Quotes about growing-up
growing-up kids years
I want to live 50 more years. I'm 33 years old... and I want to live to at least be 80 and see my kids grow up and see my grandkids. That's important to me. Alonzo Mourning
growing-up growing height
I have the power of my height. Growing up, it was a total drawback. There was nothing good about it at all. Allison Janney
growing-up growing tricks
Growing up in a business-orientated family meant that I naturally learnt the tricks of the trade. Anne Robinson
growing-up mean vampire
You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die. And it means something else too, doesn't it? I shall never ever grow up. Anne Rice
growing-up class theatre
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
growing-up children passion
One loses the capacity to grieve as a child grieves, or to rage as a child rages: hotly, despairingly, with tears of passion. One grows up, one becomes civilized, one learns one's manners, and consequently can no longer manage these two functions - sorrow and anger - adequately. Anita Brookner
growing-up gay self
I know one gay ex-Mormon who is a talented, self-destructive alcoholic. Whenever he is drunk and going on a tear, we are back to the Mormon Church and his being thrown out of the Mormon Church and growing up with this sense of being evil. Andrew Solomon
growing-up children gay
The world changed, and the idea of having a family became feasible for homosexuals. But I was still left with the question as to what it would be like for a child to grow up with gay parents. Andrew Solomon
growing-up people damage
I did grow up in a household in which I felt that to be myself was to damage the people I loved. Andrew Solomon
growing-up nfl my-favorite
Peyton was the best, my favorite quarterback growing up. Andrew Luck
growing-up dad college
My dad hasn't said much about his college days. Oh, a few times, he might start telling stories. And I've seen some highlight film of him from college. I remember thinking he looked really small. Which is funny, because growing up, I thought he was a pretty big guy. Andrew Luck
growing-up winning thinking
Another factor is the education and culture in which you grow up. I didn't grow up in the culture of victory, where you are expected to be or have to be, the best. It was not at all like that in my family. Tennis was really a hobby. If it led to something, great. If not, there were other things in life. I think that was something I was missing at some points in my career, because when I see Hingis or the Williamses, you see how they were educated for this: to win, to be the best, a bit the American mentality. Number one. Number one. Number one. I didn't have this. Amelie Mauresmo
growing-up teenager drinking
As a fairly innocent teenager, growing up in a village in Wales, I just thought, "God, I would like to go and hang about Soho and write great poetry and try to avoid drinking myself to death." Andrew Davies
growing-up giving parent
I loved my family so much when I was growing up, my parents, my sister. I wanted to be able to give them everything they ever dreamed of. Andrew Dice Clay
growing-up war princess
When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue. Anthony Holden
growing-up kids boys
I was bullied as a boy - lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up. Anthony Hopkins
growing-up book adults
When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults. Alison Bechdel
growing-up people grows
People grow up by living. Alice Sebold
growing-up thinking evil
For me, heaven would be a lack of alienation. The whole time I was growing up, I felt comfort was inherently evil. I think that, for me, heaven isnt about couches and milk shakes and never having a troubling thought again. Alice Sebold
growing-up growing feels
Growing up, I didn't feel very cool having come from the Midlands. Alice Lowe
growing-up teenager kids
I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes. Alice Hoffman
growing-up lying believe
Actually, I think I'm part of the last generation to grow up believing in magic and fairies and believing I had powers - you know, lying on the ground and trying to have my spirit leave my body - which never happened; still working on that bit. Alice Englert
growing-up school independent
I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean myself off being dependent. It was a very important time for me to be able to create my own individual, independent life; just as a way of growing up. Alice Englert
growing-up writing editing
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
growing-up agency yes-you-can
I started a modeling agency and I had it for about five and a half years and it was the same time I was actually working with the WWE and doing SmackDown. It was really the same principles; because me growing up I didn't have the support, I wasn't told, yes you can do that; you can do anything you want if you put your mind to it. Amy Weber
growing-up house grows
You know how you either grow up in a Michael Jackson house or a Prince house? For me it was Michael Jackson. I could never decide whether I wanted to be Michael Jackson or marry him. Amy Winehouse
growing-up kids growing
I've grown up with kids watching me and as they're growing up, I'm growing up. Amanda Bynes
growing-up evil literature
Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin. Aesop
growing-up ideas islands
My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no idea. Alexa Ray Joel
growing-up good-things grows
When you're in an industry where you're forced to grow up so quickly, part of you never grows up, and that's a good thing. Debby Ryan
growing-up texas east
I didn't grow up in one place, so I never had a certain mentality. I have some aspects of growing up in Texas, but I also have a lot of East Coast family. I would have loved to grow up on the East Coast. Debby Ryan
growing-up stupid immature
I'm definitely careful. I'm not reckless or stupid, but that's how I was raised, to not be stupid or immature in as far as trying to grow up too quickly or putting forward a certain image that isn't me. Debby Ryan
growing-up perfect grows
It's very hard to grow up in a perfect family when you're not perfect. E. L. James