Growing up Quotes · Page 56

When we are young, everyone teaches us to talk and walk, but as we grow up, they tell us to shut up…

— Anonymous

I know what it feels like to be one of those conservative rugby lads because I went to a similar school growing…

— Nicholas Galitzine

I never felt cool growing up. I was a bit of an outsider, but I discovered theatre very early on, which got…

— Eric McCormack

Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world.

— Sylvia Plath

It was so inspiring for me to watch tennis growing up. I thought I was really good playing, until my brother told…

— Christine Taylor

I used to collect basketball cards and baseball cards growing up.

— David Lee

I was a kid growing up in Houston, didn't have a lot - three younger brothers, a single mom. It was tough.

— DeAndre Jordan

When I was growing up, I lived in a neighborhood that was largely Latino and I thought I was Latino!

— Meagan Good

Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough…

— Candis Cayne

And Sam Vimes thought: Why is Young Sam's nursery full of farmyard animals anyway? Why are his books full of moo-cows and…

— Terry Pratchett

We need not only read Sacred Scripture, but learn it as well and grow up in it. Realize that nothing is written…

— Saint Basil

They just tested the tap water in Los Angeles and they found traces of estrogen and antidepressants in the tap water. So…

— Greg Fitzsimmons

I don't wanna be a Londoner! Growing up, that was hell - being one of them kids who wears Air Force 1s…

— Slowthai

To be able to explore the genre of the musical is nice. It was great to be able to sing professionally, for…

— Penelope Cruz

It is a human necessity no matter how bad life gets or dinghy a place can be to find the beauty inside…

— Ryan Swain

You're in a bar - grow up. You're drinking poison. You're trying to have sex unsafely with someone you don't know. Is…

— Greg Proops

I also know that I have represented for us a certain kind of journalist and for me over the years when an…

— Ed Gordon

We humans are wired for empathy by evolution, but when children grow up in dominator families they internalize this male over female…

— Riane Eisler

She couldn't think of anyone else who remotely resembled him. He was complicated, almost contradictory in so many ways, yet simple, a…

— Nicholas Sparks

I guess it really didn't even dawn on me that you could be a rock critic as a job until I was…

— Chuck Klosterman

Growing up in the social media world, it's tough. Your face changes, you get older, your face fills out, and you fall…

— McKayla Maroney

I had a really traumatizing experience growing up. When I was, like, 10 or 11, I was vegan. I'm not anymore, but…

— Kiernan Shipka

I was part of that group of kids growing up in the '80s under the Reagan regime, what I used to call…

— Junot Diaz

When I was growing up, there were very few women athletes. I remember watching Olga Corbett, but Peggy Fleming and Janet Lynn…

— Dorothy Hamill

I always wished I had a chance to meet an NFL player or even a college player when I was growing up…

— Stephen Baker

Maturity is not when we speak big things. It is when we start understanding small 0nes.:)

— Megz

I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.

— Damian Lewis

Growing up, I supported Manchester United, and my hero was Mark Hughes.

— Brian O'Driscoll

I know growing up as a young gay person how much you hate yourself, how much you already think you're different.

— Cat Cora

I grew up. I stopped letting people push me around all the time. I learned that you can't always be happy. I…

— Anonymous

“I tried on different versions of myself. I was so many different girls...”

— Jennifer Elisabeth

How do you know they're growing up? Well, the bite marks are higher.

— Phyllis Diller

As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.

— Ban Ki-moon

Glenn McGrath's my hero, so I did a lot of reading on him when I was growing up.

— Stuart Broad

I love costumes. My dream growing up was always to have my own costume and prop shop.

— Amy Sedaris

Growing up, it was tough to balance, but looking back I appreciate my parents' efforts to make sure I was well-rounded.

— P. K. Subban

When I was growing up, I knew I wanted to be a mathematician, but I had no idea what that entailed.

— Terence Tao

My dad was my swim coach growing up, and I tried to get kicked out of practice every day. I was a…

— Ryan Lochte

I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment.

— Q-Tip

I'm most at peace in my home when there's chaos, and that means that my kids had their friends over a lot…

— Mark Schlereth