Growing up Quotes · Page 85

Growing up around people with the same culture as me made me a lot tougher.

— Cher Lloyd

I started [performing] so young that it might have just been that I kind of had to grow up and make people…

— Margaret Cho

Growing up in Texas, you were either pretty or smart. Smart didn't get you very far, because there weren't too many job…

— Morgan Fairchild

When you first start off, I know singers who have only been in the business just a short amount of time, and…

— Tom Jones

Will you never grow up?" "I doubt it, and I certainly hope not.

— David Eddings

For me as a kid growing up, I was gay and I didn't even realise it, let alone accept it. I was…

— Darren Hayes

Acting is a child's prerogative. Children are born to act. Usually, people grow up and out of it. Actors always seem to…

— Joanne Woodward

I started modeling, doing the Sears catalog kind of thing, then did a lot of commercials when I was growing up.

— Charlotte Arnold

When I realised I wasn't Michael Jackson and I was this 10 year old boy growing up in the suburbs, I was devastated

— Darren Hayes

Growing up, I imagined I would come to New York, get married, move to the suburbs and have kids. It just didn't…

— Diana Taylor

Growing up, I was often put under a lot of pressure. Being an athlete, I've been dealing with pressure for a long…

— Katelyn Ohashi

I don't want to be self-mythologizing, but I do feel like, growing up, on TV, there weren't a lot of young Black…

— Ayo Edebiri

It was very interesting growing up in South Africa then. It was extraordinary. It was multiculturalism before it became an issue.

— Roselee Goldberg

I didn't grow up really wanting to be an actor. I don't remember ever not being an actor.

— Jodie Foster

One of my best friends growing up was gay. ... It’s never been an issue for me. ... I think there was…

— Donald Trump, Jr

My favorite book growing up was 'The Little Prince.'

— Antoni Porowski

There were so many different influences in my life: being half Mexican and half Irish, growing up an only child of immigrant…

— Lindi Ortega

Gay people, certainly gay people of my generation, at least of a certain echelon - middle-class Americans - have binocular vision. We…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a…

— Terry Brooks

My favorite leader is George Washington. Because he came from very modest circumstances. He wasn't the son of a plantation owner. He…

— Les Wexner

Growing up in Australia I always had the long, beachy hair, that was just who I was.

— Rhea Ripley

It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.

— Sonia Sotomayor

For me when I was growing up, some of the happiest times were when we went to a small island called Nantucket…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

Just watching Steve Nash growing up, and what he did with Amare - you can't play with a better point guard than…

— Markieff Morris

Petr Cech has been a top keeper in the Premier League for the last 10-12 years. When you're growing up, you see…

— Jordan Pickford

Most of the time you are growing up, people tell you what's wrong with you. Your coach tells you, your parents tell…

— Robert Ballard

[White House] feels even more like home now because you have all these memories that were formed watching your kids grow up.

— Barack Obama

I'm expressing the feelings of mankind today through the Blue Dog. The dog is always having problems of the heart, of growing…

— George Rodrigue

Each one of us has to take responsibility for reality, and present it so that kids will grow up familiar with that…

— Thuy Trang

I had very little exposure to business growing up. I also was very focused on the Civil Rights Movement. And I saw…

— Kenneth Chenault

The main source of good discipline is growing up in a loving family, being loved and learning to love in return.

— Benjamin Spock

It's really the story of a young woman, or two women, growing up in Naples in a poor neighborhood. The way that…

— Ann Goldstein

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

“If I don't see the reason of someone being my friend, chances are, we are just floating and I need a ship…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Growing up, I've always wanted to be a rock star.

— Courtney Hadwin

I went to a very small Catholic school. It wasn't an easy place to be growing up gay.

— John Cameron Mitchell

I think I have a finely tuned sense of humor. I think just being around it and growing up in it... my…

— Rob Reiner

For me growing up, Christmas time was always the most fantastic, exciting time of year, and you'd stay up until three in…

— Chris Pine

Art has been good for my soul. And it's been good for my brain. I think I'm a better painter now than…

— Anne Sweeney

I was the youngest of six kids, so yeah, feeding myself was important, but it's not like I was obsessed with food…

— Jim Gaffigan