Growing Quotes

• There's slowly been a kind of shift in how we think about childhood. It's like childhood almost extends to 20 or 22 even after the end of college. When I was growing up, there was this expectation that you were on your own now.

  

  Joe Meno
  • Up
  • College
  • Childhood

• Sometimes growing pains are by fits and starts.

  

  Anne Northup
  • Growing

• When I was growing up, the blues did seem too simple to me. I was just a muso.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • Growing
  • Simple
  • Seems

• There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.

  

  Doris Lessing
  • Up
  • Society
  • Boy

• One of my favorites is one called 'Rory's Radio' that I wrote about my brother Jeff's best friend growing up - his name was Rory Dunigan. I dedicated my first record to my brother, who got killed in a car accident in 1999, and I really didn't have any songs on the first album about him, nothing on a personal note.

  

  Ashton Shepherd
  • Up
  • Friend
  • Car

• New York is about as cosmopolitan as it gets. It's a fairly mixed and woke town, so there weren't a lot of situations growing up where I felt like the outsider or the alien.

  

  Jordan Peele
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Alien

• Now, in their love, which was stronger, there were the seeds of hatred and fear and confusion growing at the same time: for love can exist with hatred, each preying on the other, and this is what gives it its greatest fury.

  

  T. H. White
  • Time
  • Giving
  • Fear

• Growing up, I was always adamant that I would never do 'Home and Away' or 'Neighbours,' because as an actor you want to set your path as that serious kind of actor.

  

  Brenton Thwaites
  • Up
  • Home
  • Serious

• Mom cooked a lot of turkey when I was growing up. Turkey meatloaf, turkey burgers, ground turkey shepherd's pie - my childhood was the Bubba Gump of turkey. You'd think I would be sick of it, but when I find gems like Gwyneth Paltrow's turkey meatball recipe, it's as though the fowl is no longer foul to me.

  

  Meghan Markle
  • Up
  • Mom
  • Childhood

• While U.S. investments in India are growing, we also need Indian investments in America.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • America
  • Growing
  • Investments

• Growing up, I had to cobble together a scarecrow of things I loved from various different writers.

  

  Jenny Zhang
  • Up
  • Different
  • Together

• Growing up, I was very aware that there weren't many people like me on the screen.

  

  Dee Rees
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• It's so funny because my mom is Thai and my dad is this big American guy - and our food tastes were so similar growing up. He was meat and potatoes, I was meat and potatoes.

  

  Chrissy Teigen
  • Up
  • American
  • Guy

• Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

  

  James A. Baldwin
  • Up
  • War
  • Growing

• I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.

  

  Alice Englert
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Growing

• I've always been sort of drawn to storytelling, and I was always very playful growing up.

  

  Megan Boone
  • Up
  • Growing

• My mom struggled for a long time growing up poor, and then we were on welfare when I was a kid. So to see her kids, not just me, be successful and making money and happy and healthy and in good relationships - it means so much to her after all that she's been through.

  

  Andrea Navedo
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• When I was growing up, I never saw couples fight on the family sitcoms I loved to watch. Subsequently, when tough times arose in my own relationship, I wasn't prepared and felt so isolated and alone. Marital issues weren't a part of the narrative that television told me was a 'working relationship.'

  

  Kenya Barris
  • Up
  • Family
  • Relationship

• I still get scared every time I go out. I get scared taking off; I get scared on the wave, falling, everything. But, you know, growing up with it, I guess you're a little more comfortable.

  

  John John Florence
  • Up
  • Time
  • Growing

• It's a real gift to work with my sister. We obviously have such a shorthand communicating with each other that it makes the process easier. And from growing up together and watching so many films together, we ended up with pretty similar taste.

  

  Jennifer Todd
  • Up
  • Work
  • Real

• My experience growing up in London and growing up in a working class background is that when people are down and out, that's when they're probably the funniest. They have to be. That's what they do to cope, to find joy, 'cause they don't feel the joy inside. Or they use humor to keep people out.

  

  Daniel Kaluuya
  • People
  • Up
  • Experience

• I wrote 'Pumped Up Kicks' when I began to read about the growing trend in teenage mental illness. I wanted to understand the psychology behind it because it was foreign to me.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Psychology

• It was a matter of not living lavishly but enjoying what you had, growing things with your hands, working hard, but not being tied to a nine-to-five job, and generally feeling that there's more to life than money.

  

  John Sulston
  • Life
  • Money
  • Job

• On the one hand, I always get the young ingenue, pretty parts. But I don't think of myself that way because I was an ugly duckling when I was growing up. I have to be reminded when I play a part sometimes that I'm playing the pretty girl.

  

  Amy Carlson
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Girl

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