Growing up Quotes · Page 78

“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

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

— Cody Bellinger

“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

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

— Roman Payne

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

— Angela Rayner

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

— David E. Goldberg

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

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Kids don't fight in minor hockey anymore. There's very few fights in junior and college hockey. So growing up, all these guys…

— Wayne Gretzky

If we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then…

— John Eldredge

I think my biggest musical hero growing up was probably Ian MacKaye. He set a great example for all of us local…

— Dave Grohl

What I want to do is, I want to put together a nice list of those guys who I really did admire…

— John Cena

When I was growing up, my dad didn't have weights, so he made himself a weight bench. Instead of a hand-me-down jacket,…

— Jason Statham

People associate me with Al Green and Curtis Mayfield, but these aren't people that I listened to growing up. I got into…

— Van Hunt

“How did I get to be a grown-up? At times, I find myself still sitting on the hillside, plotting revenge against the…

— Erica Jong

When I was growing up, I didn't really have a lot of different things I could wear. As I got older, the…

— Iman Shumpert

[There's] a joke that I've done forever: 'Nowadays they say that the largest majority of people will be Latino and you'll tell…

— George Lopez

Friends come and go, clothing is packed and unpacked, households are continually purged of unnecessary items, and as a result, not much…

— Nicholas Sparks

Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Growing up in a group home, and with an undiagnosed learning disability to boot, the odds of success were not on my…

— Darell Hammond

Growing up, I was lucky that my dad was never out of work. I was very fortunate in one way: that I…

— Mary Harron

Looking back, I remember my family laughing a lot. We were never the kind of people that dwelled on hard times. My…

— Cristela Alonzo

One of my best friends growing up was gay. ... It’s never been an issue for me. ... I think there was…

— Donald Trump, Jr

“It's not very easy to grow up into a woman. We are always taught, almost bombarded, with ideals of what we should…

— C. JoyBell C

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

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

— Wes Bentley

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

— Molly Tarlov

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

— Brit Marling

I might have been curious about actors' lives when I was growing up. That's human nature.

— Michael Fassbender

The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats.

— John Cleese

Growing up in Vancouver, it's not like growing up in Middle America or the middle of Canada. It's a very movie town.

— Evan Goldberg

In the pie chart of my brain growing up, there's a huge slice for 'Ghostbusters.'

— Evan Goldberg

I was like a fat, sweaty kid growing up in Queens who just was plopped down in front of 'Entertainment Tonight' by…

— Billy Eichner

It's easy when you grow up in fear to act out of fear. I don't want to embrace that fear; I prefer…

— Akhil Sharma

When you get older you realize its not as important to have a lot of friends. Its more important to have real…

— Anonymous

For me, personally, I didn't see many people like me on TV growing up.

— Pearl Mackie

Where else but in America can a poor black man like Michael Jackson grow up to be a rich white woman?

— Red Buttons

I love crosswords! Actually, when I was growing up, me and my girlfriends would collect them and see who finished them first!

— Alicia Vikander

[My parents] met in university back in the '70s. And I didn't grow up with my father. He - they separated before…

— Kehinde Wiley