Growing up Quotes · Page 106

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.

— Anonymous

I hated myself for so many reasons, and I thought so many things were my fault that happened to me growing up.

— Mary J. Blige

Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.

— Claire Danes

I was a skinny guy growing up, and I still feel like that same skinny kid.

— Jamie Dornan

There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.

— Dan Rather

'Chewing Gum' is kind of like the world I wish I grew up in. There wasn't really a sense of community growing…

— Michaela Coel

When I was growing up everybody I knew could sing. I had no choice. I had to sing.

— Anne Murray

I didn't have cable growing up. The only games I saw were the NBA on Sundays and the NBA Finals.

— Harrison Barnes

The first thing I think of when I hear the name of Lucille Ball is a Hollywood legend. I have fond memories…

— Keith Thibodeaux

I got to grow up in a situation where drugs were demonic. To watch your dad go through heroin withdrawal is something…

— Shia LaBeouf

Growing up, I didn't really watch the Victoria's Secret fashion show too much. I really just saw folks who weren't real to…

— Carmen Carrera

Everyone goes through their stuff when they are growing up. It's all relative. Everyone has the same situations on their menu. We…

— Gary Busey

It wasn't one thing in particular, but growing up in Detroit it really hardened me to the point where when I left…

— Jerome Bettis

Kids growing up today will have what I never did growing up, which is somebody across that screen reflecting who they are,…

— Simu Liu

When I was growing up, I didn't see me in the movies except in certain lesser roles. If it wasn't funny, I…

— Morgan Freeman

Makes you grow up quick. Hard work makes you strong. I work hard every day; that's where I get my strength. That…

— Dorothea Benton Frank

Everything we play when we are growing up, is team related. In this game (of golf) you can find all the answers…

— George Lopez

When you grow up and you start having all these problems and your little sister gets pregnant, you're dealing with all these…

— Chamillionaire

My parents both renounced their material lives and were living as monks at an ashram in L.A. when they met each other.…

— Taraka Larson

It's the culture, not the blood. If you can go anywhere in the world and adopt these babies and put them into…

— Steve King

I love my job. It's such a privilege to be able to play such complicated characters. Growing up, I wanted to be…

— Ashley Bell

I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it…

— Earl Sweatshirt

[My twin brother] he was the star artist of the family as we - as we were growing up. He eventually lost…

— Kehinde Wiley

I met him when I was 18. We split up when I was 38. He saw me grow up too. He was…

— Annie Sprinkle

“I was so good at being a kid, and so terrible at being whatever I was now.”

— John Green

A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man.

— Herbert Hoover

When you're the artsy, weirdo, introverted outsider growing up, you don't fit into your community.

— Stephen Karam

I feel kind of sorry for those kids who just play one sport growing up.

— Darin Erstad

I'm not really big on video games at all, I played a lot at the arcade as a kid. I didn't have…

— Kyp Malone

You think that it must be great to be Superman but it's also hard to be Superman, especially when growing up.

— Charles Roven

I used to have Mumbai Indians posters in my room growing up, and to win with them. Amazing.

— Hardik Pandya

The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was 'Cats', for my birthday.

— Tammy Blanchard

I didn't really know many girls, growing up, because there weren't many other people living around where I lived.

— Dolores O'Riordan

While I was growing up, I wasn't like, 'My father's a rapper, so I'm going to be one, too.'

— Ice Spice

In a democracy, every little wrong idea may grow up to become national policy.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

Humour was a big part of growing up. It was a valuable currency in our household to be funny.

— Rebecca Front

It's as if you were interested in fashion and your neighbor when you were growing up happened to be Giorgio Armani.

— Malcolm Gladwell

We lived in eight or nine different houses and six or seven different apartments growing up.

— Kane Brown

I don't think I related to the Irish Catholic surroundings that was my environment when I was growing up.

— Isabela Moner

Growing up we used to put Saltines in a bowl with milk and dump a bunch of sugar on it and eat…

— Patti Harrison