Growing Up Quotes
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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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Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and nurtured us through our infancy and childhood, provided us with the necessities of life, and nursed us through physical illnesses and the emotional stresses of growing up.
Ezra Taft Benson
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I was so poor growing up...if I wasn't a boy...I'd have nothing to play with.
Jack Roy
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When I was growing up, my mom told me every story that was happening to her. Most of the stories that come to me are through a female voice in my head. My stories seem to naturally be about females.
Natalie Portman
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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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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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I was into fantasy more than horror. I was growing up in the mid-'70s through the '80s, and I also got a healthy dose of that classic era of film.
Arik Roper
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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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Growing up,I came up with this name: I'ma Cablinasian.
Tiger Woods
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Growing up means :propelling yourself forward into whatever lies ahead, one turn of the wheel at a time.
Sarah Dessen
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I was taught growing up that you always do what you believe.
Eric Reid
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When I was growing up, there was a man who gave me lessons and things. I'm very dyslexic so he used to give me extra reading and writing. And he always knew that I was interested in stuff but he never told me that he was in the Second World War himself. One day he gave me his helmet that he had worn through the North Africa Campaign. It was just before he died. So I've got his helmet. That was pretty special to me.
Jeremy Irvine
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Well, growing up in the '90s, my first true love was ska music.
Ezra Koenig
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Growing up shouldn't mean giving up.
Allison DuBois
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When I was growing up, I did not exercise at all. I was raised in the French Quarter in New Orleans. If I saw someone running, I would call the police because I thought they stole something on Royal Street.
Richard Simmons
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Growing up I never got into comic books at all. I didn't have any inspiration for it.
Scarlett Johansson
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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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I mean, like a lot of kids growing up in the early seventies, I was fed Dr. Kissinger with my Fruit Loops. He was the Dr. Ruth of American foreign policy, and the model statesman.
Eugene Jarecki
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Don't waste your youth growing up.
Pablo Picasso
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It was a standard fantasy when you fell in love to imagine you could go back in time and find your beloved growing up, appear there, save him or her, get together as adolescents, by magic, and go on together, fighting for one another, into old age, never wavering.
Norman Rush
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I think the arts are very important for children growing up.
Stephen Schwartz
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When I was growing up, I always knew I'd be in the top of my class in math, and that gave me a lot of self-confidence.
Sergey Brin
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I enjoy working with writers and their scripts. It's very exciting to me. Eventually I would like to produce, direct and act onstage, but it's not a heavy pressure. When I do it, I want to do it well. I'm just educating myself with writers and scripts, because I didn't read a lot of books when I was growing up.
Tom Cruise