Growing Up Quotes
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When it came to music growing up, it wasn't just gospel and R&B. My uncle brought rock 'n' roll to me when I was younger, and I loved it. I was open to all music.
Aaron Dontez Yates
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Like every young man growing up in the puritanical Eisenhower 1950s, I had a hell of a time getting laid. I suppose that's why I was always intrigued by, and terribly envious of men who had no trouble at all in bedding a vast variety of desirable women.
Edward Sorel
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When you're growing up, you have your heroes, and you hear about people going off to other countries to play football, but when you're so young, you're not thinking about that. You just play. No referee, no rules.
Nwankwo Kanu
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Growing up, it was very clear that I was a member of a royal family with a potential function later on. The question was: when and how and if?
Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece
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Growing up playing the drums, I idolised Questlove from an early age. 'Phrenology' was the first Roots record that I ever heard, and that was like my introduction to hip hop.
Isom Innis
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We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up.
Geri Halliwell
Spice Girls
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Growing up happens so quick sometimes, that it catches us by surprise.
Cressida Cowell
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My dad said to me growing up: 'When all is said and done, if you can count all your true friends on one hand, you're a lucky man.'
Josh Charles
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I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be 'sexy,' even before I knew what the word was.
Dolly Parton
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Notre Dame was my dream school growing up. But in recruiting, they had some other plans, what position they wanted me to play.
Ezekiel Elliott
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Growing up in wrestling - and I have been involved in wrestling, really, my entire life - I learned right from the get-go that you never forget your fans. They are the ones that put your food on the table and pay your bills.
Bret Hart
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Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.
Elizabeth Edwards
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I was taught growing up that you always do what you believe.
Eric Reid
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At nine years old I didn't really know what that meant at the time. I thought it might be in a warm summer sport like softball, but I played a variety of sports growing up - basketball, soccer and track. I really didn't care. I just wanted to be an Olympian.
Elana Meyers
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Growing up, I was like any Aussie kid - you know we love our sport - that was my favourite subject at school. That is a subject, right?
Nick Cummins
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It is not always easy to be who we are, but as we grow up and mature and develop coping mechanisms that enable us to survive and thrive in a complicated world, we have the responsibility to reach back and help others still struggling along the way. In so doing, we can also help ourselves. Above all, we cannot allow each generation to grow up in a world where they feel they are alone while we carry so much knowledge, history, and foundation that we can, and must, pass on to them.
Keith Boykin
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Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.
Bill Gates
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Growing up shouldn't mean giving up.
Allison DuBois
