Growing up Quotes · Page 292

Every leader wants to put his or her imprint on the work that they do, and grow up in specific eras.

— George Papandreou

Many kinds of fruit grow upon the tree of life, but none so sweet as friendship; as with the orange tree its…

— Lucy Larcom

You literally can shoot someone in the face on television and a 7-year-old can watch it. But you can't show the slight…

— Shonda Rhimes

I don't think I ate a green vegetable until I was 30. I didn't grow up with a mom who enforced that…

— Keri Russell

I went into the Army, and one day, in the middle of a bull session, somebody called me an atheist. Believe it…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

When I was growing up, softball had stereotypes along with other female sports. But society is definitely changing since the WNBA and…

— Jennie Finch

I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.

— Damian Lewis

I'm sure a lot of you had this experience when you're changing. You're growing as a person and people tend to treat…

— Steve Jobs

“Every change, those subtle-slow, and those drastically sudden, has brought me into myself.”

— Amanda Linsmeier

I come from a small county outside of Washington DC called PG County, and me, my mom, my brother, we moved so…

— Kevin Durant

All of us growing up, if you're a professional player or a college player, you're molding your game after guys. You see…

— Calvin Johnson

[On libraries] What's great about them is that anybody can go into them and find a book and borrow it free of…

— Stephen Fry

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.

— Dorothy Allison

Remember, it's mandatory to grow old, but it's optional to grow up.

— Anonymous

While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an ambassador, an actor, an author.

— Karen Hesse

I've only ever known growing up across different countries - to me it's just fun.

— Lily Collins

I'm definitely incredibly attracted to the aesthetic of what is typically deemed goth stuff, but. A lot of my experience growing up…

— Jhonen Vasquez

I'll never, ever be full. I'll always be hungry. Obviously, I'm not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such…

— Dwayne Johnson

It's so funny, because when I was growing up in a small town in New Hampshire, I was obsessed with Leonardo DiCaprio…

— Eliza Coupe

I've done quite a lot of growing up in public, which has been tricky at times.

— Jaime Winstone

Over the years, you grow up, you mature and you see things in a different way, and it's reflected in the writing.

— Neil Diamond

That's something I loved growing up - the other team yelling, hyped, student section, all of that gets me going.

— Kevin Knox

You know it's said that you make your own face. So you don't really have a face until you are 30 or…

— Nan Goldin

I think just growing up in Miami, there's gumbo of different cultures that influence us.

— Flo Rida

Sure, I've felt racism. I think everybody has prejudice. When I was growing up, the dark Mexican kids weren't allowed in the…

— Lee Trevino