Growing up Quotes · Page 79

So much of growing up is an unbearable waiting. A constant longing for another time. Another season.

— Sonia Sanchez

I've always loved playing Zeppelin - they were one of my favorite bands growing up.

— Michael Anthony

When I was growing up, some of the lads weren't very nice about me playing.

— Karen Carney

I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.

— Kate Burton

I love being a Met. It was my favorite team growing up, so to be a Met to me is very special.

— David Wright

“Hm. Didn’t you use to be a lot smaller?” “Yes,” said Jinx. “Because I used to be six.”

— Sage Blackwood

I suppose the point you grow up is the point you let the dreams go.

— Neil Gaiman

'Sag Harbor' brought me a new readership - it's a coming of age tale about growing up in the '80s.

— Matthew Desmond

I never wanted to be like anyone growing up. It's always been about the enjoyment, and I've just never wanted to imitate…

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

I don't know who I touch and who I don't. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do…

— Adam Sandler

Bruce Lee was my inspiration when I was growing up and I used to watch 'Enter The Dragon.' No one could sit…

— Kell Brook

There are kids who get on a BMX bike when they're eight years old and they go, 'Whoa, this is incredible,' and…

— Joaquin Phoenix

I think some of my best theatre training has been in the Marine Corps. Not only meeting a bunch of characters, but…

— Adam Driver

Paolo Maldini is someone I loved at AC Milan and looked up to as a player. I think he had so much…

— John Terry

Growing up, music was an important part of my childhood. I see it being just as important in my children and all…

— Ziggy Marley

I do feel that even though I didn't grow up being a big sci-fi fan or comic books or superhero fan, I…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The law of the [Cub Scout] pack guides the boys to move in the direction of being helpful, friendly, courteous, trustworthy and…

— John C. Maxwell

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and in spite of what most people might have expected from a young girl…

— Marlee Matlin

I don't hate it here," she said automatically. Surprising herself, she realized that as much as she'd been trying to convince herself…

— Nicholas Sparks

But I do think the idea that basic cooking skills are a virtue, that the ability to feed yourself and a few…

— Anthony Bourdain

While I didn't grow up in a family where there was domestic violence I knew of families in my neighbourhood where abuse…

— Huey Morgan

Each of us carries around those growing up places, the institutions, a sort of backdrop, a stage set. So often we act…

— Chandra Talpade Mohanty

I've often looked at the extremes as a way to shed light on the mainstream. Even though everybody says, "Money doesn't buy…

— Lauren Greenfield

Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War…

— Natasha Trethewey

I've listened to a lot of different styles of music growing up, and they've all influenced me at different times in my…

— Kirstin Maldonado

“But, really, are there any guys out there who aren’t jerks? I don’t even know any grown-up men who aren’t jerks.”

— Margaret Peterson Haddix

I try to see the lightness of life, and that comes from having a hard time growing up.

— Motsi Mabuse

I think growing up in the West Midlands helped, it was fairly chill.

— Ben Francis

I think growing up in Vancouver is a different lifestyle than growing up in most other places.

— Finn Wolfhard

Growing up gorilla is just like any other kind of growing up. You make mistakes. You play. You learn. You do it…

— Katherine Applegate

Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.

— Mary Oliver

We want to create a kind of cycle where casual gamers are gradually growing up to become passionate players.

— Satoru Iwata

I'm just a normal person like you growing up, living my life, trying to figure out what life really is.

— Wazim Shaw

Overseas, kids grow up in a soccer culture. The German player sees the game eons above the American player the same age.

— Tony DiCicco

To grow up requires a whole life but to become old one night is enough.

— Ignazio Silone

I did not grow up spoiled in any way. I just wanted to be on TV.

— Miley Cyrus

I have a boyfriend and a dog, and I still haven't figured out what I want to be when I grow up.

— Chelsea Clinton

The world would be a better place, if more men would raise their kids and stop acting like a kid. Grow the…

— Sonya Parker

Growing up in Caracas, Venezuela, the ubiquitous music is salsa, cumbia, merengue, a little bit of samba.

— Devendra Banhart

Growing up I studied classically and did lots of shows in school.

— Idina Menzel