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3088 Growing Up quotes by 2315 unique authors
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Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It's only 60,000. It's not a big town. It's a big hockey town. Everybody plays hockey when you grow up.
— Peter Forsberg
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I did gymnastics when I was growing up and to this day I can still do the splits.
— Kristin Kreuk
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I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.... It's not like it was when I was growing…
— Charles Barkley
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When a man's pride is subdued it's like the sides of Mount Aetna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that is over and…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Growing up I played in garage bands and cover bands with my older brother, and he got us a gig opening up for some hippie…
— Charles Kelley
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There needs to be more variety on television so young girls growing up don't feel pressured to look one specific way. Tall, thin, curvy, short,…
— Demi Lovato
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I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way.
— Allen Iverson
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I'd always done a lot of sniffing glue as a kid. I was very interested in glue, and then I went to lager and speed,…
— Irvine Welsh
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No one will guide you in the right direction, in the end you have to learn for yourself. You have to grow up yourself.
— Matthew Macfadyen
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Growing up means letting go of the dearest megalomaniacal dreams of our childhood. Growing up means knowing they can't be fulfilled. Growing up means gaining…
— Judith Viorst
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We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease…
— Fran Lebowitz
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Part of growing up is not waiting in line at a hipster breakfast restaurant. The eggs taste the same across the street. I promise.
— Jason Segel
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I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up.
— Lisa Bonet
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When you grow up in America things like Christianity waters down your feeling... When you're taught to love everybody, taught to love you're enemies, what…
— Marilyn Manson
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But when I really look back on my life, being really honest about it and now that I've got the chance to travel the world,…
— Coolio
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Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.
— Bill Vaughan
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Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to…
— Charles Barkley
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You remember when you were a kid growing up, and believed in Santa Claus? There's not much difference between Santa Claus and me today, you…
— Bobby Knight
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Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.
— Bill Walton
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I'm from there. You know, when you grow up with these people and see them every day and then you look at the numbers it…
— Magic Johnson
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I am who I am because of the people who influenced me growing up, and many of them were gay. No one has any right…
— Drew Barrymore
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I wanted to show America a different kind of man. If there was someone like me when I was growing up, my whole life would…
— Chaz Bono
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One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in…
— Eric Hoffer
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