Growing up Quotes · Page 71

When I was a little boy, I told my dad, 'When I grow up, I want to be a musician.' My dad…

— Chet Atkins

Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.

— John Cale

The older you get the more you realize you can't make everyone happy and it's NOT necessary for everyone to like you..

— Nishan Panwar

“I didn't grow up in a Norman Rockwell house... my house was more akin to Norman Lear.”

— Michael P. Naughton

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.

— Dorothy Allison

I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.

— Lionel Hampton

I'm an English boy. I played a lot of sports growing up, but I never had any kind of workout regimen.

— Stephen Moyer

Every time we smile and act like nothings wrong it's called putting everything aside and simply being strong.

— Khat Leen

Every child should be given the right to grow up and become a productive citizen. This will not happen unless, at the…

— Pamela Sue Martin

I modeled a little bit in Georgia growing up. I did catalogs and different things, but then when I came to L.A.,…

— Melissa Ordway

“For your information, Lester, there are at least five wonderful parts of the female body that can be viewed by the owner…

— Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

The first thing I wanted to be growing up was a solicitor, because all the people around me needed solicitors! But I…

— Slowthai

Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Seniority has nothing to do with intellectuality, your individuality wins the majority or minority, simply because you maintained the status quo of…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I consider Ric Flair to be one of the great comedic minds. But I never got to see him growing up because…

— Bill Burr

I used to have acne when I was a kid growing up. You can imagine how serious that was in making you…

— Mike Wallace

I did not write it [Coming of Age in Samoa] as a popular book, but only with the hope that it would…

— Margaret Mead

Sitting here thinking, one day I'm not going to go to school tomorrow. One day I'm not going to be able to…

— Delaney Ridnour

You grow up inside these neighborhoods and these communities, and you have friends, friends that you love, friends that you grew up…

— Kendrick Lamar

I think oldest children have a different mentality or know that there were different expectations of them, and I was not only…

— Susan Lyne

I think I've always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual…

— Mohsin Hamid

“The stars are brilliant at this time of night and I wander these streets like a ritual I don’t dare to break…

— Charlotte Eriksson

I can still recall old Mister Barnslow getting out every morning and nailing a fresh load of tadpoles to the old board…

— Jack Handey

As long as a believer is worrying about whether or not they are truly saved, they will never grow up in spiritual…

— Anonymous

I just thank God that I didn't grow up with so much money or privilege because you had to create ways to…

— Kim Basinger

I grew up in that world of power and politics in Washington, but when you grow up around it, you are completely…

— Alexandra Wentworth

I was a big fan of Kurt Angle when I was growing up. Actually, his book is a big part of the…

— Cesaro

From the time that you are a child, you grow up repressing yourself.

— Lauryn Hill

I saw 'Clueless' five times in the theatre when I was growing up.

— Lizzy Caplan

I think everyone has their awkward phases. Growing up isn't easy for everyone.

— Emily Ratajkowski

Arguing with a teenager is like wrestling in the mud with a pig...sooner or later you realise that they enjoy it!

— Simi Ngr

“…girls were like poems: weird, incomprehensible and boring, but those “in the know” assured me that they were beautiful.”

— Jake Vander Ark

It is good to be a young father, a young parent. You have that energy, and you are growing up with them.

— Ayushmann Khurrana

My mother loved Gene Wilder when I was growing up, so I used to watch all his movies with her. I just…

— Lucy Punch

I want to be someone that kids in my community look up to and want to strive to give back when they…

— Ray Rice

Learning appears as a way of staying young, perhaps of staying alive, and also as a way of growing up, perhaps facing…

— Richard Wollheim

Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.

— Lara Flynn Boyle

Growing up a Giants fan, I thought it was a dream come true just to get drafted by this organization.

— Brandon Crawford

When we were growing up, our mother taught us never to have your belly button exposed.

— Mary-Kate Olsen

The things I loved growing up, like 'Roseanne,' actually said something about actual human beings.

— Simon Amstell