Growing up Quotes · Page 114

I was the third parent, growing up, and it did make me a very overly responsible adult.

— Rashida Tlaib

“I'm going to go throw up now, because ive turned into my dad. If vomiting doesn't work, I'll see if I can…

— Veronica Blade

Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.

— David Blaine

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“It feels like the world is folding up around me, like origami paper, and I’m trapped inside of its breathless center.”

— Jennifer Elisabeth

The whole point of growing up is learning to stay on the laughing side.

— Lauren Oliver

My parents divorced, and I didn't have much of a daddy growing up.

— Pink

Serena. Venus. Serena. Venus. Serena, Venus, Serena, Venus. That's all I watched growing up.

— Coco Gauff

If I grew up with a lot of money, where everything was just handed to me, I feel like those are the…

— Justin Bieber

I don't remember 'Doctor Who' not being part of my life, and it became a part of growing up, along with The…

— Peter Capaldi

Each of us owes it to our spouse, our children, our friends, to be as happy as we can be. And if…

— Dennis Prager

I grew up in a sport that didn't allow you to grow up. There was always the threat of younger competition. So…

— Cathy Rigby

Of course subjects are changing, and since I started so early in filmmaking, I did my first film at age 19, of…

— Werner Herzog

I always hated my mole growing up. I even thought about having it removed. At the time I didn't do it because…

— Niki Taylor

When I was growing up, I never felt that I belonged anywhere because we never lived in a house for more than…

— Peter Doig

Growing up during the Depression, we didn't have much, but we had each other, we had our friends, and that was pretty…

— Gordie Howe

I used to stand in front of the mirror in my bedroom. I shared a bedroom - like a lot of people…

— Joe Biden

Growing up on Mad Men with so many incredible actors and then going on to other things with amazing people, I never…

— Kiernan Shipka

Through the media, we've establishes this standard of what every human being should look up to: somebody who always looks right; who…

— Fiona Apple

“This was a factory, a sorting house. We were no different from dogs and pigs and cows: all of us were allowed…

— Ryū Murakami

They say that to be a writer you must first have an unhappy childhood. I don't know if unhappiness is necessary, but…

— Cynthia Rylant

Sometimes I'll say, "I wrote that book," and the person will look at you as if you're really strange. One time that…

— Judy Blume

Acting was something I did growing up. I never it took it too seriously; it was just one of those things I…

— Stephen Colletti

I knew from a young age that I was attracted to guys. I didn't know if it was a phase... I didn't…

— Michael Sam

Parents: They want you to act older...but treat you like a kid...

— Jerett Parker

I was a dancer, growing up, and I definitely thought that was going to be my profession.

— Margaret Qualley

Don't you wanna grow up to be just like me, I slap women and eat mushrooms then OD.

— Eminem

When I was growing up, I wasn't taught how to feel or communicate feelings.

— Jeremy Renner

I dont think we're the type of band people look at and say, 'I want to grow up to be just like…

— Billy Corgan

That's your job as a big man. I don't know. Growing up, that's what you do, set screens.

— Domantas Sabonis

“And then I know I'm being a man, not just some kid who's upset and wants it his way.”

— Angela Johnson

I had a lot of negativity growing up, so I understand how to block the negativity out.

— Dwight Howard

That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.

— William Butler Yeats

It's properly scary playing a leading man. Growing up, I always wanted to be a character actor.

— Rafe Spall

I was actually born in Miami. We would spend the summers there growing up, so it's like my second home.

— Dominik Garcia-Lorido

I spent a lot of time growing up in Oregon after I left California. Spent a lot of time in the woods.

— Sam Elliott

Growing up a preacher's kid wasn't the easiest thing. Everybody's always watching you to see how you'll behave - or misbehave.

— Frances McDormand

I can safely say that I had an incredibly difficult and trying past growing up and trying to be an artist and…

— Matt Bomer

The thing that I loved about growing up Mormon is that I had morals and standards instilled in me as a kid…

— Julianne Hough

The crazy thing is the older I get the more I see what they told me is true. If we would listen…

— Anonymous