Quotes about growing-up
growing-up nerd records
I spent a lot of time in Tower Records. I'm a huge music nerd, and Tower was instrumental to me when I was growing up. Colin Hanks
growing-up book writing
Sedaris, in his essay in the It Gets Better book, writes that when he was growing up nobody called him gay because you might as well have called him a warlock. Nobody knew what gay was. Dan Savage
growing-up forever doubt
There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever. Dan Rather
growing-up moving son
Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations. Cyril Connolly
growing-up giving trying
Growing up in my family, it wasn't important that we always be the best; it was important that we were going to try to be our best and give it our all. Daphne Oz
growing-up meat vegetarian
I didn't grow up eating meat - I was a vegetarian until I was 18.
growing-up watches nightmare
I am actually a big sissy, and growing up, I never used to watch horror movies. Bambi gave me nightmares. Danielle Panabaker
growing-up acting wanted
Growing up, I wasnt sure about acting, but I knew I wanted to be part of the movie industry. Daniella Alonso
growing-up men numbers
There is one unmistakable lesson in American history: A community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future Daniel Patrick Moynihan
growing-up athlete thinking
I've tried, at every step in life, to find a lesson. And accepting criticism with the same grace that you do the applause is something every young athlete needs to learn. ... I think it served me well to learn how to handle everything that came with the game's ups and downs. Some people call it growing another layer of skin. I just call it growing up. Dan Marino
growing-up blue black
Most importantly for me growing up, it was a spirituals, it was a gospels, it was James Cleveland, Aretha Franklin, Marion Williams; and then it was Curtis Mayfield - The Main Ingredient, The Whispers, Black Blue Magic, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Luther Vandross - that music helped me preserves my sanity, help me preserve whatever dignity I was able to preserve, helping to keep going. It was a source of tremendous strength in my life. Cornel West
growing-up book writing
Growing up devouring horror comics and novels, and being inspired to become a writer because of horror novels, movies, and comic books, I always knew I was going to write a horror novel. Colson Whitehead
growing-up philosophy kids
I started growing up in a hurry and taking a lot of the philosophy I'd heard from church as a kid a lot more seriously - especially the Ten Commandments - and wondering how 'Thou shalt not kill' could be so absolutely ignored. It took me until I was in my 40s to write what I was thinking as a young soldier. Dave Brubeck
growing-up california grows
Concord, California was a great place to grow up.
growing-up dad thinking
Remember when you're young and you think your dad is Superman? And then you grow up and realized he's just a drunk who wears a cape. Dave Attell
growing-up grows repeats
I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up. Dawn French
growing-up perfect challenges
I've never met anyone with a perfect upbringing. It seems to me that life on planet Earth just doesn't work that way. The basic challenges of getting our needs met and managing boundaries are inherent in growing up human. David Simon
growing-up airplane flying
I was interested in flying beginning at age 7, when a close family friend took me in his little airplane. And I remember looking at the wheel of the airplane as we rolled down the runway, because I wanted to remember the exact moment that I first went flying... the other thing growing up is that I was always interested in science. David M. Brown
growing-up listening grew
I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues. David Lynch
growing-up real kids
Initially, it connected with me when I was a kid, seeing a lot of movies while growing up in Los Angeles. And Sam's [Fuller] pictures are an expression of such a distinct voice that he was one of those filmmakers who made me aware that there was, in fact, a real presence behind the camera that was telling the story, as opposed to actors just presenting it. Curtis Hanson
growing-up children white
As an African American child growing up in the segregated South, I was told, one way or another, almost every day of my life, that I wasn't as good as a white child. Coretta Scott King
growing-up childhood way
I didn't have the worst childhood, but I didn't have the best, and when you grow up like that, you have certain limitations invariably stuck inside you. Slipknot was a way to work it out. Corey Taylor
growing-up mean kids
When you're a kid, nine times out of 10, everthing is pure depending on how you grow up. Everything is new as a kid, so it's all amazing and wonderful. But as we get older, things start to lose their luster or possibly their relevance. Things don't mean as much as they did then. I know the feeling.
growing-up vacation skills
Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thing was I developed no special skills. I don't have any resentment because I am a performer and I've always felt that, but it did take its toll socially. Dana Plato
growing-up white black
We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up. Craig Charles
growing-up boys years
When I realised I wasn't Michael Jackson and I was this 10 year old boy growing up in the suburbs, I was devastated Darren Hayes
growing-up reality mind
Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind. David Levithan
growing-up children actors
I didn't grow up as child actor. David Boreanaz
growing-up doubt grows
Will you never grow up?" "I doubt it, and I certainly hope not. David Eddings
growing-up thinking goal
And I didn't grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that was always the goal - to be a novelist, not a screenwriter. And I think, again, if I didn't have the novels, maybe I'd be much more frustrated by not having directed yet. David Benioff
growing-up games dungeons
I was a huge fantasy geek growing up. I was the dungeon master in my D&D game.
growing-up struggle thinking
Even just pestering people with questions, and being nosey and pushy and getting her way, are things I think many young women grow up struggling with, to assert themselves. Deborah Ann Woll
growing-up world want
I always said that, when I grow up, I want to be like Joss Whedon : I want to have my own world. Amber Benson