Quotes about growing-up
growing-up yoga player
I turned up my nose at yoga for years. I was a rugby player growing up. But now I know. When I'm on those long international flights, like 22 hours from L.A. to Sydney, I'll get up sometimes and do yoga in the aisle just to stretch out a little bit. Jason O'Mara
growing-up kids play
I don't want to grow up,' Tom Waits said it. I live it. I put myself in a position to be a kid as long as I want to. I play loud music and scream for a living. Jason Newsted
growing-up hipster eggs
Part of growing up is not waiting in line at a hipster breakfast restaurant. The eggs taste the same across the street. I promise. Jason Segel
growing-up perspective generations
Doesn't every generation feel like the one that's coming up behind them doesn't know how to grow up? I'm not sure if we're progressively getting worse or if your perspective shifts. Jason Reitman
growing-up father son
Growing up the son of a director has made me very aware of the various turns that a directing career can take. Sometimes your films turn out exactly as you want. Sometimes they don't. I spent a lot of my childhood on sets. I think as a joke, my father gave me a line of dialogue in each of his films during the worst moments of my puberty.
growing-up yoga people
Growing up sucks, doesn't it? I understand why people wouldn't want to get old - but it'd be one thing if we became a culture obsessed with eating right, doing yoga, going to therapy and becoming at one with ourselves. That be great. But we don't do that. We seem to be obsessed with all the wrong ways to stay young.
growing-up idols magic
Growing up, Magic Johnson was my idol. He was a good example. He could always pass the ball extremely well and get his teammates involved. Jason Kidd
growing-up creative way
Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get by. Hilary Swank
growing-up thinking anxiety
I am not taking a position on any policy, but I do think there is a growing sense of anxiety and even anger in America over the feeling that the game is rigged. And I never had that feeling when I was growing up. Never. Hillary Clinton
growing-up children african-american
Children today will grow up taking for granted that an African-American or a woman can, yes, become the president of the United States.
growing-up people parent
When I was growing up, my parents always told me that I had to do what I thought was right and not listen to other people. That was hard for me.
growing-up makeup vintage
I don't come from a wealthy or privileged background, and growing up I was always looking for the best quality at a price I could afford. My love of vintage is rooted in that. Drugstores were the mecca for the latest makeup trends and products. Eva Mendes
growing-up speaking-spanish interesting
I didn't grow up speaking Spanish, and the interesting thing was, we would watch these novelas and you didn't have to speak Spanish to understand what was going on. Eva Longoria
growing-up college texas
Even though I am very tied to and close to my heritage, I learned Spanish in college; I didn't grow up with it. Growing up in South Texas is different from Miami or L.A. where it is a necessity to speak Spanish.
growing-up mean kids
I mean, like a lot of kids growing up in the early seventies, I was fed Dr. Kissinger with my Fruit Loops. He was the Dr. Ruth of American foreign policy, and the model statesman. Eugene Jarecki
growing-up struggle thinking
It was natural to see the struggle for dignity for black people in America as a sister struggle of the Jewish struggle. So growing up, it was always a part of my breakfast cereal to think of myself as someone who was part of a larger struggle.
growing-up school people
My parents sent me to a school across town, an integrated school, where I had the chance to meet and grow up with people who were from other parts of the world. ... I remember feeling that I would never have anything to contribute on St. Patrick's Day. I couldn't tell the stories that they might have been telling about their forebears and I felt left out. Isabel Wilkerson
growing-up father thinking
I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works. Ira Levin
growing-up actors sticks
Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness, Ioan Gruffudd
growing-up people guy
Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world. Jack Ma
growing-up kids golf
A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave. Jack Nicklaus
growing-up dinosaurs firsts
I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs. Jack Horner
growing-up father thinking
My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world. Jack Antonoff
growing-up film my-family
I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it. J. C. Chandor
growing-up boys views
My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula. J. C. Watts
growing-up fighting house
I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house. J. Cole
growing-up thinking race
I think being born in America and growing up exclusively within the American boundaries of race and race oppression is a very different experience for those of us who grew up under the boundaries of race and race experience in the Caribbean, or for those who grew up in Africa. Our experience has not made us monolithic. We're not all of the same stripe, coming from the same place with the same sense of what the tactics have to be to survive. Harry Belafonte
growing-up responsibility thinking
I think parenting is a huge responsibility. It was in my time when I was growing up and there still continues to be that responsibility. Harrison Ford
growing-up children opportunity
It's a wonderful opportunity to be part of a child's growing up, which is always an endless springtime. You see the blossoming and the growing and the nurturing and the payoff.
growing-up thinking want
My family never told me like you have to be one thing. What do you want to be when you grow up? They think it's the most ridiculous question. You can be many, many things. Hannah Simone
growing-up rights play
My family’s said to me from the beginning, ‘People are always going to tell you to pick what you want to be when you grow up. You take that and throw it out the window, that’s garbage. People are complicated and we love many things and we’re passionate about many things. You can be a human rights activist and also be doing these comedy plays in your community and that’s OK. All those things are a part of who you are and you can love them equally.
growing-up kids adults
Growing up, I was a kid pretending to be an adult. Guy Pearce
growing-up lying emotional
No one grows up. That's one of the sickest lies they ever tell you. People change. People compromise. People get stranded in situations they don't want to be in… and they make the best of it. But don't try to tell me it's some kind of… glorious preordained ascent into emotional maturity. It's not.