Growing up Quotes · Page 46

Growing up, it was always a huge battle with my mom to let me color my hair or add extensions.

— Justine Skye

I'm so patriotic, I think every British kid should have a chance to grow up to be our head of state.

— Johann Hari

I've played a lot of people in ping-pong. I had a table growing up.

— Danny Amendola

When you grow up in the [film] industry, the director is your father. You follow your father's lead, but you make your…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

By the time I was, you know, 16 years old, I had done a lot of growing up.

— Black Thought

I used to play hockey when I was growing up. Everyone sort of learns how to skate and play hockey at an…

— Bob Dylan

Growing up, it was hard to associate with some of the women who were being portrayed in the media.

— Camille Kostek

Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.

— Rachel Zoe

I called my mother up and I said, 'You know, I've been to the best doctors in the world and I've spent…

— Darrell Hammond

Domestic violence was a way of life in my home growing up, my brother and I watched helplessly numerous times as my…

— Troy Vincent

It's interesting for myself, growing up as an Asian-American filmmaker. Coming into the industry, my parents always said, "No one's going to…

— Daniel Radcliffe

Why is a caterpillar wrapped in silk while it changes into a butterfly? So the other caterpillars can't hear the screams. Change…

— Rory Miller

Even idiots can grow up a little bit. It should be a bit more subdued. ... The first celebration should be subdued,…

— Theo Epstein

Growing up, I did a lot of work that was technically based. So, I sort of feel that, no matter where you're…

— Ellyse Perry

When you grow up in that (multi-ethnic) environment, you see the world differently. Being a mixed-race child, I didn't always see colour…

— Halle Berry

I started taekwondo at 5 or 6 years old and did a bunch of kick-boxing later, too. Eventually I became a black…

— JWoww

“Seasons turned, apple blossoms blushed and withered, fruit swelled and dropped, snow fell and melted, and children grew to bear children of…

— Kali Wallace

“The people they had been last summer, the person she had been--Dicey guessed she'd never be afraid again, not the way she…

— Cynthia Voigt

I can relate to girls with self esteem issues because growing up in this industry there is the side of you that…

— Naya Rivera

“And though I had misgiving--obvious ones, too--one overwhelming thing drove me on: on the borderlands, my father would need me as much…

— Peter Geye

I think being born in America and growing up exclusively within the American boundaries of race and race oppression is a very…

— Harry Belafonte

I guess in my house when I was growing up, I was comfortable trying to be funny. And my dad, of course,…

— Adam Sandler

“As it turned out, almost every notion I had on my 13th birthday about my future turned out to be a total…

— Caitlin Moran

Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the…

— Jennie Finch

I was quite a shy person growing up, and drag was very much a shield for me to perform behind.

— Kristian Nairn

I spent 35 years growing up in the U.S., and it had its ups and downs.

— MF Doom

I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out…

— Oscar Nunez

“Intimidated, old traumas triggered, and fearing for my safety, I did what I felt I needed to do.”

— Sierra D. Waters

It's hard growing up in a world where you never feel like you're good enough.

— Anonymous

My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had…

— Coco Lee

I still love the theology of the Mormon religion and think it is a wonderful way to grow up.

— Katherine Heigl

Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.

— Rudolph A. Marcus

Elves apparently had a short childhood. Not like witches, who seemed to take forever to grow up, according to Jenks.

— Kim Harrison

A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not.

— Christina Stead

I actually was the accompanist for a couple of the musicals I was in growing up.

— Kirsten Nelson

There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.

— Anonymous

I always spoke my mind, and that was a result of the music I listened to growing up.

— Yungblud

“It is very important to accept your own darkness when you want to grow in the light.”

— Pradip Bendkule

“That boy made me realize, for a while at least, that my parents were wrong, and I didn't have to be like…

— J.X. Burros

Growing up, my favorite player was either Derek Jeter or Manny Ramirez.

— Cody Bellinger