Growing up Quotes · Page 50

I was used to always having a stack of Korean television VHS tapes growing up.

— Lee Isaac Chung

When I was growing up, you could get arrested for skateboarding, and now it's going to be in the Olympics.

— Ti West

Pause & remember: Each step is a victory. Every fall is a lesson. Either way, you are growing and improving.

— Anonymous

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

— Sydney Pollack

When I was growing up I never babysat. I was considered to 'punk rock' to be trusted with kids.

— Angelina Jolie

“I never left because a part of me will always be in that house...”

— J.X. Burros

When I was growing up, the really, really cool super heroes were all male - so I wanted to be them.

— Virginia Madsen

Since I was growing up, I was always the younger one playing with older guys. They called me Young Bull and that…

— Collin Sexton

Growing up training, I use to get up so early I would wave to the garbage men going by. So, I had…

— Gerry Cooney

It's alright, just wait and see, your string of lights is still bright to me. Who you are is not where you've…

— Taylor Swift

“I'm seventeen today and dressed for a party. But I can't move. I can't think, much less move. I can't breathe, much…

— Hilary Thompson

I never was interested in being part of the fashion world - I just wanted to design shoes. I didn't even know…

— Christian Louboutin

I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming…

— Francis Ford Coppola

It's not fair that a Palestinian child cannot grow up in a state of their own, living their entire lives in the…

— Mark Shields

That's the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more…

— Nicholas Sparks

I get offended when people say, 'So, being a white rapper...and growing up white...after being born white...' It's all I ever hear!

— Eminem

When I was growing up, I grew up in church--my father was a pastor--so when I was growing up in Trinidad, I'd…

— Heather Headley

I haven’t come from the typical path or background of someone who would make it to this level as a ballerina. When…

— Misty Copeland

I played a million different sports when I was growing up. I started when I was probably five or six, and we'd…

— Sam Bradford

“I never said it was easy to find your place in this world, but I’m coming to the conclusion that if you…

— Charlotte Eriksson

I've always been drawn to and fascinated by physical and psychological change. If I'm able to make pictures of children that are…

— Jock Sturges

“So it was a crossroads summer, when the universe seemed to stand perilously still like an egg wobbling on a precipice, a…

— Sol Luckman

Growing up I did commercials and things like that, but nothing serious. As I got older, my family is really hardcore into…

— Portia Doubleday

I spent every bit of my money to try and get a Mickey Mantle card, and I don't have one. Growing up…

— Johnny Bench

Growing up, I didn't have a lot and always wanted things. But I was too prideful to ask for anything; I always…

— DeMar DeRozan

Equestrian and sailing are sports for people growing up on the mean streets of Connecticut.

— Craig Ferguson

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of role models - Bonnie Raitt, Lita Ford, Jennifer Batten.

— Orianthi

Growing up, I wasnt sure about acting, but I knew I wanted to be part of the movie industry.

— Daniella Alonso

It might be a little embarrassing, but I never ever missed an episode of 'Dawson's Creek' growing up.

— Brett Young

One of the expectations growing up was that I'd become a well-known artist.

— Domino Kirke

I had a very close relationship with another kid when I was growing up. I was his imaginary friend.

— Emo Philips

Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.

— Shawn Ashmore

My mom was a single mom and I'm an only child, so growing up it was really just me and her against…

— Denise Bidot

Growing up in California, my best friend was Morris Rabinowitz and we often went to the Yiddish Theater.

— Frank Sinatra Jr

Youth is not immortality, more than anything, youth is the power to make choices.

— Anonymous

I was taught to fighter like Sugar Ray Leonard and Muhammad Ali when I was growing up.

— Nonito Donaire

I was not allowed to talk about being adopted when growing up. I walked around feeling like I was going to explode.

— Michael Nyqvist

Grow up. Get a life. Life is pain. Anybody who tells you something other than that is trying to sell you something.

— Frederick Lenz

Growing up, I had to cobble together a scarecrow of things I loved from various different writers.

— Jenny Zhang

My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no…

— Alexa Ray Joel