Growing up Quotes · Page 102

When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.

— Roddy Doyle

Growing up, my skin wasn't so great. I did everything, even Accutane, because I was always having breakouts.

— Vanessa Williams

Growing up, I was always obsessed with all of the beauty things.

— Chloe Fineman

Growing up, I was one of those energetic kids who never sat still.

— Jessica Long

Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe…

— William Butler Yeats

Reading keeps me sane. Growing up, it was my scape, my alternative; it provided both rebellion and peace.

— Amber Heard

When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.

— Alison Bechdel

Growing up in Jersey makes you a little bit ballsier, a little more outspoken.

— Retta

My sister was in ballet growing up. I spent almost the entirety of 7 through 12 backstage at Lincoln Center, just running…

— Timothee Chalamet

There is one message children can never hear enough as they grow up, and adults should never forget as long as they…

— Mardy Grothe

“Manhood had come to him, both in character and demeanour, not as it comes to most young lads, an eagerly-desired and presumptuously-asserted…

— Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space…

— Ellen Page

I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and…

— Jackie DeShannon

My dad's a lighting director. Growing up in Hollywood, I was around the entertainment industry all the time. I knew I'd end…

— Meghan Markle

I liked Bollywood a lot growing up; I just liked the idea of seeing people that looked like me on a big…

— Himanshu Suri

“Release- For years they told you to sit. Stay. Now they open the door and tell you to get up. Leave. Where…

— Keelie Breanna

First, I wanted to be Chris Farley. When I was growing up, Chris Farley was still on the stages and fun to…

— Anonymous

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I remembered that throughout my growing up and education and pursuing my dreams and desires, going into acting, and, of course, getting…

— Angela Bassett

“For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense. Of course, they have memories. Of…

— Ian McEwan

When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew…

— Jamie Foxx

In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching…

— Jacki Weaver

Past is what makes us. the decisions and its consequences may seem bad today but there's a reason why we made it…

— Anonymous

Some parents were awful back then and are awful still. The process of raising you didn't turn them into grown-ups. Parents who…

— Frank Pittman

“Moving on should be a required high school class because Lynchburg is determined to make me forget.”

— Taylor Rhodes

Every single substitute teacher growing up could not pronounce my name, so whenever someone pauses, I'm like, 'Oh, that's me.'

— Cary Fukunaga

Obviously the Champions League, is the whole of Europe and a thing which every kid dreams about growing up.

— Serge Gnabry

Growing up I didn't have curvy role models, mainly because I didn't see enough curvy women represented in major ads.

— Ashley Graham

One Of These Days either you are gonna become bigger than your flaws or they are gonna destroy you.

— Enhance Dreams

I'm from Canada, so I did a lot of camping and rafting growing up.

— Caterina Scorsone

Come back when you grow up girl, you're still living in a paper doll world.

— Bobby Vee

Sometimes, it's better that people break up - so they can grow up. It takes grown-ups to make relationships work

— Unkown

These younger kids - I think growing up with social media, they're just savvy.

— John Stamos

When I think of growing up, I see dance, I hear music and I think of teachers.

— Ariana DeBose

No relationship is ever a waste of time. If I didn't bring you want you want it showed you what you don't…

— Mario Tomasello

I got in a lot of fights growing up, and not just basketball fights.

— Avery Bradley

I don't want to grow up too fast I just want to live one year at a time.

— Khat Leen

Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional Baseball player, instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not.

— Casey Kasem

When we were growing up the Barrowland was ominous. It had closed down. It was synonymous with Bible John.

— Jim Kerr

All these teenagers tell us how much they want to grow up and then when they do they want to be young…

— Wanda Sykes