Growing up Quotes · Page 53

I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.

— Francine Pascal

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

— M. Scott Peck

I was always enamored with TV shows and movies. But you didn't grow up in my town and turn into an actor.

— Scott Wolf

Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family... what my mother called 'The Liar.'

— James Rollins

Helpless lust and unreasoning anxiety were just part of growing up.

— Octavia Butler

I was very worried about my mother, growing up - a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about…

— Angelina Jolie

Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.

— Jack Bruce

I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my…

— Ryan Lochte

The street is where we all learn. I played organized football growing up as well, but when that was over, I went…

— Champ Bailey

I feel bad for the girls that are growing up watching fairy tales,because as they grow older they realize not every guy…

— Anonymous

“Oh God, I'm miss­ing the gene which makes you grow up and buy a flat in Streatham and start visiting Homebase every…

— Sophie Kinsella

Everybody grows up and they have to make decisions, and they try and make the best decisions that they know how to.…

— Justin Bieber

I feel like confidence is something that ebbs and flows. I was given a lot of love and attention from my family…

— Milla Jovovich

As a kid growing up, I was so in sync as a fan that that served me well through the years. I…

— Al Michaels

I honestly have never been a guy to panic or freak out in the middle of a crisis. Growing up in the…

— Jonathan Sadowski

When I was growing up, I despised Irishness. I felt our music, our television and our books were just poor imitations of…

— Marian Keyes

Growing up in the social media world, it's tough. Your face changes, you get older, your face fills out, and you fall…

— McKayla Maroney

I was part of that group of kids growing up in the '80s under the Reagan regime, what I used to call…

— Junot Diaz

I guess it really didn't even dawn on me that you could be a rock critic as a job until I was…

— Chuck Klosterman

She couldn't think of anyone else who remotely resembled him. He was complicated, almost contradictory in so many ways, yet simple, a…

— Nicholas Sparks

I also know that I have represented for us a certain kind of journalist and for me over the years when an…

— Ed Gordon

Growing up, I wasn't as comfortable expressing myself as I am now, and I think that's why I chose acting: because it's…

— Leslie Mann

We humans are wired for empathy by evolution, but when children grow up in dominator families they internalize this male over female…

— Riane Eisler

I've worked over four dozen nine-to-five jobs before taking the chance to chase my dream of wanting to become an actor and…

— Malcolm Goodwin

Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.

— Ernest Hemingway

My mother was a huge Steelers fan, so they were my team growing up.

— Deron Williams

Pub life was such a huge part of growing up for me, going to pubs and being around them. It made me…

— Rory O'Malley

There were a lot of things I thought of doing as I was growing up, from becoming a singer to a priest…

— David Lammy

I was 11 years old and horse-obsessed. New York City was an unfortunate place for a girl like me to be growing up.

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs.

— Gary Clark, Jr

When I was growing up, there were people of color onscreen, but I never saw interracial couples.

— Isa Briones

Speculative fiction is where my heart lies. It's what I read growing up, and it's what I read as an adult.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Sadly, part of growing up is breaking someone's heart, even if it means breaking your own.

— Anonymous

I kind of do this awkward body language because, growing up, I had a really hard time expressing myself vocally.

— Analeigh Tipton

“I believe in knowing who you are but without limiting yourself to your own expectation of who you are.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

That's just the way it is - now that I'm growing up, I've become more mellow and chilled when I travel.

— Jozy Altidore

I never met him. But just growing up where Deacon Jones did, he motivated me to be great, showing the NFL was…

— Ha Ha Clinton-Dix

None of us really grow up. All we ever do is learn how to behave in public.

— Keith Johnstone

Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives.

— Chris Hemsworth

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

— Anonymous