Growing up Quotes · Page 49

We weren't poor growing up on Long Island, but it wasn't lavish - just a regular middle-class house.

— Criss Angel

I always thought, as I was growing up, that I'd be married with children. That hasn't happened.

— Esther McVey

Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Most Missourians can't imagine growing up and spending their adult life without their family.

— Mike Parson

All of my youth growing up in my Italian family was focused around the table. That's where I learned about love.

— Leo Buscaglia

I'm from a middle class family. I didn't grow-up rich, but I didn't grow-up poor. Each guy has to stick to his…

— SonReal

The world's best when I was growing up was Pele and he would have been a great player now, too, but Messi…

— Graeme Souness

I've always been a strong family advocate. I had a wonderful family growing up

— Cheryl Ladd

I didn't grow up in a naked household, but nudity was not a taboo thing. My mother was an artist and there…

— Ingrid Michaelson

“It was too late. Maybe yesterday, while I was still a child, but not now. I knew too much, had seen too…

— William Faulkner

I have two older sisters and one older brother and hold them largely responsible for the trouble I got into growing up.…

— Suzanne Collins

I don't have formal training at all, but I did grow up around design. My parents both flipped homes. A typical weekend…

— Jeremiah Brent

I love the old movies from my past, when I was growing up. I just have a special place in my heart…

— Cassandra Peterson

Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years…

— Hal Sparks

I was influenced growing up by everything from Harlequin romances to Fedor Dostoyevsky and Albert Camus, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and later…

— Danzy Senna

“I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn’t know how…

— Charlotte Eriksson

It's not easy to remember, but IBM was the computer industry when I was growing up. You loved 'em. You hated 'em.…

— Bill Gates

One of the things that is so striking to me about the South, especially living here now as an adult, is that…

— Jesmyn Ward

If I can do anything in this time of my career, I want to make it easier for other actresses and girls…

— Sandra Bullock

“We're meant to stay connected to our hearts, you see. Feeling our feelings, present in the moments we're given. But we don't…

— Denise Hildreth Jones

My whole life, when I was growing up, not one race has ever accepted me, ... So I never felt connected or…

— Jessica Alba

When you grow up in the Soviet society under the communists you heard about the one man who is especially dangerous, especially…

— Mart Laar

I have a lot of feminist idols. My favorite thing about growing up in Arkansas - well, not favorite but something I've…

— Beth Ditto

“This funny thing happens when you graduate college. You hear so much about being an adult that you start to feel like…

— Cora Carmack

Growing up, I was sort of a tomboy. I was the one skating with the boys.

— Amy Smart

Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

That messed me up, growing up in the public eye when I was a teenager. That's when everyone is trying to find…

— Lauren Jauregui

Growing up in a business-orientated family meant that I naturally learnt the tricks of the trade.

— Anne Robinson

When I was growing up, you never knew whether people were being serious or not. There was a lot of nodding and…

— Ardal O'Hanlon

I played piano growing up, had lessons and all that. I still try to touch up on that every once in a…

— Jrue Holiday

“I think that's every unresolved person's dream, to wake up one day and know what they want to do the rest of…

— Ashley D. Wallis

I want girls to know that its okay when they grow up and their bodychanges.

— Demi Lovato

I prefer being able to see my opponent. It is just different for me; I didn't grow up with the internet age…

— Daniel Negreanu

I didnt know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didnt know any arty types.

— Stephen Mangan

To be in the category of guys I idolized growing up... it's pretty cool.

— Francisco Lindor

I would probably say, 'Don't worry so much about stuff as you grow up.'

— Mark Hoppus

Adolescence in my growing up period was truly "Happy Days," the title of a TV show connotating the quality of this life…

— Virgil Miller Newton

I came from a very strict background, and didn't hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.

— Grace Jones

I think, growing up, the female friendships that I saw on television were portrayed as catty and vicious.

— Lili Reinhart

That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks.

— Tillie Olsen