Growing up Quotes · Page 113

“We're growing up and I don't like it," said Tacy, as they say at Heinz's later, drinking coffee.”

— Maud Hart Lovelace

We hated Cleveland growing up. There's a lot of people in Cleveland we still hate to this day.

— LeBron James

I've always been really hot on westerns. All my life growing up, cowboy, cowboy, cowboy.

— Morgan Freeman

The one thing about players today is that they're very sensitive, and very fragile. They didn't grow up with tough coaches.

— Doug Collins

I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.

— J. Cole

It wasnt about finding myself as Ive been here all along. It was about understanding myself.

— Dominic Riccitello

Owning the Eagles is the ultimate fulfillment of every fantasy I ever had growing up in Philadelphia.

— Norman Braman

I want to represent the street, not in a negative sense, but in the sense that when I was growing up, that's…

— Fred Foster

Growing up in the 80's, I think a lot of us saw things that were "new," an experience we don't get too…

— Gabriel Campisi

I love 'The Stand;' I read it when I was a kid - it was one of my favorite books when I…

— David Yates

Americans are brought up to believe they can grow up to be the president of the United States. Brits are told, It…

— Ricky Gervais

I never thought I'd be a comedian. But, growing up, I simply loved watching comedy. The '80s was huge for comedy in…

— Arj Barker

I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would…

— George Lindsey

Like when I was growing up, when I was in the league the first three years, and I watched playoff basketball, there…

— Dillon Brooks

The whole dream of having your own place is great, but the reality is having to cook and clean yourself and do…

— Michelle Ryan

I used to draw cars when I was growing up. I wanted to be a car designer. I've never been professionally taught.…

— The-Dream

I have always been very family-oriented. I came from a dysfunctional, broken family growing up, and it's probably instilled in me the…

— Octavia Spencer

They would grow up grappling with ways of living with what happened. They would try to tell themselves that in terms of…

— Arundhati Roy

Hip-hop was a big part of my life growing up, especially West Coast gangster rap. The reason I was able to listen…

— Moshe Kasher

One of my favorite stories growing up was A Wrinkle in Time. I loved that book. I still remember the image, so…

— Brit Marling

The fact is that in my prep school, I went to a boarding school, 39 young men graduated from that prep school.…

— Bill Ayers

To see cartoon-me positioned (alphabetically) amongst so many of my women heroes and role models ... well, I just broke down and…

— Kate Bornstein

I didn’t say, You are such a stuffy asshole. And he didn’t say, If you ever burn one of my quarter-of-a-million dollar…

— Karen Marie Moning

I think record stores play a huge part in discovering new music. When I was growing up I would spend hours going…

— Joe Principe

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

— Russell Baker

Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples.

— Anonymous

Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

My music is about all these things that happen to you while growing up in search for some kind of truth.

— MO

Growing up in the church in West Virginia, faith is always there. It's part of the fabric of the culture.

— DeVon Franklin

Just because I'm nice to someone, doesn't make me two faced. It's called growing up. You should try it sometime.

— Anonymous

Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken.

— Mike Huckabee

I didn't even grow up with football. I learned the rules of football on this show [The League].

— Katie Aselton

I was told growing up that the arts were just a hobby - that I couldn't do it as a career.

— Mena Massoud

“Perhaps I just wanted to know what it was that I wanted. Maybe that is all that growing up means.”

— Mark Lawrence

Growing up as a competitive athlete and playing Division 1 soccer, my entire life was based around hydration.

— Alex Cooper

I was really scared of the devil growing up: I was convinced I was going to be possessed.

— Perfume Genius

Petersburg, growing up at home, all by my family and friends, Petersburg really, city-raised me, you know everybody there.

— Trey Songz

“Every day you say something or do something that challenges me, changes me.”

— Kiera Cass

When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything…

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr

Growing up, all I cared about in a song, before I really listened to lyrics, was that beat.

— Walker Hayes