Quotes and Sayings About Growing Up
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Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.
-- Aaron Neville -
I don't want to analyze myself or anything, but I think, in fact I know this to be true, that I enter the world through what I write. I grew up believing, and continue to believe, that I am a screw-up, that growing up with my family and friends, I had nothing to offer in any conversation. But when I started writing, suddenly there was something that I brought to the party that was at a high-enough level.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.
-- Aaron Tveit -
Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.
-- Abbie Cornish -
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Now it is the blood of Jesus which saves, and it is the same blood which cleanses and sanctifies; and as we had to come lo Jesus to be plunged into the fountain, so we have to abide in Jesus by fellowship, to grow up into Christlikeness.
-- Abbott Eliot Kittredge -
My dad was so much fun growing up.
-- Abby ElliottSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don't have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad.
-- Abel KorzeniowskiSource : "Composer Abel Korzeniowski on Sundance, Scores, Career". Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. February 5, 2013.
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Kids grow up awfully fast these days,"she said. "You should try to have a good relationship with your kids, no matter what they do.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
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You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
-- Abraham Polonsky -
You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
-- Adam Gopnik -
The kids that are different and out there and expressive and are bold with those choices, those are the people that grow up to be people we all want to hang out with, that become celebrities or become really successful in what they do because they believe in who they are.
-- Adam Lambert -
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Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
-- Adam Oates -
I'm kind of glad that I was able to properly grow up before becoming a massive movie star.
-- Adam RaynerSource : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
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I was a big fan of Kurt Russell growing up and I always wanted to be the modern day Kurt Russell.
-- Adam Sandler -
I don't know who I touch and who I don't. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don't have any secrets. I don't know the reasons I've been so well received.
-- Adam Sandler -
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This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.
-- Adam Sandler -
No matter your position or place in life, it is imperative to create opportunities for children so that we can grow up to blow you away.
-- Adora Svitak -
Young people are often asked, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' and given advice about how to lead meaningful adult lives, but where's the encouragement to lead meaningful lives right now?
-- Adora Svitak -
I was the kid growing up who would play with G.I. Joes in a pink dress and then run off to play with my Barbies. It doesn't mean that I'm less girly, it just means that I have this other side of me. It's kinda cool to be a little bit of both, I think.
-- Adrianne Palicki -
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My favorite action movie growing up was 'Supergirl.' It wasn't good by any stretch of the imagination, but it was my favorite because I wanted to be her. I have a Supergirl tattoo.
-- Adrianne Palicki -
At a certain point we need to grow up; we need to look inside ourselves for our inner guidance. There are things most human beings know; they just don't want to know them. They know deep down that certain things in their lives are working or aren't working, that certain parts of their lives are functional and others are dysfunctional. But sometimes, as human beings, we don't want to know what's not convenient. So we pretend not to know.
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For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn't grow up being told that I was a disabled child.
-- Aimee Mullins -
No matter where you are or where you grow up, you always go through the same awkward moments of being a teenager and growing up and trying to figure out who you are.
-- Aimee TeegardenSource : "Jackson Rathbone and Aimee Teegarden Interview AIM HIGH". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 17, 2011.
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I was never part of that cliquey girl drama. Most of my friends were guys growing up, so I was never part of that whole toxic energy. It seemed like way too much hassle.
-- Aimee TeegardenSource : "Aimee Teegarden Dishes on Her Teen Years!". www.seventeen.com. November 5, 2010.
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It's easy when you grow up in fear to act out of fear. I don't want to embrace that fear; I prefer to be kind.
-- Akhil Sharma -
We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business. And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
-- Akio Morita -
I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.
-- Al Franken -
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I'd seen 'Interview with A Vampire' and saw Dracula movies growing up, but I never thought, 'I love vampires; I have to do a show about vampires.'
-- Alan Ball -
And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy that really made a tremendous amount of sense. What I liked that was missing from my experience of Christianity growing up was a sort of acceptance, a sort of being OK with being imperfect and not focusing on the sin.
-- Alan Ball