Growing Up Quotes - Page 20

• You have to rely on your support system. Growing up, I always thought it was a sign of weakness to ask for help, but now I realize it's really a sign of strength to say, 'I need help, I can't do it all.'

  Kerri Walsh

  Support Systems, Weakness, Needs

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• Although I feel very French, a part of my heart is in the States. When my brother and I arrived, we didnt really speak any English, and when we left, thats all we spoke when we played together. It was just a beautiful place to grow up.

  Delphine Arnault

  Beautiful, Brother, Heart

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• I feel like I was hit by all of geek culture at once while I was growing up in the '70s and '80s. Saturday morning cartoons like 'Star Blazers' and 'Robotech.' Live action Japanese shows like 'Ultraman' and 'The Space Giants.'

  Ernest Cline

  Morning, Stars, Space

  "Relive '80s pop culture in 'Ready Player One'". Interview with Christian DuChateau, www.cnn.com. September 29, 2011.

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• I needed to grow up and do things all adults do. It was time to stop having everything spoon fed to me. It was about being independent.

  Paula Creamer

  Independent, Spoons, Adults

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• I realize that I am never going to grow up.

  Martin McDonagh

  Realizing, Grows

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• Gail Anderson-Dargatz has a noticing eye, a voice as unique as the countryside she writes about, and a heart large enough to love her entire cast of distinct and memorable characters. In The Cure for Death by Lightning she fashions an irresistible song out of the joys and dangers of growing up, the mysteries and wonders of life on a farm, the thrilling terror of trying to outrun the awful unseen force that pursues a growing girl. This novel opens a door to a shining, surprising world.

  Jack Hodgins

  Girl, Fashion, Song

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• Barack wants to stop all children from working on the farm... Can you imagine this? I just, I can't fathom that. Did you ever think we’d grow up in America and see something like that? Let me take it one step further. He wants to disallow the 4-H from training children to work on a farm.

  John Raese

  Children, Thinking, America

  "John Raese Alludes To Hitler, Claims Obama Wants To Kill 4-H Youth Programs" by Elise Foley, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 1, 2012.

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• I was the best street fighter in history when I was growing up on the Lower East Side. Hell, I never lost a street fight. Never. I thought I could lick Jack Dempsey or Joe Louis or anybody. I was fantastic.

  Rocky Graziano

  Fighting, East, Sides

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• I think I felt like a regular kid. Growing up in New York, I never felt I was a big deal.

  Katharine Weymouth

  New York, Kids, Thinking

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• Elmcrest CC, in Cedar Rapids, is where it all started when I was growing up. The tree-lined course has a very demanding layout that requires you to be accurate off the tee and avoid a number of well-placed water hazards on some of the holes.

  Zach Johnson

  Numbers, Water, Tree

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• I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul, Motown, jazz, Frank Sinatra, everything.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Rocks, Parent, Soul

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• There is a lot of learning I have to do and a lot of growing up I have to do.

  Bubba Watson

  Growing

  "The Open 2011: Bubba Watson regrets burbling about Parisian landmarks" by Lawrence Donegan, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2011.

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• Growing up, I was prone to anxiety.

  Jane McGonigal

  Anxiety, Growing

  "Super Girl" by Whitney Joiner, www.elle.com. June 22, 2011.

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• As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and my mother's family had fled the czars of Russia before that.

  Eugene Jarecki

  Mother, Father, White

  "Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 9, 2012.

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• I started taekwondo at 5 or 6 years old and did a bunch of kick-boxing later, too. Eventually I became a black belt and coached as well. I did some basketball and softball growing up, but most of my activity was martial arts.

  JWoww

  Basketball, Softball, Art

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• Souderton was a good town to grow up in. Everybody knew each other.

  Jamie Moyer

  Towns, Grows

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• I worry about kids today - because of the sexual revolution, they're going to grow up and never know what "dirty" means.

  Lily Tomlin

  Dirty, Mean, Kids

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• Encourage free schools and resolve that not one dollar appropriated for their support shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian schools. Resolve that neither the state nor nation, nor both combined, shall support institutions of learning other than those sufficient to afford every child growing up in the land of opportunity of a good common school education, unmixed with sectarian, pagan, or atheistical dogmas. Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church and the private school supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Children, School, Opportunity

  Speech to the Society of the Army of Tennessee, archive.org. 1875.

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• I did martial arts and karate for eight years when I was growing up.

  Antony Starr

  Art, Eight, Years

  "A 20-Minute Session with the Badass from Banshee". Interview with Mike Simone, www.mensfitness.com. March 14, 2014.

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• My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience.

  Nicholas A. Christakis

  Thinking, Parent, Way

  "Fifteen Questions with Nicholas A. Christakis". Interview with Stephanie M. Woo, www.thecrimson.com. October 20, 2011.

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• I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language.

  Miguel

  Practice, Language, Speak

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• Growing up in England, people told you why you couldn't do things. Suddenly, I had a publisher banging on my door, and was given the creative green light to simply make.

  Nick Bantock

  Light, Doors, People

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• If you don't connect yourself to your family and to the world in some fashion, through your job or whatever it is you do, you feel like you're disappearing, you feel like you're fading away, you know? I felt like that for a very very long time. Growing up, I felt like that a lot. I was just invisible; an invisible person. I think that feeling, wherever it appears, and I grew up around people who felt that way, it's an enormous source of pain; the struggle to make yourself felt and visible. To have some impact, and to create meaning for yourself, and for the people you come in touch with.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Fashion, Jobs, Pain

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• Growing up in America, I never really appreciated my culture. I knew what being Hispanic was, but I thought that since I didn't look Hispanic, I was white.

  Demi Lovato

  White, America, Culture

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• When I was growing up - say in the fifties - the thirties to me didn't even exist. I couldn't even imagine them in any kind of way, so I don't expect anyone growing up now is gonna even understand what the sixties were all about, anymore than I could the thirties or twenties.

  Bob Dylan

  Twenties, Way, Kind

  Source: www.rightwingbob.com

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