Growing up Quotes · Page 106

I loved 'Lord of the Rings,' growing up, so I always wanted to play a wizard with a staff.

— Brian Gleeson

My favorite growing up was Bret Hart. I just idolized him when I was a child; he was my hero.

— Jinder Mahal

Growing up in the north of Holland, I had a healthy and balanced diet.

— Doutzen Kroes

It is rare, I think, for parents to let their children -- of any age -- grow up and become peers.

— Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music.

— Tod Machover

Neverland is a place where you don't grow up, then you have to confront your past.

— Edward Kitsis

I knew who Buckley and Vidal were growing up, being a political junkie.

— Morgan Neville

Growing up in Mississippi, I realized that it was separate and unequal and all that, but it was still a safe place.

— Morgan Freeman

Afraid of growing up? Afraid of losing someone? Afraid of not being good enough? Fear is always with us, but its how…

— Anonymous

Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot,…

— George Mikes

I definitely felt growing up that I wasn't seen as the same as anyone around me because no one around me looked…

— Ncuti Gatwa

We were still at the age when girls are years older than guy, and the guys grow up by doing their best…

— Tana French

When I was growing up and watching 'The Sweeney,' the notion of police officers being an inch away from the villains that…

— Lennie James

I don't want my children to be at a disadvantage, growing up in the limelight, because then they have to live up…

— Chrissie Hynde

I didnt grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, Ive never wanted to speak to an all-white…

— G-Eazy

I think part of growing up is not actually finding a fixed idea of who you are, but rather being like, "Oh,…

— Amandla Stenberg

Sometimes it feels like I've been in the business forever, but then other times, it feels like kind of a flash. Growing…

— Josh Turner

I believe in a world of justice and human rights for all. A world where girls can grow up free of fear…

— Ban Ki-moon

It was there [Dijon], I now understand, that I started to grow up, to study, to make love, to eat and drink,…

— M. F. K. Fisher

It's pretty popular today to say that everybody should learn to fail and that failure's a good thing. Intellectually, it's an obvious…

— Edwin Catmull

The idea of legitimacy is something I suppose I deal with in my fiction, and in part it's probably a response to…

— Lauren Groff

He wanted to care, and he could not care. For he had gone away and he could never go back anymore. The…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

In the cab to the station, he told me that when he was growing up he'd see a look of pleasure cross…

— Anonymous

Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next…

— Fran Lebowitz

My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.

— Ram Kapoor

Everyone wants to grow up to be a faerie princess. Trust me, It's overrated

— Laurell K. Hamilton

I went every Sunday to church when I was growing up, and I think that music had an affect on me before…

— M. Ward

I wasn't attractive when I was growing up, and I don't think I am now.

— Matthew Lewis

While growing up, I lived in a traditional joint family in Mumbai's suburbs.

— Nita Ambani

Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.

— Mitski

As you get older and your responsibilites become greater, your attitude and way of thinking changes.

— Anonymous

My dad was a big runner. Growing up, I watched him do half marathons, and he was always running six or seven…

— Natalie Morales

I'm an Asian guy growing up in London so I see myself as British, but India is part of my culture.

— Dev Patel

I've done karate quite a lot growing up so I did do a kind of quite long karate scene.

— Suki Waterhouse

There is a day when you realize that your mind is the only thing standing between you and happiness.

— Anonymous

Growing up and being bullied, it's not a sad story for me. It's defined me and what made me so strong.

— Liz Cambage

When I was growing up, you sort of did the unthinkable. You did something that has never really been replicated.

— Jason Wu

Growing up in the '90s, I just loved 'Ice Ice Baby.' I knew, and still know, every single word to that song.

— Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

Acting never crossed my mind for a moment when I was growing up.

— Tommy Flanagan

I love being me, I do my own shit I'm weird, I do shit that normal people wouldn't do… I'm Different…

— Javier Horta