Growing up Quotes · Page 92

I was always determined to earn my own cash, even when I was at school and growing up at home.

— Gethin Jones

Acting was my after-school activity. I never planned on growing up and becoming an actor.

— Sara Paxton

Freddie Mercury, to me, was probably the most important frontman to me growing up.

— Gerard Way

You cannot fulfill GOD's purpose for your life while focusing on your own plans.

— Collins Hasty

That awkward moment when...someone who used to be dorky, went through puberty and is now really hot.

— Anonymous

One of my biggest influences growing up was Jamie O'Brien. He was like an older brother to me.

— John John Florence

Growing up is mostly the process of having to acknowledge the differences between your world and the whole world.

— Glenn Kelman

My parents were so relaxed by the time I was growing up that I got away with a lot more.

— Rose Byrne

Everyone dreams of playing in the top leagues in Europe and the Premier League is obviously up there. Growing up in England,…

— Jack Harrison

The sense of being led by an unseen hand which takes mine, while another hand reaches ahead and prepares the way, grows…

— Frank Laubach

As a kid, you're starting to grow up and want more freedoms. But if you have people who are absorbing and adopting…

— Mahershala Ali

I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me.…

— Annie Baker

I didn't grow up with money, but I grew up with a lot of space. All I did was surf. I was…

— Simon Baker

I don't think anyone wants to grow up to be Mindy Lahiri, the same way no one wants to grow up to…

— Mindy Kaling

I mean, I grew up riding. I can't ever remember not being able to ride or rope and all that stuff. It…

— Tim McGraw

Even when I was growing up in the academy there were always young players getting chances - Jack Wilshere, Alex Iwobi -…

— Emile Smith Rowe

I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so many siblings. We…

— Joaquin Phoenix

I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small…

— Maria Edgeworth

I was a precocious only child, and then I went through a fat, awkward stage for several years, so I learned to…

— Ari Graynor

My father owned a music store when I was growing up in Rock Falls, Illinois. He could play all the instruments, which…

— Louie Bellson

When you get into the entertainment business, you have to grow up a lot faster, because you're working nine and a half…

— Lizzy Greene

My point, though, is that if lines have indeed shifted, it's not so much that the younger generation just doesn't care, it's…

— Astra Taylor

I suppose even when I was growing up, I noticed I was most happy when I was absorbed in something, lost in…

— Pico Iyer

My kids are obviously growing up very privileged, but I want them to have a servant's heart. We do community service as…

— Kelly Clarkson

“They had entered the thorny wilderness, and the golden gates of their childhood had for ever closed behind them.”

— George Eliot

We spend the first half of our lives trying to grow up and the other half trying to figure out how we…

— Nishan Panwar

Growing up, I never saw anyone like me on TV, so I was honoured to win a Logie, but it's definitely not…

— Dylan Alcott

I have these "pinch me" moments when I realize I got to be the thing I wanted to be growing up. I'm…

— Jennifer Weiner

My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in…

— Lindi Ortega

When I was growing up, it was so embarrassing to be from Jersey.

— Tate Donovan

I was really squeamish growing up - not too fond of blood and guts.

— Trevante Rhodes

I'm not trying to be like what I thought an NBA player is supposed to be growing up.

— Kevin Durant

'Ders' is something I've been called since I was six by neighbors and stuff growing up.

— Anders Holm

As far as ethnicity, you grow up being sensitive to things around you and then become more proactive about it.

— Prefuse 73

We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up.

— Geri Halliwell

Growing up, I listened to a lot of Queen and Lauryn Hill because of my dad. Those are songs that have messages.

— CL

I knew what it was like growing up in a world where I never saw myself in anything.

— Kelly Marie Tran

Acting was always a secret desire of mine when I was growing up.

— Andrea Navedo

Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.

— Jodi Picoult

You never know what's going on in somebody's mind. There's a lot of pressure on someone growing up. You have to watch…

— Tupac Shakur