Growing up Quotes · Page 47

I was a big fan of Jean-Claude Van-Damme growing up, and I always wanted to be a martial artist 'cause of him.

— Georges St-Pierre

“I live in an ecotone. Employment must coexist with goofing off. Responsibility must coexist with irresponsibility.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

When you grow up and something touches you emotionally, it lives on forever.

— David E. Goldberg

“Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.”

— Roman Payne

Growing up without love, without being cared for, might be the worst type of poverty.

— Angela Rayner

Growing up, I looked to people who had the same issues as me and were still living great lives.

— Molly Tarlov

One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.

— Brit Marling

Growing up, I could never decide what I wanted to be because I wanted to be so many things.

— Wes Bentley

My favorite player growing up was Steve Nash, so that's been a guy I look up to and a guy I've gotten…

— Trae Young

I think I've always been aware of it with my music. I think growing up basically and having a lot to deal…

— Justin Vernon

Good and evil grow up together and are bound in an equilibrium that cannot be sundered. The most we can do is…

— Eric Hoffer

As you're growing up, it's odd, because directors don't expect you to grow up. They think you'll be young forever, but as…

— Nicholas Hoult

Like so many other kids with special needs, I have been bullied. Kids in elementary school made me eat sand, and those…

— Lauren Potter

My dream in growing up in the city of Detroit was to be Mayor. At the family picnics from the time I…

— Kwame Kilpatrick

I have spent much of my life where the boys are, first as a tomboy and then on Wall Street. Growing up,…

— Karen Finerman

One of my favorite places is Seattle. Growing up, I never thought I'd be able to go to Seattle. I grew up…

— Josh Turner

Sometimes when I talk to little children I remind them of the fact that when I was growing up myself, I used…

— Wangari Maathai

When I say myself, I don't mean just as a woman of color, as a girl who's growing up in the Bronx,…

— Sofia Quintero

“Milkers don’t spend half as long with their mothers." Eli spread his chore coat over Little Joe. "Not more than a few…

— Sandra Neil Wallace

[I hate] the ways that people want their special needs to be met, whether it's their food allergies or their special lotions…

— Carrie Brownstein

I always wanted to give people the more exciting version of what I think a comedian should be - because I didn't…

— Andrew Dice Clay

I look deep into her rich brown eyes and she look into mine. Law, she got old-soul eyes, like she done lived…

— Kathryn Stockett

I was not very strong growing up, and my uncle used to look at me, like, 'This kid is not growing up,…

— Dikembe Mutombo

Such are the differences among human beings in their sources of pleasure, their susceptibilities of pain, and the operation on them of…

— John Stuart Mill

Children have a right to grow up in a family with a father and a mother.

— Pope Francis

Growing up, David Seaman was a massive role model for me. Peter Schmeichel and him were the ones I looked up to.

— Joe Hart

Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black…

— David Sanborn

People think about autism as something with kids. Well, those kids grow up.

— Jason Katims

“Because some people never grow up, or not in a way that allows them to develop the courage of their convictions.”

— Dan Fesperman

Growing up as a South Asian-American, I didn't have any female role models.

— Payal Kadakia

The only thing worse than growing up is never quite learning how

— Joel Plaskett

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

— Jodi Picoult

I think it's weird - I've had a weird experience growing up for sure.

— Ruel

I think I always had joie de vivre. But I had pretty bad self-esteem growing up and much of my adult life.

— Geena Davis

You know, growing up in the cattle business, I know a lot about cattle.

— Ted Waitt

I wasn't really a big comic book guy, growing up. I watched cartoons, but the choices were a whole heck of a…

— Adrian Pasdar

It's hard growing up in Hollywood, you know? I'm not from L.A. originally.

— Emma Kenney

L.A. Woman is amazing, but when I was growing up I was into the Who.

— Bruce McCulloch

I had a ton of animals; I had a goat growing up, a bunch of rabbits, a vegetable garden.

— Kelli Williams

While growing up, I saw how finances can play havoc in anybody's life. While we were comfortable, money didn't come easy.

— Dia Mirza