Growing up Quotes · Page 112

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

— Roddy Doyle

I had to grow up fast. I had a lot of obstacles to overcome. It made me a lot stronger, growing up…

— Jevon Kearse

I just longed for certain connections and attachments with another person that I really lacked, I believe, growing up.

— Nadya Suleman

The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose.

— C. S. Lewis

I think just growing up in Miami, there's gumbo of different cultures that influence us.

— Flo Rida

“... but I believe that music can change a life, because it changed mine.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

Either you get a chance to be a kid when you are a kid, or you don't grow up.

— Howard Fast

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain one once we grow up.

— Pablo Picasso

The older you get...the smaller the circle of your true friends becomes...for time has a tendency to absorb the time we have…

— Kevin Messick

Growing up, I used to think I'd never get on a plane - I was terrified. But when I joined Mis-Teeq, being…

— Alesha Dixon

I think part of growing up is not actually finding a fixed idea of who you are, but rather being like, "Oh,…

— Amandla Stenberg

What defines 'success' - answering that question - is so important when you're growing up as an athlete. Success for one kid…

— Maya Moore

I didnt grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, Ive never wanted to speak to an all-white…

— G-Eazy

When I was growing up and watching 'The Sweeney,' the notion of police officers being an inch away from the villains that…

— Lennie James

I don't want my children to be at a disadvantage, growing up in the limelight, because then they have to live up…

— Chrissie Hynde

To avoid having bad things happen, learning to manage your anger and to actually share how you really feel about something, and…

— William J. Clinton

When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about…

— Kathryn Lasky

Growing up, I was discouraged from telling personal stories. My dad often used the phrase 'Don't tell anyone.' But not about creepy…

— Mike Birbiglia

Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the…

— Horace Walpole

Growing up as a black kid with a white father who loves you, who affirms you, who was part of your life…

— Benjamin Jealous

It's my life dream to be able to go and continue going to schools and teaching them about stretching and aerobics, cardio…

— Richard Simmons

I think there's a huge parallel that affects my musical taste, and connections that have to do with my ethnic diversity and…

— Miguel

Growing up in Kenya, slum life was not far away. I had family that lived in slums, so I visited them often,…

— Lupita Nyong'o

I'd like to start off by saying that every experience no matter what it is, good or bad, you'll learn from it.…

— Olivia Culpo

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

— Ashley Graham

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

— Serge Gnabry

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

— Cary Fukunaga

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

— Avery Bradley

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

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

— John Stamos

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

— Unkown

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

— Bobby Vee

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

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

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

— Jessica Long

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

— Taylor Rhodes

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