Growing up Quotes · Page 100

No one knew I was gay growing up but I was bullied. I was a cheerleader, fairly popular and considered straight.

— Cat Cora

Growing up in the inner city, you might not see a lot of different career paths and different jobs.

— C. J. McCollum

Baseball wasn't necessarily my first sport in terms of liking it. I'd never played baseball or softball growing up.

— Kylie Bunbury

I was obsessed with Jim Carrey growing up. It's why I wanted to become an actor.

— Sebastian Stan

I had a lot of difficulty growing up in a society where everything is very closed-minded, especially with beauty.

— Barbie Ferreira

I always wanted a girl growing up, as well as a boy, so to have a girl first is just really exciting.

— Gabby Barrett

As a kid growing up in a rural area, I was always tinkering with parts and machinery.

— Mike Schultz

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

— Rhea Ripley

Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting…

— Ed Bradley

Growing up, I didn't have a family of creatives. I didn't have knowledge that becoming an artist was an option. I'm not…

— Kesh

I think a lot of people have an idealistic view - if you grow up in the country, there can't possibly be…

— PJ Harvey

I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've…

— Jodi Picoult

The amount of women we've met that say that we were an inspiration to them growing up, has always been one of…

— Keren Woodward

The first music I was interested in was Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys, and I listened to bluegrass religiously on the…

— Porter Wagoner

So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I used to skip school to go there when I was growing up in Newark, ... I saw the Flamingos, the Heartbeats,…

— George Clinton

This time, we're living in such a crazy moment in history. People still write and talk about Watergate, which was such a…

— Patterson Hood

Growing up, I think I always had a sense of art: a sense that there was poetry in the world. I didn't…

— Lance Henriksen

I had the opportunity, as a child, to grow up in a community center where I was exposed to theater, music, art,…

— Erykah Badu

“The trouble is I'm not very good at trusting my own instincts. I've been wrong before. A lot." "About what? You worry…

— Harriet Evans

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

— Caitlin Moran

“Our Peter Pan generation is unhappy. All our lives, we want to grow up— to be treated like adults, to have freedom…

— Marcella Purnama

You know when you're thinking about what you want to be when you grow up, or how you want your life to…

— Jarvis Cocker

When I was growing up, my favorite movie was 'Somewhere in Time' with Christopher Reeve, which is a hugely romantic, sappy movie.…

— Scott Michael Foster

Growing up in Memphis, I have always admired St. Jude's for the magnificent work they do.

— Ginnifer Goodwin

Growing up on a set is completely different than coming onto a brand new set for the first time.

— Alexa Vega

I think that getting responsibility and structure are huge parts of growing up.

— Jim Rash

“I don’t ever want to hurt anyone, but I really wish there was something like a reset button on my life.”

— Jennifer Elisabeth

I hope, if you should live to grow up, you will endeavour to be very useful and not spend all your time…

— Elizabeth Fry

When it comes to dance hall music, I definitely listened to a lot of Vybz Kartel growing up or Gyptian and Mavado.

— Justine Skye

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

— Jodie Foster

“You yourself are unsure whether to remain frozen in time or to grow upward with the coming rain.”

— Danielle Boodoo- Fortuné

I didn't really watch 'Dallas' growing up, as I was a bit young and into other things, like sports.

— Jesse Metcalfe

I refuse to totally grow up. I've always been someone who says and does things that push politically correct boundaries.

— Robbie Williams

There are certain fans who want me to rap about the same exact thing, but it's time to grow up.

— Chamillionaire

It was a sign of growing up, when the dark made no more difference to you than the day.

— Roddy Doyle

When young girls are encouraged to explore what they find interesting, they grow up to be interesting women.

— Amy Poehler

Being real sometimes means being able to admit that you're wrong. It shows strength in character, not weakness.

— Anonymous

When we humans reach a certain age, that's when we realize what's important in our lives.

— Wazim Shaw