Growing Up Quotes

In my mind, my music is kind of inseparable from my hometown and my life growing up.

I had a lot of negativity growing up, so I understand how to block the negativity out.

Nobody thought that I was going to make it to the NBA. I only had a couple of believers growing up.

I would never, ever desert my child. A lot of my friends didn't have fathers growing up, and they were very upset that their fathers weren't around. I was lucky to have mine around.

I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was growing up. I didn't even start playing basketball until I was 14.

Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically.

It's funny because growing up, when Ali G first burst off the screen, it was something that I was probably too young to be watching, but I absolutely loved it.

You have the American dream! The dream is to be born in a gutter and grow up, and then get all the money in the world and stick it in your ears and go THBBBBBT.

Growing up working with my dad, I really had no interest in doing the actual work, so I was always like drawing on the wood, doing stuff like that. It just has a real hands-on approach.

Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles.

When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove.

Susan Sontag: What she really wanted, throughout her career, was to grow up to be a Frenchman.

There's not really much of an opportunity for a girl from Georgia like me or a girl like Aja (Evans) from Chicago to grow up bobsledding. I think it's great that we have such a diverse group.

I hope to grow up and see myself accepting myself and accepting time going by and everything falls.

People in London are so much more exposed to danger, or bad things. It took me quite a long time to grow up in that environment.

Growing up with three boys in a heavily male-dominated world, I especially needed to express myself as a woman.

Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.

I see a lot of women who can't travel when they're young, and then their kids grow up and they become amazing adventurers. Travel is not only for the young. Sometimes it's wasted on the young.

I watched them, thinking that little girls who make their mothers live grow up to be such powerful women.

My parents brought me up on all different styles of music, like my Mum would listen to Motown R&B and my Dad was quite 80's driven, so I was always surrounded by music growing up.

And how can it be he's so in love with me? To grow up without love, and still have so much inside?

Growing up in New England, being schooled and classically trained, it needed to shake, it needed to evolve.

I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I think I was always afraid of up or not being this very cool, amazing person that I wanted to be.

Don't you wanna grow up to be just like me, I slap women and eat mushrooms then OD.

I had a very close relationship with another kid when I was growing up. I was his imaginary friend.

The music scene as I look at it today is a little different from when I was growing up. The percentages are roughly the same - 95 percent rubbish, 5 percent pure.

Good and evil grow up together and are bound in an equilibrium that cannot be sundered. The most we can do is try to tilt the equilibrium toward the good.

I never felt cool growing up. I was a bit of an outsider, but I discovered theatre very early on, which got me through.

I was a total jock growing up. I went to super-dorky basketball clinics and was handpicked to play on a state team called the Texas Heat.

I did grow up in a rough neighborhood in Portland, which is an abstract concept for anybody who's rolled through Portland because now it looks like a TV set, literally.

You really don't do anything else in your life; it's a very little bubble that you grow up in. And you have to live in that bubble because of the intensity of the sport.

The constant buzz and pressure and noise and static of the Internet, and the way it makes young people feel makes it difficult to grow up and develop the way one might want to.

When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.

I mean, like a lot of kids growing up in the early seventies, I was fed Dr. Kissinger with my Fruit Loops. He was the Dr. Ruth of American foreign policy, and the model statesman.

I didn't grow up speaking Spanish, and the interesting thing was, we would watch these novelas and you didn't have to speak Spanish to understand what was going on.

I didn't grow up wanting to become an actor at all. I wanted to be a sports trainer and I was actually an aerobics instructor.

I didn't grow up in a home that glorified Hollywood. We didn't watch TV. We didn't have a lot of magazines around.

I think that liberals need to grow up.

I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school,it just didnt exist there.

The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmoth.

There's something unrefined about a reading woman, they always reek of the lamp. How can she grow up to be a lady if she's always got her nose in a book? Granny Rudin

I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.

So they grew, and they grew, to the church steeple tops And they couldn't grow up any higher; So they twin'd themselves into a true lover's knot, For all lovers true to admire.

I felt for a really long time, "When I grow up I want to be an actor." And now I'm like, "Oh, this is it now. This is my life."

I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment.

He has no idea what it was like to grow up in the South, where you had to hold your head down.

I want to represent the street, not in a negative sense, but in the sense that when I was growing up, that's what I grew up on.

My teenage freinds when I was growing up, they have no idea that I attained liberation but I help them. They don't need to know. I can send them energy and light and help them in their evolution.

As we grow up, we are exposed to hate and greed and anger and jealousy and peanut brittle and all kinds of things, our subtly body erodes.

Growing up in Bombay made me immune to culture shock, in a way. So, culture shock is not part of my DNA.