Growing up Quotes
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"I joke that I started as a kid revising the encyclopedia by stickering the one my mother bought."
"education was always a passion in my household ... you know, the very traditional approach to knowledge and learning and establishing that as a base for a good life."
"I want to share some insight into why someone would want to be a SEAL. A lot of us faced obstacles growing up. I didn't have any type of real nurturing as a kid. I hope people will relate to my story and go, 'Hey, if this guy can do it, so can I.'"
"As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight."
"Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you're going to have years of failure."
"A huge thing for me growing up was going to see my favorite bands and feeling like, 'Okay, cool, they proved themselves and did things in a special way.' That's the most important thing."
"I read a lot growing up. It was kind of my comfort, you know; I loved it. I love story. I love narrative. I was academic. I wasn't particularly athletic. I didn't make the drill team. I didn't go out for sports."
"Most normal boys, as they're growing up, they - in order to become attractive, they might, you know, get good at sports or join a rock band or develop good social skills, and for some reason, I thought that drawing comic books might be my route."
"Growing up in the '60s and early '70s, with the space flight and the Apollo program, I always loved planes. I always loved rockets and I always loved space travel."
"As a very young man growing up in Texas, usually I got a shotgun or cowboy boots for Christmas."
"Bullying is something every kid in public, parochial, or private school has witnessed by graduation. While unfortunate, it is part of growing up."
"I think that the main thing that you can learn from watching 'The Spectacular Now' is just learning about growing up and moving on."
"My whole life, growing up, I always wanted to be in comedy. I never felt comfortable doing the 'teen hunk' thing."
"I was a typical teen growing up in the 1960s, when everybody was into gurus and meditation."
"I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life."
"I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the detective Dick Tracy. It was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and he really inspired me. I would have loved to be part of that golden age of Hollywood in the 1940s. It made me want to become an actor."
"Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver."
"Just growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it's like no other place."
"I've always been a strong family advocate. I had a wonderful family growing up."
"I'll never, ever be full. I'll always be hungry. Obviously, I'm not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I've never forgotten it, 'Once you've ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you'll never, ever be full.'"
"When I was growing up on our 53-acre dairy farm, we were obsessed with food; it was the center of our lives. We planted it, grew it, harvested it, peeled it, cooked it, served it, consumed it - endlessly, day after day, season after season."
"When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got from our lives the better our lives would get, I thought, because persecution had been such a burden to Jewish families for generations."
"When I was growing up, you didn't know there was a women's national team. Now girls grow up dreaming of playing for Canada."
"Growing up, I had a terrible pudding-bowl haircut. I used to cut it myself, and I'd sew my own clothing, too. I looked a little strange compared to the other kids. But the thing was, I felt I looked amazing, so what other people thought never bothered me."
"My maternal granddad, Leonard, was full of amazing stories. He was an orphan, with 11 or 12 brothers and sisters, and he used to tell us about growing up near the Irrawaddy river and how one brother was eaten by a crocodile."
"I was a huge Muppet fan growing up, but that was the extent of my puppet knowledge. I really loved the art form and the whole Henson universe."
"Growing up, I had an insane crush on Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys."
"Feeling earthquakes was part of growing up, and also preparing for them: doing earthquake drills, or having earthquake supplies. The looming feeling was part of my life. My experience of earthquakes has always been more the fear of them, or the possibility."
"In my experience, growing up in Brooklyn and all that, the real tough guys didn't act tough. They didn't talk tough. They were tough, you know? I think about these politicians who try to pose as tough guys - it makes me laugh."
"The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up."
"I was a huge Beatles fan. We could talk about who I listened to growing up and what my sources were, but certainly the Beatles were a late, important resource for me, and I just took my guitar and a handful of songs, and I decided, well, I'll just go over and travel around Europe and see what comes of it."
"I loved scary movies growing up."
"Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism."
"I never was interested in being part of the fashion world - I just wanted to design shoes. I didn't even know 'Vogue' existed when I was growing up. 'Vogue,' what is that?'"
"I think growing up in a big family taught me a lot of problem solving and how to share and compromise, and that's been helpful in my marriage."
"When I was growing up, I was so fascinated by Mel Blanc and all of the different voices that he did for 'Looney Tunes' and watching Robin Williams record voice-over for the genie in 'Aladdin.' It always seemed to be a major honor - something you have to earn. Like people trust you when they want to have you there without seeing you."
"The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on."
"Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day."
"It's so funny, because when I was growing up in a small town in New Hampshire, I was obsessed with Leonardo DiCaprio - from the 'Growing Pains'/'What's Eating Gilbert Grape' era, because he was superhot - and I carried a laminated photo of him in my wallet and said he was my boyfriend. But no one believed me."
"This is going to sound really sad, but I didn't really have any heartthrobs when I was growing up. I was a bit of a geek."
"Mom and sister played piano growing up; my grandma still plays piano in church. They always beat me over the head trying to get me to play piano, but I was more interested in riding dirt bikes and playing in the mud."
"When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government. They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms."
"Growing up in the Sacramento Valley in the '70s, we were all pretty big into cars. Of course, I had to nerd out and be a fan of Bob Tullius' Group 44 Jaguars instead of Corvettes/Camaros."
"Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays."
"I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal."
"Growing up, I was never the kind of girl to dream about wedding dresses and pretty houses."
"Growing up, I had one very specific idea of what a wedding should be, and that was the wedding of Fraeulein Maria and Captain von Trapp in 'The Sound of Music.'"
"When I was growing up, my dad didn't have weights, so he made himself a weight bench. Instead of a hand-me-down jacket, it was a hand-me-down weight bench."
"My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more."
"Roman history was kind of unavoidable where I was growing up. It was everywhere - all the place names and ruins and forts. My dad's a history buff, and I spent a lot of time on Hadrian's Wall. I became fascinated by the idea of what was so terrifying up there that the Romans built a 60-mile long, 30ft high stone wall to keep it out?"
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