Growing up Quotes · Page 20

Growing up in an atmosphere of storytelling made me an actor.

— John Lithgow

I did not have a lot of friends growing up.

— Ethel Cain

Growing up, I was a kid pretending to be an adult.

— Guy Pearce

Growing up, 'Mean' Gene was the voice of my generation.

— Christian Cage

I think that liberals need to grow up.

— Fareed Zakaria

Don't be too eager to grow up. It ain't as much fun as it looks

— John Marston

When I was growing up, I was focused on football and school.

— Trent Alexander-Arnold

Growing up is scary because it happens without you knowing it.

— Taylor Swift

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

— Chamillionaire

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

— Amy Poehler

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

— Roddy Doyle

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

— Danielle Boodoo- Fortuné

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

— Jodie Foster

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

— Jesse Metcalfe

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

When my sister and I were growing up, she was made out to be the goody-goody one. I have as much privacy…

— Princess Margaret

I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it's hard to parse…

— Joel Coen

We can choose this moment of crisis to ask and answer the big questions of society's evolution — like, what do we…

— Paul Gilding

Everybody grows up with comedy. I mean, Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just,…

— Bassem Youssef

I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to…

— James Hansen

Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams.…

— Ethan Hawke

As a child growing up, it's going to be what you're going to remember most. What you liked or not liked then…

— Daniel Boulud

I'm proud to be a Michigander, but I look around at the Michigan that my kids are growing up in and it…

— Gretchen Whitmer

I started reading Dickens when I was about 12, and I particularly liked all of the orphan books. I always liked books…

— John Boyne

To this day, some of my closest friends say, 'Gaga, you know, everything's great. You're a singer; your dreams have come true.'…

— Lady Gaga

“During my 20’s and 30’s at some point I started to think, “I have to give it up and I have to…

— Alice Bag

There are definitely things about acting that have helped me growing up and finding myself, but there are also things that make…

— Rowan Blanchard

When I was growing up, my mother, who had been through a lot of terrible things in life, taught me that when…

— Jane Seymour

“One of the greatest tragedies of growing up is the discovery that your parents- and your teachers, and your sports heroes, and…

— Robin Wasserman

Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly…

— Beth Ditto

“This memory was both happy and sad: happy because it was so pleasant, and sad because it made Penelope think about how…

— Maryrose Wood

Growing up in Livingston, New Jersey, was terrific.

— Adam Pally

The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded me

— Christina Ricci

But I'm warning you, we're growing up.

— Brandi Carlile

Growing up, I didn't really know who the Tuskegee Airmen were.

— Anthony Hemingway

When I was a kid, growing up, I used to write a lot of stories.

— Eoin Macken

Growing up, I was such a big fan of Nintendo games.

— Jordan Fisher

Peter Parker's storyline hits every key point of growing up.

— Tom Holland

I never thought, growing up, I'd be a TV host.

— Rob Gronkowski