Growing up Quotes · Page 106

As a kid growing up in a rural area, I was always tinkering with parts and machinery.

— Mike Schultz

What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of therules…

— Laurence Steinberg

I've played off the left, off the right, false nine, and in the middle. But from growing up, I've always played in…

— Phil Foden

“We're meant to stay connected to our hearts, you see. Feeling our feelings, present in the moments we're given. But we don't…

— Denise Hildreth Jones

Even when I was out on tour I used to fly home on the weekends to be with my girl and be…

— Rakim

When I was growing up, it was the religious conservatives that had the moral panic about music and swear words.

— Tim Pool

At a certain point we need to grow up; we need to look inside ourselves for our inner guidance. There are things…

— Adyashanti

Growing up in Houston I did go through the public school system. I went to Parker Elementary, Johnston Junior High and Westbury…

— Shannon Walker

I came up with a lot of characters when I was growing up that were just creative outlets, and then, at one…

— Gus Dapperton

I always felt growing up that in the South there was evil but also good - so much good.

— John Lewis

Growing up, you want to make it to the NBA. That's everyone's goal.

— Collin Sexton

“The British boy suffers the greatest restraint during the period when the call of nature, the instincts of play and adventure, are…

— William Henry Hudson

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

— Sylvia Brownrigg

“However, now she was a schoolgirl no longer. She had discovered how to manage her hair, had been to one or two…

— Monica Dickens

We all know from growing up with TV that John Wells shows are usually very large ensembles with amazingly written characters. He…

— Michael Cudlitz

I have always been very family-oriented. I came from a dysfunctional, broken family growing up, and it's probably instilled in me the…

— Octavia Spencer

Back in the days when I was growing up, the SWAC had as good of talent as any schools in the state.

— James Green

I started as a stand-up comedian. I wanted to be Carol Burnett when I was growing up.

— Stephanie Miller

When I was growing up I was on a really tight budget. There was a lot I couldn't do. My mom encouraged…

— Jim Bob Duggar

Growing up, I kind of liked the way he (Thurman Munson) played. I didn't see much of him, but I remember him…

— Jorge Posada

The saddest thing was actually getting fed up with one another. It's like growing up in a family. When you get to…

— George Harrison

One Of These Days either you are gonna become bigger than your flaws or they are gonna destroy you.

— Enhance Dreams

[Flying kite with my friends] is one of the seminal memories of growing up for me.

— Khaled Hosseini

Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up at the…

— Luke Bryan

As the only girl growing up among three brothers, I was always afraid of being excluded. If there was a game to…

— Elisabeth Shue

All these child stars grow up and they're knockin' over banks and getting prostitutes. I'm, like, one of the only people I…

— Dustin Diamond

Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

...You don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations…

— Chris Crutcher

When I started supporting Man United, Dwight Yorke and Andy Cole were my heroes growing up.

— Odion Ighalo

I've always been sensitive to the phrase 'like a girl,' especially when I was growing up and was told I couldn't play…

— Hilary Knight

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up.

— Caroline Kennedy

I played a lot of baseball growing up, and I always hit better if I kept moving before the pitch instead of…

— Jason Dufner

“We're growing up and I don't like it," said Tacy, as they say at Heinz's later, drinking coffee.”

— Maud Hart Lovelace

I think so much of what informs us as performers is what we had to endure as kids growing up. I was…

— Sandra Bernhard

Growing up, I dreamed about playing in the NBA.

— Julius Randle

When I was growing up, it was 'Communists'. Now it's 'Terrorists'. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be…

— Cindy Sheehan

There have been times I almost got a persecution complex. I felt like people wouldn't let me grow up. They always saw…

— Ricky Schroder

How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second…

— Tavis Smiley

I was a big fan of Coolio, growing up, and I was excited to meet him. We played golf, which definitely is…

— Catherine Reitman

I certainly and deliberately introduced a great deal of variety into the people in the clamshell, which I suppose grows out of…

— Bill Reid