Quotes on Growing up

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.

Author: Sasha Alexander

I think from here on it's up to me to prove that I'm growing up and that I have other things to say, but in terms of the show it definitely gave me all of the opportunities I've had so far.

Author: Shiri Appleby

I was on the set when I was five years old with Spencer Tracy. A lot of what I learned growing up in terms of artistry is very clean, very tidy, very organized.

Author: Robert Blake

Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.

Author: Ed Bradley

Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest of the athletics world. I have always enjoyed going barefoot and when I was growing up I seldom wore shoes, even when I went into town.

Author: Zola Budd

Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.

Author: Carol Burnett

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

Author: Gary Cherone

I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere.

Author: Madonna Ciccone

The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats.

Author: John Cleese

Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.

Author: Claire Danes

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

Author: Chili Davis

Growing up, I was the plain one. I had no style. I was the tough kid with the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.

Author: Cameron Diaz

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Author: Phyllis Diller

As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed.

Author: Erik Estrada

Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes.

Author: Annette Funicello

I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.

Author: Melinda Gates

Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.

Author: Judith Guest

I often heard about his cases and I often sat in on his trials. In the late 1960s when I was growing up I wanted to be a crusader like him but I didn't want to wear a suit and commute.

Author: David Guterson

We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up.

Author: Geri Halliwell

Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times.

Author: Levon Helm

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.

Author: Alice Hoffman

Growing old is not growing up.

Author: Douglas Horton

I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way.

Author: Allen Iverson

Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights - that's every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don't want your kids to hear growing up.

Author: LeBron James

I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.

Author: Bruce Jenner

As a kid growing up in the back streets of Dublin I used to pretend I was playing in the World Cup with my mates out on the streets, and now I will be doing it for real.

Author: Robbie Keane

Growing up Catholic has been a gift.

Author: Moira Kelly

I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the door as soon as I turned 18.

Author: Jessica Lange

You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.

Author: Loretta Lynn

Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me.

Author: Loretta Lynn

I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow.

Author: Magnus Magnusson

Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.

Author: Rudolph Marcus

L.A. Woman is amazing, but when I was growing up I was into the Who.

Author: Bruce McCulloch

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

Author: Peter Medawar

I felt like a dork growing up so this is shocking.

Author: Christina Milian

Charles Barkley, I used to watch him growing up. Then I met him. He was a big teddy bear.

Author: Shannon Miller

Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that.

Author: Liza Minelli

Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star.

Author: Liza Minelli

You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up.

Author: Dylan Moran

Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.

Author: Gale Norton

I've always dreamed of growing up to be Amy Poehler.

Author: Amy Poehler

I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!

Author: Trevor Rabin

I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up.

Author: Dennis Ritchie

When I was growing up there was a product made by Sony called the Sony Walkman - a rage, everyone had to have one. Well, you don't hear about the Walkman anymore.

Author: Kevin Rollins

There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify.

Author: Brandon Routh

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

Author: Winona Ryder

When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't.

Author: Stephen Sondheim

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Author: Casey Stengel

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.

Author: Tom Stoppard

I haven't had a lot of celebrities around me growing up.

Author: Amber Tamblyn

My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up.

Author: Damon Wayans

I was a handful growing up.

Author: Olivia Wilde

Chick Corea was a great influence on me, musically, as I was growing up.

Author: Debra Wilson

Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I'm a kid too and am growing up with them. The things they're interested in tend to really influence me.

Author: Reese Witherspoon