Growing Up Quotes - Page 38

• When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Want, Honest, Lawyer

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• And, as my father used to tell me growing up, "Play it beautiful, play it beautiful." He said, "I don't care if you don't hit all of the notes. If you don't move a person's heart, it's not music."

  Christopher Parkening

  Beautiful, Father, Moving

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• Growing up in the shadow of Johnson Space Center and moving to Texas to welcome our last moon mission home, I wanted to be an astronaut. Combined with my love for Navy history and World War II flight ops, and unsatisfying degrees in college and law school, I joined the Navy and became a naval aviator.

  Pete Olson

  War, Moving, Home

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• What a waste of an education Rick Santorum is! ... Let's just pray that none of his home-schooled kids grow up to be an airline pilot, okay? That's all I'm asking. Please dear God, do not let any of these home-schooled kids grow up to be a surgeon, an airline pilot, or a nurse. Or somebody that's in charge of my trans-vaginal mandatory ultrasound. Seriously, no science-y things for them, you know, just religion, let them be all preachers or something.

  Randi Rhodes

  Kids, Home, Ultrasounds

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• I think that's what growing up is all about. It's about taking on new responsibilities and learning what you can handle, and learning what you can't.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Responsibility, Thinking, Handle

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• I have a lot of growing up to do. But I think, 'Hell, is it too late?'

  Ronnie Wood

  Thinking, Too Late, Hell

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• Coming from the South and growing up in L.A. where it was so segregated - worse than the South in many ways - all the people in my neighborhood were from the South. So you had that Southern cultured environment. The church was very important. And there were these folk ways that were there. I was always fascinated by these Southern stories, people would share these mystified experiences of the South. I wanted to talk about folklore.

  Charles Burnett

  People, Southern, Important

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I love my country, and the mental and physical demands of the Navy SEALs was what I had been training for my whole life growing up in Montana. There's a reason Montana produces more SEALs than any other state. As a collegiate athlete, I enjoyed the mental and physical challenges Division I football presented. When a recruiter first told me about the Navy SEALs, I knew it was the right fit.

  Ryan Zinke

  Football, Country, Athlete

  "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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• I wasn't a big science-fiction fan growing up. But I loved Jules Verne and Sherlock Holmes. Both came into play on 'The X-Files.'

  Chris Carter

  Play, Fans, Fiction

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• [I hate] the ways that people want their special needs to be met, whether it's their food allergies or their special lotions or shoes. Or the ways that people want their neighborhoods and restaurants curated in a way that's really tailored to them. Growing up with someone who was living by these very strict, repressive rules for themselves - it made me very allergic to the idea of denial.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Hate, Shoes, Ideas

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

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• I always wanted to be someone in the entertainment industry. In my eighth grade slideshow, when everyone was like "show us what you want to be," everyone [said] doctor, lawyer, [but] mine literally said rapper. I wanted to be a musician, I wanted to be a superstar, I wanted to be on stage, I wanted to perform, I wanted to be in movies. But as you grow up, those dreams kind of fade away.

  Lilly Singh

  Dream, Rapper, Doctors

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I had thought that growing up's consolation was that you could escape from the arbitrariness of things, that somehow one acquired more control. Now you had two numbers until you were ninety-nine. And it wasn't true. Growing up was just more of the same but taller. What happened was all luck. There was no logic.

  Janice Galloway

  Numbers, Ninety Nine, Two

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• One should be able to say to our children: You are a marvel! You are unique. In all the world, there is no other child exactly like you. In the millions of years that have passed, there has never been another child like you! ... and when you grow up, can you harm another who is, like you, a marvel?

  Pablo Casals

  Children, Unique, Years

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• Growing up as a kid, the back of my house faced a little community airport about four or five miles from my house.

  Bo Jackson

  Kids, Airports, House

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• I know how I felt when I saw things like 'Fame' on television when I was growing up and how that was an exceptional magnet for me to want to explore the theater. I can only assume that 'Smash' is doing that for anyone who is halfway interested in theater already.

  Brian d'Arcy James

  Television, Want, Saws

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• A father would do well, as his son grows up, and is capable of it, to talk familiarly with him; nay, ask his advice, and consult with him about those things wherein he has any knowledge or understanding. By this, the father will gain two things, both of great moment. The sooner you treat him as a man, the sooner he will begin to be one; and if you admit him into serious discourses sometimes with you, you will insensibly raise his mind above the usual amusements of youth, and those trifling occupations which it is commonly wasted in.

  John Locke

  Father, Son, Men

  "Some Thoughts Concerning Education" by John Locke, (Sec. 95), 1693.

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• In Baltimore, kids grow up very quickly. You're placed in a lot of situations that a child shouldn't be in and a lot of Baltimore kids lose innocence very soon.

  Sheldon Candis

  Children, Kids, Baltimore

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I didn't grow up on the porch of a cabin looking out over the 90 acres that the mule was plowing with Paw-Paw playing the banjo. But I was always interested in folk music.

  Ketch Secor

  Cabins, Plowing, Acres

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I do think it's important for black writers to show that we too can make it into the mainstream. Growing up, I didn't just watch The Cosby Show, I watched Growing Pains and Family Ties too. We can tell those stories too.

  Lena Waithe

  Pain, Thinking, Ties

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Growing up in Los Angeles, I was incredibly fortunate to be taken to theatre by my parents to see everything at the Music Center, at UCLA and beyond. I just adored it.

  Dori Berinstein

  Taken, Ucla, Parent

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I sometimes read that it's time for German democracy to finally grow up. I don't see it as a sign of maturity if we treat military missions as something normal.

  Guido Westerwelle

  Military, Maturity, Democracy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I loved my family so much when I was growing up, my parents, my sister. I wanted to be able to give them everything they ever dreamed of.

  Andrew Dice Clay

  Giving, Parent, Able

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• For me, it's good fortune to be between two cultures. Growing up in Germany taught me a lot. I am a world citizen. Today I can adapt well no matter where I am. Even when it's not always easy.

  Tarkan

  Two, Germany, Culture

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Most young people seem to be behaving very intelligently: They look at things once in a while, but then they find it so idiotic and uncool that they just look away again. That is, provided they're not growing up in a family in which a drunk father is already watching pornos in the morning.

  Volkmar Sigusch

  Morning, Father, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I loved movies. They inspired me more than anything growing up and wanted to do for others what those movies have done for me. I do a lot of other creative stuff but am not very good at it.

  Jay Duplass

  Creative, Done, Stuff

  "Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass, Creators of 'The Puffy Chair'". Interview with Eugene Hernandez, www.indiewire.com. July 17, 2006.

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