Quotes about growing-up
growing-up sweden becoming
When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician. George Papandreou
growing-up leader want
Every leader wants to put his or her imprint on the work that they do, and grow up in specific eras.
growing-up war debt
When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I. George McGovern
growing-up years growing
I spent years growing up being told what my sexuality was. George Michael
growing-up educational school
Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot, (e) poison, and, generally speaking, (f) how to grow up into a Wild West outlaw or gangster by the time you leave school. George Mikes
growing-up white people
I didnt grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, Ive never wanted to speak to an all-white audience. G-Eazy
growing-up dust ashes
For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments. Fyodor Dostoevsky
growing-up writing opportunity
I always wanted to write movies that I'd direct. I didn't come at it from a writing standpoint more than a directing standpoint, except that growing up, I didn't have the opportunity to shoot as much as I did to write. Noah Baumbach
growing-up aunt east
When I was growing up in East Germay, everyone said there was no God. So I started looking for it myself. Nina Hagen
growing-up growing starting
Growing up, I was such a picky eater. I'm finally starting to expand. Mike Trout
growing-up drug keith
Me growing up in the '60s and '70s, there was almost something romantic about drugs, Keith Richards taking drugs and stuff. Robert Hilburn
growing-up hard-work way
What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life. Rick Perry
growing-up children school
Let's concede that we have decided to let our children grow up in two separate nations, and lead two separate kinds of lives. If, on the other hand, we have the courage to rise to this challenge to name what's happening within our inner-city schools, then we also need the courage to be activist and go out and fight like hell to change it. Jonathan Kozol
growing-up philadelphia pittsburgh
If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream.
growing-up cities missing
You could grow up in the city where history was made and still miss it all. Jonathan Lethem
growing-up ethics oppression
If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can detect oppression and inequality even where the apparent victims see nothing wrong. Jonathan Haidt
growing-up america wealth
Something has happened where you almost never grow up in America. Maybe it's the greater wealth. Jonathan Ames
growing-up writing play
When I was growing up, my parents asked me what I wanted to do, and I said that I wanted to live in Springfield. They were like, "Well, that's not how it works. There is an actor who play Homer, and someone who writes what Homer says." So, I was like, "Well, I want to write what Homer says." Jonah Hill
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 thinking down-and
I think I've always been aware of it with my music. I think growing up basically and having a lot to deal with and just slowing down and having something to say and something to retract from, I think I just knew that what I was doing was extremely honest. Justin Vernon
growing-up mean thinking
I didn't grow up with indie rock - I mean, I listened to bands that are considered indie rock, but I think that term is dead and uninteresting.
growing-up church memphis
I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say. Justin Timberlake
growing-up children media
The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted. Julie Christie
growing-up people fans
I am still into the people I listened to growing up, so I completely remember what is like to be a fan, I haven't changed. Lenny Kravitz
growing-up artist cities
The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.
growing-up kids cowboy
Every little kid wants to grow up to be a cowboy, and I did. Lee Iacocca
growing-up wall ivy
The word 'philanthropy' brings up an image of somebody who's had an illustrious career, has retired and is giving to highly established institutions that may or may not have ivy growing up their walls. I personally have felt the need to give philanthropy a reboot Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
growing-up thinking world
I think being young in a grownup world, I think it stunted me a little bit. I had to grow up too fast on the outside, but I didn't get to grow up on the inside in the way that you might if you're allowed to fail more. Laura Benanti
growing-up teaching kids
I definitely think that movies have the possibility to be something positive, and are really becoming teaching tools for a lot of kids growing up. Larisa Oleynik
growing-up chicago bigs
Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago. Lara Flynn Boyle