Growing Up Quotes - Page 22

• When it came to music growing up, it wasn't just gospel and R&B. My uncle brought rock 'n' roll to me when I was younger, and I loved it. I was open to all music.

  Aaron Dontez Yates

  Uncles, Rocks, Rock N Roll

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• 99% of my life I was lied to. I just found out my mom does more dope than I do(Damn!). I told her I'd grow up to be a famous rapper, make a record about doing drugs and name it after her (-Oh, thank you!).

  Eminem

  Mom, Dope, Rapper

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• I read Michael Caine's biography. It was about him growing up

  Frank Lampard

  Growing, Biographies

  "Quotes of the year - Part 1: The daftest quotes from players, managers and pundits" by Steve Anglesey, www.mirror.co.uk. December 27, 2008.

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• One must not consider a language as a product dead, and formed but once; it is an animate being, and ever creative. Human thought elaborates itself with the progress of intelligence; and of this thought language is a manifestation. An idiom cannot therefore remain stationary; it walks, it develops, it grows up, it fortifies itself, it becomes old, and it reaches decrepitude.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Creative, Progress, Language

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• Me growing up in the '60s and '70s, there was almost something romantic about drugs, Keith Richards taking drugs and stuff.

  Robert Hilburn

  Drug, Keith, Stuff

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I don't think you can be too ashamed of anything as long as you were being yourself. I think why people feel, um, so entitled over me is that they've watched me grow up. But that's a blessing and a curse.

  Miley Cyrus

  Being Yourself, Blessing, Thinking

  "Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman: the Two Sides of Miley Cyrus". Interview with Tavi Gevinson, www.elle.com. April 30, 2014.

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• Both parents' rights must be in balance so children can grow up with a balance between both parents.

  Warren Farrell

  Children, Rights, Parent

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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• Everyone has to grow up and that's what we're all doing; we're just doing it in different ways.

  Karrine Steffans

  Different, Way, Grows

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I enjoyed acting growing up; I did musical theater. I had a secret desire to be a television and movie actress, but it wasn't something I admitted to myself that I wanted to do, I guess.

  Amanda Schull

  Secret, Musical, Desire

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• I've always been a person afraid of the dark. I was taught that when you have complete darkness, that's when spirits walk. In our house when I was growing up, all the doors were always cracked a little bit at night so you could get light into the room.

  Tony Dorsett

  Dark, Night, Light

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• Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of TV and you grow up on false images of what love truly is.

  Lauryn Hill

  America, Female, Watches

  "New Again: Lauryn Hill". Interview With Genevieve Glass, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 2, 2013.

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• When you grow up in that (multi-ethnic) environment, you see the world differently. Being a mixed-race child, I didn't always see colour in people, I really didn't. It was other people that made me see the colour all the time.

  Halle Berry

  Children, Race, People

  "Halle Berry Is No Stranger to Hard Work". Interview with Steven Rea, www.ocregister.com. April 14, 2007.

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• As a child growing up in the precincts of wealth, and later as a college student, newspaper reporter and resident of New York's Upper East Side, I got used to listening to the talk of financial killings and sexual misalliance that animates the conversation of the rich and the familiars of the rich.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  New York, Children, College

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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• I love this simple maiden, She grows upon me more and more, And--ask the moon who 't was that kissed, Last night upon the shore!

  George Arnold

  Moon, Simple, Night

  George Arnold (1866). “Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems”, p.30

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• [On libraries] What's great about them is that anybody can go into them and find a book and borrow it free of charge and read it. They don't have to steal it from a bookshop... You know when you're young, you're growing up, they're almost sexually exciting places because books are powerhouses of knowledge, and therefore they're kind of slightly dark and dangerous. You see books that kind of make you go 'Oh!'

  Stephen Fry

  Book, Dark, Library

  "Room 101", (1994-).

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• I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment.

  Frank Zappa

  Country, Children, Four

  Appearance on CBS Morning News, September 18, 1985.

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• Sure thou did'st nourish once! and many springs, Many bright mornings, much dew, many showers, Passed o'er thy head; many light hearts and wings, Which now are dead, lodg'd in thy living bowers. And still a new succession sings and flies; Fresh groves grow up, and their green branches shoot Towards the old and still-enduring skies; While the low violet thrives at their root.

  Henry Vaughan

  Morning, Spring, Heart

  Henry Vaughan, “The Timber”

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• That's the terrible thing about growing up. You lose friends. It's inevitable. It's not like it's a surprise. But it is terrible.

  Paul McCartney

  Surprise, Inevitable, Terrible

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• The Canadian kid who wants to grow up to be Prime Minister isn't thinking big, he is setting a limit to his ambitions rather early.

  Mordecai Richler

  Ambition, Kids, Thinking

  Quoted in Time (Canadian ed.), 31 May 1971

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• Growing up, I looked up to real women. I didn't go in for hero worship and I still don't. Everybody has feet of clay.

  Lucy Lawless

  Real, Hero, Feet

  "Visiting Warriors - Xena and Hercules Flex Their Muscles at NATPE". The Times-Picayune, January 14, 1997.

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• As a kid growing up in the 1950s I became acutely aware of the changes taking place in American culture and I must say I didn't much like it. I witnessed the debasement of architecture, and I could see a decline in the quality of things like comic books and toys, things made for kids. Old things seemed to have more life, more substance, more humanity in them.

  Robert Crumb

  Book, Kids, Old Things

  "The R. Crumb Handbook". Book by Robert Crumb and Peter Poplaski, 2005.

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• I have two older sisters and one older brother and hold them largely responsible for the trouble I got into growing up. I believe as the youngest child, that is my right.

  Suzanne Collins

  Brother, Children, Believe

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “The Underland Chronicles #1: Gregor the Overlander”, p.316, Scholastic Inc.

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• Kids arent growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas.

  Kevin Spacey

  Kids, Ideas, Television

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• So my biggest fun has been watching my daughters grow up. Now, unfortunately they're hitting the age where they still love me, but they think I'm completely boring. And so they'll come in, pat me on the head, talk to me for 10 minutes, and then they're gone all weekend. Right? They break my heart! So now I've got to start thinking, Well what's going to replace that fun?

  Barack Obama

  Daughter, Fun, Heart

  Source: www.slate.com

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• We should make it a crime even to attempt to pollute. Our children should grow up next to parks, not poison.

  William J. Clinton

  Children, Poison, Parks

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1415, Best Books on

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