Growing up Quotes · Page 63

As we grow older, we start to realize what we need and what to leave behind.

— Anonymous

I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces…

— Rachel Nichols

...we’re just kids growing up on an island, doing bad things in pretty places.

— Kaui Hart Hemmings

I went through a lot of abuse and a lot of really difficult things growing up - depression, anxiety, attempted suicide.

— Pattie Mallette

Growing up, I had a ton of friends, and I had a great life, but people still made fun of me sometimes.

— Molly Tarlov

Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.

— Robert Harris

Rachel Bilson, Nicole Richie, Vanessa Hudgens... so many of my idols growing up were Bongo girls.

— Camila Mendes

I never had that many friends growing up so I learned to be okay with just me.

— Priscilla Ahn

When I was growing up, I didn't feel strong. I felt weak. I felt like a scared little kid. So I naturally…

— Sabaa Tahir

To get married and have a family, is to grow up and mature. It's the only way. You can read philosophy books…

— Richard Matheson

I'd read about NBA players in magazines when I was growing up in Congo, but I had never actually seen what NBA…

— Serge Ibaka

Renaud was my idol growing up ever since I was 10 years old and I was just getting into pole vaulting and…

— Armand Duplantis

My church growing up, we went around to nursing homes. I was part of the puppet team. You put your hand in…

— Jason Taylor

I went to an international school in Holland, and I didn't have any memories of growing up in the United States or…

— Joseph O'Neill

I was over-confident while growing up. I think when you look a certain way, you try and compensate by something else. I…

— Sonakshi Sinha

Snow White has always been one of my favorite fairy tales growing up. To be able to say, "I'm going to be…

— Lily Collins

If you look at our theories of social pathology and then at the dismal conditions in which children grow up in our…

— Albert Bandura

The children who are appreciated for what they are, even if they are homely, or clumsy, or slow, will grow up with…

— Benjamin Spock

Think about all of the families where the father is a doctor and the son is a doctor or generations of coal…

— Rosanne Cash

I was living, growing up in a very traditional household and yet at the same time I was going to school in…

— Sheena Iyengar

Growing up in New Orleans, my mom and dad were churchgoers. I would go to church with them. Also, I was going…

— Avery Johnson

The entire history of humanity is marked by a single inexorable movement - from animal instinct toward rational thought, from inborn behavior…

— Philipp Meyer

I grew up in Long Island City. When I was growing up, my parents owned a women's clothing store in Queens. It…

— Jessica Valenti

I was supposed to go see Led Zeppelin when I was in, like, the 8th or 9th grade, and then John Bonham…

— Eddie McClintock

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

— Patti Smith

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

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

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

— Tina Turner

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

— Sloane Crosley

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

— Keegan Bradley

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

— Judy Blume

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

— Charlotte Eriksson

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

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

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

— Charlotte Eriksson

A great deal of my comedy comes from the trials and tribulations of growing up a big kid in the Boston area.

— John Pinette