Growing up Quotes · Page 76

When I grow up I want to be just like Benny Carter!

— Dizzy Gillespie

I never knew Steve Jobs. I met him once, but I never knew him. But growing up in the Silicon Valley, he…

— Jon M. Chu

I think the problem with growing up and idealizing self-destructive artists is that you only see the beauty they created rather than…

— Greta Gerwig

I had a happy, dramafree youth, growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. The only thing that was slightly unusual…

— Jeff Dunham

Just when summer gets perfect-fresh nights, soft sun, casual breezes, crushingly full and quietly cooling trees, empty beaches, and free weekends- it…

— Joan D. Chittister

I want to be a scientist who studies the ocean when I grow up. I would go out to sea, and scuba…

— James Patterson

Growing up in Miami, I had all these great, strong influences. You know, being Cuban and the Latin influence, but also the…

— Kat Dahlia

Well to me growing, up I've had my own psychological war with my parents dying at such a young age. My mother…

— Adam Beach

I think teenagers in the States grow up too fast. In Canada, kids are exposed to different things. Like school is very…

— Neve Campbell

Young women grow up in a really negative world today online and in person.

— Ariel Winter

“I know who I want to be and I want you by my side as I become that person.”

— Katie McGarry

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.

— Billy Graham

Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot,…

— George Mikes

One of my biggest inspirations growing up was Whitney Houston, so I was devastated to hear about her passing. I'm from East…

— Naturi Naughton

Growing up, I loved comedy even before I knew that you could be a stand-up comedian.

— Katherine Ryan

God said this is our land, land in which we flourish as people... we want our cattle to get fat on our…

— Jomo Kenyatta

I had a cookie business there, with my brother, when we were growing up, called the Chip Yard, and that became the…

— Mitchell Hurwitz

For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want…

— Jeff Bridges

As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed.

— Erik Estrada

I didn't really watch 'Dallas' growing up, as I was a bit young and into other things, like sports.

— Jesse Metcalfe

I always knew I wanted to have a family because I didn't have one growing up.

— Tito Ortiz

“I wanted to say all these things about how you just have to hold on to the things you love and let…

— Charlotte Eriksson

I think that everybody in life probably goes through obstacles at different times in life. I wouldn't really call them obstacles, I…

— Kirsten Dunst

One of the reasons I'm an actor is because I was no physical specimen as a child. I wasn't athletic and didn't…

— Michael Shannon

I knew from the time I was 6 or 7 that music was something I had to do. Growing up, my parents…

— Crystal Bowersox

When I was growing up, you didn't know there was a women's national team. Now girls grow up dreaming of playing for…

— Christine Sinclair

Growing up, I didn't see anybody with my skin color or my background. I didn't know it was possible to have a…

— Mena Massoud

When you grow up around racing, you just want to race for a living. It doesn't matter what it is.

— Ricky Stenhouse, Jr

Good and evil grow up together and are bound in an equilibrium that cannot be sundered. The most we can do is…

— Eric Hoffer

I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had…

— Mandy Moore

He's stuck with me and I'm stuck with him. We're stuck. That's what growing up is all about, I guess.

— Lauren Oliver

Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I'm a kid too and am growing up with…

— Reese Witherspoon

Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.

— Judith Guest

Growing up and applying to college, I just imagined that I would study acting. But then, once I went to college, I…

— Sophia Takal

Life seemed so simple and joyous when I was growing up.

— Kathie Lee Gifford

Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built…

— David Crane

You dont grow up in a town of 700 thinking youre going to be an actress. I loved doing [school] plays, but…

— Michelle Monaghan

What a waste of an education Rick Santorum is! ... Let's just pray that none of his home-schooled kids grow up to…

— Randi Rhodes

I've always loved comedy and growing up it was the comedies that I really responded to. So I don't know how it…

— Steve Buscemi

Nothing in baseball can bring me down to the level where I was growing up in Pine Bluff, crying and broke. This…

— Torii Hunter