Growing up Quotes · Page 93

No one grows up thinking they want to be a ghostwriter. No one plans on that job.

— Hilary Liftin

My mom helped me. I was very shy growing up, but my shyness sort of manifested in a big personality.

— Tracee Ellis Ross

It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.

— Fran Drescher

We didn't have a lot of money growing up, so my mom didn't buy a lot of extras, like sweet things.

— Julianne Moore

This was another item about growing up: you encountered all the cliches of love and loss and heartbreak.

— Sylvia Brownrigg

When I was growing up in Newcastle, there was one other Indian girl, and we got confused for each other constantly.

— Geraldine Viswanathan

I was obsessed with Nancy Drew growing up - I couldn't get enough.

— Alexandra Daddario

Please tell me we don't grow up and turn into the adults that drive us crazy.

— Karen Marie Moning

My grandchildren are growing up and they could not understand why the Marcoses are still being crucified although we keep on telling…

— Imelda Marcos

Growing up, the only Asian face I saw on air was Connie Chung or extras on M*A*S*H. That was it. You could…

— Su-chin Pak

Gospel music was the thing that inspired me as a child growing up on a cotton farm, where work was drudgery and…

— Johnny Cash

Growing up, I spent summers with my grandparents in a small seaside town in Croatia. It's the most beautiful place on the…

— Vanya Asher

Coming from Haiti and growing up in Brooklyn, there's a lot of European influence when I get dressed up. I wear a…

— Wyclef Jean

I never really lived outside of the city growing up, but I'm always looking in between the lines of the city, and…

— Feist

I was the teenage kid growing up in New Jersey watching the Tony Awards and thinking, 'Oh, maybe if I'm lucky I'll…

— Jason Alexander

You will find as the children grow up that as a rule children are a bitter disappointment - their greatest object being…

— Queen Victoria

I used to live in Los Angeles, but I didn't want my kids to grow up in the thick of the obsession…

— Woody Harrelson

I have never felt at ease in language. I did not grow up among books or among people who read them. I…

— Gary Lutz

What does seem to be a constant is that I write more emotional stories the older I get. I think a lot…

— Karin Tidbeck

As I look back on it now, I'm thinking of one very vital factor, that one factor being that I was afforded…

— Frank Sinatra, Jr

I don't want to bring my kid to a stadium and sit next to somebody who is shouting racist chants, because it's…

— Shaun Wright-Phillips

I decided to go into politics because my children are growing up, and I became worried about the ways things are being…

— Yair Lapid

One of the tragedies of our day is that too many boys are growing up without guidance of a father, or another…

— Dennis Rainey

The result is that a generation of physicists is growing up who have never exercised any particular degree of individual initiative, who…

— Percy Williams Bridgman

I love the whole Punjabi culture as I have seen it very closely in Delhi in my growing up years.

— Priyanshu Chatterjee

Growing up, I kind of adopted that mentality, going all out, being a warrior.

— Nonito Donaire

I definitely know that I'm quirky. I know that I'm different. Red hair definitely made me different growing up.

— Jayma Mays

I was comfortable as a kid growing up. I had everything I needed.

— Chris Eubank Jr

Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray

— Cassandra Clare

I read Jilly Cooper when I was on the verge of just growing up and I was becoming a woman.

— Georgia Toffolo

Growing up, the one thing I noticed was that everyone seemed to laugh at my jokes wherever I went.

— Lil Dicky

I first learned the power of a Labour government to transform lives growing up in my hometown of Stockport.

— Angela Rayner

Growing up in public is a test, and not many people know how to do it.

— Johnny Marr

Growing up, Mammy always said, 'Never back down from someone you defend yourself.' And that's what I did. I was never afraid.

— Maura Higgins

I like growing up; I feel like I have an old soul. I like the age to match as much as it…

— Elizabeth Gillies

Growing up, I idolised Madhuri Dixit. She's my favourite actress, and I used to pretend I was her all the time.

— Lilly Singh

I've never wanted to be a fireman, in my life. I've never really wanted to grow up and be anything other than…

— David Gordon Green

Growing up in a terraced house in Wolverhampton, just me and my mum, I don't know where I got my love of…

— Denise Lewis

I'd spent summers growing up in Mississippi, so I had an idea of what the South is like.

— Patty Jenkins

I think growing up, people want to put you in a box and label you quite often, just because it's kind of…

— Mabel