Growing up Quotes · Page 71

Growing up, I didn't have any role models that were sick that were doing anything with their life, ever.

— Claire Wineland

I think when you live with somebody, you grow up. You learn a lot about yourself through somebody else.

— V V Brown

The things I loved growing up, like 'Roseanne,' actually said something about actual human beings.

— Simon Amstell

If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never…

— James M. Barrie

Growing up means :propelling yourself forward into whatever lies ahead, one turn of the wheel at a time.

— Sarah Dessen

Growing up I was very feminist. I had strong opinions, but I would go about my beliefs in the wrong ways.

— Megan Ganz

Growing up in a very poor orphanage in Ukraine, there wasn't much food.

— Oksana Masters

Growing up in the 1980s, I remember when the GOP was the party of ideas. Now it's brain dead.

— Max Boot

I actually study boxing - my dad was a Golden Gloves champion so I learned how to fight at a very young…

— Lana Parrilla

I was always intrigued when I was growing up, and then in engineering school, with the idea of a perpetual machine. I…

— Mike Duke

I think teenagers in the States grow up too fast. In Canada, kids are exposed to different things. Like school is very…

— Neve Campbell

Growing up, in church we had the homily; at home it's what I call the 'momily' - the inspirational and instructive mom-isms…

— Christine Pelosi

Growing up, I was obsessed with Michael Jackson. I saw him at Wembley when I was 7 years old, it was my…

— Matthew Healy

Growing up, I remember my parents feeling a little wary of 'The Simpsons.' This was the late eighties, and there was a…

— Mindy Kaling

Manners are the root, laws only the trunk and branches. Manners are the archetypes of laws. Manners are laws in their infancy;…

— Horace Mann

People used to stare at me when I was growing up because I was in a wheelchair, and I hated it. Now…

— Dylan Alcott

I think back to when I was growing up in Fort Worth, Texas, in the 1950s, during the [John] McCarthy era, with…

— Frances Moore Lappé

Growing up in Europe, tight clothing is pretty standard. When I got to college, clothes were loose, so I was going toward…

— Carl Hagelin

Growing up I watched examples of how not to treat people. I knew when I got into certain positions that I wasn't…

— Charlamagne Tha God

My background is economics and maths. I think one of the reasons I studied humanities at all, or even went into journalism,…

— Nick Denton

As a kid, growing up, as far as I was concerned, I was Luke Skywalker. Any sort of small victory or any…

— Jacob Anderson

It's really going to happen. I really won't ever go back to school. Not ever. I'll never be famous or leave anything…

— Jenny Downham

“When you're a kid, the world can be bounded in a nutshell. In geographical terms, a child's universe is a space that…

— Marcelo Figueras

Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold…

— Florence King

I played for the Long Island Panthers growing up, and we played in all the boroughs.

— Danny Green

Growing up is when you understand you get what you give, not what you're given.

— Guy Browning

As a young boy growing up on the South Side of Chicago, I was inspired by the nascent space age.

— John M. Grunsfeld

I didn't grow up with my Kenyan family. I grew up in a small, conservative suburb of Chicago.

— Tom Morello

When I was growing up, I didn't have too many people I looked up to that played soccer.

— Mark Ingram II

I was actually a Cowboys fan growing up, so I didn't care much for the Jets or Giants.

— Devin McCourty

There was definitely a wild side to me that couldn't run free growing up in England.

— Catherine Oxenberg

When you're physically growing up, you develop emotionally with that.

— Erin O'Connor

I'd always like to score at Goodison Park, being an Everton fan growing up. Anfield as well would be a nice place…

— Adam Lallana

My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables.

— John Boehner

To a young kid growing up in Canada, America seemed to be crazy about the future; dazzled by it.

— Graydon Carter

The great thing about this jungle of ours is that anyone of you could grow up to be Lord of the apes.

— Gary Larson

I wasn't a kid growing up thinking, 'One day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech.' That wasn't on my mind.

— Adam Sandler

Growing up crowds your mind with new thoughts and new feelings so that you forget how you used to think and feel.

— Maureen Daly

There were many fruit trees in our house when I was growing up and I never missed climbing any of them.

— Babu Antony

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.

— Mr. T