Top 100 Quotes About Growing Up
#1. Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.
Claire Danes
#2. Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from the sciences to music to writing to literature.
Michael P. Anderson
#3. When I was growing up I had three wishes. I wanted to be a Lindbergh-type hero, learn Chinese, and become a member of The Algonquin Round Table.
John F. Kennedy
#4. Being a child sucked. Being a teenager was worse. And being an adult seemed so far away that I had a better chance at swimming the length of the ocean than growing up.
Shannon A. Thompson
#5. I know Spanish pretty well. I'm half-Puerto Rican - my mom is from Puerto Rico - so I have a lot of family there, and my mom's first language is Spanish. But growing up in the States, and with my dad being from the States, I'm kind of just like this white kid.
David Lambert
#6. I've been a brand ambassador for Nigeria since I was age 11. Growing up in the U.K., I've had to defend Nigeria. and when I was 40, I finally woke up and decided to do something, and that's how the talk show came about.
Mo Abudu
#7. I always just sit down at the piano and make the main hook - what I want the track to be about melodically - and then I'll build everything else around that. But growing up, I did not play any instruments.
Avicii
#8. Growing up is never idyllic, is it? Or it'd be called something else.
Laura Dave
#9. You can't grow up without taking a few knocks on the way. All parents know that, but children when they're growing up, they take some knocks, and nasty knocks sometimes if they've been too protected.
Ibn Warraq
#10. Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me.
Loretta Lynn
#11. When I was growing up, I said to my ex-girlfriend, 'I will not be successful until everyone in Holland knows my name.' And it worked.
Afrojack
#12. I'd like to start off by saying that every experience no matter what it is, good or bad, you'll learn from it. That's just life. But something I've done I've regretted is probably picking on my siblings growing up, because you appreciate them so much more as you grow older.
Olivia Culpo
#13. When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn't have parents.
Angelina Jolie
#14. Steven Spielberg was my idol growing up. I knew that all of his movies have a very specific message and point of view, and the always are really epic.
Manish Dayal
#15. When I was growing up, Asians were so few and far between as to be almost invisible. And so the idea of an Asian American movement or an Asian American thrust in this country was unthinkable.
Grace Lee Boggs
#16. Petersburg, growing up at home, all by my family and friends, Petersburg really, city-raised me, you know everybody there.
Trey Songz
#17. Growing up, I remember I had several different 45 singles. But the first album I received was from a family friend: Emmylou Harris' 'Roses In The Snow.' It was so incredible. This record, to this day, is the favorite album of my life.
Kimberly Schlapman
#18. The kids growing up is a separate strand to your life. However bad a day you've had, that's the most important thing, and you have to remember that.
Michael Palin
#19. Is there a lot of stuff you don't understand? she said & I said pretty much the whole thing & she nodded & said that's what she thought, but it was nice to hear it anyways & we sat there on the porch swing, listening to the wind & growing up together.
Brian Andreas
#20. Growing up with two sisters, you either play by yourself or play Barbie with them. I played by myself.
Ricky Williams
#21. When I was growing up, I was lucky to benefit from a first class education.
Nicola Sturgeon
#22. I suppose that when you're growing up, you're bound to reach an age when you feel buffeted by all the changes in your life, when either your mind begins outpacing your body or your body begins outpacing your mind and you're not quite in conversation with yourself anymore.
Kevin Brockmeier
#23. My mom was really busy when I was growing up, but she did a really good job in terms of balancing her home life with her professional life. She basically took me everywhere.
Condola Rashad
#24. When I was growing up, everybody smoked, including me. When I was 14, I started. We all did it. That was just the way it was. And nowadays there's a stigma attached to it. It's a big shift.
Wayne Dyer
#25. Until I was 16, I read nothing but science fiction. I loved William Gibson and I still do. But my favourite book when I was growing up, for a long time, was 'Snow Crash' by Neal Stephenson, which I must have read about a dozen times when I was a teenager.
Ned Beauman
#26. Spiderman was my favorite comic book character growing up. I'm a geek, so I love the fact Peter Parker is into science. And I gravitate towards short guys. I'm 5' 9" now, but in junior high, I got picked on because I was 4' 8".
Josh Keaton
#27. I think that for me, growing up, my dad was in the Navy; we went all over the world. I love things the weirder the better. The idea I could eat things like snails or frogs legs or things like that was mind-blowingly cool.
Graham Elliot
#28. I was always okay with the fact that I was taller and bigger than everybody else growing up. My mom, my dad, and my friends always told me I was beautiful.
Jordin Sparks
#29. I'm not gay, but I don't think you have to be gay to have a gay hero. Growing up, Alan Turing was certainly mine. I'm also not the greatest mathematician of my generation. We have lots of biographical differences, but nonetheless, I always identified with him so much.
Graham Moore
#30. I loved growing up in Montclair ... I think it's grown and changed and embraced change.
Warren Littlefield
#31. We hated Cleveland growing up. There's a lot of people in Cleveland we still hate to this day.
LeBron James
#32. I didn't have a pool growing up, and we went to the beach to lay out and get sun.
Erika Eleniak
#33. My dad is good at sticking with stuff and he has a strong work ethic, which is imbued in me. Growing up, he would constantly ask what I was doing and was I achieving anything.
Pete Cashmore
#34. My brother and I, we were both relatively good-looking guys growing up, but we had our awkward stages, where we were just hard to look at.
Dan Fogler
#35. I suppose the desire to go to town helped make me ambitious, and the allure of the worlds that came in over the radio also helped. But the rewards of growing up on a farm were far greater in many ways than life in town.
Bobbie Ann Mason
#36. I loved nuns when I was growing up. I thought they were beautiful. For several years I wanted to be a nun. I saw them as really pure, disciplined, above average people. They had these serene faces. Nuns are sexy.
Madonna Ciccone
#37. I always wondered what it was like to be just a normal kid growing up in trying times or during a great moment in history.
Kathryn Lasky
#38. Visits to 'the country' were very important to me growing up, especially working on the farm, experiencing all the wonders of cats and chickens and pigs and calves and outhouses!
Trina Paulus
#39. My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee and Fats Domino are the classics, they're the best songs ever.
Chris Isaak
#40. When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.
Linda Hunt
#41. At the time I was growing up in the business I was very well established within the industry as a child actor and as I grew up and turned into a teenager there was less and less work.
Morgan Brittany
#42. I come from a very sporty background because my mom is a gymnastics teacher. So growing up I was never sitting watching TV in the afternoons. I always played ball outside in the backyard.
Gal Gadot
#43. Growing up, Santa Claus would cover the presents with a white blanket, so when we'd wake up Christmas morning, we had to wait for my dad to do the big reveal of all the presents Santa brought.
Martina Mcbride
#44. I'm from northern Virginia, but I grew up next to the West Virginia border, so it was hills and farmland. We had that sense of adventure you get from growing up around old farmhouses and lazy, rolling hills, you know?
Hilarie Burton
#45. I always wondered about growing up. I bet it's mostly lies.
Stephen King
#46. 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
#47. Growing up, my idols were Lucky Luke and Jolly Jumper. And Scottie Pippen.
Dirk Nowitzki
#48. I think, growing up in a small town - I grew up in a lot of different places. I grew up in a city environment, a more suburban environment, a more rural environment. That's the beauty of New Jersey is you get a lot of different types of living.
Halsey
#49. Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a bit of family lore and history from her, which was interesting.
John Hume
#50. Whenever I see Michael Jordan I'm still blown away because he was such a hero of mine growing up.
Tom Brady
#51. To pitch a perfect game wearing pinstripes at Yankee Stadium, it's unbelievable. Growing up a Yankee fan, to come out here and make history, it really is a dream come true.
David Wells
#52. Equestrian and sailing are sports for people growing up on the mean streets of Connecticut.
Craig Ferguson
#53. When I was growing up, both my grandmothers would play the organ, and we would all sing.
Janelle Monae
#54. What self-respecting teenage kid growing up in the U.S. hasn't played Truth or Dare? Before cell phones, we kids spent a lot of time in the same place and actually had to come up with our own entertainment. Truth or Dare was the game of choice to break the ice between the boys and the girls.
Catherine Bybee
#55. Being absolutely sure that one is right is part of growing up, and so is realizing, years later, that the truth might be more nuanced.
Rebecca Mead
#56. I think that getting responsibility and structure are huge parts of growing up.
Jim Rash
#57. Funny how growing up can change your opinion of being afraid of the dark and afraid of the bills.
Amelia Hutchins
#58. When I was growing up, you'd read about actors, and they'd never tell you their age and how much they made a year as part of their definition.
Robert Osborne
#59. 'That's So Raven' was my favorite show growing up! I loved Raven so much! That show is what made me want to be on Disney Channel!
Raini Rodriguez
#60. Growing up in California, I obviously knew about our deep connections with the Japanese.
John Roos
#61. Potomac School proved to be my first big adjustment - one that helped me with a basic lesson of growing up: learning to get along in whatever world one is deposited.
Katharine Graham
#62. I was taught growing up not to be unequally yoked with unbelievers, to withdraw myself from the sinful 'others'. But we are all others. We are all sinners in someone's eyes.
Anna White
#63. In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.
Aravind Adiga
#64. My sights have always been on acting, on the creative process, never the lifestyle. Growing up in Northern Ireland when I did, everything was against you if you wanted to do something like that. But I was determined.
Colin Morgan
#65. I grew up in a musical family; the majority of my growing up was done in Hawaii. It's what we do. You sing, you dance, you play ukulele and you drink.
Dwayne Johnson
#66. Growing up, all I did was write about the fact that I'm from where I'm from. I was a big champion of where I was from and Wisconsin in general, and the Midwest.
Justin Vernon
#67. I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical.
Robert A. Heinlein
#68. When I was a kid growing up, we had a cherry tree in the backyard, 100 years old. I climbed it, and it gave shade in the summertime and excellent cherries in the late summer. Having cherry blossoms around gives the best springtime vibe ever.
Andrew Wyatt
#69. As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.
Adam Jones
#70. We can all agree that first loves can be a scary thing, and that growing up is hard to do.
Meg Cabot
#71. I guess I probably took New York for granted. Growing up, playing in the street, going down to the Avenue to the record store and to the grocery store and stuff like that.
Noah Baumbach
#72. Growing up, I never was a big follower of the Dodgers.
Andre Ethier
#73. I didn't have a father when I was growing up, and I vowed to be there with my kids.
Kenyon Martin
#74. Growing up, I kind of liked the way he (Thurman Munson) played. I didn't see much of him, but I
remember him being a leader. I remember him really standing up for his
teammates, and that really caught my eye.
Jorge Posada
#75. If there was one thing in particular that he had learned by growing up in his father's house it was this: how to annoy people.
Brandon Sanderson
#77. Growing up in New York, I loved watching my grandmother Estee put on her make-up - I always admired her sense of style.
Aerin Lauder
#78. Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.
John Cale
#79. Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up.
Natalie Wood
#80. I don't believe that the American dream should be reserved for those who are born into the elite or somehow have been given an advantage over others. My growing-up experience is probably the most important thing that guides my priorities and my work today.
Ken Salazar
#81. Spending time with you just feels ... right,somehow. Easy, like the way it's supposed to be. Like it is with my parents. They're just comfortable together, and I remember growing up thinking that one day I wanted to have that, too.
Nicholas Sparks
#82. People are more than one thing. Warlocks, no less. I would not even hesitate to say that Malcolm once did much good, before he did evil. It is one of the great lessons of growing up, learning that people can do both.
Cassandra Clare
#83. Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.
David Boreanaz
#84. When I was growing up in New York, we were the anomaly. Our family stayed, but back then families didn't stay. Once you had a second kid, you immediately left, so the kids could run around outside.
Mike D
#85. Carefully studying the delicate form of the doll, she was thinking how easy it was to wish for things as a child. Then nothing seemed impossible. Growing up, one realizes how many things one cannot wish for, the things that are forbidden, sinful. Indecent.
Laura Esquivel
#86. For girls growing up, sometimes I think they get the wrong idea for what women should look like.
Lily James
#87. Yes, you should be healthy and take care of yourself, but growing up, I've seen people who have horrible issues with food.
Emma Stone
#88. I had to grow up fast. I had a lot of obstacles to overcome. It made me a lot stronger, growing up like that.
Jevon Kearse
#89. Turning I would into I did is the grammar of growing up.
Anthony Marra
#90. I grew up in a little town with about 6,000 or 7,000 people. I always knew from 11 or 12 years old that I wanted to be a writer, and I always wanted to write about growing up in a place like that that's small and you don't fit into.
John Corey Whaley
#91. Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and it also embedded a deep need in me to always stick up for women.
Christina Aguilera
#92. I always thought I desperately wanted a husband and a big family, because I didn't have it growing up.
Drew Barrymore
#93. I've always been physical. I loved sports growing up. I was never specifically a dancer or anything like that.
Rob McClure
#94. I was never the class clown or anything like that. When I was growing up and doing theatre in Seattle I was always doing very dramatic work. Now I can't get a dramatic role to save my life!
Anna Faris
#95. While I was growing up all over, in all my different schools, I was always doing theater, auditioning for plays.
Hannah Simone
#96. Domestic violence was a way of life in my home growing up, my brother and I watched helplessly numerous times as my mother was beaten and knocked unconscious while we dialed 911.
Troy Vincent
#97. I watched the Disney Channel all the time growing up. 'Lizzie McGuire' was my all-time favorite. I'm pretty sure I had every piece of merchandise that involved Lizzie. And I loved 'That's So Raven.'
Olivia Holt
#98. Growing up in a very rural and remote area in Colorado's San Luis Valley - one of the poorest counties in the United States - essentially created the framework of values from which I operate. I stand up for the little guy. I fight discrimination at all levels. I fight for an inclusive America.
Ken Salazar
#99. In the pie chart of my brain growing up, there's a huge slice for 'Ghostbusters.'
Evan Goldberg
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