Growing up Quotes · Page 53

Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives.

— Chris Hemsworth

I never met him. But just growing up where Deacon Jones did, he motivated me to be great, showing the NFL was…

— Ha Ha Clinton-Dix

None of us really grow up. All we ever do is learn how to behave in public.

— Keith Johnstone

That's just the way it is - now that I'm growing up, I've become more mellow and chilled when I travel.

— Jozy Altidore

“I believe in knowing who you are but without limiting yourself to your own expectation of who you are.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

I kind of do this awkward body language because, growing up, I had a really hard time expressing myself vocally.

— Analeigh Tipton

Sadly, part of growing up is breaking someone's heart, even if it means breaking your own.

— Anonymous

When I was growing up, there were people of color onscreen, but I never saw interracial couples.

— Isa Briones

Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly…

— Joyce Maynard

I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot…

— Linda McCartney

Growing up with my dad being a musician, it seemed like a male centric world to me. I just didn't know many…

— Lola Kirke

My interest in self-help began when I was a child in the Seventies. My mum had a book she would consult regularly:…

— Susanna Reid

I didn't grow up in a regular upbringing. I ended up at my grandmother's house past a certain age, so I took…

— Sky Ferreira

In growing up in Seattle, I don't know a single family that didn't barbecue or cook on the weekends and make its…

— Mario Batali

The happiest thing that can be said about democracy... is that it is one of the few systems that has been willing…

— Harry Allen Overstreet

“And that is the last lesson of childhood: You spend all your years fighting against the injustice of big folk and their…

— Catherynne M. Valente

Remember when getting high meant swinging on the playground? When protection meant a helmet? When the worst thing you could get from…

— Anonymous

It's an ironic thing about being an immigrant kid, growing up - 'cause I grew up in the UK and went to…

— Aasif Mandvi

I didn't grow up imagining myself as an opera composer. Only once in my entire adolescence did I attend an opera. I…

— John Adams

I've got a vibe going on with a lot of what I've been doing, and to completely change it based off of…

— Jake Owen

It's not about, 'Let me play as long as I can so I don't have to grow up.' It's about, 'Let me…

— Angela Ruggiero

Just understanding that if you're not growing up, you're just moving backwards, and I'm a person that I always want to grow…

— Ndamukong Suh

All of us have at least one great voice deep inside. People are products of their environment. A lucky few are born…

— Pat Riley

I had a happy, dramafree youth, growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. The only thing that was slightly unusual…

— Jeff Dunham

When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs.

— Gary Clark, Jr

I was 11 years old and horse-obsessed. New York City was an unfortunate place for a girl like me to be growing up.

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

Speculative fiction is where my heart lies. It's what I read growing up, and it's what I read as an adult.

— Patrick Rothfuss

There were a lot of things I thought of doing as I was growing up, from becoming a singer to a priest…

— David Lammy

Pub life was such a huge part of growing up for me, going to pubs and being around them. It made me…

— Rory O'Malley

My mother was a huge Steelers fan, so they were my team growing up.

— Deron Williams

I was very worried about my mother, growing up - a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about…

— Angelina Jolie

I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my…

— Ryan Lochte

Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.

— Jack Bruce

Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.

— Ernest Hemingway

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

— M. Scott Peck

I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.

— Francine Pascal

I was always enamored with TV shows and movies. But you didn't grow up in my town and turn into an actor.

— Scott Wolf

Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family... what my mother called 'The Liar.'

— James Rollins

Helpless lust and unreasoning anxiety were just part of growing up.

— Octavia Butler

My family, growing up, we really didn't have tradition because my parents divorced when I was 11.

— Angelina Pivarnick