All Quotes

Growing up poor, I didn't even have a lunch to take to school. Lunch was 26 cents, and we didn't even know what 26 cents looked like. I didn't love school because I wanted to disguise that I was poorer than everybody else.
‐‐ George Foreman

Growing up, sports was my outlet, my way to portray a personality. I was very shy around people but, through sports, something I was good at, I was able to make friends.
‐‐ Curtis Joseph

Growing up sucks, doesn't it? I understand why people wouldn't want to get old - but it'd be one thing if we became a culture obsessed with eating right, doing yoga, going to therapy and becoming at one with ourselves. That be great. But we don't do that. We seem to be obsessed with all the wrong ways to stay young.
‐‐ Jason Reitman

Growing up, the dream was to be on Broadway. I always loved theater.
‐‐ Lauren Worsham

Growing up, the news agents round my way in Kilburn all had 'Time Out' on their shopfronts. The logo is a London icon.
‐‐ Bradley Wiggins

Growing up the son of a director has made me very aware of the various turns that a directing career can take. Sometimes your films turn out exactly as you want. Sometimes they don't. I spent a lot of my childhood on sets. I think as a joke, my father gave me a line of dialogue in each of his films during the worst moments of my puberty.
‐‐ Jason Reitman

Growing up the way I grew up, food was scarce. So when you had an opportunity to eat, you ate. When I graduated from high school and went to college, I weighed 160 pounds. So, I knew I had to put on the weight. I ate everything from fried food to fried chicken wings. When I came to Green Bay, I did the same thing because I was 172 pounds.
‐‐ Donald Driver

Growing up, the way that I looked was very important to me. I was always trying to impress people, and when I grew my beard there was a certain freedom, a separation, getting past this the way I looked, identify myself as a spiritual seeker.
‐‐ Matisyahu

Growing up, there are always those kids who are only happy when they are making someone else upset. That is unfortunately just how some people are. And their parents were fine. Some people are just born with bad wiring.
‐‐ Patton Oswalt

Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which played pop songs, or the pirate radio boats off the coast.
‐‐ Michael Caine

Growing up, there wasn't much emphasis on being nice or naughty. As a family, there wasn't much discipline. It was more relaxed at home, which I'm grateful for.
‐‐ Isla Fisher

Growing up training, I use to get up so early I would wave to the garbage men going by. So, I had this relationship with Blue Collar America and I really liked it. I felt that lots of those people looked forward to me winning.
‐‐ Gerry Cooney

Growing up under the heavy hand of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, it was drummed into me that attending weekly mass was not an option. It was a must to avoid eternal damnation, which was not a prospect filled with many positives. Hell fire was perpetual, and no parole would be offered.
‐‐ Bill O'Reilly

Growing up, we didn't have any money - we shopped where you picked your shoes out of a bin. When I was little, I said, 'When I grow up, I'm going to have nice shoes.'
‐‐ Sherri Shepherd

Growing up, we didn't have anything. My mum wasn't well, so I was in three care homes then foster homes before me and my little brother went back to her. I was passed from pillar to post.
‐‐ Rebecca Ferguson

Growing up, we had 30, 40, 50 people coming through the house some Thanksgivings. Sometimes there was a kids' table; other times, the plate was just sitting on your lap. You get in where you fit in at that house.
‐‐ Michael Strahan

Growing up, we had folk records.
‐‐ Alison Krauss

Growing up, we used to watch a lot of 'Indiana Jones' and 'Star Wars' and wear hand-me-down jeans and jumpers. I wasn't really one for dresses.
‐‐ Kimberley Nixon

Growing up, when I was at live shows, I was always hoping someone would come out on stage and say, 'The guitarist is sick and couldn't make it... does anybody know how to play all the songs?' That was always my little dream. It was a massively inspiring thing to be in a space with live shows.
‐‐ James Bay

Growing up, when we would get dragged to these events, I didn't want to be there. Over time, as we got older, I developed a real appreciation of the importance of being involved in the democratic process.
‐‐ Julian Castro

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 with a name that rhymes with turkey - and jerky - was no great fun. But, as an adult, I tell you, being globally unique in the age of Google can be extremely helpful.
‐‐ Clay Shirky

Growing up with Bronx Irish parents during an era of protests against the status quo, I was especially committed to doing the opposite of what I was told to do. Forty-four years later, I am left with only one means of making a living: comedy.
‐‐ Greg Fitzsimmons

Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer.
‐‐ Lionel Richie

Growing up with Jennifer Lopez and Salma Hayek - people who were always trying to do something else - I wanted to follow in their footsteps. They gave people a different perspective of how women were supposed to look like and be.
‐‐ Paula Garces

Growing up with my brothers all boxing has stood me in good stead for nights like these. You should have seen some the fights we used to have in our front room.
‐‐ Liam Smith

Growing up with my family gave me some of my best memories. I'd like to have a family of my own - slip away for a bit and do nothing but spend those early years with my children.
‐‐ Katherine Jenkins

Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and it also embedded a deep need in me to always stick up for women.
‐‐ Christina Aguilera

Growing up with three boys in a heavily male-dominated world, I especially needed to express myself as a woman.
‐‐ Elisabeth Shue

Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family... what my mother called 'The Liar.'
‐‐ James Rollins

Growing up with three older brothers and being the youngest and the only girl, my mom always made me tough. She's taught me over the years how to be a strong, independent woman, how to carry yourself in a positive way and anything that my brothers can do, I can do.
‐‐ Diana Lopez

Growing up with two sisters, you either play by yourself or play Barbie with them. I played by myself.
‐‐ Ricky Williams

Growing up, yeah, I had a magic kit with learn tricks and learn card tricks, but I was never... I used to watch whatever magic special was on as a kid, but then, it's not that I lost interest, but to be a magician, you really, it's really hard work. Learning lines is hard enough; learning sleight of hand, that's real practice.
‐‐ Steve Buscemi

Growing up, you always want to hang with your dad - go fishing or whatever. But my dad was always working, so we never really had time for that. I think I kind of learned to accept it.
‐‐ Victor Oladipo

Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
‐‐ Sam Worthington

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
‐‐ Black Elk

Grown men do not need leaders.
‐‐ Edward Abbey

Grown-up clothes are more appealing because customers need to be able to project themselves into them.
‐‐ Natalie Massenet

Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
‐‐ Al Franken

Grown-up politicians talk to each other across party lines. Over the last few weeks I have had lengthy conversations with Ed Miliband, David Miliband, with Tony Blair, with Peter Mandelson... talking about Europe, talking about political reform.
‐‐ Nick Clegg

Grown-ups and children are not readily encouraged to unearth the power of words. Adults are repeatedly assured a picture is worth a thousand of them, while the playground response to almost any verbal taunt is 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.' I don't beg so much as command to differ.
‐‐ Inga Muscio

Grown-ups are afraid for children. It's not children who are afraid.
‐‐ Maurice Sendak

Grown-ups do a lot of complaining!
‐‐ Dav Pilkey

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
‐‐ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Grownups, as a rule, should always be ready to pay for their own meals - or else ready to graciously accept their date's insistence on paying. The point is, one doesn't sit there batting one's eyelashes, fully expecting someone else to claim the bill.
‐‐ Lynn Coady

Grownups have a tendency to talk themselves out of things, saying it will never work, but kids are fabulously optimistic.
‐‐ Catherine Ryan Hyde

Grownups have to say 'please,' too.
‐‐ Tommy Lasorda

Growth and comfort do not coexist.
‐‐ Ginni Rometty

Growth and profit are a product of how people work together.
‐‐ Ricardo Semler