Growing up Quotes · Page 96

Growing up with three older brothers, I was destined to be a tomboy.

— Eva Marie

My favorite player growing up was Reggie Bush because I played running back when I was in Pop Warner and he was…

— Deebo Samuel

And how can it be he's so in love with me? To grow up without love, and still have so much inside?

— Ellen Hopkins

My father and his brothers were all lawyers, so I think that the expectation was probably for me to grow up to…

— Steve Case

I didn't know I was good enough to be a pro growing up.

— Jadon Sancho

You grow up a lot on set, but it doesn't change you.

— Dakota Blue Richards

Growing up I was involved in children's theater, so I was definitely on the path to be an actor and a singer.

— Victor Garber

I did gymnastics when I was growing up and to this day I can still do the splits.

— Kristin Kreuk

Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and…

— Tracy Chapman

There are many tired gardeners but I've seldom met old gardeners. I know many elderly gardeners but the majority are young at…

— Allan Armitage

I need to stop carving out four-hour chunks to do random things and go home and watch my children grow up.

— Neil Patrick Harris

We were still at the age when girls are years older than guy, and the guys grow up by doing their best…

— Tana French

“I don't have to get married to grow up!”

— Jum Jumms

When I was growing up, it was the guys who were hardest at school who got the prettiest girls. It's a status…

— Martin Compston

He's [Harry S. Truman] just your dad, and you love him. It's only when you grow up, and step back from him,…

— Margaret Truman Daniel

Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.

— Claire Danes

As young girls we grow up with the idea that life is going to be a bit of a fairytale. But at…

— Darren Fletcher

I think Mr. Trump would have benefitted from growing up in my neighborhood. He would have learned the limits of his braggadocio.

— Michael Capuano

I really have to thank Facebook ... I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is,…

— Betty White

I was definitely an at-risk kid growing up.

— Benjamin Carson

She's been through growing up without a mother & makes my heart all of a sudden.

— Kang Seung-jo

My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let…

— Wayne Brady

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For…

— Philip Larkin

Don't we have to respond to people who don't seem normal to us? Will my child grow up able to accept that…

— Nancy Burson

Maturity is not when we speak big things. It is when we start understanding small 0nes.:)

— Megz

Paul Scholes was the main figure for me growing up. His attitude, he's humble off the pitch - you didn't hear much…

— Jesse Lingard

The way everyone in London is right up against each other makes it very real to you growing up, the fact that…

— Tinie Tempah

Growing up, I didn't really watch the Victoria's Secret fashion show too much. I really just saw folks who weren't real to…

— Carmen Carrera

“I'm going to go throw up now, because ive turned into my dad. If vomiting doesn't work, I'll see if I can…

— Veronica Blade

I was a fat girl growing up and had to change schools because kids were so mean.

— Sara Bareilles

In every language, the first word after "Mama!" that every kid learns to say is "Mine!" A system that doesn't allow ownership,…

— Frank Zappa

“A self-made man" - not of woman born but alchemized, through sheer force of will, by the man himself. This is what…

— Caitlin Moran

We're both Welshmen and growing up, when Howard Marks was finally caught, it was all over the news. He did an interview…

— Rhys Ifans

I love asking kids what they want to be when they grow up, because I am still looking for ideas.

— Anonymous

I think to be - for me to be an American is - you know, it's one of the greatest things in…

— Michael Phelps

I always appreciated that connection between a parent and a kid because I yearned for it so much. Growing up, I wanted…

— Freddie Prinze, Jr

I had a lot of racism growing up where I grew up. Bullied at school. It definitely encouraged me. It's like battle…

— Lewis Hamilton

One loses the capacity to grieve as a child grieves, or to rage as a child rages: hotly, despairingly, with tears of…

— Anita Brookner

Growing up, I had really bad skin. I had a skin disorder. Yes, I did. And my mother went to great lengths…

— Lupita Nyong'o

If you begin to face your fears, something bittersweet is going to happen to you: You'll grow up.

— Martha Beck