Growing up Quotes · Page 80

You grow up trying to interpret, worshipping, visual symbols. It's a body-soaked imagery that you're looking at.

— Robert Gober

I am actually a big sissy, and growing up, I never used to watch horror movies. 'Bambi' gave me nightmares.

— Danielle Panabaker

I had to grow up and learn to listen for the unspoken as well as the spoken-and to know a truth.

— Eudora Welty

I think everyone has their awkward phases. Growing up isn't easy for everyone. I definitely had my awkward moments.

— Emily Ratajkowski

Growing up, when you're in the playground, you want to score a goal like Henry, you want to celebrate a goal like…

— Bukayo Saka

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older.

— Maya Angelou

I think you can show off too much, and that would have been such a no-no from me growing up.

— Ant McPartlin

There weren't a lot of action roles growing up - there were a few, maybe, like Wonder Woman, but then it wasn't…

— Kelly Hu

I never knew Steve Jobs. I met him once, but I never knew him. But growing up in the Silicon Valley, he…

— Jon M. Chu

I didn't grow up with Broadway music. My mother played Perry Como, while I listened to Andy Williams records. Later on it…

— Donny Osmond

So this judge in Virginia rules that a lesbian wasn't fit to raise her own daughter because she might grow up to…

— Chris Cannon

I was very independent growing up, but there were things that were bothering me that I never told anybody. I would talk…

— Janet Jackson

Before 'Austenland,' I got do a lead role in 'Northanger Abbey', which is Jane Austen. Growing up in England, you can't really…

— JJ Feild

I'm a Slovak. And when I was growing up, I believed that I was Czechoslovakian because of what Russia did. They came…

— Jesse Ventura

I don't hide anything about my life, I talk about everything. I talk about it - all kinds of things. I've done…

— Lady Saw

You know it's said that you make your own face. So you don't really have a face until you are 30 or…

— Nan Goldin

God waits patiently for me to wake up, grow up, come to the awareness that great works take time, that nothing truly…

— Jean Royer

When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like…

— Amos Oz

“When I was about nine, my siblings and I fell out of our moving van at an intersection. My dad didn’t notice…

— Dina Kucera

I didn't have cable television growing up; there were only six channels you could watch then. The only really good channel was…

— Iggy Azalea

We're a lukewarm people for all our feast days and hard work. Not much touches us, but we long to be touched.…

— Jeanette Winterson

Women have always been seen as waiting: waited to be asked, waiting for our menses, in fear lest they do or do…

— Adrienne Rich

When we lost something precious, and we'd looked and looked and still couldn't find it, then we didn't have to be completely…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

A baby is born into this world in a state of fear. Total paranoia and awareness. He sees the world with eyes…

— Charles Manson

Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.

— Rachel Boston

New Yorkers always hate LA! I love both cities! I do love the sunshine and the beach after growing up in rainy…

— Louise Roe

I'm not religious. It's an issue, 'cause I've got two little kids, and I feel you can't grow up without knowledge of…

— William H. Macy

Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there.

— Stellan Skarsgard

You know he has grown up to be a gorgeous young man! have you watched the new show he does called PRANKSTARS

— Meslf

I did grow up with a really big interest in math and science; I liked it.

— Linda M. Godwin

To foreswear romantic love forever. To never grow up, never get married. To be maiden eternally.

— Rick Riordan

...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.

— Aldous Huxley

I didn't have very many friends growing up. I was very much a nerd. I read comic books, and I wanted to…

— Xavier Woods

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

— Anonymous

When I was growing up, 'Anna Karenina' was one of my favourite books.

— Paullina Simons

Everyone said to me growing up, "You're like an American. You have to go to America. That's your spiritual home."

— Toby Young

I've had many idols growing up. The inclination for idol worship comes naturally to me.

— Kevin Corrigan

I want my grandkids to grow up in the great outdoors. The last thing I want is for them to grow up…

— Phil Robertson

I've always known exactly who I am, but growing up has always been a struggle. I've even been called an 'it.'

— Jazz Jennings

Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling.

— Moby