Famous Quotes & Sayings

Conor Oberst

There's a major underlying idea as you grow up that you need to just save your money and get that affordable housing at the edge of town where you're away from the city where all the crime happens or whatever.

Dave Attell

Remember when you're young and you think your dad is Superman? And then you grow up and realized he's just a drunk who wears a cape.

Anna Quindlen

While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that suspects those who read too much, whatever reading too much means, of being lazy, aimless dreamers, people who need to grow up and come outside to where real life is, who think themselves superior in their separateness.

Ray Rice

I want to be someone that kids in my community look up to and want to strive to give back when they grow up.

Rush Limbaugh

Young people never do have a clue. There are some young people that do, but they've always been the exception. They always all grow up at some point. The problem is that they're all being indoctrinated by stupid leftists.

Steve Buscemi

I've always loved comedy and growing up it was the comedies that I really responded to. So I don't know how it turned out that once I started acting that I started getting a certain kind of role, that I never saw myself as growing up, so I really love when I get an opportunity to play a [comedian] role.

Sufjan Stevens

Growing up on the border there, we were always frustrated with people's pronunciations of towns in Michigan, and people mispronouncing Illinois. There are all these Native American words that no one really knows how to pronounce.

Russell Westbrook

Magic Johnson was my favorite player growing up.

Thomas Haden Church

One that always stings is "Grow up." And it stings most when you have the suspicion that it is justified, that you have just done somethingchildish and you got nailed for it. It's probably been said to me a few times.

Victoria Beckham

Sometimes it's frustrating if I'm out with the kids and have to deal with the paparazzi. That comes with it though. But it was fun becoming famous. I mean, I even wanted to one of the kids in FAME when I was growing up.

Stacy Schiff

No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I grow up,'

Todd McFarlane

It works in the comic book, but as the audiences have gotten older and more sophisticated, I think the stories need to grow up with them. This is a story about a couple of rival gangs and what goes wrong in a couple of days.

Steven Bauer

Next? Growing up to be Clint Eastwood, I hope.

Michelle Monaghan

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.

Nina Hagen

When I was growing up in East Germay, everyone said there was no God. So I started looking for it myself.

Neil Diamond

Over the years, you grow up, you mature and you see things in a different way, and it's reflected in the writing.

Theo Epstein

Even idiots can grow up a little bit. It should be a bit more subdued. ... The first celebration should be subdued, and the fourth one should be crazy.

Michael Bergin

I wanted to grow up to be just like my father.

Meg Cabot

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.

Paula Creamer

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 Deen

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.

Martin Scorsese

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.

Marilyn Manson

Everything I was afraid of when I was growing up, I've become. I've taken on my nightmares, like the devil and the end of the world, and I've become those things.

Mary Augusta Ward

So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.

Michael Angarano

Rugrats was my favorite cartoon growing up as a kid.

Jill Clayburgh

I just didn't work that much while the kids were growing up.

Jesse McCartney

I think it is important to grow. Your fans are growing up with you whether you like it or not. You have to keep it fresh and exciting for them. You have to bring something new to the table each time.

James Caan

I lost my passion for work. No, that's a negative statement. I just had a bigger passion for something else, for my son, and growing up with him.

Ezra Koenig

Well, growing up in the '90s, my first true love was ska music.

Erma Bombeck

A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.

Erin Wasson

I don't have a background in design, so I think it's always about what I see in the world and what inspires me. So yes, I am designing for myself. I'm going through this whole evolution, which is a process of growing up and going from modeling to styling to designing.

George Papandreou

Every leader wants to put his or her imprint on the work that they do, and grow up in specific eras.

Jello Biafra

Growing up in a family that listened to almost nothing but classical music had its effects, as well. "California Über Alles," the first Dead Kennedys single, was inspired musically more by Japanese Kabuki than anything else.