Growing Quotes

• Growing up, I wasn't allowed dolls, and my brothers weren't allowed guns. I inherited my brothers' clothes. I was never dressed in pink, and they were never dressed in blue; there were none of those rules that people still bizarrely subscribe to.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • People
  • Up
  • Blue

• I can't think of anything specific growing up that pointed me toward NASA at all. I was interested in the Moon landings just about the same as everyone else of my generation. But I never really thought about being an astronaut or working in space myself.

  

  Laurel Clark
  • Up
  • Space
  • Moon

• Growing up, I really liked 'Star Wars.' Han Solo would've been really cool to meet. But my stuff was real low-brow. I was watching 'Bugs Bunny.'

  

  Chris Evans
  • Up
  • Real
  • Cool

• I was an athlete growing up. I was a wrestler, I played football, so I can take a fall. I actually wanted to be a stuntman when I was kid, so I would practice falling down the stairs. It's just something I like to do.

  

  Chris Pratt
  • Up
  • Fall
  • Football

• My idol when I was growing up was Michael Jordan the basketball player because of his work ethic rather than his talent and because of what he went through to be as good as he was.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• Growing up in Harlem, I had the chance to practice with a Negro League team. At fifteen, I was over six feet tall and a fair athlete, but my skills didn't come close to some of the players I saw.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Up
  • Team
  • Practice

• As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Up
  • Different
  • Pretty

• My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.

  

  John Dyer
  • Up
  • Work
  • Different

• I find that, for me, personally - and this is in everyday life - if I'm not growing, if I can't be stimulated in a conversation, then I am bored. And I'm not good when I'm bored.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Life
  • Bored
  • Conversation

• People often assume New York City is no place to keep a dog. This is certainly what my parents told me when I was growing up there. But I have found this not to be the case at all.

  

  Jill Abramson
  • People
  • Up
  • Parents

• I was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd just turn on the TV. I grew up watching old Clint Eastwood westerns. I adopted him as one of my male role models.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Up
  • Work
  • School

• I think - I think you have a conscience growing up in a loving family with a nurturing community. And I think what happens is, and that's part of the problem of being in the closet which is a very sick place. I mean it's self loathing. It's self denial. And you keep that separate.

  

  James McGreevey
  • Up
  • Family
  • Community

• Ever since I was growing up, I knew I was going to play in the NFL. I never thought anything else.

  

  Austin Seferian-Jenkins
  • Up
  • Growing

• When I was growing up, I didn't know anything existed outside the borders of Buffalo.

  

  Cory Wells Three Dog Night
  • Up
  • Growing

• The one thing that did stand out in my memory was the fact that he had a well documented association with Heroin. Growing up with a somewhat myopic view of the world, I could not understand how it was that people could put a drug user on such a high pedestal (If you will pardon the pun).

  

  Chet Baker
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Growing up, I was prone to anxiety.

  

  Jane McGonigal
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Anxiety

• No young kid growing up dreams of someday becoming a businessman. He wants to be a fireman, a sponsored athlete or a forest ranger The Lee Iacoccas, Donald Trumps, and Jack Welchs of the business world are heroes to no one except other businessmen with similar values.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Up
  • World
  • Business

• Now we stand at our own crossroads, looking out upon two futures: one with rising temperatures, rising oceans, and rising violence on a hot and strip-mined planet and another with expanding organic harvests, growing solar arrays, and deepening global partnerships on a green and thriving Earth.

  

  Van Jones
  • Earth
  • Violence
  • Green

• Working with Sylvester Stallone is beyond a 'pinch yourself' moment. I remember growing up watching his films.

  

  Jason Statham
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Growing

• There were times and you want to be free My love is growing stronger, as you become a habit to me. Oh I've been loving you a little too longI don't wanna stop now, oh. With you my life, Has been so wonderful. I can't stop now.

  

  Otis Redding
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Habit

• When we were growing up, we had all these crazy, in-your-face guys around the house. For us, it was like, 'Ugh! Actors again.'

  

  Inga Cadranel
  • Up
  • House
  • Crazy

• My great-grandfather was prime minister of Canada, and I had a very Edwardian upbringing. It was a beautiful, romantic way of growing up, until the family lost its money. And I decided to be bad and rough and find the streets rather than the gates.

  

  Christopher Plummer
  • Up
  • Great
  • Family

• I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school,it just didn't exist there.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• Growing up I always used to shop in Oxfam. I'd find things for 50p and then take them home, cut them up and make them into something new.

  

  Lily Donaldson
  • Up
  • Home
  • Growing

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