Growing up Quotes · Page 59

No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I grow up,'

— Stacy Schiff

Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.

— Gale Norton

He was an abusive father. He was never a father to me growing up as a kid.

— Angelina Pivarnick

There are two possibilities, either you changed or I didn't know who you were until now.

— Anonymous

Yeah I hear you talking Don't know who you trying to flatter Got my mind made up...I'm ready for you.

— Treasure

Growing up, I absolutely loved skateboarding and dirt bike riding with my brother and the neighborhood kids.

— Daniella Monet

My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.

— Mark Twain

I played so many clubs growing up, and back in that period, in the '60s, we'd play, like, four, five sets a…

— Michael McDonald

The best gift I was ever given was the arts. My mum gave me those on a silver platter. Growing up, her…

— Jill Scott

We need to stop telling girls they can be anything they want when they grow up. Because it would have never occurred…

— Sarah Silverman

When you're growing up, I think there's this idea that the coolest people are the ones who are really rude and feverish.…

— Charli XCX

“How do you explain to a child who likes everyone in the world that adult life consists to a great extent of…

— Miranda Emmerson

I would definitely write to the kid that I was before, to embrace the moment. I think that often times when you're…

— Sean Mackin

My musical influences growing up were limited to Korean folk songs and hymns as I went to a Christian boarding school where…

— Jihae

I grew up in Berkeley and my parents were hippies, obviously, since my name's 'Jorma.' I didn't watch much television growing up…

— Jorma Taccone

I am still in touch with my Secret Service agents, most of whom are retired now. They really get to be your…

— Susan Ford

I wasn't the biggest hip-hop fan, because I had to listen to whatever my parents listened to, so growing up, it was…

— Karen Civil

With me, growing up in a theater family and having them be so supportive, from the jump, and being a part of…

— Jeremy Piven

I wasn't remembering the gift that God had given me. I had totally put all that aside. And my daughter was growing…

— Oprah Winfrey

“[Leslie Bennett] You have a teenager who desperately wants to separate...If you don't have a career, these New Domesticity types are likely…

— Emily Matchar

I've long believed that one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people…

— Ronald Reagan

My son has been known to throw a book at the television set when he called for me to come play and…

— Jane Pauley

TV was the boogey man when I was growing up. Video games are the boogey man now. The novel was once a…

— David Duchovny

When Jo's conservative sister Meg says she must turn up her hair now that she is a "young lady," Jo shouts, "I'm…

— Louisa May Alcott

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Growing up I always shopped at Victoria's Secret with my mom and saw Angels like Gisele and Karolina Kurkova in the windows.

— Lindsay Ellingson

Chris Jericho was always someone I looked up to. I was a WWE fan growing up, and I remember his debut.

— Kevin Owens

I got offered 'Black Mirror,' and my boyfriend and I were so excited. I used to read Charlie Brooker's column growing up.

— Chloe Pirrie

The only black folks in town when I was growing up were me and my cousins and one other family.

— Courtney A. Kemp

“Magda looks at me as if I've gone mad. Or I've grown up. It's kind of the same thing.”

— Victoria Schwab

My favorite movie growing up actually is Defending Your Life because I'm obsessed with Albert Brooks.

— Alana Haim

Curiosity is a fundamental part of growing up and we need to encourage our kids to do it.

— Michaela Strachan

Imagine growing up never feeling loved by your family - the most basic of human needs.

— John Bishop

My growing up years, we watched 'Happy Days,' every night. I don't know what was reruns and what was new.

— Sarah Silverman

My dad is my everything. He always had the craziest speeches for Kylie [Jenner] and me growing up, good words to live…

— Kendall Jenner

Right from growing up I always wanted to be a teacher, but my dad discouraged me.

— Sara Davies

When I was growing up in Australia my dream was to play in Serie A and for the national team.

— Christian Vieri

When I was growing up, I remember having read all the books in the library. I often tried to emulate my favourite…

— Ruskin Bond

I watched 'A Chorus Line' over and over when I was growing up, to the point that I was able to recite…

— Sharni Vinson

There is a lot of learning I have to do and a lot of growing up I have to do.

— Bubba Watson