Growing Up Quotes - Page 28

• Wonder Woman was on TV when I was growing up, and I knew Lynda Carter was part Latina. It gave me a great sense of pride.

  Constance Marie

  Pride, Wonder Woman, Tvs

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• I did grow up in New Orleans. I grew up right on the lake, right across the levee.

  Bryan Batt

  Lakes, New Orleans, Grew Up

  "'Mad Men's' Bryan Batt takes your questions". Live chat, live.washingtonpost.com. May 18, 2010.

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• When children do not have three square meals a day, a proper education, and at least one adult who they know loves and is committed to them, its very unlikely they will grow up to be productive citizens of the world.

  Stephanie March

  Children, Squares, Adults

  "‘¿Por qué me Quieres?’ Reflections on the 2010 World of Children Awards" by Stephanie March, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2010.

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• I didnt know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didnt know any arty types.

  Stephen Mangan

  Dad, Actors, Type

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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 don't want my kids growing up believing that there is nothing destructive in the world.

  Chuck Connors

  Believe, Kids, World

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

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• If you grow up where a snow mountain lifts its proud crown on the home horizon, in some strange way it becomes a member of the family.

  Margaret Craven

  Home, Snow, Mountain

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• I wasn't remembering the gift that God had given me. I had totally put all that aside. And my daughter was growing up before my eyes, and I just wanted to grab hold of that. It goes by so fast. I wanted to watch her. I wanted to be that parent - because at that point in time, I was a single parent. Watch her go to school, and when she got home, be there. I wanted that moment.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Daughter, Home, School

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• 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

  Girly, Running, Mean

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• I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.

  Andy Serkis

  Kids, Painter, Wanted

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. January 27, 2003.

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• When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit.

  Martin Scorsese

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Opportunity, America

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• I don't even think places like the National Youth Theatre (NYT) are necessarily about wanting to be an actor when you grow up. They're about meeting people from different backgrounds and different religions and different cultures, and mixing with people that you wouldn't ordinarily meet.

  Ashley Jensen

  Thinking, People, Theatre

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• We cannot forget that we live and have been living for many years in the midst of an empire. We cannot forget that the different provinces of India are gradually coming closer to one another and a new nationality which comprises not only the different provinces but the whole of India is growing up in our midst and we cannot forget that our interests, even our selfish interests, our hopes, our ambitions are indissolubly connected with the interest of the empire.

  Chittaranjan Das

  Selfish, Ambition, Years

  "Collected Works of Deshbandhu" by Manindra Dutta, 1917.

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• Growing up crowds your mind with new thoughts and new feelings so that you forget how you used to think and feel.

  Maureen Daly

  Thinking, Feelings, Mind

  Maureen Daly (2009). “Seventeenth Summer”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

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• Growing up is loving what you can afford to.

  Babs Deal

  Growing, Adulthood

  BABS H. DEAL (1968). “THE WALLS CAME TUMBLING DOWN”

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• Growing up, I thought wearing a suit was a burden.

  Vincent Piazza

  Suits, Burden, Wearing A Suit

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• People know more about baseball players contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our childrens lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, Do you want to bring a child into this world? Thats pretty dire.

  Jackson Browne

  Baseball, Children, Fate

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• I was always in love with Judy Garland, and when I was growing up, I fell in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, of course.

  Tammy Blanchard

  Garlands, Leonardo, Courses

  "DIVA TALK: Chatting with How to Succeed's Tammy Blanchard". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. February 18, 2011.

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• I don't have a background in design, so I think it's always about what I see in the world and what inspires me. So yes, I am designing for myself. I'm going through this whole evolution, which is a process of growing up and going from modeling to styling to designing.

  Erin Wasson

  Thinking, Design, Inspire

  "Supermodel & Designer Erin Wasson on Her Collection, Role in Sofia Coppola’s Next Film & Kissing Justin Timberlake". Interview with Sabine Heller, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2009.

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• Magic Johnson was my favorite player growing up.

  Russell Westbrook

  Player, Magic, My Favorite

  "All Bold Everything: A GQ+A With Russell Westbrook". Interview with Lang Whitaker, www.gq.com. January 18, 2013.

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• People often assume New York City is no place to keep a dog. This is certainly what my parents told me when I was growing up there. But I have found this not to be the case at all.

  Jill Abramson

  Dog, New York, Cities

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• Growing up, I always wanted to be a singer, and Ive done that.

  Sevyn Streeter

  Done, Singers, Wanted

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• I wanted to give five solid years of being there all the time (with Sean). I hadn't seen my first son Julian grow up, and now there's a 17-year-old man on the phone talking about motorbikes. No matter what artistic gains I get, or gold records, if I can't make a success out of my relationship with the people I love, then everything else is bullsh*t.

  John Lennon

  Son, Parenting, Men

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• Ive inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Moving, Loss, Parent

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from May 29, 2011

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• I was very, very sick when I was growing up in Russia. The ambulance constantly came to our house. I had horrible asthma that is easily treated in America, but they didn't even have inhalers back in Russia.

  Gary Shteyngart

  America, Russia, Sick

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