Growing Up Quotes

• Growing up, people would always say, 'You have such a pretty face.' It's kind of backhanded. That's the kind of things we have to stomach.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • People
  • Up
  • Pretty

• I really wasn't into comic books growing up.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Books

• In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to a middle-class kid growing up on the other side of the world. That has always fascinated me.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Up
  • World
  • Growing

• I loved my family so much when I was growing up, my parents, my sister. I wanted to be able to give them everything they ever dreamed of.

  

  Andrew Dice Clay
  • Parents
  • My Family
  • Dreamed

• Growing up I studied classically and did lots of shows in school.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Up
  • School
  • Growing

• It's funny that I got to do 'On the Road' because the thing that had the biggest impact on me growing up was reading books. I was very inspired by the book and this spirit of Dean Moriarty and how envious we all are of somebody who can be that carefree.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Up
  • Book
  • Funny

• The truth was I felt ugly growing up. I only really started feeling comfortable in myself when I was 40.

  

  Iman
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Feeling

• Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Mountains

• I think for me, personally, I'm a guy who has watched ESPN ever since I've been growing up. You turn it on, and it's one of the first stories - the Blackhawks and hockey, which you don't really see on that station. That's cool to see.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Growing

• When I was growing up, my dad and I would go hunting and camping every weekend. Like everyone in my family, he is an amazing cook, and I've tried to learn a lot from all of them.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Up
  • Family
  • Growing

• Growing up, I was surrounded by music by the Stones, Carole King, and the Beach Boys. I didn't know who Michael Jackson was till I was about 13.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• I had a Stuart Davis poster growing up.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• I was a late bloomer, and that was my issue growing up.

  

  Rozonda Thomas TLC
  • Growing Up
  • Issue
  • Bloomer

• I watched a lot of comedy growing up.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Comedy

• Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.

  

  Judd Nelson
  • Growing Up
  • Disappointment
  • Heartache

• I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Up
  • School
  • Growing

• I was growing up in the New Wave period, but that wasn't allowed in school. I remember moments when they wouldn't let four people dressed in black stand together on the playground.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• Making a movie is like an accelerated version of growing up with someone. You spend so many hours a day with each other, and you're putting your heart into this same effort.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Movie

• It was good growing up in a small town. The whole town would shut down on Friday, 5 o'clock. If I'd been a bank robber or wanted to ransack a house, there wasn't nobody in town. The cops would go, too. They'd lead the bus to wherever, to Plano or Cooper or Commerce, wherever we was playing. It was something for a town to rally around, whether we had a winning season or a losing season. It was a place to go gossip, a place to go see friends.

  

  Walt Garrison
  • Friends
  • Small
  • See

• Everyone has to grow up and that's what we're all doing; we're just doing it in different ways.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Up
  • Different
  • Way

• I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Hood

• I didn't watch a lot of TV growing up; I watched more films.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Watch

• Growing up, I was the plain one. I had no style. I was the tough kid with the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Style

• Anybody who knew me growing up calls me Vinny.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Me

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