Quotes about growing-up
growing-up games giving
I learned the game on the radio. Russ Hodges and Lon Simmons were the Giants broadcasters when I was growing up in the Bay area, and they taught me about the game. They taught me about the subtleties of the game, but they also gave me the game and let me enjoy it. That's the main thing, whether it's TV or radio. You have to give the fans the game, and if it's a Giants broadcast, the vast majority are Giants fans. In terms of story lines, most would be about the Giants. Jon Miller
growing-up father grew
When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why. Katey Sagal
growing-up self-esteem kids
I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid.
growing-up white focus
I was wowed by Margo Jefferson's memoir, Negroland, which is about growing up black and privileged in Chicago in the fifties and sixties. It was a window into an alien world. Obviously, I'm not black, but what was really alien to me was her family's focus on respectability. I was never taught when to wear white gloves, what length skirt is appropriate. Justine Larbalestier
growing-up children childhood
Every child should be given the right to grow up and become a productive citizen. This will not happen unless, at the very least, basic food needs are met. Ending childhood hunger should be a national priority. Pamela Sue Martin
growing-up kids thinking
After Bottle Rocket, I started getting acting work. People started offering me roles in movies. It wasn't something that I thought about as a kid growing up in Texas. Actually, maybe I would have thought of it as a possibility, but it seemed so crazily far-fetched to think that you could work in movies that I really didn't ever quite imagine it. It was just lucky. Owen Wilson
growing-up growing scorsese
Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
growing-up sunday night
As I was growing up, I did a lot of talent shows. I won fifteen Sunday nights straight in a series of talent shows in Macon. I showed up the sixteenth night, and they wouldn't let me go on any more. Whatever success I had was through the help of the good Lord. Otis Redding
growing-up mean sleep
Time to grow up. Time to stop bawling. Time to do SOMETHING. And that means, if I'm not sleeping, my nerd-herd isn't sleeping either-sun or no sun. P. C. Cast
growing-up eye voice
I want to be a Huntress when I grow up!" shouted a voice from the throng. Kyna rolled her eyes and shook her head. "You can't be a Huntress, Liam. You're not a centaur and you're not a female.
growing-up kids wanted
When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley. Paul McCartney
growing-up surprise inevitable
That's the terrible thing about growing up. You lose friends. It's inevitable. It's not like it's a surprise. But it is terrible.
growing-up our-generation interesting
The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.
growing-up thinking decision
Think back to yourself at age 18. I know I was mighty different than the Patti I am today. As we grow up, we grow out of our haircuts, our apartments and - often times - our romantic decisions. Patti Stanger
growing-up kids people
Growing up, there are always those kids who are only happy when they are making someone else upset. That is unfortunately just how some people are. And their parents were fine. Some people are just born with bad wiring. Patton Oswalt
growing-up cutting men
Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again Pericles
growing-up book favourite
When I was growing up, 'Anna Karenina' was one of my favourite books. Paullina Simons
growing-up children play
Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty. Mary Oliver
growing-up young grows
Too old to die young, and too young to grow up. Marty Feldman
growing-up daddy parent
My parents divorced, and I didn't have much of a daddy growing up. Pink
growing-up able hell
You ought to be able to grow up in a place and not have to get the hell out of it when you turn eighteen. Philipp Meyer
growing-up work-out house
I like to work out. I work out hard when I get to it, but it's so sporadic, I'm not sure it counts at all! I eat pretty much anything, but I eat high-quality food. There was never a packet of chips or box of candy in my house when I was growing up. Ever. Rachael Taylor
growing-up anger today
Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Peter Medawar
growing-up giving-up years
We are told from childhood onward that everything we want to do is impossible. We grow up with this idea, and as the years accumulate, so too do the layers of prejudice, fear and guilt. There comes a time when our personal calling is so deeply buried in our soul as to be invisible. But know that it's still there. Paulo Coelho
growing-up mistake lying
All life's battles teach us something, even those we lose. When you grow up, you'll discover that you have defended lies, deceived yourself, or suffered foolishness. If you're a good warrior you will not blame yourself for this, but neither will you allow your mistakes to repeat themselves.
growing-up get-well thinking
Our contradictions. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves ill earning money, and then spend all our money on getting well again. We think so much about the future that we neglect the present, and thus experience neither the present nor the future. We live as if we were never going to die, and die as if we had never lived.
growing-up nerd want
I want my grandkids to grow up in the great outdoors. The last thing I want is for them to grow up to be nerds. Phil Robertson
growing-up different mythology
There is a sort of mythology that grows up about what happened, which is different from what really did happen. Peter Higgs
growing-up blow men
Suddenly, Westerns, which were our action films and what the working man went to see to blow off steam and have a good time, became boring to most people growing up from the Eighties on, because they're kind of pastoral. Quentin Tarantino
growing-up boys play
Oh gosh, well, you know, growing up in the '70s being a young boy there, you know, there were still exploitation movies, where, you know, were, you know, still opened up every week and, you know, played - sometimes they would play it at the local, you know, mall theater.
growing-up thinking california
I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California. Phillip Lim
growing-up long way
We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us. Philip Yancey
growing-up opportunity engineering
Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready. Naveen Jain