Growing up Quotes · Page 255

I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very…

— Margaret Atwood

“I haven’t been very impressed lately. By people, or places, or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed…

— Charlotte Eriksson

I think the desire to be with someone beautiful...I just had such a different experience growing up. To be in a position…

— Chris Pine

I got a lot of empathy from my mother growing up, and I think it prevented me from ever really just writing…

— Matt McGorry

I have always championed the concept of administrators of color. My mother worked in advertising, and growing up, I saw my mother's…

— Lisa Lucas

I was blessed to grow up on a farm, and when you're a farm boy, exercise is part of your lifestyle. Like…

— Cesar Millan

We all feel like outsiders when we're growing up. I think everybody feels like that.

— Taylor Russell

Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the…

— Horace Walpole

I was on the snowboard team at my school, but that was the only sports team I was on. I played soccer…

— Aaron Paul

I was a big fan of Jean-Claude Van-Damme growing up, and I always wanted to be a martial artist 'cause of him.

— Georges St-Pierre

“Moving on should be a required high school class because Lynchburg is determined to make me forget.”

— Taylor Rhodes

Don't move to Seattle and write a stupid sex advice column. That's a waste of time and you need to grow up…

— Dan Savage

When I was growing up, there were a lot more arts in the public schools. Politically, America has screwed up on that.

— Julie Taymor

I was very small when I started making music. I think the first song might have been when I was, like, in…

— Jessie Reyez

I guess I probably took New York for granted. Growing up, playing in the street, going down to the Avenue to the…

— Noah Baumbach

Growing up I thought I might be the only black person in the world.

— Ncuti Gatwa

When we were growing up, our mother taught us never to have your belly button exposed.

— Mary-Kate Olsen

The whole band is from Alaska. It's like growing up anywhere else.

— John Gourley

Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.

— Barbara Steele

I loved watching Cynthia Cooper growing up when she played for the Houston Comets.

— Maya Moore

I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up.

— Lisa Bonet

I just didn't work that much while the kids were growing up.

— Jill Clayburgh

“Who told you you couldn't come back when you're grown? Was it the same person who told you grown-ups don't cry or…

— Catherynne M. Valente

I never thought I'd be a comedian. But, growing up, I simply loved watching comedy. The '80s was huge for comedy in…

— Arj Barker

I didn't know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didn't know any arty types.

— Stephen Mangan