Growing up Quotes · Page 62

“They soon stopped being ten years old. But whatever age they were seemed to be exactly the right age for having fun.”

— Maud Hart Lovelace

Growing up sometimes forces us to confront the distance between our childhood hope and the truth.

— Sara Shandler

Dont judge me based upon how I used to be... Ive changed. Im no longer that little girl whod do anything for…

— Ana Chable

Fashion is in my blood. Growing up, I was always clacking around the house in my mother's shoes.

— Sophia Bush

“I’m tired of justifying why I love someone. I’m done with the explaining.”

— Jennifer Elisabeth

Growing up not being the biggest guy around, you learn different ways of playing tennis. I've learned to adapt.

— Alex de Minaur

I didn't really ever race for points growing up, and so I had to learn that.

— Ricky Stenhouse Jr

If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss.

— will.i.am

Since Catherine [Zeta-Jones] and I got together, I've cut back dramatically. My priorities changed, and I still love acting and all that,…

— Michael Douglas

'Death Of A Salesman,' 'Streetcar Named Desire,' these are the things that, when I was growing up, made me want to be…

— Charles Bock

Growing up and being a kid, I knew that creativity was at the heart of what I wanted to do. I always…

— Chris Gethard

Shaquille O'Neal was probably my favorite athlete growing up. I loved how dominant and unstoppable he was, but also his charisma off…

— Jahlil Okafor

It seems like a cliche, but you do grow up a lot faster when you travel a lot, go through things like…

— Matt Dillon

To do life right, you have to feel like you're growing up until the day you die. The thing I'm proudest of…

— Jane Fonda

I do agree to a certain extent that it is unfortunate that I have to be a little more aware of being…

— Selena Gomez

Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away…

— Zach Anner

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally…

— Alice Walker

“It wasn't until we dropped him at his university dormitory and left him there looking touchingly lost and bewildered amid an assortment…

— Bill Bryson

For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and…

— Robert Penn Warren

The idea of using media for expressing yourself artistically is kind of something I learned from my mother and my father. So…

— Sean Lennon

The spiritual ambiguity growing up made me really latch onto a faith - Protestantism - that was somewhat conventional. Everyone else was…

— Sufjan Stevens

“Unfortunately, some family members are so psychotic that no matter how hard you try to forge a healthy relationship, nothing will help.…

— Andrea Lavinthal

Growing up in the fifties, having to wear a dog tag, having to take shelter in a bomb shelter. That turned me…

— Anne Waldman

I've always been sensitive to the phrase 'like a girl,' especially when I was growing up and was told I couldn't play…

— Hilary Knight

Texas was a hotbed for professional wrestling when I was growing up.

— John Layfield

I came from a different mind-set growing up, and my mind has changed.

— Katy Perry

I had a great time with baseball growing up. I was lucky to grow up with it and to learn.

— Nick Johnson

I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there's no bubble to escape into.

— Zoe Lister-Jones

I was a really big fan of cartoons growing up, and I loved to read too much into them most of the…

— Rebecca Sugar

I worry about kids today - because of the sexual revolution, they're going to grow up and never know what "dirty" means.

— Lily Tomlin

Students should not only be trained to live in a democracy when they grow up; they should have the chance to live…

— Alfie Kohn

I was never a kind of superhero fan much growing up, I'm not a kind of comic book kid.

— Joe Wright

Growing up black in America, and with Southern roots in my family, I was informed in my own life.

— Rob Morgan

I love the ocean; growing up around Laguna Beach, I spent my summers surfing, diving, and snorkeling.

— Greg MacGillivray

My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and…

— Jodi Picoult

“I wanted to say all these things about how you just have to hold on to the things you love and let…

— Charlotte Eriksson

We always had our own vegetables growing up and now I'm doing it with my kids at our house in the country.

— Stella McCartney

We're all human, and growing up you learn that the world isn't always kind.

— Laura Whitmore

Thurgood Marshall was uniquely able to understand and comprehend what it meant to grow up in the Jim Crow south.

— Dahlia Lithwick

I played hockey in North Dakota growing up and watch a lot of that.

— Phil Jackson