Growing up Quotes · Page 74

Growing up, I was constantly labeled an 'oreo' by my black peers because of my proper speech and 'valley girl accent.'

— Franchesca Ramsey

“Cry your guts out because nothing is sadder than an adult who forgets how to be a child.”

— Alison Espach

Growing up in east Tennessee gave me my country roots, my twang, and a lot of my stories.

— Kelsea Ballerini

I can't age on the inside, and I'm totally okay with that. I have no need to grow up and see myself…

— Kay Panabaker

Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun

— John Mellencamp

I was mostly into comedies, growing up. That still will always be my favorite thing.

— Emma Stone

Growing up as a kid, I took creative writing classes, and I was always into poetry.

— Ivan Moody

When I was growing up in the '60s I would have thought that westerns would last forever.

— Joe Dante

“I guess that’s what growing up is. Saying good-by to a lot of things. Sometimes it is easy and sometimes it isn’t.…

— Anonymous

Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was…

— Jessica Hagedorn

I didn't visit art galleries growing up. I didn't know anything about it. But at 17 I made the decision to leave…

— Kesh

My brother was an avid Stoke City fan and a good footballer. We shared a room, growing up, and the walls were…

— Morten Harket

My childhood growing up in that part of Glasgow always sounds like some kind of sub-Catherine Cookson novel of earthy working-class immigrant…

— Peter Capaldi

Addiction is a symptom of not growing up. I know people think it's a disease... If you have a brain tumor, if…

— C.C. DeVille

Growing up, we didn't have any money - we shopped where you picked your shoes out of a bin. When I was…

— Sherri Shepherd

The idea is not to please the most amount of people. Growing up in Versailles, the idea was to please the least…

— Thomas Mars

There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are…

— Nicholas Sparks

When I was nine years, growing up on the south side of Chicago, in the ghetto. The Robert Taylor Projects. I came…

— Mr. T

I spent every bit of my money to try and get a Mickey Mantle card, and I don't have one. Growing up…

— Johnny Bench

Growing up I did commercials and things like that, but nothing serious. As I got older, my family is really hardcore into…

— Portia Doubleday

“So it was a crossroads summer, when the universe seemed to stand perilously still like an egg wobbling on a precipice, a…

— Sol Luckman

Children are a burden to a mother, but not the way a heavy box is to a mule. Our children weight hard…

— Nancy E. Turner

When I was growing up, my dad would encourage my brother and I to fail. We would be sitting at the dinner…

— Sara Blakely

Actually, when I think about growing up, I feel most affected by two travels that I made working in cargo boats when…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The most physical, most annoying games I ever played in my life were against my brothers growing up.

— Marcus Smart

Growing up low income and poor, I didn't have the best relationship with money.

— Lil B

St. Louis has a super-rich history of soccer, so I was very fortunate growing up to have coaches that played.

— Becky Sauerbrunn

There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.

— Ray LaMontagne

When you're a kid, somebody's mid-forties, you think they're an old man. Then you grow up and it's like, I was a…

— Billy Bob Thornton

I won't sit down And I won't shut up And most of all I will not grow up

— Frank Turner

I don't know much about horror films despite growing up in the 80s and 90s when the genre was having its golden…

— Jason Johnson

The whole band is from Alaska. It's like growing up anywhere else.

— John Gourley

It's hard to separate what I've learned from the new experiences I've had and from just growing up.

— Iga Swiatek

Growing up in the South, we say 'Yes Ma'am' and 'No Ma'am.' Here in Hollywood, people get offended.

— Shanola Hampton

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.

— Taylor Swift

I was seeing people of color growing up in my media. I was seeing them in positions of power.

— Winston Duke

Growing up is like a disease. It gets worse and worse every day. And in the end it kills you

— Anonymous

I always wanted to grow up fast. I longed for more than the Mississippi Delta could give.

— Charley Pride

“He looked at me, that first day, like he had just found something he’d lost a thousand years ago.”

— Jennifer Elisabeth

I did a lot of theater growing up, and in college I was in the musical 'Chicago.'

— Sarah Shahi