Growing up Quotes · Page 76

When I was growing up, the really, really cool super heroes were all male - so I wanted to be them.

— Virginia Madsen

I had a very close relationship with another kid when I was growing up. I was his imaginary friend.

— Emo Philips

It might be a little embarrassing, but I never ever missed an episode of 'Dawson's Creek' growing up.

— Brett Young

Growing up, I wasnt sure about acting, but I knew I wanted to be part of the movie industry.

— Daniella Alonso

Equestrian and sailing are sports for people growing up on the mean streets of Connecticut.

— Craig Ferguson

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of role models - Bonnie Raitt, Lita Ford, Jennifer Batten.

— Orianthi

Growing up, I didn't have a lot and always wanted things. But I was too prideful to ask for anything; I always…

— DeMar DeRozan

One of the expectations growing up was that I'd become a well-known artist.

— Domino Kirke

My parents manage my money, though growing up I was very hands on with investments and made all the decisions, even on…

— Anupriya Goenka

Actually, I think I'm part of the last generation to grow up believing in magic and fairies and believing I had powers…

— Alice Englert

When I was growing up as a kid, it was always, 'Oh, you're being bullied. Well, toughen up. Get some tough skin…

— Sheamus

I was an athlete growing up. I did a lot of sports: soccer, basketball, so I was always so used to hardcore…

— Jacquelyn Jablonski

I think a lot of my girlfriends growing up gave themselves up to any boy who paid attention to them. I think…

— Bo Derek

When I was growing up, Sunday lunch was my favorite time as a child. We would have a big Sunday English meal,…

— Joanna Coles

When asked what I'd be if I weren't a writer, I'm tempted to respond with one of father's favorite phrases, one I…

— Cate Marvin

I don't really remember much about Kosovo. I only remember growing up in London, where my parents had to basically start from…

— Rita Ora

My favorite comic book growing up was 'Thor.' It was one of my three, favorite comic books. Obviously, Marvel is such a…

— Joseph Gatt

It would be hard to imagine Heaven without children. It wouldn't be Heaven! It would be a pretty boring place without children.…

— David Berg

Our contradictions. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves…

— Paulo Coelho

... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and…

— Charles Dickens

“If we use child in a good sense (it has also legitimately a bad one) we must not allow that to push…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

Adrian might be brash and impertinent, but he knew how to move. Maybe dance lessons had been part of growing up in…

— Richelle Mead

When I grew up, my father taught us the value of hard work. He wanted us to enjoy ourselves, but he also…

— Andrew Luck

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady, and the other was to be independent. The study…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I was not allowed to talk about being adopted when growing up. I walked around feeling like I was going to explode.

— Michael Nyqvist

I was taught to fighter like Sugar Ray Leonard and Muhammad Ali when I was growing up.

— Nonito Donaire

Growing up, I had to cobble together a scarecrow of things I loved from various different writers.

— Jenny Zhang

Grow up. Get a life. Life is pain. Anybody who tells you something other than that is trying to sell you something.

— Frederick Lenz

Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.

— Shawn Ashmore

Youth is not immortality, more than anything, youth is the power to make choices.

— Anonymous

Growing up in California, my best friend was Morris Rabinowitz and we often went to the Yiddish Theater.

— Frank Sinatra Jr

My mom was a single mom and I'm an only child, so growing up it was really just me and her against…

— Denise Bidot

I knew that it was harder to unite two lives than I had imagined growing up. I knew that relationships could be…

— Jill Biden

Part of me is still waiting to grow up, to be an adult, and the other part knows there is no such…

— Richard Dreyfuss

Growing up, every team that I've played on, I was a pretty important piece to the team.

— Amari Cooper

We teach what we need to learn. And we teach it until we get it.

— Anonymous

While growing up, girls are being conditioned to feel that they have to accept their husbands any way.

— Jaya Prada

My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no…

— Alexa Ray Joel

I grew up learning this stuff on the streets of New York. My brother and I used to play in the subway…

— Don Alias

I've learned that not all goodbyes are sweet or bitter; sometimes they just don't have flavor

— Hmm