Growing up Quotes · Page 68

First favorite character growing up was Spider-Man, second was Wolverine.

— Joe Russo

My dream was to grow up and get a job at IBM, like my dad. That seemed like a logical dream.

— Jimmy Fallon

“Growing up changes more than playground games and body shapes.”

— Emma Cameron

You have to grow up, start paying the rent and have your heart broken before you understand country.

— Emmylou Harris

Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up.

— Judith Viorst

“But, really, are there any guys out there who aren’t jerks? I don’t even know any grown-up men who aren’t jerks.”

— Margaret Peterson Haddix

I've listened to a lot of different styles of music growing up, and they've all influenced me at different times in my…

— Kirstin Maldonado

'Sag Harbor' brought me a new readership - it's a coming of age tale about growing up in the '80s.

— Matthew Desmond

Who doesn’t want a Cy Young Award? What kid didn’t grow up wanting to be the best? I’m no different. I want…

— R.A. Dickey

My personal style has developed from growing up in Oklahoma, middle America, where I was wearing jeans and cowboy boots and where…

— Suzy Amis

For sure it takes longer for bigger guys or tall guys to be really agile. Growing up, my dad and a few…

— Zdeno Chara

I wanted to be a concert pianist at Carnegie Hall; that is what I wanted to do from really early on. I…

— Kirsten Nelson

As you become more successful, the gender barrier disappears. The credibility challenges you have during your growing up years starts disappearing when…

— Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

I don't really compare myself to anyone. Growing up, sure you have your favorite players or guys you try to emulate, but…

— Marcus Mariota

I am an American, but a sense of otherness was part of my growing up. I spoke Norwegian before I spoke English.…

— Siri Hustvedt

Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways…

— Hilary Swank

Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold…

— Florence King

Part of growing up is learning your strengths and weaknesses. What better way to figure out that hand-eye coordination ain't your thing…

— Greg Giraldo

“When you're a kid, the world can be bounded in a nutshell. In geographical terms, a child's universe is a space that…

— Marcelo Figueras

It's really going to happen. I really won't ever go back to school. Not ever. I'll never be famous or leave anything…

— Jenny Downham

As a kid, growing up, as far as I was concerned, I was Luke Skywalker. Any sort of small victory or any…

— Jacob Anderson

One must not consider a language as a product dead, and formed but once; it is an animate being, and ever creative.…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel…

— George Bernard Shaw

I'm fortunate to have an amazing, strong mother who is so supportive of everything me and my sisters did growing up -…

— Michael Phelps

“Hm. Didn’t you use to be a lot smaller?” “Yes,” said Jinx. “Because I used to be six.”

— Sage Blackwood

I suppose the point you grow up is the point you let the dreams go.

— Neil Gaiman

Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.

— Mary Oliver

I think growing up in Vancouver is a different lifestyle than growing up in most other places.

— Finn Wolfhard

Growing up gorilla is just like any other kind of growing up. You make mistakes. You play. You learn. You do it…

— Katherine Applegate

I try to see the lightness of life, and that comes from having a hard time growing up.

— Motsi Mabuse

I think growing up in the West Midlands helped, it was fairly chill.

— Ben Francis

To grow up requires a whole life but to become old one night is enough.

— Ignazio Silone

I'm just a normal person like you growing up, living my life, trying to figure out what life really is.

— Wazim Shaw

We want to create a kind of cycle where casual gamers are gradually growing up to become passionate players.

— Satoru Iwata

Overseas, kids grow up in a soccer culture. The German player sees the game eons above the American player the same age.

— Tony DiCicco

I have a boyfriend and a dog, and I still haven't figured out what I want to be when I grow up.

— Chelsea Clinton

I did not grow up spoiled in any way. I just wanted to be on TV.

— Miley Cyrus

I might have been curious about actors' lives when I was growing up. That's human nature.

— Michael Fassbender

For me, personally, I didn't see many people like me on TV growing up.

— Pearl Mackie

Where else but in America can a poor black man like Michael Jackson grow up to be a rich white woman?

— Red Buttons