I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me. — Antonio Villaraigosa Copy Share Image
Growing up with three boys in a heavily male-dominated world, I especially needed to express myself as a woman. — Elisabeth Shue Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, there were a lot more arts in the public schools. Politically, America has screwed up on that. — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
I played all sports growing up. Baseball was always my favorite, though. — Sean Doolittle Copy Share Image
Maybe there's less oppression growing up in a small village, and fewer rules, and less danger. — Luke Treadaway Copy Share Image
“When Uncle W. G. held out his hand to take my money, I dropped the dead mouse in his hand.” — Earl B. Russell Copy Share Image
I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
I know when I was growing up, I was always lost and just thought I was alone and that I needed to… — Amber Liu Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Call it whatever you need to call it to make it feel good to you. But the fact of the matter is,… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
The people-pleasing and performing is 100% ingrained in me, partly because I was a little brown girl growing up in a very… — Samin Nosrat Copy Share Image
I don't want my children to be at a disadvantage, growing up in the limelight, because then they have to live up… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
When I was growing up and watching 'The Sweeney,' the notion of police officers being an inch away from the villains that… — Lennie James Copy Share Image
I didnt grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, Ive never wanted to speak to an all-white… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
What defines 'success' - answering that question - is so important when you're growing up as an athlete. Success for one kid… — Maya Moore Copy Share Image
I think part of growing up is not actually finding a fixed idea of who you are, but rather being like, "Oh,… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
Growing up, I used to think I'd never get on a plane - I was terrified. But when I joined Mis-Teeq, being… — Alesha Dixon Copy Share Image
“Plans never go as planned, ever; that’s just how life is. People spend way too much time dreaming about a future they… — Dave Matthes Copy Share Image
It's a bittersweet feeling because this [filming in Chronicles of Narnia] has been a part of my life for six years -… — Skandar Keynes Copy Share Image
You literally can shoot someone in the face on television and a 7-year-old can watch it. But you can't show the slight… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
I grew up at a time where I think most people had a social and political conscience. Some of the biggest changes… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
Dare we let children grow up with no vital contact with the Saviour, never intentionally and consciously put into His arms? Not… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
My mother married again after my father's death - another Royal Air Force officer, and a very different kind of man. We… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I've always liked monster movies and I've always been fascinated by - again, growing up in a culture where death was looked… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image