Growing Up Quotes

• Growing up as a black kid with a white father who loves you, who affirms you, who was part of your life is fundamentally different than what black people in my family were subjected to in the 19th century or the 18th century. But unfortunately, it doesn't change the old racial order. I think we need to let the old racial order just stay where it is and not seek to improve upon it. Not try to create more racial categories, because all that does is it makes a race stick around longer.

  

  Benjamin Jealous
  • Change
  • My Family
  • Racial Order

• I had a great time with baseball growing up. I was lucky to grow up with it and to learn.

  

  Nick Johnson
  • Learn
  • Baseball
  • Growing Up

• I want to be a Huntress when I grow up!" shouted a voice from the throng. Kyna rolled her eyes and shook her head. "You can't be a Huntress, Liam. You're not a centaur and you're not a female.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Up
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• Growing up, I was a little hippie kid. I went to some good concerts... Amnesty International with Bob Dylan and Tracy Chapman... The best concert I ever went to was this one at the Cow Palace my freshman year in college on New Year's Eve. It was Pearl Jam opening for Nirvana opening for Red Hot Chili Peppers.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • Up
  • Good
  • Growing

• It's okay to grow up, it's just slowing down that's the scary part. Running out of time. It's okay to grow up, but it doesn't mean you have to become like your parents.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Up
  • Time
  • Parents

• 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
  • Watch
  • Little
  • Tried

• My feeling about growing up in New Jersey was, 'How come I'm not in New York?' That being said, I'm older and I have a better worldview now, and so I think I grew up in an incredibly privileged position. The town I grew up in is beautiful. I got a great education, and I'm very grateful for it.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Education
  • Growing Up
  • Worldview

• I remember so many girls when I was growing up who hated the way they looked.

  

  Nan Goldin
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Girl

• A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Guitar is something that had always been around, when I was growing up playing drums my brother was a guitar player so there was always guitars lying around.

  

  Tim Brennan Dropkick Murphys
  • Guitar
  • Growing Up
  • Around

• My mother's an artist. My father was an artist and so I assumed that was normal growing up in art and the art world and spending our time around the world seeing art, experiencing things. It was great.

  

  Bran Ferren
  • Artist
  • My Mother
  • Experiencing

• We all get misinformation growing up about people who are different from ourselves.

  

  Beverly Daniel Tatum
  • Different
  • Growing Up

• I thought I would be a visual artist when I was growing up, so I'm always up for a bit of experimentation.

  

  Róisín Murphy
  • Always
  • Artist
  • Thought

• I instantly connected with the sport and I have fond memories of growing up on my skating rink that my dad made for us in our backyard.

  

  P. K. Subban
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dad

• I do think any modern storyteller is influenced by the stories we all grow up with and become familiar with, our shared cultural narratives.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Stories

• Oh gosh, well, you know, growing up in the '70s being a young boy there, you know, there were still exploitation movies, where, you know, were, you know, still opened up every week and, you know, played - sometimes they would play it at the local, you know, mall theater.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Play

• I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Women
  • Mother
  • Grandmother

• While I was growing up, all the boys used to be my buddies. I never got that special kind of attention from them, and I was the tomboy around. Although I've become an actress today, I still have those traits.

  

  Esha Gupta
  • Attention
  • Actress
  • Traits

• Growing up isn't simply getting old... Growing up is when you don't believe anymore.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Growing

• 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
  • Up
  • Age
  • Growing

• For me, my voice and music was always an outlet. Growing up in an unstable environment and whatnot, music was my only real escape.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Up
  • Music
  • Real

• I have been privileged to grow up retaining the love of good journalism, the craft, while learning its business: the dollars and cents. I have learnt that they are not mutually exclusive but integrally self-reliant. Each dependent on the other.

  

  Lachlan Murdoch
  • Up
  • Good
  • Business

• Growing up in the 80's, I think a lot of us saw things that were "new," an experience we don't get too much of these days. We saw things that were never done before. When Star Wars first came out, no movie before that had ever looked that way.

  

  Gabriel Campisi
  • Up
  • Done
  • Experience

• I played drums growing up. I rapped and everything.

  

  Trevor Daniel
  • Growing Up
  • Drums

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