Growing up Quotes · Page 177

I was sort of growing up at a time of really rapidly expanding ecological consciousness. It was a time of reckoning when…

— Karen Russell

The boy grows upward, but the girl grows up.

— Patrick Rothfuss

When I did TV shows and movies, the studios did demographic research. They were shocked to find that my audience isn't just…

— Pamela Anderson

The writing is clean. I really wouldn't have changed a word. Most of it is true, too, except that the hero quits…

— Melissa Bank

I think as you grow up and you see things which are around you and you ask questions and you hear the…

— Chinua Achebe

All the Americans in the study were native born, but the height of the mother does affect the growth potential of the…

— Richard H. Steckel

When I was growing up, there were pop stations, rock 'n' roll stations and the rare country station.

— Eddie Rabbitt

I must confess my distaste for any proposal to use public funds for the support of selected, and thereby, privileged, industrialists, the…

— John James Cowperthwaite

I've got some growing up to do.

— G-Eazy

I have made plenty of mistakes. The key to life is to learn from them. I have been a little too introspective,…

— Richard Gere

It means everything to be a father. I had a father growing up, so I wanted my kids to have a father…

— Mustard

To describe our growing up in the lowcountry of South Carolina, I would have to take you to the marsh on a…

— Pat Conroy

I got in a lot of fights growing up, and not just basketball fights.

— Avery Bradley

Growing up in public is a test, and not many people know how to do it.

— Johnny Marr

The most physical, most annoying games I ever played in my life were against my brothers growing up.

— Marcus Smart

I used to have elocution lessons when I was growing up, and then it kind of got to the point where I…

— Megan McKenna

My style is chic, streamlined and original. I don't like to wear the same things as other people - I push boundaries.…

— Ashley Leggat

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding…

— Horace Mann

I think it's very important not to grow up with the unhealthy amount of attention that is sometimes put on people because…

— Helen McCrory

Growing up in South Jersey, I have always been an Eagles fan. I don't paint my face or anything like that, but…

— Frank Vogel

Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives.

— Chris Hemsworth

I would like to have seen my sons growing up.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

I've always been sort of drawn to storytelling, and I was always very playful growing up.

— Megan Boone

I didn't really have an interest in politics when I first entered the workforce. What I wanted to do was help people…

— Kyrsten Sinema

My parents manage my money, though growing up I was very hands on with investments and made all the decisions, even on…

— Anupriya Goenka

I worry about kids today - because of the sexual revolution, they're going to grow up and never know what "dirty" means.

— Lily Tomlin

Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese…

— Hamdi Ulukaya

Love is rather impotent and pitiful: My father must have told me a million times how much he loved me, but that…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

I knew I was Chinese, but growing up, it never occurred to me that that had any particular implication or that it…

— David Henry Hwang

I didn't have very many friends growing up. I was very much a nerd. I read comic books, and I wanted to…

— Xavier Woods

That's where the outrage should be, not old news, but the fact that we are preparing for the transfer of power. and…

— John Lewis

I think growing up, you just deal with 'I'm ugly,' or 'I don't look right,' or 'my hair is wrong,' and it's…

— Jillian Hervey

Growing up, I was confused about my identity: I felt like I wasn't black enough to be black, but not white enough…

— Mabel

I know what it feels like to be one of those conservative rugby lads because I went to a similar school growing…

— Nicholas Galitzine

As a kid when I was growing up, as any kid, you think you know every thing and I was no different…

— Tiger Woods

I don't like to be picked on. Growing up where I did you learn to fight.

— Dizzee Rascal

Relationships, if you want them to work, take work. The biggest thing that I learned growing up, and even now, is if…

— Josh Duhamel

I was so anxious to grow up, and now I'm wishing I was still a kid.

— Dillon Lane

I go back there and all my friends are there when I have my golf tournament. They treat me the same way…

— Jamie Farr

I believe that the world will be a safer place if there is enough food to go around, that it will be…

— Bill Gates