Quotes about growing
growing-up latin school
When I was growing up, I was as socially outcast as any nerd could possibly be. I was in the chess club, I brought D&D stuff to school, I had every game system you could imagine, I spent countless hours at arcades, computer camp, loud presence in the Latin Club. All that stuff. Chris Hardwick
growing-up effort nerd
Growing up in the 70s and 80s, it took effort to be a nerd. You had to seek out the nerd stuff.
growing-up memories school
I was very competitive growing up. I can't even play chess anymore because I used to play tournament chess in school. There's too much sense memory of sitting in front of a chess board and getting super intense about it. It's ruined the game for me.
growing-up faults looks
Now I'm growing and I can see my faults. I can look at myself objectively and say I can't blame anyone else; it was my own damn fault. Christopher Atkins
growing-up dad house
My dad is a carpenter, a joiner, and I used to watch him make things. So I always imagined that I'd do something where I made things, too. I was really more interested in architecture growing up because I would work with my dad on houses. Christopher Bailey
growing-up boys views
My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula. J. C. Watts
growing-up fighting house
I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house. J. Cole
growing home pleasant
Home wasn't a pleasant place to live, growing up. David Morse
growing-up kids firsts
In every language, the first word after "Mama!" that every kid learns to say is "Mine!" A system that doesn't allow ownership, that doesn't allow you to say "Mine!" when you grow up, has Frank Zappa
growing-up our-world size
Growing up is difficult. Strangely, even when we have stopped growing physically, we seem to have to keep on growing emotionally, which involves both expansion and shrinkage, as some parts of us develop and others must be allowed to disappear...Rigidity never works; we end up being the wrong size for our world. Jeanette Winterson
growing-up sorry rain
You're growing up. And rain sort of remains on the branches of a tree that will someday rule the Earth. And it's good that there is rain. It clears the month of your sorry rainbow expressions, and it clears the streets of the silent armies... so we can dance. Jim Carroll
growing-up stronger overcoming
I had to grow up fast. I had a lot of obstacles to overcome. It made me a lot stronger, growing up like that. Jevon Kearse
growing-up reality knowing
I can understand the dilemma of growing up in a bubble, and then not knowing what to do when unemployment beckons and reality bursts in. Jessie Cave
growing-up culture benefits
I'm glad I was faced with different cultures when I was growing up because I wasn't fazed by it. It has been a huge benefit to me; I feel comfortable wherever I go. Jessie J
growing-up real goal
Everything I did growing up was with that as the real goal - doing Broadway; doing theatre. That was always the big thrill for me. Jennifer Westfeldt
growing-up kids frustration
Growing up, my sisters and I would always talk stories. One of my frustrations was I didn't know anything about cameras. I didn't know how to make a film and I obviously didn't have a special effects budget. I was a kid. So I was learning to draw to get down the stuff that was in my head, that I couldn't afford to actually do. Jennifer Yuh Nelson
growing watches aging
Growing old is not a thing to watch. It cannot be forgiven in others. Alone, it can be borne. Even indulged. Jennifer Stone
growing-up realizing moments
I have these "pinch me" moments when I realize I got to be the thing I wanted to be growing up. I'm right where I belong. Jennifer Weiner
growing-up focus healthy
Having been born and raised in Washington, D.C., you kind of absorb politics when you grow up. And it continues to be a focus of mine, probably more than what is healthy for me. Jeffrey Wright
growing-up teenager kids
To this day, we get letters at Alternative Tentacles from young teenagers who hide their Dead Kennedys albums behind their mirror or in the mattress of their bed. Wouldn't it be better if the parents just discussed this with the kids instead of creating this culture of sneaking and dishonesty within the family? The moral of the story being, you don't hide reality from your kids because then they grow up to be smarter, more aware adults. Jello Biafra
growing-up california firsts
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.
growing-up memories years
I'm appalled at how many people my age, or even five or ten years younger, have no tangible memories of important history that happened when we were growing up.
growing-up mean healthy
I'm healthy enough to still skate, so I gotta go because growing up I didn't have - I mean, I grew up in Montana so... there was kind of a little half-pipe in my yard, and that was the extent of the skate terrain in Montana. So I've got to go out and make up for lost time. Jeff Ament
growing-up war reading
When I was growing up, there was a man who gave me lessons and things. I'm very dyslexic so he used to give me extra reading and writing. And he always knew that I was interested in stuff but he never told me that he was in the Second World War himself. One day he gave me his helmet that he had worn through the North Africa Campaign. It was just before he died. So I've got his helmet. That was pretty special to me. Jeremy Irvine
growing-up kids thinking
I think right now the way society's going, I think role models are important, and kids need direction. If I didn't have that direction growing up, who knows what I could be doing, because I've been lost many times in my life, and I've had to have someone guide me back on the right path. Jeremy Lin
growing-up games jordan
I was a big Michael Jordan fan growing up. I don't feel my game resembles his though.
growing-up television planes
Growing up where I did, the thought of working on a television show or in a movie... that existed on a parallel plane, you know? Jennifer Garner
growing-up parent way
My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up.
growing-up kids fiction
Yeah I loved, as a kid growing up, I loved science-fiction. Jeff Bridges
growing-up writing intelligent
Intelligent, heartfelt stories that tell a whole new set of truths about growing up American. Julie Orringer writes with virtuosity and depth about the fears, cruelties, and humiliations of childhood, but then does that rarest, and more difficult, thing: writes equally beautifully about the moments of victory and transcendence. George Saunders
growing-up school nerd
Growing up, I was a very shy, wallflower type. I was not a nerd, but not popular. I was just invisible, like that person you probably didn't know you were in school with. Jenna Fischer
growing trends want
It's a growing trend. Viewers are our customers, but so are advertisers. And advertisers want different ways to reach our viewers. Jeff Zucker
growing-up stupidity apes
The great thing about this jungle of ours is that anyone of you could grow up to be Lord of the apes. Gary Larson