Quotes about growing
growing-up community london
A lot of pubs in London are now faceless, expensive yuppy bars. Not like when I was growing up. The pub used to be, and should be, the pillar of community. Jason Flemyng
growing-up successful differences
If you grow up poor you're always going to worry about money, no matter how successful or lucky you become. I'm not moaning about what actors get paid - I'm very, very lucky - but the difference between what leading actors get paid and supporting actors get is a lot. Jason Flemyng
growing-up team kids
Growing up, I was always the only black kid on my team and (sometimes) I'd get questions from my friends when I'd say, `I want to be in the NHL' and they'd say, `Well, there are no black people or not very many in the NHL' and as a kid, you'd wonder why. But overall, I didn't really face any racial difficulties. Nothing too bad or too lasting. Jarome Iginla
growing-up ambition kids
As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course, as we all know from fairy stories, when you achieve that ambition, you find out you don't want it. Jarvis Cocker
growing-up long faces
Its OK to grow up, just as long as you don't grow old. Face it you are young. Jarvis Cocker
growing-up hiking packing
It was great growing up a nomad. To this day I still love hiking and back packing. Jared Leto
growing-up anxiety growing
Growing up, I was prone to anxiety. Jane McGonigal
growing-up average stories
When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories. Ethan Zuckerman
growing-up children kids
I enjoyed meeting Emma [Watson]. I have a soft spot in my heart for child actors growing up. I know how hard that is. Having gone through that experience myself, I have a lot of sensitivity to it. For lack of a better word, I just feel like I love these kids, and I want them all to grow up and love themselves, and not get caught up in the wrong things, and to learn all the different things this profession has to give, and to understand it. Ethan Hawke
growing-up people want
The constant buzz and pressure and noise and static of the Internet, and the way it makes young people feel makes it difficult to grow up and develop the way one might want to. Ethan Hawke
growing-up educational kids
I grew up in a very progressive family and with a great educational system, and I asked myself, 'Why doesn't everybody have these opportunities for a good education? So why not give back to these kids who didn't grow up with the same privileges I had? Erin Gruwell
growing-up sheep leaving
Grow up, Bailey." "That is precisely what I'm doing," Bailey says. "I don't care if you don't understand that. Staying here won't make me happy. It will make you happy because you're insipid and boring, and an insipid, boring life is enough for you. It's not enough for me. It will never be enough for me. So I'm leaving. Do me a favor and marry someone who will take decent care of the sheep. Erin Morgenstern
growing-up kids thinking
People think about autism as something with kids. Well, those kids grow up. Jason Katims
growing-up school perfect
My biggest downfall is my inner voice. Growing up as a dancer makes you very judgemental with yourself. You learn to look at yourself in the mirror and you criticise every line in your body. It's never perfect. I grew up with this because I had ballet every day in school. Carmen Electra
growing-up america canada
Growing up in Vancouver, it's not like growing up in Middle America or the middle of Canada. It's a very movie town. Evan Goldberg
growing-up believe kids
I'm not in this just to change the law. It's about changing society. I want gay kids to grow up believing that they can get married, that they can join the Scouts, that they can choose the life they want to live. Evan Wolfson
growing-up home watches
I didn't grow up in a home that glorified Hollywood. We didn't watch TV. We didn't have a lot of magazines around. Evangeline Lilly
growing-up revenge fear
It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's children lest they grow up to play their own part, to the erasure of the enemy's graveyards and holy places so that his hated name can be forgotten. Christopher Hitchens
growing-up growing stage
When I was growing up, I was always on stage but I loved other things. Jeremy Piven
growing essentials economy
What type of new economical system can organize this system? There is another sector in our life, that we rely on every single day, that are absolutely essential: the social commons, the social economy. It is all the activity we engage in to create social capital. It doesn't create capital market. Social commons is growing faster than the market place. It is growing faster than the market place. The social commons include any activity that is deeply social and collaborative. Jeremy Rifkin
growing-up feelings taught
When I was growing up, I wasn't taught how to feel or communicate feelings. Jeremy Renner
growing-up athlete growing
I was an athlete when I was growing up. Jeremy Renner
growing-up book writing
Throughout my childhood, my parents dropped me off at a multitude of therapists' offices in hopes that I'd avoid growing up to be the kind of asshole who writes books about them. Also because it was sometimes easier than finding a nanny. Jenny Mollen
growing-up love-is trying
In the end, love is growing up. We feel so much stronger since we are together in this life, than when we were before trying to figure it out alone. Love is all! Gilles Marini
growing aging pleasure
One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be. Gilbert K. Chesterton
growing-up character white
When I was growing up, we learned our history almost as lives of the saints. And it came as a shock, "Oh, Jefferson had slaves?" It always comes as a shock to us that elevation to the White House didn't somehow cleanse them of all their deep character flaws. Harry Shearer
growing-up children lying
The roots of a child's ability to cope and thrive, regardless of circumstance, lie in that child's having had at least a small, safe place (an apartment? a room? a lap?) in which, in the companionship of a loving person, that child could discover that he or she was lovable and capable of loving in return. If a child finds this during the first years of life, he or she can grow up to be a competent, healthy person. Fred Rogers
growing-up mistake hero
...for the contingent out there who sneer at heroes like Superman and Wonder Woman and Captain America, those icons who still, at their core, represent selfless sacrifice for the greater good, and who justify their contempt by saying, oh, it's so unrealistic, no one would ever be so noble... grow up. Seriously. Cynicism is not maturity, do not mistake the one for the other. If you truly cannot accept a story where someone does the right thing because it's the right thing to do, that says far more about who you are than these characters. Greg Rucka
growing-up character kids
Growing up, I was a very shy kid but I felt that being on stage or playing another character would somehow open me up. And I think it did. Jesse Tyler Ferguson
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. Jayma Mays
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