Quotes about growing-up
growing-up lovely growing
I had a lovely time growing up. Michael Kiwanuka
growing-up father bored
When I was growing up, I wanted to be a house painter like my father, but I was always screwing up when I went to work with him. I had a talent for knocking over paint and painting myself into corners. I also realized fairly quickly that painting bored me. Markus Zusak
growing-up aunt president
Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer Mark Twain
growing-up thinking rejection
I wasn't thinking about history. I was thinking about how we were going to end segregation at lunch counters in Atlanta, Georgia.We would have never thought about making history, we just thought: Here is our chance to get out our sense of rejection at this kind of racial discrimination. I don't know that there was a time that anybody growing up in the South wasn't enraged about being segregated and being discriminated against. Marian Wright Edelman
growing-up kids parent
The outside world told black kids when I was growing up that we weren't worth anything. But our parents said it wasn't so, and our churches and our schoolteachers said it wasn't so. They believed in us, and we, therefore, believed in ourselves.
growing-up pain children
Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It means trying to hold on to physical life amid psychological death. It means the pain of watching your children grow up with clouds of inferiority in their mental skies. It means having their legs off, and then being condemned for being a cripple. Martin Luther King, Jr.
growing-up life-lesson rocks
I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities. Mark Hoppus
growing-up nice apology
When I was growing up skateboarding, a bunch of friends and I went to this thrift store and as we were leaving I jumped up and passed gas in my friend's face. I turned around and it wasn't my friend, it was this nice old lady who was just walking out of the store. That was probably one of the more awkward apologies I've had to make in my life.
growing-up differences parent
My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.
growing-up worry stuff
I would probably say, 'Don't worry so much about stuff as you grow up.'
growing-up lessons wake-up
Sometimes you just have to get a shock to grow up and wake up, and I've had lots of shocks because it's as though I don't learn the lessons, so something new comes and hits me. Marianne Faithfull
growing-up thinking parent
My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience. Nicholas A. Christakis
growing-up thinking forever
As you're growing up, it's odd, because directors don't expect you to grow up. They think you'll be young forever, but as an actor, there is an awkward period when you're too young for old or too old for young, and it can be an odd time. Nicholas Hoult
growing-up teenager book
Until I was 16, I read nothing but science fiction. I loved William Gibson and I still do. But my favourite book when I was growing up, for a long time, was 'Snow Crash' by Neal Stephenson, which I must have read about a dozen times when I was a teenager. Ned Beauman
growing-up artist childhood
Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist. Ned Rorem
growing-up kids thinking
Dr. Barney stared at me, his lips puckered. What was he so serious about? Who hasn’t thought about killing themselves, as a kid? How can you grow up in this world and not think about it? Ned Vizzini
growing-up mcdonalds people
People who grow up in a region doubtless have a better cultural awareness of their own cuisine, but it's also true that a lot of locals go to McDonald's, Applebee's and the like. Nathan Myhrvold
growing-up school kids
Growing up in a multicultural family, I never really felt that I was different - even though I was from most of the kids in my school. Especially with music, I try to just approach it as an equal. Priscilla Ahn
growing-up husband mean
Because when does anybody really grow up? I mean, I feel more grown up now, more in a place of solidity and peace. But I think a lot of people take on these roles as parents, or husband or wife, and immediately think 'That's it. I'm grown up now. Done.'
growing-up okay many-friends
I never had that many friends growing up so I learned to be okay with just me.
growing-up goldfish privacy
When my sister and I were growing up, she was made out to be the goody-goody one. I have as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl. Princess Margaret
growing-up grief grows
Grief diminishes when it has nothing to grow upon. Publilius Syrus
growing-up forever young
I had to find a relationship with someone who could simultaneously make me grow up and keep me forever young. Portia de Rossi
growing-up children men
Unlike most other children, - especially unlike those of today - who are eager to become men and women as speedily as possible, I had a terror of growing up, which became more and more accentuated as I grew older. Pierre Loti
growing-up thinking parent
I think the way I approach things has something to do with growing up and seeing my parents go to work every day. Kristen Stewart
growing-up parent firsts
Growing up, I never heard my parents curse, never. The first time I ever said a curse word was with my sister Kim. Kourtney Kardashian
growing-up successful years
As you become more successful, the gender barrier disappears. The credibility challenges you have during your growing up years starts disappearing when you start demonstrating success. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
growing-up teenager growing
I was a handful growing up. Olivia Wilde
growing-up survival woods
I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods. Margaret Atwood
growing-up school years
They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.
growing-up stupid imperfection
I see that there will be no end to imperfection, or to doing things the wrong way. Even if you grow up, no matter how hard you scrub, whatever you do, there will always be some other stain or spot on your face or stupid act, somebody frowning.
growing-up war media
And if the liberal media and political community cannot accept that sometimes the wrong people get killed in war, then I can only suggest they first grow up and then serve a short stint up in the Hindu Kush. Marcus Luttrell
growing-up let-it-go way
Sometimes, with autobiographies, it turns into a bit of score-settling. And looking back, I don't feel the way I did then, and you kind of grow up and let it go behind you. Marc Almond