Quotes about growing-up
growing-up latin race
My whole life, when I was growing up, not one race has ever accepted me, ... So I never felt connected or attached to any race specifically. I had a very American upbringing, I feel American, and I don't speak Spanish. So, to say that I'm a Latin actress, OK, but it's not fitting; it would be insincere. Jessica Alba
growing-up hair quirky
I definitely know that I'm quirky. I know that I'm different. Red hair definitely made me different growing up. Jayma Mays
growing-up home virginia
Growing up I played piano and I sang at a lot of weddings; I grew up in a very small town, a little coal-mining town in Virginia called Grundy. And my family was very sing-songy at home.
growing-up phones people
Growing up, politics never trickled down to the areas we come from. But people from Obama's camp, and Obama himself, reached out to me and asked for my help on the campaign. We've sat and had dinner, and we've spoken on the phone. He's a very sharp guy. Very charming. Very cool. Jay-Z
growing-up pain dad
When you're growing up, your dad is your superhero. Once you've let yourself fall that in love with someone, once you put him on such a high pedestal and he lets you down, you never want to experience that pain again.
growing-up class underdog
You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog. Jay Baruchel
growing-up men lazy-man
Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you grow up it cannot be cured. Chapter 25 Carlo Collodi
growing-up home texas
I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up. Candace Kita
growing-up dancer ballet
I was a ballet dancer growing up and that's what I was convinced I would be. Candice Swanepoel
growing-up school college
I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school. Camryn Manheim
growing-up crazy thinking
I didn't want it to be this way." "Yes, you did," she said, "because it is." "I just want to be with someone normal," he said. "I just want to have a normal life." "Excuse me," she said. "You're a little crazy," he said. "You're too old to act the way you do. You've got to grow up. You've got to take care of yourdelf. I'm afraid for you. You can't think that people are going to take care of you all the time. Candace Bushnell
growing-up detroit grows
I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s. Buzz Aldrin
growing-up growing
There is a lot of learning I have to do and a lot of growing up I have to do. Bubba Watson
growing-up pain people
How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep! Joseph Joubert
growing-up gymnastics splits
I did gymnastics when I was growing up and to this day I can still do the splits. Kristin Kreuk
growing-up landscape way
The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does. Molly Parker
growing-up character thinking
I think I've always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual way we interacted with imaginary worlds was as characters: a bench was 'your' boat, leaves on a lawn were the fins of sharks out to get 'you.' Mohsin Hamid
growing-up shadow pakistan
Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s, I lived in the shadow of a tyrannical state.
growing-up boys poverty
I did not grow up in poverty. But I did grow up with a poor boy's sense of longing, in my case not for what my family had never had, but for what we had had and lost.
growing-up school kids
As I have pointed out time and again, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to send little kids to school than it is to let them grow up into young thugs who have to be sent to prison, not to mention the savings in the wear and tear on the nerves, property, and safety of the rest of the citizenry. Molly Ivins
growing-up school thinking
I was always intrigued when I was growing up, and then in engineering school, with the idea of a perpetual machine. I think of the Wal-Mart culture as that. Mike Duke
growing-up play tricks
The trick is, when you grow up, find work that feels like play. Nathan Fillion
growing-up dad jail
My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in. Natalia Kills
growing-up russia people
I live a very different life now, with incredible privileges, but looking back I realise that growing up in Russia gave me tools that other people don't necessarily have - such as the will to push that bit further, to make things happen, to succeed. Natalia Vodianova
growing-up fighting america
Growing up in a very rural and remote area in Colorado's San Luis Valley - one of the poorest counties in the United States - essentially created the framework of values from which I operate. I stand up for the little guy. I fight discrimination at all levels. I fight for an inclusive America. Ken Salazar
growing-up fans my-favorite
I'm a huge candy fan. My favorite growing up was always Sour Belts or Sour Straws. Kendall Schmidt
growing-up dad speech
My dad is my everything. He always had the craziest speeches for Kylie [Kendall]and me growing up, good words to live by. Kendall Jenner
growing-up cheerleader relate
I was a cheerleader growing up, so I can relate to that! Kelly Stables
growing-up struggle responsibility
It is not always easy to be who we are, but as we grow up and mature and develop coping mechanisms that enable us to survive and thrive in a complicated world, we have the responsibility to reach back and help others still struggling along the way. In so doing, we can also help ourselves. Above all, we cannot allow each generation to grow up in a world where they feel they are alone while we carry so much knowledge, history, and foundation that we can, and must, pass on to them. Keith Boykin
growing-up silly able
I was able to grow up and do silly things and have a life with only a small amount of public scrutiny. Keisha Castle-Hughes
growing-up important spotlight
I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family. Kate Burton
growing-up earthquakes feelings
Feeling earthquakes was part of growing up, and also preparing for them: doing earthquake drills, or having earthquake supplies. The looming feeling was part of my life. My experience of earthquakes has always been more the fear of them, or the possibility. Karen Thompson Walker
growing-up philosophy philosophical
I don't feel proprietorial about the problems of philosophy. History has taught us that many philosophical issues can grow up, leave home and live elsewhere. Julian Baggini