Growing up Quotes · Page 83

A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man.

— Herbert Hoover

“I was so good at being a kid, and so terrible at being whatever I was now.”

— John Green

I didn't have cable growing up. The only games I saw were the NBA on Sundays and the NBA Finals.

— Harrison Barnes

When I was growing up everybody I knew could sing. I had no choice. I had to sing.

— Anne Murray

I'm not really big on video games at all, I played a lot at the arcade as a kid. I didn't have…

— Kyp Malone

I feel kind of sorry for those kids who just play one sport growing up.

— Darin Erstad

When you're the artsy, weirdo, introverted outsider growing up, you don't fit into your community.

— Stephen Karam

“I just want your voice aimed at me again. I want to absorb the direction of your eyes…”

— Jennifer Elisabeth

Growing up, I was encouraged to get a good education, get a real job doing something I enjoyed, and, should the opportunity…

— John Sununu

My grandparents owned an apple orchard when I was growing up - a lot of apples, cherries... now, actually, a lot of…

— Joe Harris

All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows…

— Joss Whedon

When I was growing up, anyone who wasn't white was black. It meant all of us. Though when I was at university,…

— Sadiq Khan

When I was a kid, maybe 11, I remember saying, 'When I grow up I wanna have enough money to buy a…

— Joss Whedon

I had a Super Grover doll growing up. Super Grover was very clumsy, he wasn't very good-looking. But in his own way…

— Dave Grohl

I was addicted to the original 'Star Trek' when I was growing up, because of my dad. We grew up in St.…

— Katee Sackhoff

I read once, somewhere, that the way you know you've grown up is when your future death becomes a stone in your…

— Anonymous

I feel I have grown up. I am a man. It's important in my football too. When everything is good, I don't…

— Cristiano Ronaldo

I learned this one growing up in Texas and, subsequently, living in Los Angeles: always use the 'usted' form when speaking to…

— Iliza Shlesinger

I want to grow up, live my life, experience things, make movies about those experiences and by the time the audience catches…

— Zac Efron

Growing up in New York has influenced my style so much, and I have an amazing relationship with my stylist, Estee Stanley.…

— Lea Michele

I first met my husband when I was 15. He was very cool, in a band, all that kind of thing, but…

— Natascha McElhone

One of the big myths about people growing up is that they are "digital natives;" that just because they've been raised with…

— Astra Taylor

When I was growing up, I was as socially outcast as any nerd could possibly be. I was in the chess club,…

— Chris Hardwick

Remember when getting high meant swinging on the playground? When protection meant a helmet? When the worst thing you could get from…

— Anonymous

Growing up, I'd always visit boutiques with my father on the weekends.

— Antoine Arnault

Some people mature too fast, some too slow. Some never had a childhood, some never grow.

— Anonymous

“Home will never be the same once you know what you are. Your whole life will change.”

— Nnedi Okorafor

I don't think I related to the Irish Catholic surroundings that was my environment when I was growing up.

— Isabela Moner

We lived in eight or nine different houses and six or seven different apartments growing up.

— Kane Brown

It's as if you were interested in fashion and your neighbor when you were growing up happened to be Giorgio Armani.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Growing up we used to put Saltines in a bowl with milk and dump a bunch of sugar on it and eat…

— Patti Harrison

I'm tired of being nice and sweet. I'm not wasting my time to someone who is so childish and immature. grow up…

— Marianepublico

When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.

— Roddy Doyle

It’s part of growing up, I suppose…you always have to leave something behind you.

— Neil Gaiman

I don't want my children growing up in a world where they think that their heritage and skin colour could be judged…

— Rochelle Humes

What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man.

— Gertrude Stein

When I was growing up the obvious antisemites were the knuckle-draggers in the National Front.

— Andrew Neil

Many dogs grow up without rules or boundaries. They need exercise, discipline and affection in that order.

— Cesar Millan

I watched 'Match of the Day' growing up every week and I'm talking until I was 29-years-old.

— Glenn Murray

I've had to grow up with everyone watching me, which has been hard.

— Joss Stone