Quotes about growing-up
growing-up names feet
When you grow up with a name like Brad Thor, people expect you to be 6-foot-4 and a pile of muscles. Brad Thor
growing-up good-life kids
I grew up in a family where the internalized understanding was that the kids were going to grow up into a better world. I worry, because I don't think my kids are going to have that. The world is very scary. The world would be scary without the choices the current administration made, but they just exacerbated it. And it ticks me off. I want my kids to have a good life. Bradley Whitford
growing-up father film
So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation. Barbara Broccoli
growing-up should-have parent
My parents were of the opinion, because they had started skating very young, that you should have something that you do that you care about, because it structures your life as you're growing up. Anton Yelchin
growing-up growing
L.A. Woman is amazing, but when I was growing up I was into the Who. Bruce McCulloch
growing-up character keys
I like flawed characters very much. A lot of times I get asked to do parts that are kind of small but key - three-scene roles that are three kick-ass scenes. Growing up, watching as many movies as I did, I was always into character actors like that. Bobby Cannavale
growing-up athlete theater
Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.
growing-up compulsory optional
Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional. Bob Monkhouse
growing-up father doors
My father actually lived next door to Hobie Alter [creator of the Hobie catamarans]. So growing up, we had prototypes and experimental things that we could play with; it was just fabulous. I actually bought my first surfboard in junior high. I saved my money. Bo Derek
growing-up children book
I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up. Beverly Cleary
growing-up people old-friends
I really have to thank Facebook ... I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time. I would never say the people on it are losers, but that's only because I'm polite. People say 'But Betty, Facebook is a great way to connect with old friends.' Well at my age, if I wanna connect with old friends, I need a Ouija Board. Needless to say, we didn't have Facebook when I was growing up. We had phonebook, but you wouldn't waste an afternoon with it. Betty White
growing-up men kind
As I got older, I got into all kinds of things in the streets - but for some reason, I never got caught up with the gangs growing up. Everybody dug me, man. I never had problems. Bernie Mac
growing-up listening stuff
Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles. Eddie Murphy
growing-up growing
There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God? Eddie Izzard
growing-up kids anchors
Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things. Ed Bradley
growing-up hair chinese
I knew I was Chinese, but growing up, it never occurred to me that that had any particular implication or that it should differentiate me in any way. I thought it was a minor detail, like having red hair. David Henry Hwang
growing-up character racism
I felt pretty good growing up. I didnt feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if there was going to be a movie or a television show with Asian characters, I would go out of my way to avoid them, because they portrayed all Asians as either ridiculously good or ridiculously bad; you know, the whole Charlie Chan-Fu Manchu thing.
growing-up sibling college
I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him, which is a very close one, really developed in more recent years. David Hyde Pierce
growing-up home action
If you grow up in a home where actions don't lead to predictable consequences, you don't develop strategies to control your impulses. David Brooks
growing-up thinking challenges
I think that if you grow up trying to be the best then you have to be competitive because the more you compete, the more someone is there that is a challenge and the more your performance improves. Arnold Schwarzenegger
growing-up creativity spinal-tap
When I was growing up, This is Spinal Tap [1984] was the ultimate comedy, and it was the kind of thing I wanted to do. But you get to a point with parody where you can't go much further because ultimately it's feeding off of somebody else's creativity. Ben Stiller
growing-up reality careers
I had parents who were working actors, who did really well in their careers, but it was a living. So it was a reality for me growing up; it wasn't a fantasy. It wasn't sitting there going, "I want to be adored." It wasn't that at all. Not to say that the screams of fans aren't a smile-raiser, but that was never the pull for me. Benedict Cumberbatch
growing-up baptists robins
I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up. Bear Grylls
growing-up experience six-months
After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don't know how you're going to be in six months, you don't know what you're going to want, what you're going to need. Audrey Tautou
growing-up children white
Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You [white women] fear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and testify against you; we fear our children will be dragged from a car and shot down in the street, and you will turn your backs on the reasons they are dying. Audre Lorde
growing-up vacuums grows
We don't grow up in vacuums. We grow up in societies.
growing-up children father
Almost 24 million children - one in three - are likely growing up without their father involved in their lives. Arne Duncan
growing-up growing radio
When I was growing up, they had just found radio. Arnold Palmer
growing-up guy champion
I remember what a thrill it was to attend my first Champions Dinner. Just being in the same room with some of the guys I had admired growing up and to be there because I had won The Masters was quite an honor. I still attend the dinner every year and it is one of the highlights of my time at Augusta during Masters week.
growing-up progress thrones
Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil? Edwin Hubbel Chapin
growing-up past neverland
Neverland is a place where you don't grow up, then you have to confront your past. Edward Kitsis
growing-up years psychology
Most 20th century academic physicists, and academia as a whole, simply did not want to touch the subject of consciousness. We have seen psychology grow up, and we've seen the development of neurophysiology and other much more sophisticated science, but only in the recent years have the tools of quantum mechanics been applied to anything representing human scale size. Edgar Mitchell
growing-up father crafts
My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up. Bobby McFerrin