Quotes about growing-up
growing-up parent fame
When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me. Ellen DeGeneres
growing-up war reading
When I was growing up, there was a man who gave me lessons and things. I'm very dyslexic so he used to give me extra reading and writing. And he always knew that I was interested in stuff but he never told me that he was in the Second World War himself. One day he gave me his helmet that he had worn through the North Africa Campaign. It was just before he died. So I've got his helmet. That was pretty special to me. Jeremy Irvine
growing-up kids thinking
I think right now the way society's going, I think role models are important, and kids need direction. If I didn't have that direction growing up, who knows what I could be doing, because I've been lost many times in my life, and I've had to have someone guide me back on the right path. Jeremy Lin
growing-up games jordan
I was a big Michael Jordan fan growing up. I don't feel my game resembles his though.
growing-up television planes
Growing up where I did, the thought of working on a television show or in a movie... that existed on a parallel plane, you know? Jennifer Garner
growing-up kids fiction
Yeah I loved, as a kid growing up, I loved science-fiction. Jeff Bridges
growing-up writing intelligent
Intelligent, heartfelt stories that tell a whole new set of truths about growing up American. Julie Orringer writes with virtuosity and depth about the fears, cruelties, and humiliations of childhood, but then does that rarest, and more difficult, thing: writes equally beautifully about the moments of victory and transcendence. George Saunders
growing-up school nerd
Growing up, I was a very shy, wallflower type. I was not a nerd, but not popular. I was just invisible, like that person you probably didn't know you were in school with. Jenna Fischer
growing-up reading men
When men are growing up and they're reading about Batman, Spiderman, Superman ... those are not fantasies ... they're options. Jerry Seinfeld
growing-up emotional self
Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop the emotional musculature that will allow them to show self-restraint. Jeffrey Kluger
growing-up ice haha
Youre gonna grow up and marry some ice cream! Haha! Jeff Kinney
growing-up character thinking
I liked the idea that my character was not gonna be the typical dumb guy that I play, typically. I also loved the fact that it was dealing with kind of adult-extended adolescence, which I think is always interesting -- a bunch of people that don't wanna grow up. Jim Gaffigan
growing-up kids important
I was the youngest of six kids, so yeah, feeding myself was important, but it's not like I was obsessed with food growing up.
growing-up thinking self
I think growing up in Indiana prepares anyone for a life in comedy. I do feel like there is a certain kind of self-effacing cynicism among all Hoosiers.
growing-up age ink
A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day. Jim Bishop
growing-up kids growing
I just didn't work that much while the kids were growing up. Jill Clayburgh
growing-up thinking important
I think it is important to grow. Your fans are growing up with you whether you like it or not. You have to keep it fresh and exciting for them. You have to bring something new to the table each time. Jesse McCartney
growing-up kids house
Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible. Jennifer Jason Leigh
growing-up nice life-lesson
Why can't we just be nice? It's like, we grow up, and then we get right back into high school. Jennifer Lawrence
growing-up kentucky dinner
I grew up in Kentucky, but I did not grow up like that. I had heat, and I didn't have to shoot my dinner or anything.
growing-up dad thinking
I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.
growing-up passion son
I lost my passion for work. No, that's a negative statement. I just had a bigger passion for something else, for my son, and growing up with him. James Caan
growing-up stress war
Everybody is always talking about droughts and sea level rise, but when human civilization, with more crowding and greater resource depletion, is under that much stress, it translates into wars and huge displaced populations. The Syrian refugee crisis is just a first taste of what it's going to be like. I don't want my kids growing up in that kind of world. James Cameron
growing-up boys two
These boys, now, were living as we'd been living then, they were growing up with a rush and their heads bumped abruptly against the low ceiling of their actual possibilities. They were filled with rage. All they really knew were two darknesses, the darkness of their lives, which were now closing in on them, and the darkness of the movies, which had blinded them to that other darkness, and in which they now, vindictively, dreamed, at once more together than they were at any other time, and more alone. James A. Baldwin
growing-up children london
I spent a lot of time in London when I was growing up and I've always picked up accents without even really meaning to. It used to get me into trouble as a child. Christopher Guest
growing-up choices stuff
Everyone goes through their stuff when they are growing up. It's all relative. Everyone has the same situations on their menu. We just make the choices in terms of what situations we're going to eat. Gary Busey
growing-up children believe
Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism. Gary Bauer
growing-up guy today
Today the sort of thing for a guy in England growing up is that you have to suppress all your emotions. It's almost like you have to sit back and be cool. Freddie Highmore
growing-up people theatre
Theatre is expensive to go to. I certainly felt when I was growing up that theatre wasn't for us. Theatre still has that stigma to it. A lot of people feel intimidated and underrepresented in theatre. Christopher Eccleston
growing-up healing feelings
There were a lot of bad feelings when Lindsey first left the band. But there's been a lot of healing going on, growing up, maturing. The bond is a great deal stronger than what we first thought. Christine McVie
growing-up growing dork
I felt like a dork growing up. Christina Milian
growing-up process seems
The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded me Christina Ricci
growing-up home son
I will not have my son grow up in a tension-filled home. Christina Aguilera