Growing up Quotes · Page 86

I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.

— Holly Black

When I was growing up, you couldn't even find 'martial arts' in the encyclopedia.

— Frank Dux

If I could ban boxing, I probably would, but I'll tell you in the same breath, I loved it growing up.

— Jonathan Banks

I want to show every part of me and every color of me. And I think, growing up Albanian, I wanted to…

— Bebe Rexha

Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up

— Jodi Picoult

Growing up, I didn't know anything about money other than we didn't have any.

— LZ Granderson

If I had planned to be a singer, I would have got trained. In fact, I was more into theatre and plays…

— Mohit Chauhan

“Remember, it's still a mystery to be an adult. If you knew it all before eighteen, you'd have nothing to look forward…

— Carew Papritz

Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody…

— Usain Bolt

Growing up in the north, it was natural for me to absorb the Punjabiness around me. I like their way of living,…

— Raftaar

When I was growing up, there was still that narrative of 'you finish school, you go and get married, you become somebody's…

— Juliana Rotich

Growing up poor, I didn't even have a lunch to take to school. Lunch was 26 cents, and we didn't even know…

— George Foreman

Acting goes back a little ways for me. I supposed I started with theater growing up. It was mainly a social outlet…

— David Lambert

I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very…

— Margaret Atwood

I've just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel…

— Taylor Swift

My dream job growing up was always to be an artist. It wasn't even that I would be a rapper or singer;…

— Lil Tjay

India went through a dramatic revolution after the '90s when our economy started opening up for the first time and Indians were…

— Karan Bajaj

I worry sometimes that I'm a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow up, not be so self-absorbed,…

— David Nicholls

I think William Shakespeare's like a passport through your life: as a kid hearing about a play with fairies or witches or…

— Gregory Doran

The temptation is to stay inside; to subside into the kind of recluse whom neighborhood children regard with derision and little awe;…

— Margaret Atwood

“Was this, too, part of growing up? Was it facing the bad things you’d done as well as the good, and knowing…

— Christina Henry

Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved…

— Jodi Picoult

[London is] one of the best cities in the world. There is just so much culture there and so much history and…

— Douglas Booth

There is something wrong with our system when I can leave here and make billions of dollars in 10 years while millions…

— Mark Zuckerberg

Growing up, I always considered the Grand Ole Opry to be hallowed ground.

— Chris Lane

Growing up, I looked up to real women. I didn't go in for hero worship and I still don't. Everybody has feet…

— Lucy Lawless

I've been mostly influenced by experiences in the theater growing up.

— Cate Blanchett

When I was growing up, both my grandmothers would play the organ, and we would all sing.

— Janelle Monae

In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.

— Henry A. Wallace

Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.

— Lauren Graham

I loved growing up in Montclair... I think it's grown and changed and embraced change.

— Warren Littlefield

If you don't do stupid things while you're young, you'll have nothing to smile about when you're old.

— Komal

The TV that I knew growing up, and I think the TV that a lot of people knew, it's just not completely…

— Nate Bargatze

I didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up.

— Herman Cain

Acting was the only passion I had while growing up, so it couldn't have been anything else.

— Kunal Kapoor

“I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.”

— Jennifer Elisabeth

Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in…

— Jacki Weaver

I always played 'FIFA' and stuff like that growing up, and seeing those guys celebrate, I kind of got inspiration from that.

— Adam Thielen

The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I also…

— Hugh Hefner

Growing up in the '60s and the '70s, things certainly seemed more simplistic and easier to digest.

— Sandra Bernhard