Growing up Quotes · Page 97

I was used to always having a stack of Korean television VHS tapes growing up.

— Lee Isaac Chung

When I was growing up, you could get arrested for skateboarding, and now it's going to be in the Olympics.

— Ti West

Pause & remember: Each step is a victory. Every fall is a lesson. Either way, you are growing and improving.

— Anonymous

Grow up. Get a life. Life is pain. Anybody who tells you something other than that is trying to sell you something.

— Frederick Lenz

Growing up, I had to cobble together a scarecrow of things I loved from various different writers.

— Jenny Zhang

I was not allowed to talk about being adopted when growing up. I walked around feeling like I was going to explode.

— Michael Nyqvist

I was taught to fighter like Sugar Ray Leonard and Muhammad Ali when I was growing up.

— Nonito Donaire

My mom was a single mom and I'm an only child, so growing up it was really just me and her against…

— Denise Bidot

When grandpa was ill and could've died, I would have swapped all my record sales so he could get well. He is…

— Michael Buble

It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge…

— James Loeb

Flint is a big, industrial city. But when I was growing up, they had the recession, lead in the water, and all…

— Kyle Kuzma

I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way…

— Bill Walton

Moving on is not about never looking back. It's about taking a glance at yesterday and noticing how much you've grown since…

— Ritu Ghatourey

Historically, hip-hop is about a generation of artists rapping about the realities they see in their neighborhoods or the 'truths' they hear…

— Karamo Brown

I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven,…

— Ann Hood

And if the liberal media and political community cannot accept that sometimes the wrong people get killed in war, then I can…

— Marcus Luttrell

A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at…

— Leo Tolstoy

After Bottle Rocket, I started getting acting work. People started offering me roles in movies. It wasn't something that I thought about…

— Owen Wilson

I went back and studied the game, was a student of the game and worked on my craft and dedicated myself, you…

— Kendrick Lamar

All over the world today, many girls still get the idea that their bodies are somehow not as good as a boy's…

— Christiane Northrup

Growing up, I played about every sport imaginable except soccer and hockey. I've always had a passion for basketball. I remember actually…

— Dwight Howard

We are blessed to grow up in a country that is the world's leader. We are blessed to be some of the…

— Louis Farrakhan

So my biggest fun has been watching my daughters grow up. Now, unfortunately they're hitting the age where they still love me,…

— Barack Obama

I talked about everything, man. I've always written material that everyone can laugh at. I talked about growing up. I did a…

— J. B. Smoove

Growing up in California, my best friend was Morris Rabinowitz and we often went to the Yiddish Theater.

— Frank Sinatra Jr

Youth is not immortality, more than anything, youth is the power to make choices.

— Anonymous

Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.

— Shawn Ashmore

I had a very close relationship with another kid when I was growing up. I was his imaginary friend.

— Emo Philips

One of the expectations growing up was that I'd become a well-known artist.

— Domino Kirke

Growing up, I didn't have a lot and always wanted things. But I was too prideful to ask for anything; I always…

— DeMar DeRozan

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of role models - Bonnie Raitt, Lita Ford, Jennifer Batten.

— Orianthi

Equestrian and sailing are sports for people growing up on the mean streets of Connecticut.

— Craig Ferguson

Growing up, I wasnt sure about acting, but I knew I wanted to be part of the movie industry.

— Daniella Alonso

It might be a little embarrassing, but I never ever missed an episode of 'Dawson's Creek' growing up.

— Brett Young

I was a big fan of Kurt Russell growing up and I always wanted to be the modern day Kurt Russell.

— Adam Sandler

People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be…

— Neil Gaiman

Because the weak do not want to get preyed on by the strong, they had to evolve

— Anonymous

We teach what we need to learn. And we teach it until we get it.

— Anonymous

Growing up, every team that I've played on, I was a pretty important piece to the team.

— Amari Cooper