Growing up Quotes · Page 89

For me, one of the big things I really worried about a lot was nuclear war growing up.

— Kenya Barris

A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand?

— Alan Moore

To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as…

— Henning Mankell

It is frustrating, because who wants to grow up and follow their parents?

— Chelsea Clinton

I learned to cook from my mom. Most of what I ate growing up was Italian cooking.

— Steve Albini

You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books.

— St. Lucia

I mostly played 'Pac-Man', but I played 'The Sims' with my kids when they were growing up.

— Lea Thompson

Our father never had to yell at us much when we were growing up. No one ever wanted to let Dad down.

— Dorothy Bush Koch

Growing up with brothers, I've always been a very competitive person and also very involved in sports. So when I was younger,…

— Gretchen Bleiler

My foray into the wrestling world is well documented in that I have stated many a time that I am not the…

— Bill Goldberg

The Canadian kid who wants to grow up to be Prime Minister isn't thinking big, he is setting a limit to his…

— Mordecai Richler

No one aspires as a child to grow up and enter into a domestic partnership. But they do aspire as children to…

— Ted Olson

I had a cookie business there, with my brother, when we were growing up, called the Chip Yard, and that became the…

— Mitchell Hurwitz

Spanish is actually my first language, growing up, and I understand the culture. I understand the culture; I understand what the people…

— Henry Cejudo

I don't come from a wealthy or privileged background, and growing up I was always looking for the best quality at a…

— Eva Mendes

Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark…

— Maya Lin

“You know the reason The Beatles made it so big?...'I Wanna Hold Your Hand.' First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking…

— Anonymous

I have always loved jazz music and as a teen growing up in New York City and then later on as an…

— Tony Bennett

“They said growing up was watching your breasts grow, your waist widen and hairs sprout on your erogenous ones. You became aware…

— Ukamaka Olisakwe

If someone says: "I don't want to have a cochlear implant, because I want my child to grow up with a rich…

— Andrew Solomon

I give thank for God for my roots in the Word of Faith teachings. It is truly on the shoulders of great…

— Joseph Prince

India went through a dramatic revolution after the '90s when our economy started opening up for the first time and Indians were…

— Karan Bajaj

[London is] one of the best cities in the world. There is just so much culture there and so much history and…

— Douglas Booth

Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved…

— Jodi Picoult

Growing up in a very white area, I just think I didn't feel that beautiful... ever.

— Griff

My favorite singer is Lauryn Hill - all time, hands down. She was my biggest inspiration growing up.

— Leah LaBelle

When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn't have parents.

— Angelina Jolie

Growing up, we loved 'The Royle Family'. Caroline Aherne, she was just incredible.

— Daisy May Cooper

That pain will always be there, but it's slowly fading, soon it'll just be a small numbness:)

— Rachel Copeland

Working with UNICEF made me grow up and recognize how fortunate I am.

— Roger Moore

The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face.

— Jodi Picoult

Even when I was growing up and playing with friends I used to get kicked.

— Shaun Wright-Phillips

I went through a lot of abuse and a lot of really difficult things growing up - depression, anxiety, attempted suicide.

— Pattie Mallette

Growing up, I had a ton of friends, and I had a great life, but people still made fun of me sometimes.

— Molly Tarlov

...we’re just kids growing up on an island, doing bad things in pretty places.

— Kaui Hart Hemmings

Even though you're growing up, you should never stop having fun.

— Nina Dobrev

I didn't care if it was 'Daredevil' or 'Captain America,' I was a fan of all of it. It was just a…

— Jason O'Mara

As we grow older, we start to realize what we need and what to leave behind.

— Anonymous

I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces…

— Rachel Nichols

Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.

— Owen Wilson