Growing up Quotes · Page 72

I think when you live with somebody, you grow up. You learn a lot about yourself through somebody else.

— V V Brown

Growing up, there were clothes I felt more comfortable in my skin wearing, and clothes that I didn't.

— G Flip

I made a lot of mistakes growing up, trying so hard to fit in. I got so lost trying to please everybody.

— Halima Aden

You have two numbers in your age when you are ten. It's the beginning of growing up.

— Maud Hart Lovelace

Growing up, I didn't have any role models that were sick that were doing anything with their life, ever.

— Claire Wineland

Growing up means :propelling yourself forward into whatever lies ahead, one turn of the wheel at a time.

— Sarah Dessen

Growing up I was very feminist. I had strong opinions, but I would go about my beliefs in the wrong ways.

— Megan Ganz

If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never…

— James M. Barrie

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can.…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Not to psychologize, but it's hard growing up in a family of 14 to ever feel like you're the center of the…

— Ronan Farrow

I grew up as a very sarcastic person. I was always the class clown, and to date girls I had to be…

— Kurt Fuller

I wanted to be a nun. I saw nuns as superstars. When I was growing up I went to a Catholic school,…

— Madonna Ciccone

I found growing up that love and sexuality was a wonderful way to understand existence. When we love it takes us beyond…

— Frederick Lenz

All my closest friends are the ones I made while in college or who knew me growing up. They keep me grounded,…

— Alexander Wang

As a kid growing up, I was never like, 'I want to go to the Olympics,' so having to pass on 2012…

— Simone Biles

There's a whole generation growing up thinking you shouldn't seek knowledge for its own sake, and that theatre and art and books…

— Jeanette Winterson

I loved Disney. 'Fantasia' was my first, favorite Disney movie. And it just kept going. I loved 'Bambi.' I loved 'Cinderella,' 'Lady…

— Anika Noni Rose

Growing up in the '50s and being in the '60s, in that revolutionary time space, I thought freedom was what I was…

— Anthony Braxton

If a boy is not trained to endure and to bear trouble, he will grow up a girl; and a boy that…

— Henry Ward Beecher

I figure there are enough self-opinionated assholes trying to get their ugly little faces in front of you as it is. You…

— Banksy

I definitely get my artistry and my vocal talent from my mother and mother's side. She sang in a jazz trio band…

— Zella Day

Sweet is the rose, but grows upon a brere; Sweet is the juniper, but sharp his bough; Sweet is the eglantine, but…

— Edmund Spenser

Historically different groups find different things in each comics, as with *X-Men*. Gay readers find parallels to living a closeted lifestyle or…

— Tom Brevoort

Jack Palance was my distant uncle - that's the family gossip. Growing up, my family knew everything about his face getting burned…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I didn't grow up with my Kenyan family. I grew up in a small, conservative suburb of Chicago.

— Tom Morello

As a young boy growing up on the South Side of Chicago, I was inspired by the nascent space age.

— John M. Grunsfeld

I played for the Long Island Panthers growing up, and we played in all the boroughs.

— Danny Green

Growing up is when you understand you get what you give, not what you're given.

— Guy Browning

Growing up in a very poor orphanage in Ukraine, there wasn't much food.

— Oksana Masters

Growing up in the 1980s, I remember when the GOP was the party of ideas. Now it's brain dead.

— Max Boot

There was definitely a wild side to me that couldn't run free growing up in England.

— Catherine Oxenberg

When you're physically growing up, you develop emotionally with that.

— Erin O'Connor

I was actually a Cowboys fan growing up, so I didn't care much for the Jets or Giants.

— Devin McCourty

When I was growing up, I didn't have too many people I looked up to that played soccer.

— Mark Ingram II

My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables.

— John Boehner

I'd always like to score at Goodison Park, being an Everton fan growing up. Anfield as well would be a nice place…

— Adam Lallana

I was into hip-hop, growing up early, so I loved Run DMC, LL Cool J, rappers.

— Redfoo

If you want to grow up to be a big, strong pea, you have to eat your candy," Papa Pea would say.

— Amy Krouse Rosenthal

If you grow up normal, you'll always be normal-I don't want to be normal. I want to be something else.

— Michelle Wie

There are only 940 Saturdays between your child's birth and them leaving for college.

— Anonymous