Growing up Quotes · Page 47

As the daughter of immigrants, growing up in New York City, you are either at the table or on the menu.

— Grace Meng

Raising kids makes most people, including me, grow up at least a little.

— Madonna Ciccone

I grew up in the United Methodist Church, and church was always a very big part of my growing up.

— Hilarie Burton

In childhood we cry loudly to get what we like, but when grown up we cry silently to forget what we like.

— Anonymous

My whole life, growing up, I always wanted to be in comedy. I never felt comfortable doing the 'teen hunk' thing.

— Dustin Milligan

Being a child growing up in the 80s, my mum experimented with dressing me in quite a lot of day-glo.

— Holly Willoughby

I've always been interested in space and the idea of exploration in that area since I was a child growing up through…

— Sarah Brightman

Grow up, Donald Trump. Grow up. Time to be an adult. You're president. You've got to do something. Show us what you…

— Joe Biden

Same sex marriage is a disgrace to the nation and to God. When I was growing up, ‘ungqingili’ [homosexuals in isiZulu] could…

— Jacob Zuma

These things have a life of there own and never existed when I was growing up certainly worrying when one would get…

— Stockard Channing

Im from northern Virginia, but I grew up next to the West Virginia border, so it was hills and farmland. We had…

— Hilarie Burton

I am not taking a position on any policy, but I do think there is a growing sense of anxiety and even…

— Hillary Clinton

Well, the stuff that I liked growing up was AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, but I also liked the Beatles and guys like Cat…

— Dave Mustaine

I've never met anyone with a perfect upbringing. It seems to me that life on planet Earth just doesn't work that way.…

— David Simon

Well, Mom and Dad are both actors, and Ive spent a lot of time watching my mom on stage and a lot…

— Eleanor Tomlinson

When I was growing up, music was music and there were no genres. We didn't look at it as country music. Popular…

— Lionel Richie

“He left that morning, the last words still echoing in my head, and though he said he’d come back one day I…

— Charlotte Eriksson

I get a little myopic in the act of doing any writing. I think I'm not as interested or not as able…

— Aimee Bender

There may be something in the fact that when I was a little kid I'd been told growing up that we had…

— Johnny Depp

At last I understood that the way over, or through this dilemma, the unease at writing about 'petty personal problems' was to…

— Doris Lessing

I'd like to hope you end up a miserable, lonely woman. But actually, I hope you have children one day, Ellie Haworth.…

— Anonymous

There have always been ­gangland-type areas in Nottingham - but what's really hit me hard is kids as young as eight are…

— Jermaine Jenas

Growing up, yeah, I had a magic kit with learn tricks and learn card tricks, but I was never... I used to…

— Steve Buscemi

All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One…

— Anonymous

Adulthood is just piles of bills and trying to convince your exes how amazing youre life is.

— Anonymous

When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.

— Hayley Mills

I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way.

— Allen Iverson

While growing up, I used to go to the beach, as I used to find peace there.

— K. L. Rahul

I was bullied as a boy - lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and…

— Anthony Hopkins

My mom used to be a dancer, so I always wanted to be like her growing up.

— Tate McRae

Books were a huge part of my childhood growing up. We would go on vacation, and my mom was always carting manuscripts…

— David Grann

When I was growing up, my father never got his profession to the house. We didn't discuss films on the dining table.

— Vicky Kaushal

Growing up, I spent a lot of time on film sets all over the world.

— Danny Huston

When I was growing up, we always had music playing in our household. I enjoy spending time with my father singing.

— Pattie Brooks

I loved Jackie Chan growing up, watching mostly his Hong Kong film work.

— Nigel Ng

While growing up, I lived in my own fantasy world. I had kind of a rough childhood, so I created my own…

— Roger Ross Williams

To me, growing up in South Wales, a pair of Diesel jeans were the thing to have - if you could afford…

— Luke Evans

He's stuck with me and I'm stuck with him. We're stuck. That's what growing up is all about, I guess.

— Lauren Oliver

When I was growing up, I always knew I'd be in the top of my class in math, and that gave me…

— Sergey Brin

“When you're finally a grown-up, one of the things you find is that there are no grown-ups.”

— Charles Finch