Growing up Quote by Billie Holiday Download Open image “And when you're poor, you grow up fast.” — Billie Holiday ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Growing up Grows Poor Poverty
When you grow up poor, you have to either work really hard to try and get where you want to be, or you'll just… — Dat Phan Copy Share Image
When you grow up in poverty and learn how to survive it, it's something that stays with you forever. — Arnel Pineda Copy Share Image
I grew up in poverty as a child, my parents had me when they were very young. They didn't have money growing up. — Wes Streeting Copy Share Image
When you're in an industry where you're forced to grow up so quickly, part of you never grows up, and that's a good thing. — Debby Ryan Copy Share Image
Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition. — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain. — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old. — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel. — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close… — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
Money, you have lots of friends hanging round the door. When it's gone and the spending ends They don't come no more. — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
I don't think I missed a single picture Billie Dove ever made. I was crazy for her. I tried to do my hair like… — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
Well, I've been politically involved for a really long time. Growing up in the segregated South, it was a very painful experience for me… — Cybill Shepherd Copy Share Image
I've long believed one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I always feel like I'm struggling to become someone else. Like I'm trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
I think kids growing up, if they were picked on and feeling inferior at 12, they're going to feel that way at 72. You… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
I felt pretty good growing up. I didnt feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if there was going to be a movie or a television show with Asian characters, I would go out of my way to avoid them, because they portrayed all Asians as either ridiculously good or ridiculously bad; you know, the whole… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share
Love changes people, for better or for worse. You could look at it as a chance for you to change. The best kind of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I was young, but to me that was underground music. I had never heard anything like Venom or any of that stuff growing up in Louisville. That was sort of the only weird records I could find. All that stuff would be in the import section. And sometimes there would be some sort of goth type of stuff. But that… — David Pajo Copy Share
I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
Growing up I did commercials and things like that, but nothing serious. As I got older, my family is really hardcore into academics. They… — Portia Doubleday Copy Share Image
![“I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing up. Now that I'm an old, old veteran-age 29-I do things a lot differently. I don't go to the gentlemen's clubs anymore. I had to slow that down.” quote by Shaquille O'Neal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/08f/shaquille-o-neal-659_age_i-failed-i-think-seven-or-eight-times-be_2731.jpg)
