Growing up Quotes · Page 113

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

— Amber Heard

I am Peter Pan. He represents youth, childhood, never growing up, magic, flying.

— Michael Jackson

Constantly comparing your old relationship to your new one is the quickest way to find yourself single again.

— KiKi Strack

When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time.

— Diane Lane

Austin Powers in Goldmember' was my favorite movie growing up. My mom wanted to burn the DVD. She hates stupid stuff.

— Quinta Brunson

Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.

— Carol Burnett

There weren't many black players when I was growing up, and I remember playing and looking up to the ones that were…

— Jarome Iginla

I loved watching Cynthia Cooper growing up when she played for the Houston Comets.

— Maya Moore

Washington is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the…

— Horace Greeley

I did not grow up watching much TV and film. I had a very, very, very, very, very, very church family, and…

— Pauley Perrette

Like every young man growing up in the puritanical Eisenhower 1950s, I had a hell of a time getting laid. I suppose…

— Edward Sorel

I feel terrible about corporate greed. Growing up in a household that was a little more humble and didn't put so much…

— Chloe Sevigny

Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you…

— Wendi McLendon-Covey

Personally, I think that children should be left alone, they should be given an opportunity to grow up, to become aware of…

— Vladimir Putin

Whether it was hunting, fishing, or playing sports, my children were going to grow up outside. They weren't going to be sitting…

— Phil Robertson

My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference…

— Mark Hoppus

When I was growing up, there was a man who gave me lessons and things. I'm very dyslexic so he used to…

— Jeremy Irvine

I don't know what I could say specifically, except that everything I've learned as a kid of course must somehow play into…

— Jackie Earle Haley

“Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into…

— Brian Selznick

“The energy you drew on so extravagantly when you were a kid, the energy you thought would never exhaust itself - that…

— Stephen King

This is the first generation to grow up on Thatcher - it's a different ethos. It's money minded, and it's the cult…

— Jane Campion

Growing up I couldn't always get involved with the activities with all the other kids because if I overworked my body it…

— Prodigy

I was full of energy, and I had a lot of bottled up rage that would come out in my stage performances.…

— Alice Bag

My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I think the way I approach things has something to do with growing up and seeing my parents go to work every…

— Kristen Stewart

One of the best feelings I had growing up was being completely exhausted at the end of the day after playing outside…

— Jennifer Pharr Davis

Skateboarding was the only thing I was ever good at. Growing up, I was doing that from, like, dusk till dawn.

— D.J. Cotrona

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

— Wanda Sykes

I'm very close to my parents and we built a sailboat together when I was growing up. We're partners.

— Rex Smith

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

— Jim Kerr

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

— Casey Kasem

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

— Khat Leen

For me, growing up, I'd always been a part of team sports, except for when I was boxing.

— Baron Corbin

When I was growing up, all my cousins had high-top fades. I thought it would be cool to see how long I…

— Iman Shumpert

Being self-aware is not the absence of mistakes, but the ability to learn and correct them.

— Anonymous

Growing up, I was always a fan of wrestling, but I was also a fan of MMA and stuff.

— Matt Riddle

I look to films to learn and to see different avenues that you can take in growing up.

— Alison Sudol

I had very big lips growing up, so my brother started to call me Scooter Fish because he decided a scooter fish…

— Scooter Braun

A lot of kids are growing up and only trying to play one position.

— Cordarrelle Patterson

Growing up in the ghetto is pretty hard. It's poverty; it's frustration.

— Tracy Morgan