Growing up Quotes · Page 56

If I get to spoil myself, I'm going to DQ. I always had it growing up, so I stick to it.

— Zach LaVine

I think that there's got to be a comic gene in some way, but it's so much about it is how you…

— Marlo Thomas

I didn't grow up eating meat - I was a vegetarian until I was 18.

— Daphne Oz

My kids are growing up and it's hard to accept they are their own person and they're independent.

— Ray Romano

I've always been drawn to writing for young readers. The books that I read growing up remain in my mind very strongly.

— Meg Wolitzer

Growing up, Missy Elliot and Janet Jackson were definitely major references.

— Kelela

D.C. is a hard city to grow up in. I couldn't find my footing there. Also, I got a late start academically,…

— Justin Theroux

In Chicago, there weren't a lot of Mormons in the town growing up.

— Sophie Thatcher

“To become a man is to carry out your word because you gave your word. And your word is you as a…

— Carew Papritz

I had a wonderful childhood in Antigua growing up in a family with three other brothers and no sisters, so you can…

— Viv Richards

Rock never meant the same thing to everyone, but when I was growing up in the late seventies, everyone could identify the…

— Chris Cornell

I grew up on rap and hip-hop and fell into dance music. Hip-hop died down, and I moved more into dance music,…

— Nomi Ruiz

The hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome is probably my first steps into adulthood: paying rent, groceries, cooking, taxes. I was…

— Dillon Lane

Crime is a job. Sex is a job. Growing up is a job. School is a job. Going to parties is a…

— David Byrne

Korea taught me nothing, for no one spoke of it when I was growing up, except as something about how wonderful the…

— Gloria Emerson

Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the…

— Queen Latifah

[The White House staff] start bringing in their kids, who you think should be babies and now are in second grade or…

— Barack Obama

I've always been more of a nerdy, academic type. I loved 'Star Wars' growing up. I have three older brothers, so they…

— Mara Wilson

“You grew up soft. Your tender heart would nurse a frightened field mouse rescued from a trap. Would make a splint. You'd…

— Deirdre Sullivan

I grew up on movie sets, so it was something I just found familiar. When I was growing up also, in high…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

It was a dangerous profession I had chosen ... because no one likes a funny kid. In fact, adults are scared silly…

— Art Buchwald

East of my bean-field, across the road, lived Cato Ingraham, slave of Duncan Ingraham, Esquire, gentleman, of Concord village, whobuilt his slave…

— Henry David Thoreau

Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest…

— Zola Budd

I came out to Hollywood when I was just 18, and my dad, he was really into Hollywood and theater and art,…

— Bill Paxton

Naptime at 5 years old: I DONT WANNA!!! Naptime now: Praise the Lord!

— Anonymous

Growing up in Ireland, there are a lot of aspects of God that hang in the air. And my music reflects that.

— Hozier

For my style influences you've got to look at Kanye first. Pharrell when I was growing up, too.

— Nick Young

“I wrote this book to inspire young women to be brave and believe in themselves.”

— Sherine Calloway

Growing up near Scarsdale, I should have had at least one Jewish girlfriend. Maybe at some point it'll happen.

— Ato Essandoh

We watched a lot of Hong Kong action movies in my house when I was growing up.

— Benedict Wong

I was really heavy growing up, so it was never feeling like the pretty girl, never being popular.

— Elle Varner

The most consistent musical experience I had growing up was church music.

— Amy Grant

“I love him in ways that I can’t explain to other people. They don’t understand… it’s not their fault.”

— Jennifer Elisabeth

Growing up there was more of a Leeds following in my home town than even Man United or Liverpool.

— Stuart Dallas

You are getting old when you enjoy remembering things more than doing them.

— Anonymous

When I was growing up, the top movies dealt with grown-up, complex emotions.

— John Slattery

And how can it be he's so in love with me? To grow up without love, and still have so much inside?

— Ellen Hopkins

I very much want to write about some elements of my own growing up.

— Courtney A. Kemp

Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life.

— Lisa See

As a documentary filmmaker, I couldn't afford to give my children the lifestyle I had in San Francisco growing up.

— Alexandra C. Pelosi