Growing Up Quotes

When I was young and growing up overweight, I believed the "eaten" was more powerful than the "eater," meaning the food was more powerful than I was.

I feel kind of sorry for those kids who just play one sport growing up.

I play mostly guitar, and I played drums in my brother's band for a while growing up.

When I realised I wasn't Michael Jackson and I was this 10 year old boy growing up in the suburbs, I was devastated

Concord, California was a great place to grow up.

I had a Super Grover doll growing up. Super Grover was very clumsy, he wasn't very good-looking. But in his own way he'd always save the day.

I think my biggest musical hero growing up was probably Ian MacKaye he set a great example for all of us local musicians. Still to this day I see him as the best example of a right-on musician.

When I was a kid growing up in New York, I was pretty unaware of racism. I think when we're young - before we lose our innocence - we're sort of unaware of the more flawed qualities of each other.

I wanted to be Marv Albert or Bob Costas. Those were my favorites growing up. Still are!

Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God: Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.

I'm used to being around kids. Even when I was growing up in London, I had an older sister, I had a younger sister that I used to look after from time to time.

I didn't grow up as child actor.

If you grow up in a home where actions don't lead to predictable consequences, you don't develop strategies to control your impulses.

When you grow up and something touches you emotionally, it lives on forever.

I've never wanted to be a fireman, in my life. I've never really wanted to grow up and be anything other than a film director.

I had this duality growing up with my dad being a strict Catholic and his brother being a priest and my mother finding God in nature, so I've taken a little from both [traditions].

I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.

Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away.

I was a young lad when I was growing up.

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

I love 'The Stand;' I read it when I was a kid - it was one of my favorite books when I was growing up. I love Stephen King; I think he's a remarkable writer.

I've always been an outsider kid. But I had always wanted to be in a group - growing up, I loved bands like the Cranberries and K's Choice.

Even just pestering people with questions, and being nosey and pushy and getting her way, are things I think many young women grow up struggling with, to assert themselves.

Most artists probably feel lonely or set apart in childhood. But they grow up and find people who share their interests.

Chick Corea was a great influence on me, musically, as I was growing up.

When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school.

I wasn't even a big comedy nerd. A lot of the comedians I know - a lot of my friends are comedians - they knew a lot about comedy growing up.

Growing up in America, I never really appreciated my culture. I knew what being Hispanic was, but I thought that since I didn't look Hispanic, I was white.

My brother and I tortured my mother growing up.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

I was blessed to grow up in really interesting times and to go back to a home where I was very safe.

Actors, I don't think, ever really grow up. I'm hoping that that rejuvenating process applies to me, too. It has so far. I've been very lucky.

Growing up, Paul Newman seemed like the ultimate manly actor. And then, I got to work with him and we became friends, so that was nice.

I didn't grow up watching a lot of TV.

When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time.

All women are strong. My mother survived Auschwitz, and fear wasn't an option when we were growing up. If we were afraid of the dark, we were put into the closet until we weren't.

The hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome is probably my first steps into adulthood: paying rent, groceries, cooking, taxes. I was so anxious to grow up, and now I'm wishing I was still a kid.

I was so anxious to grow up, and now I'm wishing I was still a kid.

I love the energy of children. It makes me feel young. I'm just drawn to them. They're like magic to me. And they're drawn to me, the childlike part of me that never did grow up.

Growing up, being a rapper wasn't my goal, but it became my destination.

I think you grow up wanting to be a racing driver. Then it dawns on you that it's not going to happen.

I'm sorry, Alabama fans. I'm from New York and didn't watch football growing up.

I grew up learning this stuff on the streets of New York. My brother and I used to play in the subway for money.

When you grow up in a city like Boston, where I grew up, a lot of kids became criminals or cops. I never really had a bad take on cops other than I hate when there's one behind me on the highway.

Thank goodness I had a great family growing up, a great foundation. But I will say my faith, my parents, my family, all that stuff is very, very important. And I'll say that until the day I die.

Growing up in Los Angeles, I was incredibly fortunate to be taken to theatre by my parents to see everything at the Music Center, at UCLA and beyond. I just adored it.

Growing up is, after all, only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what every one shares.

The one thing about players today is that they're very sensitive, and very fragile. They didn't grow up with tough coaches.

You grow up a lot in terms of your understanding of the industry and how to deal with the corporate things.

I always thought I desperately wanted a husband and a big family, because I didn't have it growing up.