Growing Up Quotes - Page 17

• Credulity as a character trait is encouraged in every child who grows up with religious training, which invariably insists on the virtue of blind faith and the sinfulness of doubting and questioning.

  Barbara G. Walker

  Religious, Children, Character

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• Growing up in Vermont, no matter what I did, I didnt get much recognition.

  Keegan Bradley

  Vermont, Matter, Recognition

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• At school I'd want to be so small that nobody could see me, and so my work depicts and reflects me - what it felt like to grow up in a world of pain.

  Willard Wigan

  Pain, School, World

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• I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school,it just didnt exist there.

  Finn Wittrock

  Baseball, School, High School

  "American Horror Story's Finn Wittrock on Unbroken and My All American". Interview with Nicole Conlan, www.si.com. December 09, 2014.

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• I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Detroit, Rough, Grows

  Interview with Buzz Aldrin, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 30, 2012.

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• I was always attracted to the type of cinema hero as an adolescent growing up in Ireland. Robert Mitchum springs to mind. Later on, it was Steve McQueen to a certain extent and Charles Bronson. They're these types of grizzled characters who had one foot on the side of law and order and the other foot in the bad guy's camp.

  Liam Neeson

  Spring, Hero, Character

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I enjoy working with writers and their scripts. It's very exciting to me. Eventually I would like to produce, direct and act onstage, but it's not a heavy pressure. When I do it, I want to do it well. I'm just educating myself with writers and scripts, because I didn't read a lot of books when I was growing up.

  Tom Cruise

  Book, Want, Scripts

  "New Again: Tom Cruise And Cameron Crowe". Interview with Jeff Oloizia, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 15, 2011.

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• Indians still consider the whites a brutal people who treat their children like enemies - playthings, too, coddling them like pampered pets or fragile toys, but underneath always like enemies, enemies that must be restrained, bribed, spied upon, and punished. They believe that children so treated will grow up as dependent and immature as pets and toys, and as angry and dangerous as enemies within the family circle, to be appeased and fought.

  Mari Sandoz

  Children, Believe, Circles

  Mari Sandoz (1959). “Hostiles and Friendlies: Selected Short Writings of Mari Sandoz”, p.32, U of Nebraska Press

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• I'm a strong supporter of comfort breeds complacency. Growing up poor I wasn't comfortable, my mom had to work so hard and I woke up one day and decided I was not going to come home until I could help her pay the bills.

  Farrah Gray

  Mom, Strong, Home

  TheCelebrityCafe.com Interview, thecelebritycafe.com. February 23, 2011.

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• We cannot avoid the globalization of knowledge and information. When I was a boy growing up in Kansas, I could never think about a Buddhist, or a Hindu, or Muslim, or even a Protestant - I grew up in such a Catholic ghetto. That's not possible anymore, unless you live in a cave or something. So either we have knowledge of what the other religions and other denominations are saying, and how they tie into the common thread, or we end up just being dangerously ignorant of other people and therefore prejudiced.

  Richard Rohr

  Buddhist, Ghetto, Thinking

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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• Any swagger is just defense. When youre reminded so much of who you are by people - not a fame thing, but with my size, constantly, growing up - you just either curl up in a corner in the dark or you wear it proudly, like armor or something. You can turn it on its head and use it yourself before anybody else gets a chance.

  Peter Dinklage

  Dark, People, Curls

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• You know, my mother's beautiful, my dad was a really handsome man, and there was a lot of talk about looks when I was growing up.

  Courteney Cox

  Beautiful, Mother, Dad

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• I personally always find something really scary about watching little girls learning to manipulate their dads by baby talking. Then they grow up and use the same technique on their boyfriends or husbands. That scares me because it's just so sick on so many levels.

  Megan Fox

  Girl, Baby, Husband

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles.

  Eddie Murphy

  Listening, Groups, Stuff

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• Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day.

  Tracy Morgan

  Careers, Choices, Way

  Tracy Morgan, Anthony Bozza (2009). “I Am the New Black”, p.15, Spiegel & Grau

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• I didn't grow up eating meat - I was a vegetarian until I was 18.

  Daphne Oz

  Meat, Vegetarian, Eating

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• I grew up in Austria, and for me real comfort food is Wiener Schnitzel. Wiener Schnitzel and mashed potatoes because it reminds me of my youth... It reminds me when I grow up and it feels very comforting.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Real, Comforting, Austria

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• I danced growing up. I had two friends of mine that, actually, one of them wound up dancing with Alvin Ailey.

  Lisa Ann Walter

  Two Friends, Dancing, Mines

  "Dance Your Ass Off with Ruben and Lisa Ann Walter!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. September 2, 2009.

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• I had a ton of animals; I had a goat growing up, a bunch of rabbits, a vegetable garden.

  Kelli Williams

  Animal, Garden, Vegetables

  "Actress Kelli Williams". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 12, 2010.

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• Sunday night was such a big night for television when I was growing up - you know, The Wonderful World of Disney.

  Scott Bakula

  Sunday, Night, Television

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• Im Russian Jewish. And I had to grow up really quickly.

  Margarita Levieva

  Grows

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• Im from northern Virginia, but I grew up next to the West Virginia border, so it was hills and farmland. We had that sense of adventure you get from growing up around old farmhouses and lazy, rolling hills, you know?

  Hilarie Burton

  Adventure, Virginia, Lazy

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• I was a big Dave Winfield guy growing up.

  Willie Geist

  Guy, Dave, Bigs

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• I can't say I was much of a gamer growing up or that I am now, but I'm certainly part of that culture or it's part of, you know, the sort of time that I grew up in.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Culture, Gamer, Grew Up

  "Mary Elizabeth Winstead On Set Interview SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. May 25, 2010.

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• A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.

  Bette Midler

  Mother, People, Looks

  "Oprah Talks to Bette Midler". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. January 2001.

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