Growing up Quotes · Page 140

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can…

— Barbara Kingsolver

The monk at St. Meinrad took his hands and placed them on my shoulders, peered straight into my eyes and said, ‘I…

— Sue Monk Kidd

Growing up, I used to think I'd never get on a plane - I was terrified. But when I joined Mis-Teeq, being…

— Alesha Dixon

I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.

— Mike Krzyzewski

When growing up, there were never any conversations about the past, because if you don't ask the questions, you never get the…

— Dervla Kirwan

I knew what the Dodgers uniform represented as a kid growing up in Brooklyn.

— Joe Torre

I was always small. I was a leadoff hitter growing up, until I was 13 or 14 years old and had a…

— Ryan Braun

I'm South American, and growing up in New York, I had the total stereotypical way of thinking of what Texas was about.…

— Paula Garces

When I was growing up, the top movies dealt with grown-up, complex emotions.

— John Slattery

I've always been a big-time Scottie Pippen fan. That was my guy growing up!

— Jalen Rose

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I had a lot of growing and a lot of denying of self to do. I am not easily won over, but…

— Willie Aames

When I was growing up, because I was a bit overweight and boyish, I thought I wasn't attractive to the opposite sex,…

— Maxine Peake

Well, I don't want to talk too much about my children, but a friend of one of my children, something really terrible…

— Lukas Moodysson

I felt like that growing up - that I didn't have a voice.

— Marianne Elliott

My dad is a preacher. Growing up, I went to church every time the doors were open.

— Morgan Wallen

I loved Disney. 'Fantasia' was my first, favorite Disney movie. And it just kept going. I loved 'Bambi.' I loved 'Cinderella,' 'Lady…

— Anika Noni Rose

One of my dreams growing up was to be in a soap.

— Chrishell Stause

Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.

— David Blaine

“Our parents thought we might be corrupted by one another into becoming whatever it was they most feared: an incorrigible masturbator, a…

— Julian Barnes

It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and…

— Sarah Dessen

Growing up is loving what you can afford to.

— Babs Deal

I was an athlete growing up. I did a lot of sports: soccer, basketball, so I was always so used to hardcore…

— Jacquelyn Jablonski

Life should be a continual celebration, a festival of lights the whole year round. Only then can you grow up, can you…

— Rajneesh

When it comes to dance hall music, I definitely listened to a lot of Vybz Kartel growing up or Gyptian and Mavado.

— Justine Skye

“Time' is the most threatening four letter word.”

— Jennifer Elisabeth

I was privileged to grow up in Mexico at a time when you could play in the streets. We lived not too…

— Salma Hayek

I'm from Los Angeles, and growing up here, I've always been enamored by Hollywood and the industry. It's just something I grew…

— Skyler Samuels

Growing up, the Opry was my Hollywood.

— Ashley McBryde

Juanes is one of the legendary, iconic Colombian artists. Growing up in Colombia, you can't really not have him on your radar.…

— Kali Uchis

Growing up as an amateur, I wasn't much of a power puncher. I was more of a speed guy.

— Nonito Donaire

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

— Maureen Daly

We're growing up with a very illiterate bunch of children who have somehow been taught that film is fact when, in fact,…

— Cate Blanchett

I didn't have a father when I was growing up, and I vowed to be there with my kids.

— Kenyon Martin

I believe that Reverend [Florine] Thompson's hit on something. My parents, I and a lot of my friends growing up in that…

— Condoleezza Rice

. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there's…

— Barbra Streisand

You have responsibilities and if you want to be the best in your industry you need to have a relentless dedication to…

— Danica Patrick

I was definitely scared of fashion growing up just because I didn't want people to think I was gay. But now that…

— Troye Sivan

Growing up north of San Francisco, I immersed myself in the local landscape and in books about Native Americans, cowboys, and pioneers…

— Rebecca Solnit

Is this what it is to get older, to have adventures you can no longer tell your family because you are moving…

— Polly Horvath