Growing up Quotes · Page 75

Remember, it's mandatory to grow old, but it's optional to grow up.

— Anonymous

Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives.

— Chris Hemsworth

I didn't see a lot of women who looked like me on TV when I was growing up.

— Kelly McCreary

I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to…

— Chris Isaak

Don't try to grow up to fast because one day you will want to be a kid again!

— Anonymous

The best discovery true friends can make is growing up without growing apart.

— Anonymous

There are people that helped me growing up. I want to be able to help people that are not able to help…

— Sony Michel

When I was growing up, one or two girls were beautiful, but it was not an aspiration, right?

— Susie Orbach

Growing up in the eighties, you could go from one style in a movie to another style, and that was okay. In…

— Alexandre Aja

I think as a gay person, there was no way in my generation to not grow up with shame and a sense…

— Ira Sachs

So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the…

— Cee Lo Green

Making a living out of acting sounded like science-fiction when I was growing up. I didn't know anyone around me who lived…

— Penelope Cruz

I don't want my kids to grow up with no father like I did. I came to the conclusion a while ago…

— Benjamin Carson

One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when…

— Christian Bale

Growing up, I had a terrible pudding-bowl haircut. I used to cut it myself, and I'd sew my own clothing, too. I…

— Becki Newton

My whole mind-set growing up was that I was not going to let myself be one of those Rockford people who didn't…

— Fred VanVleet

My parents were extraordinarily focused on education. It was the topic of every dinner conversation, is are you number one, are you…

— Michelle Rhee

Growing up I was very into art. In high school I was into the surrealists and impressionists, and I loved Klimt. In…

— Chloe Sevigny

I didn't grow up in a creative environment. It was very boring town, boring everything. You go to school and you basically…

— Rob Zombie

When you grow up, some areas of the world are out of your knowledge - especially when I grew up, in the…

— Paola Pivi

“There is hell and there is war. The two are difficult to distinguish, but hopefully you’ll never know the sting of either.…

— Sarah Domet

I didn't grow up in one of those restrictive Christian households where you couldn't do this or that. We were brought up…

— Yolanda Adams

I'm from the Midwest, and I loved my family. I had a very good time as a child, but I was also…

— Bob Balaban

Let's concede that we have decided to let our children grow up in two separate nations, and lead two separate kinds of…

— Jonathan Kozol

There is a certain expectation of girls to eventually grow up and behave and fall in line. I've always bucked against that.

— Lizzy Caplan

I'd always been quite quiet growing up, and singing was a way of having a voice.

— Leona Lewis

If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't…

— Junot Diaz

I'm from Sacramento, and I have no idea what growing up in a city is like.

— Lela Loren

I followed Man United growing up, and still have a little feeling for them I suppose. I still enjoy watching them.

— Dwight Gayle

I was able to grow up and do silly things and have a life with only a small amount of public scrutiny.

— Keisha Castle-Hughes

I would say out of all the things I studied growing up, math was probably one of the things that I liked…

— Hikaru Nakamura

While growing up, every sitcom you could think of, I would watch it, and I loved it.

— Jennifer Bini Taylor

As a youngster, I played in Little League, Pony League, and all sorts of amateur baseball programs growing up.

— Jim Evans

Pause & remember: Each step is a victory. Every fall is a lesson. Either way, you are growing and improving.

— Anonymous

When I was growing up, you could get arrested for skateboarding, and now it's going to be in the Olympics.

— Ti West

I was used to always having a stack of Korean television VHS tapes growing up.

— Lee Isaac Chung

“I never left because a part of me will always be in that house...”

— J.X. Burros

When I was growing up I never babysat. I was considered to 'punk rock' to be trusted with kids.

— Angelina Jolie

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

— Sydney Pollack

Since I was growing up, I was always the younger one playing with older guys. They called me Young Bull and that…

— Collin Sexton