Growing up Quotes · Page 43

I was really squeamish growing up - not too fond of blood and guts.

— Trevante Rhodes

I'm not trying to be like what I thought an NBA player is supposed to be growing up.

— Kevin Durant

'Ders' is something I've been called since I was six by neighbors and stuff growing up.

— Anders Holm

As far as ethnicity, you grow up being sensitive to things around you and then become more proactive about it.

— Prefuse 73

Growing up, Mammy always said, 'Never back down from someone you defend yourself.' And that's what I did. I was never afraid.

— Maura Higgins

I like growing up; I feel like I have an old soul. I like the age to match as much as it…

— Elizabeth Gillies

Growing up, I idolised Madhuri Dixit. She's my favourite actress, and I used to pretend I was her all the time.

— Lilly Singh

I'd spent summers growing up in Mississippi, so I had an idea of what the South is like.

— Patty Jenkins

When you were growing up in the 30s, 20s, of course the 40s, all black people at least in the Washington, D.C.,…

— Ed Smith

“Watching her, he saw again how she teetered between adolescence and adulthood, with a raw sensuality that had to deposit her in…

— Keith Ablow

Athletics are not my wheelhouse because sports were mean to this uncoordinated kid growing up, a 6-foot-2 14-year-old who never could do…

— Brad Garrett

I think that, especially as the kids are growing up, they have so much stuff going on in their own lives, they…

— Brie Larson

Thanks to the gods I didn't spend much time while growing up with my grandfather's mistress and preserved the flower of my…

— Marcus Aurelius

It's usually my mom who gets on me about my facial hair. I can't grow a good mustache, so I guess it's…

— Andrew Luck

Growing up in the Midwest, people don't drive Porsches and Ferraris. They drive Fords and Chevys. And so even if you have…

— Luke Perry

Sometimes, growing up, I tried to be very Latina; I would change my voice... experiment with my hair a lot, trying to…

— Monica Raymund

My mom's younger sister was born with Down syndrome. I was close to my grandmother when I was growing up. I remember…

— Josh Earnest

It was a free-for-all with music when I was growing up. My mother was a huge music fanatic so I was listening…

— Tig Notaro

“It struck her how sad it was that all of them had grown up on top of one another like small animals…

— Lauren Oliver

I am sure that the experience of growing up in the heart of the working class and learning from my parents, and…

— Michael Yates

The great God endows His children variously. To some He gives intellect...and they move the earth. To some He allots heart...and the…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

Once upon a time, growing up male gave little boys a sense of certainty about the natural order of things. We had…

— Kenneth R. Miller

When I was growing up skateboarding, a bunch of friends and I went to this thrift store and as we were leaving…

— Mark Hoppus

We split a bottle of Norman cider. Not everybody sells Norman cider by the bottle. "Has a European feel" Susan said. "That…

— Robert B. Parker

Growing up in a terraced house in Wolverhampton, just me and my mum, I don't know where I got my love of…

— Denise Lewis

I've never wanted to be a fireman, in my life. I've never really wanted to grow up and be anything other than…

— David Gordon Green

I think growing up, people want to put you in a box and label you quite often, just because it's kind of…

— Mabel

Growing up in the 1950s, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, boys were supposed to be athletic.

— Chris Van Allsburg

Growing up, I played football and was always one of the best on the team.

— Jake Paul

Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.

— Bobby Cannavale

We didn't have the Grand Ole Opry or country radio stations in Nova Scotia when I was growing up.

— Anne Murray

I was obsessed with Nancy Drew growing up - I couldn't get enough.

— Alexandra Daddario

When I was growing up in Newcastle, there was one other Indian girl, and we got confused for each other constantly.

— Geraldine Viswanathan

Please tell me we don't grow up and turn into the adults that drive us crazy.

— Karen Marie Moning

I love the whole Punjabi culture as I have seen it very closely in Delhi in my growing up years.

— Priyanshu Chatterjee

I definitely know that I'm quirky. I know that I'm different. Red hair definitely made me different growing up.

— Jayma Mays

Growing up, I kind of adopted that mentality, going all out, being a warrior.

— Nonito Donaire

I was comfortable as a kid growing up. I had everything I needed.

— Chris Eubank Jr

Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray

— Cassandra Clare

I read Jilly Cooper when I was on the verge of just growing up and I was becoming a woman.

— Georgia Toffolo