Growing up Quotes · Page 80

So much of growing up is an unbearable waiting. A constant longing for another time. Another season.

— Sonia Sanchez

[My parents] met in university back in the '70s. And I didn't grow up with my father. He - they separated before…

— Kehinde Wiley

I love crosswords! Actually, when I was growing up, me and my girlfriends would collect them and see who finished them first!

— Alicia Vikander

I love being a Met. It was my favorite team growing up, so to be a Met to me is very special.

— David Wright

I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.

— Kate Burton

I've always loved playing Zeppelin - they were one of my favorite bands growing up.

— Michael Anthony

When I was growing up, some of the lads weren't very nice about me playing.

— Karen Carney

“But, really, are there any guys out there who aren’t jerks? I don’t even know any grown-up men who aren’t jerks.”

— Margaret Peterson Haddix

I guess that's one of the things about growing up in the fifties - it never occurred to me that you wouldn't…

— Hunter S. Thompson

When I was growing up in Montana I had two dreams: I wanted to be a paleontologist and I wanted to have…

— Jack Horner

When you grow up, you're told that rock 'n' roll is the only authentic way to express yourself. Live instrumentation, singer, live…

— Matt Tong

I think my mom is the inspiration of me wanting to do film and TV and be an actor because she loved…

— Rick Gonzalez

Growing up with friends from different cultures, different backgrounds, with different views was the best education I could have asked for.

— Jack Savoretti

Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able…

— Alan Moore

My parents listened to music in our house all the time when we were growing up. It was everything from Dolly Parton…

— Clare Bowen

My mom was my main influence growing up, and Phylicia Rashad reminded me a lot of my mother, just the way she…

— Queen Latifah

“The work of the art student is no light matter. Few have the courage and stamina to see it through. You have…

— Robert Henri

You wake up but not really. In the bedroom you grew up in. It's the only place on this entire planet that…

— Peter Wentz

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

Oh maturity's a wrapped up package deal so it seems And ditching teenage fantasy means ditching all your dreams All your friends…

— Frank Turner

“Everyone always knows what they're doing," he says abruptly, still not looking up from his hands, the little plastic pot and the…

— Richard Rider

I guess I wanted to emulate the artists that my parents were listening to when I was growing up. I've always had…

— Sarah Jaffe

Nightlife is something I don't think directly affects my designs, but it's a great tool for me, growing up in London. Nearly…

— Dominic Jones

People grow up learning to be silent about their sexuality, so where are they going to learn to talk about it when…

— Esther Perel

I've listened to a lot of different styles of music growing up, and they've all influenced me at different times in my…

— Kirstin Maldonado

'Sag Harbor' brought me a new readership - it's a coming of age tale about growing up in the '80s.

— Matthew Desmond

I suppose the point you grow up is the point you let the dreams go.

— Neil Gaiman

“Hm. Didn’t you use to be a lot smaller?” “Yes,” said Jinx. “Because I used to be six.”

— Sage Blackwood

Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.

— Mary Oliver

Growing up gorilla is just like any other kind of growing up. You make mistakes. You play. You learn. You do it…

— Katherine Applegate

I think growing up in Vancouver is a different lifestyle than growing up in most other places.

— Finn Wolfhard

I try to see the lightness of life, and that comes from having a hard time growing up.

— Motsi Mabuse

I think growing up in the West Midlands helped, it was fairly chill.

— Ben Francis

To grow up requires a whole life but to become old one night is enough.

— Ignazio Silone

We want to create a kind of cycle where casual gamers are gradually growing up to become passionate players.

— Satoru Iwata

I'm just a normal person like you growing up, living my life, trying to figure out what life really is.

— Wazim Shaw

Overseas, kids grow up in a soccer culture. The German player sees the game eons above the American player the same age.

— Tony DiCicco

I have a boyfriend and a dog, and I still haven't figured out what I want to be when I grow up.

— Chelsea Clinton

I did not grow up spoiled in any way. I just wanted to be on TV.

— Miley Cyrus

“Sometimes you have to grow up before you appreciate how you grew up.”

— Daniel Black