Growing Up Quotes
3088 Growing Up quotes by 2315 unique authors
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A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age…
— Jim Bishop
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My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would…
— Sara Blakely
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Growing up, I was the preferred hairstylist for all of my friends.
— Mary J. Blige
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Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.
— Aesop
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My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables.
— John Boehner
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Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody.…
— Usain Bolt
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When I was growing up in comedy, there were maybe 10 comics in the whole country. Everyone had a day job. You worked free for…
— Elayne Boosler
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My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me…
— Christina Aguilera
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And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm…
— David Bowie
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If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.
— Ray Bradbury
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Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and it also embedded a deep…
— Christina Aguilera
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My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody…
— Wayne Brady
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Yeah I loved, as a kid growing up, I loved science-fiction.
— Jeff Bridges
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I've always been interested in space and the idea of exploration in that area since I was a child growing up through the '60s.
— Sarah Brightman
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I don't really have an issue with showing certain parts of my body. I'd rather not, but it's not a big deal. Growing up in…
— Malin Akerman
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Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go…
— Terry Brooks
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When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that…
— Tim Burton
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I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be…
— Lenny Bruce
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Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up at the sky, checking if…
— Luke Bryan
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I would say my fraternity was nothing but a bunch of farm boys; we weren't really in the whole fraternity scene, but yeah, that's a…
— Luke Bryan
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Can I jump over two or three guys like I used to? No. Am I as fast as I used to be? No, but I…
— Kobe Bryant
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My father was an expert hunter, so we ate a lot of wild game when I was growing up in Montana. That helped broaden my…
— Steve Albini
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My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.
— Sandra Bullock
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When you come from a big family, you see that, growing up, you're learning how to share. Your sisters have got your back; you're not…
— Gisele Bundchen
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I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my…
— Carol Burnett
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