Growing up Quotes · Page 95

When I was growing up, there were people of color onscreen, but I never saw interracial couples.

— Isa Briones

Speculative fiction is where my heart lies. It's what I read growing up, and it's what I read as an adult.

— Patrick Rothfuss

There were a lot of things I thought of doing as I was growing up, from becoming a singer to a priest…

— David Lammy

My mother was a huge Steelers fan, so they were my team growing up.

— Deron Williams

Pub life was such a huge part of growing up for me, going to pubs and being around them. It made me…

— Rory O'Malley

I was very worried about my mother, growing up - a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about…

— Angelina Jolie

Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.

— Jack Bruce

I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my…

— Ryan Lochte

Mexican music runs through my veins. I loved it. Growing up, my father didn't allow us to listen to English music at…

— Jenni Rivera

Growing up in Hawaii, the ocean is where I'm most at home. When I'm away from it and landlocked I long for…

— Scott Eastwood

I was having a good time before, but you grow up after a couple years and realize, "I can't get drunk like…

— Mac DeMarco

There's a lot of negative messaging and it beats on you after a while. And people are growing up with that stuff…

— Kevin Sorbo

I didn't grow up in one place, so I never had a certain mentality. I have some aspects of growing up in…

— Debby Ryan

Holiness is the very principle of eternal life, the very beginning of eternal life in the heart, and that which will certainly…

— Jeremiah Burroughs

I have not been to Cuba, though if you count the stories my grandma told me growing up, I've been there in…

— Jennine Capó Crucet

I don't want to hear any words like that while I'm here. Scout, you'll get in trouble if you go around saying…

— Harper Lee

I get better at playing the guitar and piano, every time we do a record because we practice more and the years…

— Matt Thiessen

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

— Hank Azaria

Those are all real things that I experienced, not with [my daughters] growing up but with the, you know - I'm trying…

— Billy Crystal

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

Because of my comedic-influence growing up, Mel Brooks, Jim Carrey, Steve Martin… A lot of Jeff comedic-influences included Charlie Chaplin and physical…

— J. Robert Spencer

Kids should be taught about sex, sex hygiene and contraceptive methods starting in the sixth grade, and whenever they want to try…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

We face challenges every day both big and small. But regardless we are always ready for any obstacle, and we have each…

— Christina Milian

I used to be a huge fan of Heavy Metal magazine growing up, and I was exposed to Cobalt there and fell…

— Zack Snyder

Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.

— Ernest Hemingway

I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.

— Francine Pascal

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

— M. Scott Peck

I was always enamored with TV shows and movies. But you didn't grow up in my town and turn into an actor.

— Scott Wolf

Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family... what my mother called 'The Liar.'

— James Rollins

Helpless lust and unreasoning anxiety were just part of growing up.

— Octavia Butler

I didn't grow up thinking, 'Oh, maybe someday I'm going to have a shoe named after me.'

— Sheryl Swoopes

My family, growing up, we really didn't have tradition because my parents divorced when I was 11.

— Angelina Pivarnick

We all, one day, realize that we’re not going to be kids forever and we’re going to grow up.

— Maggie Stiefvater

I feel like it's okay for us to grow up because a lot of us want to get rich and die young.

— Master P

Remember, it's mandatory to grow old, but it's optional to grow up.

— Anonymous

Being popular does not make any difference to anyone else. What makes you special is making a difference in someone's life.

— Anonymous

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.

— Anonymous

Growing up, I watched a lot of TLC - I loved 'Four Weddings' and 'Hoarding: Buried Alive.' They're so binge-able.

— Lili Reinhart

Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives.

— Chris Hemsworth

I never met him. But just growing up where Deacon Jones did, he motivated me to be great, showing the NFL was…

— Ha Ha Clinton-Dix