Quotes about growing-up
growing-up father interesting
When it became clear that in fact my father was saying, "It will be interesting to see what you want to do when you grow up," I realized that there was no pressure on that front. And I remember huge relief: Hey, I can go and do what I really know I have to do! N. T. Wright
growing-up school voice
Sometimes, growing up, I tried to be very Latina; I would change my voice... experiment with my hair a lot, trying to figure out who I was in a primarily white school. Monica Raymund
growing-up ebb-and-flow attention
I feel like confidence is something that ebbs and flows. I was given a lot of love and attention from my family growing up, so for sure I had a natural confidence. Milla Jovovich
growing-up children knowing
Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English. Mignon McLaughlin
growing-up mistake thinking
I'm growing up and continuing to learn from my mistakes and trying not to make the same ones over and over again, but am I going to live in a shell, or am I just going to hide from everybody and not do anything? I don't think that's the way I should live my life, and I'm not going to do it. Johnny Manziel
growing-up littles juvenile
Being a complete juvenile delinquent helped me grow up a little. Johnny Knoxville
growing-up people tests
Growing up in public is a test, and not many people know how to do it. Johnny Marr
growing-up real america
I had a feeling about what I wanted to say, and I wasn't really qualified to discuss real things out of America because I didn't grow up there.
growing-up rocks singers
When you grow up, you're told that rock 'n' roll is the only authentic way to express yourself. Live instrumentation, singer, live drums. You're told that's the best medium to communicate. Matt Tong
growing-up kids hard-work
I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work. Matt Taibbi
growing-up book romance
Growing up, I mostly read comic books and sci-fi. Then I discovered the book 'Jane Eyre' by Jane Austen. It introduced me to the world of romance, which I have since never left. Also, the world of the first-person narrative. Meg Cabot
growing-up first-love scary
We can all agree that first loves can be a scary thing, and that growing up is hard to do.
growing-up book hero
A WRINKLE IN TIME is one of my favorite books of all time. I've read it so often, I know it by heart. Meg Murry was my hero growing up. I wanted glasses and braces and my parents to stick me in an attic bedroom. And I so wanted to save Charles Wallace from IT.
growing-up years acting
We can be better, we can be wiser, we can be more kind. Yes we have to change. We have to grow up and stop acting like 10 years old. Yes there is much to do, much to see, much to go into. Maya Angelou
growing-up selfish kids
...because I'm sure that as soon as things really get back to "normal," once our kids or grandkids grow up in a peaceful and comfortable world, they'll probably go right back to being as selfish and narrow-minded and generally shitty to one another as we were. Max Brooks
growing-up attitude character
There’s no tipping point where you become what you are. Character development starts when you’re growing up. Your socioeconomic background contributes. The attitude that gets you through some communities doesn’t work in corporate America. It’s not an excuse, but it does help explain Maurice Clarett
growing-up guy growing
I was a competitive guy growing up. Mark Sanchez
growing-up children army
It's not fair that a Palestinian child cannot grow up in a state of their own, living their entire lives in the presence of a foreign army that controls the movements of the parents every single day. Mark Shields
growing-up children bears
No adult can bear a child’s burden or grow up in his stead. Maria Montessori
growing-up children self
The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self. Adults work to finish a task, but the child works in order to grow, and is working to create the adult, the person that is to be. Such experience is not just play... it is work he must do in order to grow up.
growing-up children thinking
We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning. Mary Wesley
growing-up different bones
One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed. (Bone Crossed) Patricia Briggs
growing-up boys america
In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president. Pat Paulsen
growing-up children unique
One should be able to say to our children: You are a marvel! You are unique. In all the world, there is no other child exactly like you. In the millions of years that have passed, there has never been another child like you! ... and when you grow up, can you harm another who is, like you, a marvel? Pablo Casals
growing-up kids ghetto
For years I've been interested in a fundamental question concerning what I call the psychology of evil: Why is it that good people do evil deeds? I've been interested in that question since I was a little kid. Growing up in the ghetto in the South Bronx, I had lots of friends who I thought were good kids, but for one reason or another they ended up in serious trouble. They went to jail, they took drugs, or they did terrible things to other people. My whole upbringing was focused on trying to understand what could have made them go wrong. Philip Zimbardo
growing-up independent spoons
I needed to grow up and do things all adults do. It was time to stop having everything spoon fed to me. It was about being independent. Paula Creamer
growing-up school kitchen
Growing up, I had a very busy social life. It wasn't until I was a sophomore in high school that I asked Mama if I could come into the kitchen and have her teach me how to cook something. Paula Deen
growing-up hockey north-dakota
I played hockey in North Dakota growing up and watch a lot of that. Phil Jackson
growing-up culture gamer
I can't say I was much of a gamer growing up or that I am now, but I'm certainly part of that culture or it's part of, you know, the sort of time that I grew up in. Mary Elizabeth Winstead
growing-up numbers culture
When I was growing up in the mid-'50s, the Roaring Twenties were a huge part of the culture. There were a number of films and a bunch of television shows that dealt with the mythology of the underworld from that period. Martin Scorsese
growing-up cutting thinking
I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don't know how to light it. And I realize it's because I didn't grow up with light. I grew up in tenements.
growing-up kids people
I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew.
growing-up inspiration mean
I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know? LeBron James