Growing up Quotes · Page 74

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

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

— Angelina Jolie

I feel like it's okay for us to grow up because a lot of us want to get rich and die young.

— Master P

We all, one day, realize that we’re not going to be kids forever and we’re going to grow up.

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Angelina Pivarnick

I didn't grow up thinking, 'Oh, maybe someday I'm going to have a shoe named after me.'

— Sheryl Swoopes

I've always been athletic. Growing up in Puerto Rico, and being in the countryside, I was always running around. I also played…

— Joan Smalls

Especially growing up in Los Angeles, there's just a very different mind-set than my own. There's no 'Romeo and Juliet' in Los…

— Alison Sudol

I was never part of that cliquey girl drama. Most of my friends were guys growing up, so I was never part…

— Aimee Teegarden

I'm Cuban and Puerto Rican and Miami is very Cuban oriented. Growing up around the music - all of the salsa and…

— Sabrina Claudio

Many in the creative professions were nerds in their pasts because they spent so long reading comics and using their imaginations when…

— Jim Lee

Mike Tyson is the most complex person I've ever met in my life. I've known Mike since 1986. We're both from Brooklyn.…

— Spike Lee

I think Mr. Trump would have benefitted from growing up in my neighborhood. He would have learned the limits of his braggadocio.

— Michael Capuano

“Is this what all the years of schooling were for? To prepare me for this Sense of being stuck in the middle?…

— Samantha Schutz

The older I get, the younger I feel. Growing up, I was always the kid, but I spoke like an adult and…

— Brooke Shields

I'm writing about the things I see all around me. Growing up in Mississippi, I've seen how these backward ideas about class…

— Jesmyn Ward

That's where the outrage should be, not old news, but the fact that we are preparing for the transfer of power. and…

— John Lewis

I learned the game on the radio. Russ Hodges and Lon Simmons were the Giants broadcasters when I was growing up in…

— Jon Miller

I felt pretty good growing up. I didnt feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if there was…

— David Henry Hwang

Growing up, you're told there are things you're not capable of doing because you're a girl. That perception's starting to change and…

— Becky G

I was very shy growing up. My shyness manifested as a big personality, as opposed to the wallflower personality. It's been a…

— Tracee Ellis Ross

“I'm sorry you don't like coming back here," her mother often said, to cap whatever petty dust-up they'd had. How could Emily…

— Stewart O'Nan

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

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

— Isa Briones

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

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

— Anonymous

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

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

— David Lammy

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

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

— Keith Johnstone

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

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

— Analeigh Tipton

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

— Charlotte Eriksson

Growing up, I watched a lot of TLC - I loved 'Four Weddings' and 'Hoarding: Buried Alive.' They're so binge-able.

— Lili Reinhart

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.

— Anonymous

Being popular does not make any difference to anyone else. What makes you special is making a difference in someone's life.

— Anonymous