Growing up Quotes · Page 56

I've played a lot of people in ping-pong. I had a table growing up.

— Danny Amendola

When you grow up in the [film] industry, the director is your father. You follow your father's lead, but you make your…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

By the time I was, you know, 16 years old, I had done a lot of growing up.

— Black Thought

I used to play hockey when I was growing up. Everyone sort of learns how to skate and play hockey at an…

— Bob Dylan

Growing up, it was hard to associate with some of the women who were being portrayed in the media.

— Camille Kostek

Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.

— Rachel Zoe

I was quite a shy person growing up, and drag was very much a shield for me to perform behind.

— Kristian Nairn

I spent 35 years growing up in the U.S., and it had its ups and downs.

— MF Doom

I have 8-year-old twins, and I want them to grow up in a world where they can be anyone they want without…

— Rib Hillis

I've made a career out of being able to talk about difficult things, and that comes from growing up in an environment…

— Jess Phillips

When I first saw Dick Gregory on television, growing up in Queens, it was startling and amazing, because nobody else was doing…

— Joe Morton

I read a lot of comics growing up. My mom used to say, 'Would you please read a book?' She was worried…

— Erica Durance

When Yauch died, it was really like losing my older brother. I mean, I have biological older brothers, but growing up, Adam…

— Mike D

My dad went to medical school, and when he studied he listened to music so he has a ridiculous CD collection. That…

— William Clark Green

Growing up homeless many times, it's always ingrained in me this fear that maybe I won't have a roof over my head…

— Chrishell Stause

We didn't have a lot when I was growing up, and it's the best thing that happened to me because I appreciate…

— Sarah Jessica Parker

(Talks about her grandmother Marjorie Finlay)"She was actually a recording star in Puerto Rico when my mom was growing up. My mom…

— Taylor Swift

We're not the Faster-than-the-Speed-of-Light Generation anymore. We're not even the Next-New-Thing Generation. We're the Soon-to-Be-Obsolete Kids, and we've crowded in here to…

— Tim Tharp

Growing up, I can remember singing along with my ma all of the time. I wouldn't say she necessarily 'taught' me how…

— Elliott Yamin

Growing up in the U.S., I was certainly deeply aware of the power of American media, specifically Hollywood and television, in terms…

— Nguyen Viet Thang

People change, mature, and develop their values, attitudes, and preferences as a function of age. It is actually a strategy deployed by…

— Chip Espinoza

My problem with my parents growing up was not that I was afraid to cry in front of them - they always…

— Lucas Hedges

Growing up is something that you do your whole life. I want to always feel that I can be a kid if…

— Robert Downey, Jr

Physics is an otherworld thing, it requires a taste for things unseen, even unheard of- a high degree of abstraction... These faculties…

— Isidor Isaac Rabi

I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out…

— Oscar Nunez

“Intimidated, old traumas triggered, and fearing for my safety, I did what I felt I needed to do.”

— Sierra D. Waters

It's hard growing up in a world where you never feel like you're good enough.

— Anonymous

My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had…

— Coco Lee

I still love the theology of the Mormon religion and think it is a wonderful way to grow up.

— Katherine Heigl

Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.

— Rudolph A. Marcus

Elves apparently had a short childhood. Not like witches, who seemed to take forever to grow up, according to Jenks.

— Kim Harrison

A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not.

— Christina Stead

I actually was the accompanist for a couple of the musicals I was in growing up.

— Kirsten Nelson

There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.

— Anonymous

I always spoke my mind, and that was a result of the music I listened to growing up.

— Yungblud

“It is very important to accept your own darkness when you want to grow in the light.”

— Pradip Bendkule

“That boy made me realize, for a while at least, that my parents were wrong, and I didn't have to be like…

— J.X. Burros

Growing up, my favorite player was either Derek Jeter or Manny Ramirez.

— Cody Bellinger

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

“I live in an ecotone. Employment must coexist with goofing off. Responsibility must coexist with irresponsibility.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz