Growing Up Quotes - Page 30

• What is it with folks always talking about where they're from? You could grow up in a muddy ditch, but if it's your muddy ditch, then it's gotta be the swellest muddy ditch ever.

  Jennifer L. Holm

  Talking, Folks, Grows

  Jennifer L. Holm (2010). “Turtle in Paradise”, p.12, Random House Books for Young Readers

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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 knew what the Dodgers uniform represented as a kid growing up in Brooklyn.

  Joe Torre

  Kids, Brooklyn, Uniforms

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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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• It was natural to see the struggle for dignity for black people in America as a sister struggle of the Jewish struggle. So growing up, it was always a part of my breakfast cereal to think of myself as someone who was part of a larger struggle.

  Eugene Jarecki

  Struggle, Thinking, Cereal

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

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• I think people talk about one love, but there is the need to love and the need to be loved are not the same thing and I suppose that's... and it's working that out is part of growing up.

  Stephen Fry

  Thinking, People, Needs

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• I do agree to a certain extent that it is unfortunate that I have to be a little more aware of being a kid and growing up and figuring out who I am, but at the same time, it's part of what I love.

  Selena Gomez

  Kids, Who I Am, Littles

  "Q&A: Selena Gomez on turning 21, Bieber, new album". Interview with Mesfin Fekadu, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. July 26, 2013.

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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 don't know so much about my boys, but my girls, they all work with me. They know how to work. My daughters know it's not done till it's done, even if it's three or four in the morning. I don't want them to grow up with entitlement.

  Marie Osmond

  Girl, Daughter, Morning

  "Marie Osmond will never get over son's suicide, cried when daughter said she was gay". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.foxnews.com. April 4, 2013.

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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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• 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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• To a young kid growing up in Canada, America seemed to be crazy about the future; dazzled by it.

  Graydon Carter

  Crazy, Kids, America

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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 Miami, I had all these great, strong influences. You know, being Cuban and the Latin influence, but also the strong hip-hop influence.

  Kat Dahlia

  Strong, Latin, Influence

  "Exclusive Song Premiere And Interview: ‘Fireman,’ Kat Dahlia". Interview with Marcus Holmlund, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 20, 2013.

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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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• I was very introverted growing up and I had small circle of friends. Any opportunity I got to rap or articulate things through rhyme or hip hop was great for me.

  LeCrae

  Rap, Opportunity, Circles

  "A conversation with Christian hip hop artist Lecrae". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.

  Will Smith

  People, Negative, Sides

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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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• Sometimes when I talk to little children I remind them of the fact that when I was growing up myself, I used to play with frog eggs and tadpoles and I used to walk in the field, I used to literally copy whatever my mother was doing on the land. And that may be the reason why I eventually developed the passion for green and for the Earth. So it is extremely important for adults and especially those who are in charge of cities to make sure that we do not lose touch with the land and with the environment. And especially our children.

  Wangari Maathai

  Mother, Children, Passion

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• My idol when I was growing up was Michael Jordan the basketball player because of his work ethic rather than his talent and because of what he went through to be as good as he was.

  Justin Timberlake

  Basketball, Player, Idols

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• When I was growing up, I was as socially outcast as any nerd could possibly be. I was in the chess club, I brought D&D stuff to school, I had every game system you could imagine, I spent countless hours at arcades, computer camp, loud presence in the Latin Club. All that stuff.

  Chris Hardwick

  Latin, School, Games

  Source: www.avclub.com

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