Growing up Quotes · Page 49

Working with UNICEF made me grow up and recognize how fortunate I am.

— Roger Moore

That pain will always be there, but it's slowly fading, soon it'll just be a small numbness:)

— Rachel Copeland

Growing up, we loved 'The Royle Family'. Caroline Aherne, she was just incredible.

— Daisy May Cooper

I learned to cook from my mom. Most of what I ate growing up was Italian cooking.

— Steve Albini

To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as…

— Henning Mankell

It is frustrating, because who wants to grow up and follow their parents?

— Chelsea Clinton

Our father never had to yell at us much when we were growing up. No one ever wanted to let Dad down.

— Dorothy Bush Koch

I mostly played 'Pac-Man', but I played 'The Sims' with my kids when they were growing up.

— Lea Thompson

My idol when I was growing up was Michael Jordan the basketball player because of his work ethic rather than his talent…

— Justin Timberlake

New York City pretty much reeked of music. Reeked of rap and hip-hop. As for me, growing up in a strict West…

— Phife Dawg

I never had good hair growing up - just had the worst nothing hair - and until I started being rough with…

— Lights

If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can detect…

— Jonathan Haidt

Just for you non-sea-god types out there, don't go swimming in New York Harbor. It may not be as filthy as it…

— Rick Riordan

“I think about how maybe it's not things that change but people that change, and maybe that's the change everyone is really…

— Susan Pogorzelski

I was really into the bimbo archetype that filled late 80s-early 90s TV when I was growing up. You know, women circling…

— Sharon Needles

My teenage freinds when I was growing up, they have no idea that I attained liberation but I help them. They don't…

— Frederick Lenz

We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody was poor there in the southern part of the state. It was like growing…

— Anonymous

Growing up on a small farm in Nambe, I learned that our farmers and ranchers are essential workers and pillars of our…

— Ben Ray Lujan

Some children like to make castles out of their rice pudding, or faces with raisins for eyes. It is forbidden -- so…

— Julia Child

Our kids are growing up with more privilege than we had; that's true for most of my friends in L.A. I don't…

— Matt Damon

It was one of my dreams as a child, growing up in my little village with my cousins. We used to walk…

— Jimmy Cliff

I like the line leading up to that: "I made your daughter the lead dancer, and you're not committed!" It's how people…

— Beth Grant

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

When I was growing up in the early '70s and really getting into music, waiting outside the record store for that 45,…

— Dave Gahan

You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books.

— St. Lucia

“I want my life to be the greatest story. My very existence will be the greatest poem. Watch me burn. Love always,…

— Charlotte Eriksson

When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school.

— Deepak Chopra

Growing up I didn't own albums cause I couldn't really afford them so I would borrow people's CDs and stuff.

— Snow Tha Product

I didn't know anything about fashion, growing up in Orange County. I just knew about it through music, how ska bands dressed.

— Gwen Stefani

“I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore, like I always thought I would.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

Something awful happens to a person who grows up as a creative kid and suddenly finds no creative outlet as an adult.

— Judy Blume

When I was growing up, Keane and Sheringham were my idols, and they wore 10. So it was always my dream to…

— Harry Kane

Growing up in an Ethiopian household allowed me to feel like I had an audience before I had an audience.

— Kelela

Growing up in Vermont, no matter what I did, I didn't get much recognition.

— Keegan Bradley

I think that most New Yorkers would object to calling me a New Yorker. I didn't grow up here.

— Sloane Crosley

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

— Tina Turner

It's a really nice thing for me to give back to the community and give things that I didn't necessarily have growing…

— Sam Kerr

The little boy who goes to the store and forgets what his mother sent him for, will probably grow up to be…

— Evan Esar

Growing up, I would go to Darjeeling and Kurseong a lot and most of the locals would only talk to me in…

— Sayani Gupta

Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up.

— Patti Smith