot of times I tend to think back to me having nothing, growing up in an area where I didn't know…

— DeSean Jackson

Growing up, I was always adamant that I would never do 'Home and Away' or 'Neighbours,' because as an actor you want…

— Brenton Thwaites

I always loved science and math growing up. I was born in Iran; I grew up there and then came to the…

— Anousheh Ansari

What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith…

— Rick Perry

It [space] was just so incredibly adventurous and exciting to me. I just thought there was no doubt in my mind that…

— Rick Husband

I remember at 16 years old, growing up in Queens, we were punks, but hey, when we went to the theater, we…

— James Caan

It's really the story of a young woman, or two women, growing up in Naples in a poor neighborhood. The way that…

— Ann Goldstein

I think it happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then…

— Anonymous

Normal people, who grow up with compassion, never amount to anything. They're the ones who end up gluing those little dots on…

— Christopher Titus

When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates' parents also speak it, and you go home…

— Sonia Sotomayor

My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor single mother in…

— Cory Booker

My parents preached so much about Christianity and my mother thinks Jesus is the best thing that ever happened to the world…

— Cyhi the Prynce

My Mom played violin and piano when she was growing up and she insisted, and I don't know if you can imagine…

— Sean Mackin

I played videogames growing up, but my parents really monitored how much I was playing.

— J. J. Redick

I asked him,What do you wanted to be?, and the kid replied, I want to grow.

— Jemelito Constantino & Bernardo Ebuna

Growing up, I never thought that I would fall into any category. I felt like I didn't fit in anywhere.

— Liz Carmouche

Emotionally, shows like 'Cheers' and 'Taxi' were classic sitcoms when I was growing up.

— Dan Harmon

While growing up, I used to sleep at 8 P.M. and get up at 4 A.M. to study.

— Kartik Aaryan

I never had a lot of friends growing up so having this insane amount of love and support really means a lot…

— Melanie Martinez

My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get.

— Laurie Metcalf

Growing up, I was so compelled by artists whose looks were inseparable from their music. Bjork was my hero.

— Caroline Polachek

I love asking kids what they want to be when they grow up, because I am still looking for ideas.

— Anonymous

You realize your childhood is over when... you take a nap on the couch and wake up on the couch.

— Adrian P

The opportunity I had growing up in Montana isn't the opportunities for a whole lot of people.

— Steve Bullock

Growing up, I held back a lot in fear of looking silly or thinking I wouldn't make it.

— Gemma Atkinson

I didn't enjoy growing up. I was lonely. That's probably my base level to feel like that.

— Andrew Haigh

I think I felt like a regular kid. Growing up in New York, I never felt I was a big deal.

— Katharine Weymouth

“Then, as Father had trained him, Rigg thought past his feelings.”

— Orson Scott Card

I did grow up in a household in which I felt that to be myself was to damage the people I loved.

— Andrew Solomon