Quotes about growing-up
growing-up thinking black
I can't eat beans - all beans. I think because I'm half Cuban. So growing up, we were always eating black beans and rice, and I think I just said, 'Enough with it,' and I can't even stand to taste it anymore. Ryan Lochte
growing-up inspiration journey
Lil Wayne would probably be a big musical inspiration for me, because growing up I was just the biggest Wayne fan and being able to be signed to him and watch his whole journey to the peak of his career is great. Tyga
growing-up doors next
Growing up, there was always music around, whether across the street, or on the next-door neighbor's stereo. So, as in life, music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion. Music is amazing. Tyler Perry
growing-up hair would-be
I'm gonna be percy Jackson when I grow up," she told Hazel solemnly. Hazel Smiled and ruffled her hair. "That's a good thing to be, Julia." "Although," Frank said. "Frank Zhang would be good too. Rick Riordan
growing-up important behind-you
To avoid having bad things happen, learning to manage your anger and to actually share how you really feel about something, and get it behind you is one of the most important aspects of growing up. William J. Clinton
growing-up want honest
When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen. Richard M. Nixon
growing-up police groups
I'm from Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. So, you grow up around police officers. Some of them are in your family, some of them you have encounters with. I had a young police officer we were friends with in our group. Tracy Morgan
growing-up thinking accepting
Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up. Robert Smith
growing-up voice want
I still feel like I have a lot of growing up to do til I find the voice. Everybody has their own voice and their own thing they want to say to the world. Sasha Alexander
growing-up responsibility thinking
I think that's what growing up is all about. It's about taking on new responsibilities and learning what you can handle, and learning what you can't. Sarah Michelle Gellar
growing-up school acting
Acting was my after-school activity. I never planned on growing up and becoming an actor. Sara Paxton
growing-up writing loss
She knew the intensity of adolescence, and knew no cure for it except growing up. And then one has age and experience, and mourns the loss of intensity. Maybe it's why musicians and mathmaticians are said to peak young-poetry needs the fire of an unbounded universe. Sara Paretsky
growing-up kids thinking
I think so much of what informs us as performers is what we had to endure as kids growing up. I was the youngest in my family. I always got a lot of attention. Sandra Bernhard
growing-up growing easier
Growing up in the '60s and the '70s, things certainly seemed more simplistic and easier to digest. Sandra Bernhard
growing-up dad years
I knew I wanted to be a performer and do comedy at 5 years old. My dad's wife, Marlene Rosenbaum, was boiling water and she goes, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" I said, "A comedian." And she laughed and laughed because she thought that was the cutest, funniest thing... Sandra Bernhard
growing-up college musical
I did a lot of theater growing up, and in college I was in the musical 'Chicago.' Sarah Shahi
growing-up suits burden
Growing up, I thought wearing a suit was a burden. Vincent Piazza
growing-up children people
There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon. Willa Cather
growing-up people negative
You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed. Will Smith
growing-up matter becoming
We didn't grow up with the sense that where we were was where we were gonna be. We grew up with the sense that where we were almost didn't matter, because we will be becoming something greater. Will Smith
growing-up kids cameras
I've always been the goofy kid. Growing up, I always enjoyed the comedic aspect of relating to women. Even on camera, it was always the funny take on it. Will Smith
growing-up father refrigerators
When I was growing up, I installed refrigerators in supermarkets. My father was an electrical engineer. Will Smith
growing-up people north-dakota
I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody. Warren Christopher
growing-up angel two
Oh, but she never wanted James to grow a day older or Cam either. These two she would have liked to keep for ever just as the way they were, demons of wickedness, angels of delight, never to see them grow up into long-legged monsters. Virginia Woolf
growing-up grows loses
Why must they grow up and lose it all? Virginia Woolf
growing-up order losing
Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others. Virginia Woolf
growing-up book games
My family put a lot of emphasis on homework, so there weren't too many comic books or video games for me, when I was growing up. Wentworth Miller
growing-up animal hands
I don't have a hands-on fondness for animals. I did not grow up bonded to any particular nonhuman animal. I like them and I pet them and I'm kind to them, but there's no special bond between me and other animals Wayne Pacelle
growing-up league feelings
Growing up, watching the Premier League as far back as I can remember, feeling the trophy and having the medal around my neck was an unbelievable feeling. Wayne Rooney
growing-up people parent
My parents gave me the gift of irreligion, of growing up without bothering to ask people what gods they held dear, assuming that in fact, like my parents, they weren't interested in gods, and that this uninterest was 'normal.' You may argue that the gift was a poisoned chalice, but even if so, that's a cup from which I'd happily drink again. Salman Rushdie
growing-up thinking play
When I was growing up, everyone around me was fond of fooling around with words. It was certainly common in my family, but I think it is typical of Bombay, and maybe of India, that there is a sense of play in the way people use language. Salman Rushdie
growing-up kids class
In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to a middle-class kid growing up on the other side of the world. That has always fascinated me. Salman Rushdie
growing-up kids parenting
I grew up with no money. My kids will grow up with a lot of money and so it's really important to me, and it will always be a part of my parenting, to keep them conscientious and connected socially to other people. Ryan Phillippe