Quotes about growing-up
growing-up kids opportunity
I wanted to be an actor because it gave me the opportunity to express myself in ways I wasn't comfortable expressing myself, as a kid growing up in St. Louis. Scott Bakula
growing-up school thinking
You dont grow up in a town of 700 thinking youre going to be an actress. I loved doing [school] plays, but it was just something to keep me busy. Michelle Monaghan
growing-up children parent
When I was growing up, my parents took in foster children. From a young age, I learned that there are a lot of children in need.
growing-up years jamaica
I wouldn't be where I am, if not for Jamaica. My formative years were here. I wouldn't have the confidence that I have if I wasn't born here, because growing up here I knew I could become anybody I wanted to become. There was no ceiling on top of me. Michael Lee-Chin
growing-up hero voice
Armando Iannucci is one of my heroes. As I was growing up, he was probably the most influential comic voice that I had. John Oliver
growing-up eye elegance
If the eye is constantly greeted by harmonious objects, having elegance of form and color, a standard of taste naturally grows up. John Dewey
growing-up growing wales
Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion. John Cale
growing-up men space
Most times a person grows up gradually, but I found myself in a hurry... Hoping to find an answer, I uncovered an article about the common goldfish. "Kept in a small bowl, the goldfish will remain small. With more space, the fish will double, triple, or quadruple in size." It occurred to me then that I was intended for larger things. After all, a giant man can't have an ordinary-sized life. John August
growing-up humanity soil
A new culture can only grow up in the soil of a purged humanity. Johan Huizinga
growing-up thinking profound
People don't walk around thinking of themselves as bad people. You're part of the environment that you grow up in, and there can be decency in that. I always try to find a little glimmer of that, in anything that I do, because you can find places where there's humor or lightness in something that's deep and profound, and that tends to resonate more and make people more human. As an actor and performer, I think it resonates more with the audience when you do have the payoff. Jimmy Smits
growing-up war moon
When I was growing up in Huntsville, Alabama, this is where the space and rocket center was. This is where all of the German rocket scientists came after war and started designing rockets for NASA, for the moon landing and all that. Jimmy Wales
growing-up real school
I went through some real challenges growing up. I joined the Army two weeks out of high school when I was 17, and never looked back. Geoff Davis
growing-up writing watches
Growing up, I would watch a movie on video and would go to the back of the VHS and locate the address for Universal Pictures or MGM or whatever. I'd write to the studios asking them if I could be in a movie. They never wrote me back. Garrett Hedlund
growing-up land cities
Especially for me, growing up in such a small town in the middle of nowhere, the desire to be away was incredible. I wanted to see new lands, meet new people from the city, and meet people that were in much less fortunate situations than I was, so that I could be more appreciative of my present. At least I had food on the table.
growing-up book reading
It's funny that I got to do 'On the Road' because the thing that had the biggest impact on me growing up was reading books. I was very inspired by the book and this spirit of Dean Moriarty and how envious we all are of somebody who can be that carefree.
growing-up men vigor
God has not chosen to save us without crosses; as He has not seen fit to create men at once in the full vigor of manhood, but has suffered them to grow up by degrees amid all the perils and weaknesses of youth. Francois Fenelon
growing-up heart opportunity
The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now every opportunity to found the natural democratic state in these United States of America by way of natural economic order and a natural, or organic, architecture. Frank Lloyd Wright
growing-up mean kids
If you're a white kid growing up and you see a Black player and he's got the name of your college or your town across his chest, that means something. Frank Deford
growing-up heart school
I used to skip school to go there when I was growing up in Newark, ... I saw the Flamingos, the Heartbeats, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Jackson. George Clinton
growing-up war holocaust
Growing up during the Cold War period, I always found that, although we always thought that the world would end in some sort of nuclear holocaust, at some point, everybody was pretty hopeful. George Clooney
growing-up home numbers
Growing up, I was in and out of trouble in group homes and other institutions, and when I was 14, I was locked up in a psychiatric hospital for a number of months for behavioral problems. Gbenga Akinnagbe
growing-up father turkeys
I can't stop watching 'Pan Am.' When I was growing up, my father worked as an engineer in Turkey, and we always flew Pan Am. The stewardesses were so glamorous! When they gave me a set of those golden wings, I felt very grown-up. Not only is the show's plot full of mystery and infidelity, they get the period details just right. Gayle King
growing-up self-esteem thinking
I think I always had joie de vivre. But I had pretty bad self-esteem growing up and much of my adult life. Geena Davis
growing-up boys world
Growing up with three boys in a heavily male-dominated world, I especially needed to express myself as a woman. Elisabeth Shue
growing-up clouds said
Well, do you do that consciously?" Daily Alice asked, only partly of Cloud. "Do what?" Cloud said. "Grow up? No. Well. In a sense. You see it's inevitable, or refuse to. You greet it or don't -- take it in trade, maybe, for all you're going to lose anyway. Or you can refuse, and have what you've got to lose snatched from you, and never take payment -- never see a trade is possible. John Crowley
growing-up heart thinking
It seems like when I was growing up there was more compromise, wanting to work with each other, and I think all of them - all of the lawmakers - have hearts to do what's right, and they all are passionate about it. Joel Osteen
growing-up hate use
When you're growing up in a small town You know you'll grow down in a small town There is only one good use for a small town You hate it and you know you'll have to leave. Lou Reed
growing-up cost fantasy
Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost. Lloyd Alexander
growing-up years saws
Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing. Manuel Puig
growing-up maturity alive
To grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable. Madeleine L'Engle
growing-up drama grows
To grow up is to find the small part you are playing in the extraordinary drama written by somebody else.
growing-up real hero
Growing up, I looked up to real women. I didn't go in for hero worship and I still don't. Everybody has feet of clay. Lucy Lawless
growing-up thinking serious
They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla? Lucy Maud Montgomery