Growing Up Quotes
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Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.
Judd Nelson
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I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.
Page McConnell
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When I first joined the team, I was playing with the likes of Mia Hamm, Shannon MacMillan, Tiffeny Milbrett - all those big-time players. It was very intimidating. I had some of these players' posters on my wall growing up, and now I was able to play with them.
Carli Lloyd
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Growing up in New York City and hip-hop are two inseparable things, two things that are totally intertwined in our lives.
Mike D
The Beastie Boys
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When I was a little kid growing up in Iceland, I always dreamed about creating something that could have an impact on the whole world, and even as a young boy I was passionate about fitness and sports.
Magnus Scheving
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I had to learn to sew when I was growing up, because nothing else fitted me.
L'Wren Scott
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Food as a hobby used to be an elite pastime, and it has become something that is totally ordinary for people of every background. In that way, we see the growing up of the American food scene: that it's okay to be a regular person and be really into food.
Dana Goodyear
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I used to have this fantasy when I was growing up where Princess Leia would be in the slave Leia costume and she would be in a vat of Breyer's ice cream. A recurring dream where I would eat my way to her.
Dan Fogler
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I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that.
Harlan Coben
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'Hairspray' was a show I was involved in from the very first reading, and I was 19. And, 'Hairspray', was one of my favorite movies growing up.
Laura Bell Bundy
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When you were growing up in the 30s, 20s, of course the 40s, all black people at least in the Washington, D.C., area were required to live among themselves.
Ed Smith
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It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.
Mallory Ortberg
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Anybody who knew me growing up calls me Vinny.
Vince Flynn
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Growing up, my family struggled to make ends meet, so I know how important organizations like The Salvation Army are for families to lean on in times of need.
Becky G
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I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey.
Oscar Nunez
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I don't think I ever thought of growing up to be anything other than a musician. There really wasn't a plan B. Well, a kind of a distant plan B was to be a Formula One driver, but there really wasn't an entry point.
J. D. Souther
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I've got three sisters, five aunties, and my mom. It must have had an influence on me growing up.
Zayn Malik
One Direction
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I did keep detailed journals from about fifth grade on, and every so often as I was growing up, I would re-read them and reflect on the previous years of my life.
Raina Telgemeier
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I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face that looked like me. Whenever there was an Asian person on television, it would be a huge event, me calling to my older sister 'There's an Asian person on television!' It was unheard of back then.
Yunjin Kim
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I was this weird misfit guy from suburban Seattle, I never really fit in, and then I became a drama geek, among all the other different kinds of geek that I was growing up, and I found I was pretty good at it.
Rainn Wilson
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When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs.
Gary Clark Jr.
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That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.
Ja Rule
