Growing Up Quotes - Page 39

• I am concerned that my children will grow up sheltered from the public. I am concerned that the children get to experience childhood and youth in their time without constant monitoring. It has been very important for both the Crown Prince and myself.

  Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway

  Children, Childhood, Important

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• I have always loved jazz music and as a teen growing up in New York City and then later on as an adult have great memories of the jazz clubs that were all located on 52nd Street. I still catch as many jazz shows as I can when I am in New York. And when I perform, I have my jazz quartet by my side. Jazz musicians keep things spontaneous and very "live," which is the way I like to perform.

  Tony Bennett

  New York, Memories, Cities

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• One of the facets of growing up the way I did, I never had the experience of being solely in the black community. Even my family, my mother is what they call Creole, so she's part French, part black, and grew up in Louisiana. It's a very specific kind of blackness that is different than what is traditionally thought of as the black community and black culture. So, I never felt a part of whatever that was.

  Justin Simien

  Mother, Community, Black

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Sedaris, in his essay in the It Gets Better book, writes that when he was growing up nobody called him gay because you might as well have called him a warlock. Nobody knew what gay was.

  Dan Savage

  Book, Writing, Gay

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I did not grow up in the church. I'm not a church-goer now. I'm a very spiritual person.

  Malcolm D. Lee

  Spiritual, Church, Grows

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• If you grow up in a home where actions don't lead to predictable consequences, you don't develop strategies to control your impulses.

  David Brooks

  Home, Action, Strategy

  "Ask the Author Live: David Brooks on the Composure Class". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. January 7, 2011.

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• We're never going to escape the idea of being young. Which I don't mind myself. I mean, who wants to grow up anyway?

  Niall Horan

  Mean, Ideas, Mind

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• [At nine years old] I didn't really know what that meant at the time. I thought it might be in a warm summer sport like softball, but I played a variety of sports growing up - basketball, soccer and track. I really didn't care. I just wanted to be an Olympian.

  Elana Meyers

  Basketball, Summer, Softball

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Yeah, no one really grows up competing in the bobsled. You have to be 16 years old before you can even drive one. And there are really only two places in the country where you can bobsled - Park City, Utah, and Lake Placid, New York.

  Elana Meyers

  Country, New York, Lakes

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• There's not really much of an opportunity for a girl from Georgia like me or a girl like Aja (Evans) from Chicago to grow up bobsledding. I think it's great that we have such a diverse group.

  Elana Meyers

  Girl, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I'm not trying to snowboard for other people anymore. That just kind of comes with age and growing up. That's helped me a lot. Some of that started right after the last Olympics (in Vancouver).

  Kelly Clark

  People, Age, Trying

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• You’ve got to fight for that connection with God all the time no matter what you're going through in life. I'm growing up. I'm maturing. But I definitely think that the backbone of this is the freedom and creativity I have without the fear of failing. If I fail, what's going to happen? Nothing. I'm not looking for my self-worth in the sport.

  Kelly Clark

  Sports, Creativity, Fighting

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I have six kids - four girls and two boys. I'm amazed that growing up in the same house, same parents with the same exposure to the same things that all my six kids can be so different. I see that as their (being) designed by God.

  Alex Kendrick

  Girl, Kids, Boys

  "'Courageous' filmmaker Alex Kendrick branches out with a new book, a new Erwin Brothers comedy and a new production company". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. July 2013.

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• The second challenge is to make sure that, growing up in this culture, they have a healthy view of life and God and Scripture. So, that's my other challenge. So, finding that balance is certainly no easy task but it can be very fulfilling. So, that's part of what we talk about in this book.

  Alex Kendrick

  Book, Views, Challenges

  "'Courageous' filmmaker Alex Kendrick branches out with a new book, a new Erwin Brothers comedy and a new production company". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• There was on section in First Corinthians 13 that talks about (showing) patience, kindness, politeness, how can I demonstrate forgiveness to my children and more fully enjoy them as they're growing up and vice versa. And so, each of those has a day's journey. There are 40 days that people will go through in applying these biblical principles for their kids. We spell them out in layman's terms so it's really easy to grasp a principle.

  Alex Kendrick

  Children, Kindness, Kids

  "'Courageous' filmmaker Alex Kendrick branches out with a new book, a new Erwin Brothers comedy and a new production company". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. July 2013.

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• As we all know, we're all highly influenced by the atmosphere that our parents create when we're growing up. And, if we do that the right way, that carries on to the next generation.

  Alex Kendrick

  Parent, Atmosphere, Generations

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I just gravitated toward (working behind the scenes by) growing up on the different sets and watching my father and other people in their different capacities...When I was 13 years old, I asked for a Super 8 camera.

  Michael Landon, Jr.

  Father, Years, People

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• There's a lot of negative messaging and it beats on you after a while. And people are growing up with that stuff and they start believing it themselves.

  Kevin Sorbo

  Believe, People, Negative

  "From “Hercules” to “Christmas Angel”: Kevin Sorbo talks about his personal journey and his role in GMC TV’s new yuletide film about the value of human kindness". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Growing up in the sport, I've been able to separate what happens on the track with what happens away from the track. That track is totally different. I'm not the same person when I put that helmet one.

  Trevor Bayne

  Sports, Track, Able

  "A conversation with Daytona 500 winner Trevor Bayne". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Growing up in New Orleans, my mom and dad were churchgoers. I would go to church with them. Also, I was going to a Catholic school so I had a fascination with the Catholic Church mainly because, in my mind, (their services) didn't take as long. I was bouncing in between my mom's Baptist church, which was called Second Zion Baptist, and going to a Catholic Church.

  Avery Johnson

  Mom, Dad, School

  "A conversation with New Jersey Nets head coach Avery Johnson". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. December 2011.

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• Growing up, I didn't have any comic books, at all. But my friend had a trunk full of them, so comic books were like candy for me. I would go over to his house for a sleep-over, and I would just be devouring everything I could get my hands on. I knew the sleep-over was going to be over, and I was going to go back to my house and it was going to be Kipling.

  James Spader

  Book, Sleep, Hands

  Source: collider.com

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• When it became clear that in fact my father was saying, "It will be interesting to see what you want to do when you grow up," I realized that there was no pressure on that front. And I remember huge relief: Hey, I can go and do what I really know I have to do!

  N. T. Wright

  Father, Interesting, Facts

  Interview with Trevin Wax, blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• I love my dad. He used to be a professional wrestler in Mexico. So it was cool growing up with him, because when he hit us, he didn't really hit us.

  Felipe Esparza

  Dad, Mexico, Used

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• Growing up, I was always in the kitchen. Even in third grade, I made cooking videos called 'The Little Italian.' Very little production value, but it was good.

  Bob Ainsworth

  Italian, Cooking, Kitchen

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• I had a very marginal understanding of what faith in God was growing up because, although I went to a Catholic school, without having parents who really were actively involved in faith there was no reinforcement of it. So, as a result of that I guess I just kind of thought that God was somebody that you put in a box and you put Him on a shelf and you called on him when you had crises.

  Patricia Mauceri

  School, Parent, Catholic

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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