Growing Up Quotes
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I will not have my son grow up in a tension-filled home.
Christina Aguilera
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The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.
Gary Cherone Van Halen
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As a kid, my dad would take me to see indie films when I would visit him in New York. Films that I just wouldn't see growing up in the Bay Area.
Mahershala Ali
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I don't need anyone to write me a show in my style, I would like to do a show in a style that wasn't my style, because that's the only way I can grow up and grow out.
Bette Midler
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For kids growing up now, there's no difference watching 'Avatar' on an iPad or watching YouTube on TV or watching 'Game of Thrones' on their computer. It's all content. It's just story.
Kevin Spacey
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I remember specifically my mother telling me growing up don't put my business in the street. I was like seven, and I am like, 'What does that mean.'
Karrine Steffans
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I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
Barbra Streisand
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When I was growing up I never babysat. I was considered to 'punk rock' to be trusted with kids.
Angelina Jolie
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[White House] feels even more like home now because you have all these memories that were formed watching your kids grow up.
Barack Obama
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I talk openly about my past and what I've gone through - abuse being something that was very real in my household, and a lot of chaos growing up as a child. I think that I naturally just gravitated towards music that I could really feel on a deep level - and that meant sadness. I was able to connect with that at a really young age.
Christina Aguilera
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Growing up, I was not told that there were women's areas of preoccupation or male ones.
Rachel Kushner
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When we cling, often forever, to our old patterns of thinking and behaving, we fall to negotiate any crisis, to truly grow up, and to experience the joyful sense of rebirth that accompanies the successful transition into greater maturity.
M. Scott Peck
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Growing up, I read all three of Frederick Douglass' autobiographies by the time I was 12.
Michael Tubbs
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Growing up, for me, it was in a musical family, so my mum and her brothers and sisters always sang. Every time I tried to join their group when I was little, they were like, 'Ah, darling, you're not too good - just sit back and watch us.'
Dinah Jane Fifth Harmony
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People that know me know that I love all kinds of genres of music and I like to sing all kinds of genres of music when I was growing up and all of the genres have influenced me in many different ways.
Gabby Barrett
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Growing up, I didn't know my parents were famous. I just thought they knew everybody. Everyone was always saying, 'Hi, Billy,' 'Hi, Christie.' I thought they were just popular.
Alexa Ray Joel
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The amount of women we've met that say that we were an inspiration to them growing up, has always been one of the best things about being in the band.
Keren Woodward Bananarama
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The more I look around and listen I realize that I'm not alone. We are all facing choices that define us. No choice. However messy is without importance in the overall picture of our lives. We all at our own age have to claim something, even if it's only our own confusion. I am in the middle of growing up and into myself.
Sabrina Ward Harrison
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She's been through growing up without a mother & makes my heart all of a sudden.
Kang Seung-jo
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I did grow up in a household in which I felt that to be myself was to damage the people I loved.
Andrew Solomon
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Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I'd listen to Italian music.
Maya Angelou
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Growing up where I did, the thought of working on a television show or in a movie... that existed on a parallel plane, you know?
Jennifer Garner
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It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.
Nicholas Offerman