Growing up Quotes · Page 103

There are so many stereotypes of how you have to be as a black man, growing up in the community as a…

— Ashton Sanders

“To make this world a whole lot brighter, when I grow up I'll be a writer.”

— Lee Bennett Hopkins

I've been in a lot of unfavourable situations growing up, so I know what it's like to need help.

— Tyrone Mings

When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.

— Ethan Zuckerman

I know when I was growing up, I was always lost and just thought I was alone and that I needed to…

— Amber Liu

I don't think I'd have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I'd known the whole thing was going to…

— Bill Watterson

“When Uncle W. G. held out his hand to take my money, I dropped the dead mouse in his hand.”

— Earl B. Russell

I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment.

— Frank Zappa

Sara: "You are so brave," I tell her, and then I smile. "When I grow up, I want to be just like…

— Jodi Picoult

Growing up as a kid, we moved all over the country on a fairly frequent basis, from New Jersey to Texas, California,…

— J. Michael Straczynski

When growing up, there were never any conversations about the past, because if you don't ask the questions, you never get the…

— Dervla Kirwan

I never had any hang-ups about sex. As for being sexually repressed, nothing could be further from the truth. There are more…

— Mary Whitehouse

Remember that your ultimate goal is for your children to grow up secure in your love, strong in their faith, and with…

— Gary Chapman

Family is funny, and so it was not an unnatural thing for me, growing up, not to know anything about my dad…

— Courtney B. Vance

Growing up in the greater Toronto area, I was a happy kid. I was my mother's first child, surrounded by admiring godparents…

— Winnie Harlow

I'm surrounded by music; I always was when I was growing up and continue to be. And I love music. And when…

— Lorrie Moore

I'm quite interested in what words can be, if it's very few words, and it's a kind of club track but it…

— Alexis Taylor

In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a…

— Salman Rushdie

My parents sent me to a school across town, an integrated school, where I had the chance to meet and grow up…

— Isabel Wilkerson

The word ‘philanthropy’ brings up an image of somebody who’s had an illustrious career, has retired and is giving to highly established…

— Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Of course some people manage to write books really young and publish really young. But for most writers, it takes several years…

— Cheryl Strayed

I'm working on a novel about a girl who grows up in the circus and her relationship with her father, who grew…

— Liza Campbell

My being Indian is possibly the biggest thing that influences my stories. Not just in terms of settings - most of the…

— Vandana Singh

I like that in 'Caprica' the virtual world is a new thing. The parents didn't have that growing up. And it's the…

— Magda Apanowicz

Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas

— Paula Poundstone

I think society had to grow up to the mentality of Peter Norman.

— John Carlos

Growing up raising three boys on your own is either gonna make you strong or make you crazy. It definitely made my…

— Rasheed Wallace

Growing up, dad coached my footy and cricket teams, but that's all he could do for me.

— Adam Elliott

Why can't we just be nice? It's like, we grow up, and then we get right back into high school.

— Jennifer Lawrence

Growing up with three boys in a heavily male-dominated world, I especially needed to express myself as a woman.

— Elisabeth Shue

When I was growing up, there were a lot more arts in the public schools. Politically, America has screwed up on that.

— Julie Taymor

I played all sports growing up. Baseball was always my favorite, though.

— Sean Doolittle

Maybe there's less oppression growing up in a small village, and fewer rules, and less danger.

— Luke Treadaway

I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director.

— Robert Carlyle

You going to be a scientist when you grow up?” That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got.

— Philip Pullman

I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.

— Anonymous

You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.

— Adam Gopnik

I lost a lot of homeboys growing up, a lot of family, at early ages.

— Jay Rock

You didnt grow up in the shadow of John Steinbeck. He put you on his shoulders and gave you all the light…

— Thomas Steinbeck

When I was growing up, radio DJs were celebrities, not just the people singing the songs.

— Ashley McBryde