Growing up Quotes · Page 55

I still love the theology of the Mormon religion and think it is a wonderful way to grow up.

— Katherine Heigl

It's hard growing up in a world where you never feel like you're good enough.

— Anonymous

My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had…

— Coco Lee

“Intimidated, old traumas triggered, and fearing for my safety, I did what I felt I needed to do.”

— Sierra D. Waters

There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.

— Anonymous

I actually was the accompanist for a couple of the musicals I was in growing up.

— Kirsten Nelson

Elves apparently had a short childhood. Not like witches, who seemed to take forever to grow up, according to Jenks.

— Kim Harrison

Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.

— Rudolph A. Marcus

We moved to Ireland when I was two and we settled in Killarney, Co Kerry. Where we were living in Germany is…

— Michael Fassbender

My parents brought me up on all different styles of music, like my Mum would listen to Motown R&B and my Dad…

— Ella Henderson

I wouldn't know how to write a weak female character. I read so much epic fantasy growing up, where you have these…

— Richelle Mead

Kenya, being a third world country, from a young age your eyes are open to the real world. I'd like to think…

— Chris Froome

Growing up on stage, I was introduced to makeup at a young age and I will never forget the first time I…

— Lea Michele

I spent a lot of time in London when I was growing up and I've always picked up accents without even really…

— Christopher Guest

I always had influences musically with punk, and then growing up, I dyed my hair every color. I did the dip-dye blue,…

— Leigh Lezark

Growing up, my first interview when I was 14, I said, 'Yeah, I'm going to play in the NBA.' Everybody was like,…

— Evan Fournier

I still have a stammer that I can control by not opening a sentence with a hard consonant, or by concentrating for…

— Colm Toibin

All in all, the communally reared children of Israel are far from the emotional disasters that psychoanalytic theory predicted. Neither have they…

— Sandra Scarr

I started a modeling agency and I had it for about five and a half years and it was the same time…

— Amy Weber

[On libraries] What's great about them is that anybody can go into them and find a book and borrow it free of…

— Stephen Fry

Growing up, I was blessed to be part of a great church. This is where I met many friends who have encouraged…

— Bethany Hamilton

Most 20th century academic physicists, and academia as a whole, simply did not want to touch the subject of consciousness. We have…

— Edgar Mitchell

Perhaps I can also add something about the rural setting of Remember You're a One-Ball! The countryside is a place - in…

— Quentin S. Crisp

I wish we could grow up about it, I'm sure we are contributing to global warming, and we must do all we…

— Alan Titchmarsh

A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not.

— Christina Stead

Growing up, my favorite player was either Derek Jeter or Manny Ramirez.

— Cody Bellinger

“That boy made me realize, for a while at least, that my parents were wrong, and I didn't have to be like…

— J.X. Burros

“It is very important to accept your own darkness when you want to grow in the light.”

— Pradip Bendkule

I always spoke my mind, and that was a result of the music I listened to growing up.

— Yungblud

Growing up without love, without being cared for, might be the worst type of poverty.

— Angela Rayner

“Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.”

— Roman Payne

“I live in an ecotone. Employment must coexist with goofing off. Responsibility must coexist with irresponsibility.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

When you grow up and something touches you emotionally, it lives on forever.

— David E. Goldberg

I was a big fan of Jean-Claude Van-Damme growing up, and I always wanted to be a martial artist 'cause of him.

— Georges St-Pierre

Children have a right to grow up in a family with a father and a mother.

— Pope Francis

One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.

— Brit Marling

Growing up, I looked to people who had the same issues as me and were still living great lives.

— Molly Tarlov

Growing up, I could never decide what I wanted to be because I wanted to be so many things.

— Wes Bentley

When I was growing up, I wanted to do Letterman and I loved that live, in-studio model. I still would do something…

— Scott Aukerman

All babies are incoherent, but they grow up. That is the principle difference between an infant and a poet.

— Sharyn McCrumb