Growing up Quotes · Page 94

Growing up, I played football and was always one of the best on the team.

— Jake Paul

Growing up in the 1950s, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, boys were supposed to be athletic.

— Chris Van Allsburg

Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.

— Bobby Cannavale

We didn't have the Grand Ole Opry or country radio stations in Nova Scotia when I was growing up.

— Anne Murray

Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.

— John Cale

When I was a little boy, I told my dad, 'When I grow up, I want to be a musician.' My dad…

— Chet Atkins

Growing up is, after all, only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what every one shares.

— Doris Lessing

I did grow up in New Orleans. I grew up right on the lake, right across the levee.

— Bryan Batt

Everything changes and nothing stays the same but as we grow up, one thing does remain. I was with you before and…

— Anonymous

It's so funny because my mom is Thai and my dad is this big American guy - and our food tastes were…

— Chrissy Teigen

I never had good hair growing up - just had the worst nothing hair - and until I started being rough with…

— Lights

New York City pretty much reeked of music. Reeked of rap and hip-hop. As for me, growing up in a strict West…

— Phife Dawg

If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can detect…

— Jonathan Haidt

As long as we are children, we have the ability to experience things around us--but then we grow used to the world.…

— Jostein Gaarder

My idol when I was growing up was Michael Jordan the basketball player because of his work ethic rather than his talent…

— Justin Timberlake

When I was growing up in the 50s it wasn't quite the same. Fathers were more protective and now they see all…

— Nancy Pelosi

In a way it was a modern story but it played to all those 1980 slasher movies. We did the same thing…

— Todd Farmer

Each and every child in this country is valuable because they are our future as a society. We cannot afford to lose…

— John F. Kerry

You listen to any monologue on late-night TV or just in general, to people talking, and there's always a joke at someone's…

— Ellen DeGeneres

To this day, we get letters at Alternative Tentacles from young teenagers who hide their Dead Kennedys albums behind their mirror or…

— Jello Biafra

I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face that…

— Yunjin Kim

Belonging to a group can provide the child with a variety of resources that an individual friendship often cannot--a sense of collective…

— Zick Rubin

Most kids who grow up in Alaska and spend a fair degree of time in the wilderness, grow up being pretty self-reliant.…

— Leigh Newman

REMEMBER WHEN -- getting HiGH meant on a swing at the playground, the W0RST thing you could get from boys were cooties,…

— Ana Chable

Even growing up, I was always the helper-outer, the sous-chef to my parents.

— Lindsey Vonn

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.

— Dorothy Allison

“I didn't grow up in a Norman Rockwell house... my house was more akin to Norman Lear.”

— Michael P. Naughton

The older you get the more you realize you can't make everyone happy and it's NOT necessary for everyone to like you..

— Nishan Panwar

To a young kid growing up in Canada, America seemed to be crazy about the future; dazzled by it.

— Graydon Carter

The great thing about this jungle of ours is that anyone of you could grow up to be Lord of the apes.

— Gary Larson

Growing up crowds your mind with new thoughts and new feelings so that you forget how you used to think and feel.

— Maureen Daly

I wasn't a kid growing up thinking, 'One day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech.' That wasn't on my mind.

— Adam Sandler

There were many fruit trees in our house when I was growing up and I never missed climbing any of them.

— Babu Antony

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.

— Mr. T

Arguing with a teenager is like wrestling in the mud with a pig...sooner or later you realise that they enjoy it!

— Simi Ngr

It is good to be a young father, a young parent. You have that energy, and you are growing up with them.

— Ayushmann Khurrana

“…girls were like poems: weird, incomprehensible and boring, but those “in the know” assured me that they were beautiful.”

— Jake Vander Ark

I just thank God that I didn't grow up with so much money or privilege because you had to create ways to…

— Kim Basinger

Every time we smile and act like nothings wrong it's called putting everything aside and simply being strong.

— Khat Leen

I'm an English boy. I played a lot of sports growing up, but I never had any kind of workout regimen.

— Stephen Moyer