Growing up Quotes · Page 110

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

[White House] feels even more like home now because you have all these memories that were formed watching your kids grow up.

— Barack Obama

“I'm going to go throw up now, because ive turned into my dad. If vomiting doesn't work, I'll see if I can…

— Veronica Blade

You cant say you grew up while youre still living, cuz you will keep growing up as long theres life and everyday…

— Blaze Olamiday

“Not everybody gets to grow up. First you have to survive your childhood, and then begins the hard work of growing into…

— Gail Godwin

Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling.

— Moby

When I was growing up, all the art that touched me was lens-generated, like Gerhard Richter, or Polke, Rauschenberg, Warhol.

— Wolfgang Tillmans

Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the…

— Michael Caine

“I remembered learning from my favorite professor at Belmont to “surround yourself with people who are better than you,” and I was…

— Kimberly Novosel

I was always okay with the fact that I was taller and bigger than everybody else growing up. My mom, my dad,…

— Jordin Sparks

I don't really have an issue with showing certain parts of my body. I'd rather not, but it's not a big deal.…

— Malin Akerman

Growing up poor is precisely as demeaning as you'd expect, and while forgiving bullies is easy, reliving those experiences emotionally is deeply…

— Dawn Foster

Obviously for me, growing up and watching F1 and dreaming of being a Formula 1 driver, I mean, it was every kid's…

— George Russell

A lot of pubs in London are now faceless, expensive yuppy bars. Not like when I was growing up. The pub used…

— Jason Flemyng

I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star…

— Patti Smith

“That was the problem, wasn't it? You left home. But you never did become an adult. Not really. You just fucked up…

— Mark Haddon

Any swagger is just defense. When youre reminded so much of who you are by people - not a fame thing, but…

— Peter Dinklage

When I was growing up there were plenty of boys' teams around. But the problem was that not many of the coaches…

— Leah Williamson

I watched American TV shows: Starsky & Hutch, Dallas, Rockford Files, Bonanza. And for many summers growing up, I worked on my…

— Scott Raab

Though I technically come from a film family, my father had stopped making films even before my brother and I were born.…

— Rani Mukerji

Maybe children just want whatever it is they don't get. And then they grow up and give their children what they wanted,…

— Laura Moriarty

“My father used to say that when he was growing up the water was clear and there were tons of fireflies everywhere...…

— Fuyumi Soryo

Acting was something I did growing up. I never it took it too seriously; it was just one of those things I…

— Stephen Colletti

You grow up inside these neighborhoods and these communities, and you have friends, friends that you love, friends that you grew up…

— Kendrick Lamar

There weren't many black players when I was growing up, and I remember playing and looking up to the ones that were…

— Jarome Iginla

Growing up working class, there's nothing more hurtful than working hard and then not being able to provide for your family.

— Ruben Gallego

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.

— Claire Danes

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 was very lucky growing up, and I got all my dad's and aunts' toys from the 1950s and 1960s and loved…

— Jasmine Guinness

Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.

— Robert Harris

[My parents] met in university back in the '70s. And I didn't grow up with my father. He - they separated before…

— Kehinde Wiley

I was a big fan of Kurt Angle when I was growing up. Actually, his book is a big part of the…

— Cesaro

In the course of an average lifetime anyone growing up in a house with such a clock will hear the tune over…

— Dudley Moore

Growing up I always shopped at Victoria's Secret with my mom and saw Angels like Gisele and Karolina Kurkova in the windows.

— Lindsay Ellingson

When I was a child growing up in Glasgow my parents did Christmas incredibly well. They were as excited about it as…

— Douglas Henshall

My world was small growing up. I never really left the three-mile radius of my tiny neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley.

— Brian Grazer

When you are growing up you dream about playing at Wembley for City on a big stage, and that's a dream come…

— Phil Foden

That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.

— William Butler Yeats

I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality…

— Gary Shteyngart