Growing up Quotes · Page 77

The world my children are growing up in is so much more sophisticated and exposed - emotionally, intellectually, sexually.

— Amy Grant

I had to learn to stand up for myself, because I was small growing up.

— Josh Taylor

You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be…

— Neil Gaiman

People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I was a big fan of Kurt Russell growing up and I always wanted to be the modern day Kurt Russell.

— Adam Sandler

Because the weak do not want to get preyed on by the strong, they had to evolve

— Anonymous

“Estragon: They're too big Vladimir: Perhaps you'll have socks some day”

— Samuel Beckett

I love being the bad guy, simply because I was always so responsible, so predictable growing up.

— Sandra Brown

I used to get made fun of a lot for being a male dancer, especially growing up in Boston. Kids are terrible,…

— Kenny Wormald

I first became aware of Charles Darwin and evolution while still a schoolboy growing up in Chicago. My father and I had…

— James D. Watson

As a post-Holocaust kid, growing up in a neighborhood with a lot of Jewish refugees, I had got the idea there were…

— Mark Kurlansky

I was growing up in the New Wave period, but that wasn't allowed in school. I remember moments when they wouldn't let…

— Raf Simons

I'm not one to bow under immense pressure. I know how to deal with it. As a youth player growing up and…

— Ruben Loftus-Cheek

Since my father is a musician as well, he taught me growing up that if you can play jazz, you can learn…

— Meghan Trainor

“He told me that if I hung up, he'd do it. He would commit suicide. He told me that if I called…

— Sierra D. Waters

As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad…

— Taryn Manning

I'm working hard to have a good life. You don't need fancy things to feel good. You can hug a puppy. You…

— Joan Bauer

As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital…

— Karen Finerman

I've had enormous luck and enormous pleasure in working in such forms as movies and plays that I loved when I was…

— Jules Feiffer

I think of my father growing up in South Jersey, the son of second-generation German immigrant glassblowers. The opportunities for him of…

— Anne Waldman

“Brushing my little teeth every morning of my childhood, I stood on my tippy toes, leaned over the sink and said to…

— Audrey Regan

I still carry the residue of the pressure I felt as a child to read and appreciate the right books. Growing up,…

— Noah Baumbach

When you grow up in Bel Air and shop only in expensive boutiques on Rodeo and Robertson, you develop a kind of…

— Nicole Richie

Growing up north of San Francisco, I immersed myself in the local landscape and in books about Native Americans, cowboys, and pioneers…

— Rebecca Solnit

If you had a son, it would be a great thing to have him grow up to be just like Gil Hodges.

— Pee Wee Reese

My guy growing up was Deacon Jones from Eatonville, Florida, where I'm from.

— Ha Ha Clinton-Dix

I'm just humbled Hank Aaron even knows who I am. Growing up in Georgia... he's a legend everywhere, but even more so…

— Buster Posey

I'm actually a Type 1 diabetic, so growing up, I had to eat pretty healthy.

— Derek Theler

My mother always told me growing up I had a punchable face. Little did I know she was predicting my television career.

— Michael Emerson

“I am a kind of joke, but the question is: which kind? My job is to keep everyone guessing.”

— Gary Shteyngart

“If I could have all of those things, I wouldn't mind if I touched her or not.”

— Nick Hornby

It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-'80s, and we had the '85 Bears and the…

— Bailey Chase

I just want to show other young kids growing up that it is not about just staying in England, getting loans. Explore.

— Jadon Sancho

Growing up, we were pretty much focused on becoming WWE superstars.

— Christian Cage

Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.

— Beverley Mitchell

Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the…

— Michael Caine

When we grow up, we lose the talent for loving without restrictions.

— Nora Roberts

Teacher: What do you want to be when you grow up? Marji: I'll be a prophet.

— Marjane Satrapi

I watched 'A Chorus Line' over and over when I was growing up, to the point that I was able to recite…

— Sharni Vinson

There is a lot of learning I have to do and a lot of growing up I have to do.

— Bubba Watson