Growing up Quotes · Page 112

When I was growing up, Keane and Sheringham were my idols, and they wore 10. So it was always my dream to…

— Harry Kane

Something awful happens to a person who grows up as a creative kid and suddenly finds no creative outlet as an adult.

— Judy Blume

“I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore, like I always thought I would.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

I didn't know anything about fashion, growing up in Orange County. I just knew about it through music, how ska bands dressed.

— Gwen Stefani

I think that most New Yorkers would object to calling me a New Yorker. I didn't grow up here.

— Sloane Crosley

Growing up in Vermont, no matter what I did, I didn't get much recognition.

— Keegan Bradley

“I want my life to be the greatest story. My very existence will be the greatest poem. Watch me burn. Love always,…

— Charlotte Eriksson

Growing up I didn't own albums cause I couldn't really afford them so I would borrow people's CDs and stuff.

— Snow Tha Product

Growing up as a product of the black civil-rights movement, I had a lot of different models for black weirdness, whether it's…

— Colson Whitehead

I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those…

— Katey Sagal

I experienced different things growing up as a child that helped me. That helped mold me into the man that I am…

— Jameis Winston

Somewhere slightly before or after the close of our second decade, we reach a momentous milestone--childhood's end. We have left asafe place…

— Judith Viorst

My parents met in music school, and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and…

— Sara Zarr

A person cannot grow up through happiness. Happiness makes a person shallow. It is only through suffering that we grow up, transform,…

— Leslie T. Chang

I think that growing up very poor in a very wealthy town gave me a sense of being an outsider, and I…

— Moby

As you become older in life...you will come to recognize that you are either just a convenience or a need in other…

— Nishan Panwar

Growing up sucks, doesn't it? I understand why people wouldn't want to get old - but it'd be one thing if we…

— Jason Reitman

When I was growing up, Nashville was the place to go if you had songs to sell and thought you had talent…

— Willie Nelson

The reality that we were growing up in was very young and vibrant, and nobody was capturing that part of India. I…

— Karan Bajaj

I enjoy the freedom of living alone and not having anyone interfere with my belongings. I mean, I'm quite a selfish human…

— Boy George

My father was a naturalist and a very spiritual person, who had a great desire to pass on his knowledge to others,…

— Carlos Gracie, Jr

Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom. But the personality formed in an environment…

— Judith Lewis Herman

“I don’t want to be little again. But at the same time I do. I want to be me like I was…

— David Almond

I believe there is a moment growing up when you build your own mood board. You do a collage - you collect…

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school.

— Deepak Chopra

Growing up, I would go to Darjeeling and Kurseong a lot and most of the locals would only talk to me in…

— Sayani Gupta

The little boy who goes to the store and forgets what his mother sent him for, will probably grow up to be…

— Evan Esar

Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up.

— Patti Smith

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

— Tina Turner

It's a really nice thing for me to give back to the community and give things that I didn't necessarily have growing…

— Sam Kerr

One of my very favorite television shows growing up was 'The Prisoner.'

— Roger Avary

When I was growing up, I didn't know there was a world outside of California.

— Willie Aames

Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star.

— Liza Minnelli

I was a fat girl growing up and had to change schools because kids were so mean.

— Sara Bareilles

My football idol growing up, I was named after Walter Payton, but my idols at RB were Barry Sanders and Emmitt Smith.

— Peyton Hillis

Even with the best intentions, growing apart might just be an inevitable part of growing up.

— Megan McCafferty

Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.

— Chuck Klosterman

I knew I would grow up and wear a costume one day, and that's exactly what happened.

— Cassandra Peterson

We're never going to escape the idea of being young. Which I don't mind myself. I mean, who wants to grow up…

— Niall Horan

I have the power of my height. Growing up, it was a total drawback. There was nothing good about it at all.

— Allison Janney