Jonathan Tropper Quotes

Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.

Jonathan Tropper

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• My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Action

• I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Up
  • Think
  • Growing

• I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Know

• Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.

  

  Maluma
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• I'm a pretty chill and easygoing person; most people in Australia are, as well. I don't think I ever really saw a lot of fights growing up. I think it's hard to get people in Australia angry and want to fight, minus one or two people in the media... but we won't say any names.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Up
  • Pretty

• I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.

  

  Candace Kita
  • Life
  • Up
  • Home

• Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Small

• When I was a kid growing up, I used to watch 'DuckTales.'

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Kid

• I brought in a yogurt master from Turkey. I went to Greece. I was always going back and forth, from New York to Turkey and Greece. The recipe we use has been around hundreds and hundreds of years. Growing up in Turkey, not a day would go by that we wouldn't eat yogurt like this.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Day

• I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Feelings

• There's very little you're not exposed to in New York City, in terms of ideas and physical things - sights, sounds, smells, different kinds of people. But one good thing about growing up fast is you get over it fast, too.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I did accents and funny voices for the family when I was growing up.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Up
  • Family
  • Growing

• When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.

  

  K. Flay
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• When I was growing up as a little girl and as a teenager, I loved designing and making dogs' clothes and wanting to be a fashion designer. I took art and ceramics. I loved dance.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Up
  • Art
  • Girl

• Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Up
  • Children
  • Growing

• Back when I was growing up, getting caught with a copy of 'Creepy,' 'Eerie' or 'Vampirella' was almost as bad as your parents finding out you were reading 'Playboy.'

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Parents

• As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Up
  • Long
  • Remember

• Steven Spielberg was my idol growing up. I knew that all of his movies have a very specific message and point of view, and the always are really epic.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Movies

• There are several more careers more engaging to follow than that of poetry. But the circumstances of one's birth, the conduct of one's parents, the current economic structure of society, and a thousand other local factors have as much or more to say about successions to such occupations, the naive volitions of the poet to the contrary.

  

  Hart Crane
  • Society
  • Poetry
  • Circumstances

• From me growing up with a large family and everybody singing around the Christmas tree, it was a wonderful, wonderful upbringing.

  

  Engelbert Humperdinck
  • Family
  • Wonderful
  • Growing Up

• If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know, I think I don't know.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Think
  • Know
  • I Think

• Norwich is a very fine city, and the castle, which stands in the middle of it, on a hill, is truly majestic.

  

  William Cobbett
  • Cities
  • Fine
  • Hills

• I'm used to working hard and making sacrifices.

  

  Ethan Slater
  • Sacrifices
  • Working Hard

• Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.

  

  Jonathan Tropper
  • Circumstances
  • Growing Up
  • Tragic