Growing up Quotes · Page 79

Around 80% of Liberians are unemployed and only half of all children go to primary school. Just one in 20 go on…

— George Weah

When I was growing up and wanted to be a musician, the fantasy that I had of what the music industry was…

— Matty Mullins

I think everybody that grows up in Florida, you've got a little chip on your shoulder. It's not as bad as people…

— Benjamin Booker

The children who are appreciated for what they are, even if they are homely, or clumsy, or slow, will grow up with…

— Benjamin Spock

People often assume that 'MeatEater' is a sort of reaction against traditional hunting TV, but it's really not. I never watched hunting…

— Steven Rinella

“My existence is young like the blossoming leaves. I have experienced nothing yet.”

— Jasmine Sandozz

When you're a kid growing up, you say you want to make it to the Major Leagues, and when you reach that…

— Joe Morgan

You know, my stepdad taught me growing up, you know, if the team has success then the individual things will follow.

— Zion Williamson

I used the bus when I was growing up in Brazil. I don't want to diminish anyone who travels on the bus,…

— Robinho

As it happened, I didn't grow up to be the kind of woman who is the heroine in a Western, and although…

— Joan Didion

When I was growing up in Virginia, the Civil War was presented to me as glorious with dramatic courage and military honor.…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

As the days of spring arouse all nature to a green and growing vitality, so when hope enters the soul it makes…

— James Freeman Clarke

When someone grows up in poverty they never know that's going to be a benefit to their child.

— Santiago "Jimmy" Mellado

Growing up, I was not athletic.

— Abhinav Bindra

I don't know what I'm supposed to do now. I know other people have it a lot worse. I do know that,…

— Stephen Chbosky

When the forces are aligning against hybridity, it harms everyone, as we are all migrants. Growing up in Pakistan, I know just…

— Mohsin Hamid

Growing up in the digital age of filmmaking, I'm as guilty as anyone of overshooting.

— Matthew Heineman

The forest conserves humidity, resists the hurricane and helps the soil to be fertile. But what makes a tree strong is its…

— Anonymous

This last year... I learned something about family. Like it's not about blood alone. It's being connected... it's growing up together and…

— Karen Kingsbury

“Maybe that was what growing up was, understanding where the real magic lived in this world. Inside our very own hearts.”

— Gina Linko

I was a shy kid growing up, and I liked the idea of playing under this alter ego: like, I could be…

— John Gourley

I've been a fan of BET since I was a kid, growing up watching the awards, thinking that one day I would…

— Young M.A

I think right now the way society's going, I think role models are important, and kids need direction. If I didn't have…

— Jeremy Lin

I've been a big fan of Michael Showalter's for a long time. I watched 'Stella' growing up.

— Alia Shawkat

When I was growing up I actually was into Bon Jovi!

— Amy Ryan

A lot of love records or breakup records, a lot of the songs can tend to be on the blame side and…

— Nicole Atkins

I first learned the power of a Labour government to transform lives growing up in my hometown of Stockport.

— Angela Rayner

I loved growing up and going to haunted houses and being scared. I loved watching 'The Exorcist,' 'Candyman' and all sorts of…

— Katie Featherston

“I don’t ever want to hurt anyone, but I really wish there was something like a reset button on my life.”

— Jennifer Elisabeth

My favorite player growing up was Steve Nash, so that's been a guy I look up to and a guy I've gotten…

— Trae Young

To me, growing up in South Wales, a pair of Diesel jeans were the thing to have - if you could afford…

— Luke Evans

When I was growing up, I was really into 'Rent' and I actually slept on the street in New York all night…

— Julia Jones

I was born in 1958, the same year NASA was established, which I like to think of as not a coincidence. I…

— Ellen Ochoa

I was a baseball player growing up and wanted to play ball.

— Ernie Johnson Jr

I think that the notion of justice and the issues and values that I understood growing up and [have] continued to embrace…

— Maya Harris

I saw a lot of stuff growing up as a young kid that I don't want my kids seeing.

— Sol Campbell

I hated myself growing up.

— Dylan Alcott

You know, I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and…

— Hank Azaria

I played hockey in North Dakota growing up and watch a lot of that.

— Phil Jackson

Rock never meant the same thing to everyone, but when I was growing up in the late seventies, everyone could identify the…

— Chris Cornell