Growing up Quotes · Page 68

This was another item about growing up: you encountered all the cliches of love and loss and heartbreak.

— Sylvia Brownrigg

We didn't have a lot of money growing up, so my mom didn't buy a lot of extras, like sweet things.

— Julianne Moore

My mom helped me. I was very shy growing up, but my shyness sort of manifested in a big personality.

— Tracee Ellis Ross

It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.

— Fran Drescher

I was really squeamish growing up - not too fond of blood and guts.

— Trevante Rhodes

I have these "pinch me" moments when I realize I got to be the thing I wanted to be growing up. I'm…

— Jennifer Weiner

My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in…

— Lindi Ortega

When I was growing up, it was so embarrassing to be from Jersey.

— Tate Donovan

I certainly and deliberately introduced a great deal of variety into the people in the clamshell, which I suppose grows out of…

— Bill Reid

When we were young and foolish people said we had a death wish. If we live to be old and tired, we…

— Rock Cowles

I feel growing up in Mumbai is an advantage, as we grow up speaking so many languages that when we go abroad,…

— Zubin Mehta

I was a rink rat growing up. I was a goalie and my father was a busy father of five, so he…

— Gord Downie

I always idolized guys like Deion Sanders, Barry Sanders, Steve Young and the entire 49ers team, really. I was a huge 49ers…

— Reggie Bush

“Await no further word or sign from me: your will is free, erect, and whole—to act against that will would be to…

— Dante Alighieri

While growing up in Australia I didn't watch many Bollywood films, but the ones I watched, I loved them,especially the songs and…

— Lisa Haydon

I played cops and robbers and pirates and all the rest when I was a kid, but I didn't want to grow…

— James Spader

The earliest influence on me was the movies of the thirties when I was growing up. Those were stories. If you look…

— Robert Cormier

Kids are growing up in communities in which they see their loved ones cycling in and out of prison and in which…

— Michelle Alexander

“As much as childhood was the greatest thing that most of us have ever experienced, with it characterized by our care free…

— Njabulo P. Vilakazi

I couldn't do my show without spending 12 years on the streets of Humboldt Park. It made me a better interrogator. Still,…

— Steve Wilkos

In a way, I feel I have enough tools and knowledge now that when I build it has a very specific agency…

— David Adjaye

I always challenged men, you know, in foot races or whatever as a kid growing up, because it was a way of…

— Katie Uhlaender

Growing up in rural Louisiana, the ecosystem around our home wove harmoniously into our family and into our daily life. Every life…

— Ian Somerhalder

I didn't grow up as a religious person under any sort of system or anything like that, I just felt like I've…

— Panda Bear

We spend the first half of our lives trying to grow up and the other half trying to figure out how we…

— Nishan Panwar

Growing up, I never saw anyone like me on TV, so I was honoured to win a Logie, but it's definitely not…

— Dylan Alcott

“They had entered the thorny wilderness, and the golden gates of their childhood had for ever closed behind them.”

— George Eliot

As far as ethnicity, you grow up being sensitive to things around you and then become more proactive about it.

— Prefuse 73

'Ders' is something I've been called since I was six by neighbors and stuff growing up.

— Anders Holm

I'm not trying to be like what I thought an NBA player is supposed to be growing up.

— Kevin Durant

Acting was my after-school activity. I never planned on growing up and becoming an actor.

— Sara Paxton

I was always determined to earn my own cash, even when I was at school and growing up at home.

— Gethin Jones

When I was growing up in the Philippines, the story that was read to me most was Pinocchio.

— Reggie Lee

Growing up in Sweden, I decided pretty early on that I wanted to go to acting school.

— Helena Mattsson

For me, when I was growing up, everybody I knew was a 'Star Wars' kid.

— Justin Lin

I want to show other girls, growing up, they can be cool. I think sometimes you need a label to co-sign that.

— Snow Tha Product

What scientist would not long to go on living, if only to see how the little truths he has brought to light…

— Jean Rostand

Growing up I always watched WWF with my dad on Saturdays. It was our thing!

— Summer Rae

My parents were so relaxed by the time I was growing up that I got away with a lot more.

— Rose Byrne

One of my biggest influences growing up was Jamie O'Brien. He was like an older brother to me.

— John John Florence