Growing Up Quotes - Page 31

• If you grow up poor you're always going to worry about money, no matter how successful or lucky you become. I'm not moaning about what actors get paid - I'm very, very lucky - but the difference between what leading actors get paid and supporting actors get is a lot.

  Jason Flemyng

  Successful, Differences, Worry

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I started [performing] so young that it might have just been that I kind of had to grow up and make people understand that I was worth listening to, even though I was a child.

  Margaret Cho

  Children, People, Listening

  "Margaret Cho: No one is more sensitive about p.c. culture than white people". Interview with Paula Young Lee, www.salon.com. October 3, 2015.

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• When someone grows up in poverty they never know that's going to be a benefit to their child.

  Santiago "Jimmy" Mellado

  Leadership, Christian, Children

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• Study hard; and you might grow up to be President. But let's face it: Even then, you'll never make as much money as your dog.

  George H. W. Bush

  Funny, Graduation, Dog

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• As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify nothing in the intellectual life of the race.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Life, Teaching, Science

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• I used to be in love with Sandra Bullock when I was growing up. Sandy B. was my girl. I remember seeing Speed when I was in seventh grade and just thinking, 'That's her.'

  Chris Evans

  Girl, Thinking, Remember

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• As a youngster, I played in Little League, Pony League, and all sorts of amateur baseball programs growing up.

  Jim Evans

  Baseball, Pregnancy, League

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• Everybody knows it hurts to grow up...and we're still fighting it.

  Ben Folds

  Hurt, Fighting, Reality

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.

  Voltaire

  Men, Ideas, Beard

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• I didn't grow up imagining myself as an opera composer. Only once in my entire adolescence did I attend an opera. I went and saw Aida at the old Met, didn't understand a thing about it, and thought it was pretty awful. But I think I had it in my genes without even realising it.

  John Adams

  Thinking, Opera, Awful

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• Remember that your ultimate goal is for your children to grow up secure in your love, strong in their faith, and with sound character.

  Gary Chapman

  Strong, Children, Character

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• The one thing about players today is that they're very sensitive, and very fragile. They didn't grow up with tough coaches.

  Doug Collins

  Player, Today, Tough

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• Our purpose is to grow up and become love

  Thomas Campbell

  Purpose, Grows

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• To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.

  Adam Phillips

  Grows

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• In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance.

  John Strachan

  Sex, School, Ignorance

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• Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.

  Christopher Morley

  Friendship, Fashion, Grows

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• If we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then the boy can grow up and become truly masculine.

  John Eldredge

  Warrior, Boys, Men

  John Eldredge (2002). “Wild at Heart Field Manual: A Personal Guide to Discover the Secret of Your Masculine Soul”, p.134, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• In a house without a genuine kitchen, one of the delights of growing up is lost.

  James Beard

  House, Kitchen, Delight

  James Beard (2015). “The Armchair James Beard”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• I'm pretty happy with who I am. I like myself and what I'm doing. I don't need to be the world's greatest director or the most famous -- or the richest. I don't need to make a whole lot of great films. I can do my job and I can do it pretty well. This is the realization I've come to, later in life. It's called growing up.

  John Carpenter

  Jobs, Later In Life, Who I Am

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

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• If you begin to face your fears, something bittersweet
  is going to happen to you: You'll grow up.

  Martha Beck

  Faces, Bittersweet, Face Your Fears

  Martha Beck (2008). “Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live”, p.181, Harmony

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• When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only white man in this unit full of black men.

  Bruce Beresford

  Men, White Man, Australia

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• I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.

  Kevin James

  Kids, Musical, Instruments

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The stultifying effect of the movies is not that the children see them but that their parents do, as if Hollywood provided a plausible adult recreation to grow up into.

  Paul Goodman

  Movie, Children, Parent

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.76, New York Review of Books

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• Look at pictures of me growing up. It wasn't always the way it is now. It was a bumpy road for me.

  Chris Evans

  Bumpy Roads, Looks, Way

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• I lost my passion for work. No, that's a negative statement. I just had a bigger passion for something else, for my son, and growing up with him.

  James Caan

  Passion, Son, Negative

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