Growing up Quotes · Page 21

Growing up in Britain as a rather loose Jew, the two things that didn't belong together were freedom and religious intensity. In…

— Simon Schama

My parents gave up things for me when I was growing up.

— Roberto Firmino

The reason we grow up to be healthy adults is because our parents played this game of giving us responsibility, disciplining us…

— Simon Sinek

I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the…

— Edwidge Danticat

I was a cheerleader growing up, so I can relate to that!

— Kelly Stables

Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd.

— Madonna Ciccone

I'm no stranger to a corner shop. That was my second home, growing up.

— Raye

Why can't you fly now, mother?" "Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forget the way." "Why do…

— Anonymous

When I say myself, I don't mean just as a woman of color, as a girl who's growing up in the Bronx,…

— Sofia Quintero

Sometime we've got to shut up, swallow our pride and accept that we were wrong,its not giving up, its growing up.

— Unknow

As we grow up we we stop having a ton of friends and we learn that it's more important to have a…

— Anonymous

It's easy when you grow up in fear to act out of fear. I don't want to embrace that fear; I prefer…

— Akhil Sharma

This wasn't Weirdville, this was fricking Wonderland. Alice here was all grow up, but she was still chowing down on too much…

— Suzanne Brockmann

I don't want to be considered a hero.... Imagine [if] young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to…

— Miep Gies

If you grow up in Britain, you just do Shakespeare. If you go and work in a theater once or twice or…

— Timothy Dalton

“It’s hard to have done all one’s growing up since 33 — but that’s a damn sight better than not growing up…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“I got tired, I told him. Not worn out, but worn through. Like one of those wives who wakes up one morning…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

The only black folks in town when I was growing up were me and my cousins and one other family.

— Courtney A. Kemp

I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear…

— Mark Twain

Im pretty shy when I go home because I was pretty shy growing up, and I think I go back to that…

— Kerry Condon

I've played a lot of people in ping-pong. I had a table growing up.

— Danny Amendola

When I was growing up in Russia, my grandmothers would cook the best pancakes in the world, the best meatballs, the best…

— Irina Shayk

[Kids] will grow up into a world that's difficult and wonderful, and they'll make the best of it they can, and hopefully…

— Bill McKibben

I don't think I ever set my goals that high. As a kid growing up I just wanted an opportunity to race…

— Larry Dixon

I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they…

— Jodi Picoult