Growing Up Quotes

There's all these idealistic things that TV and movies tell you that you should want to be. And when you're growing up, you find out what you really care about and what really matters.

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

Francine Pascal
- Up
- Book
- Growing

Switzerland felt incredibly narrow, growing up. It was good, in a way. There were so many museums. But it was always a no-brainer that I would have to leave, and I'm grateful for that.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist
- Up
- Good
- Growing
So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops.

Ed Smith
- People
- Up
- Live
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
When I was growing up, I was told you could be anything you want to be, but I didn't really believe that because you couldn't be president. Like, I knew that; we never had a black president.

Mahershala Ali
- Up
- Believe
- Black
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
- Up
- Growing
- Sister
I think, growing up, I was seen as the perfect power forward. For a long time, I thought maybe I was supposed to be a basketball player.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson
- Up
- Time
- Long