Kids Growing Up Quotes

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

  Chuck Connors

  Growing Up, Believe, Kids

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

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• As a kid growing up, I was so in sync as a fan that that served me well through the years. I can feel the game. And I try to match where the game is with my inflection, with my - the tonal quality, with getting excited.

  Al Michaels

  Growing Up, Kids, Years

  "Al Michaels On Great Sports Moments That He's Witnessed". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. November 24, 2014.

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• When you're a little kid, growing up, most of us know what's right and wrong. Our parents teach us that discipline.

  Robert Knepper

  Growing Up, Kids, Discipline

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• I'd always done a lot of sniffing glue as a kid. I was very interested in glue, and then I went to lager and speed, and I drifted into heroin because as a kid growing up everybody told me, 'don't smoke marijuana, it will kill you'.

  Irvine Welsh

  Weed, Growing Up, Kids

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• As a kid growing up in the back streets of Dublin I used to pretend I was playing in the World Cup with my mates out on the streets, and now I will be doing it for real.

  Robbie Keane

  Growing Up, Real, Kids

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• No young kid growing up dreams of someday becoming a businessman. He wants to be a fireman, a sponsored athlete or a forest ranger The Lee Iacoccas, Donald Trumps, and Jack Welchs of the business world are heroes to no one except other businessmen with similar values.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Dream, Growing Up, Hero

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• Being a kid growing up with Kurosawa films and watching Sergio Leone movies just made me love what it could do to you, and how it could influence you - make you dream.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Dream, Growing Up, Kids

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

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• Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from the sciences to music to writing to literature.

  Michael P. Anderson

  Growing Up, Writing, Kids

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• Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.

  David Blaine

  Mother, Growing Up, Kids

  Interview with Adam Kimmel, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2010.

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• I definitely think that movies have the possibility to be something positive, and are really becoming teaching tools for a lot of kids growing up.

  Larisa Oleynik

  Growing Up, Teaching, Kids

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• As a little kid growing up in Hollywood, I was called 'a little crazy'. And now I guess I'm still that way.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Growing Up, Crazy, Kids

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You remember when you were a kid growing up, and believed in Santa Claus? There's not much difference between Santa Claus and me today, you know. We're two overweight lovable guys that kids really enjoy.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Growing Up, Kids

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• Initially with The Butcher Boy, there was this kid growing up in this strange, weird environment that I remember from when I was a kid. And Patrick's vision was so complete there.

  Neil Jordan

  Growing Up, Kids, Boys

  Interview with Michael Koresky, reverseshot.org. November 10, 2005.

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• Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.

  Ed Bradley

  Growing Up, Kids, Anchors

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• When I was just a kid, growing up in Brooklyn, I was constantly making home videos with my family – real silly high-concept productions like, 'Attack of the Killer Handkerchief.' I guess I knew even then that I wanted to be an actress.

  Lana Parrilla

  Growing Up, Real, Silly

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• As a kid growing up and seeing so much strife taking place in society, and particularly on Blacks and people of color, I had an opportunity as a young man to witness the change that was taking place in Harlem, the exodus of white folks leaving Harlem, which I thought was a very cohesive situation. But they felt that they needed to leave.

  John Carlos

  Growing Up, Kids, Opportunity

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I always challenged men, you know, in foot races or whatever as a kid growing up, because it was a way of pushing myself and challenging myself against the best - but you have to know and accept that men are born with testosterone. You can beat them for so long, but eventually they’ll catch up.

  Katie Uhlaender

  Growing Up, Kids, Men

  "'It’s Hucking Yourself Downhill Super-Fast'". Interview with Ian Gordon, www.motherjones.com. December 30, 2013.

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• If you're a white kid growing up and you see a Black player and he's got the name of your college or your town across his chest, that means something.

  Frank Deford

  Growing Up, Mean, Kids

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail.

  Malik Bendjelloul

  Growing Up, Kids, Jail

  "Malik Bendjelloul's search for a genius". Interview with Hannah Lack, www.dazeddigital.com. September 1, 2013.

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• We were young. We were 23. I was a kid, growing up, that would burn and fry. I didn't understand why. We did all this study and research and learned so much about skin cells and rejuvenation and how the body works and (how) everybody is different. (We) learned what doctors do for treatment of certain things and so I changed my direction and opened up a skin-care company - healthy tanning, skin-care products and rejuvenation and all of that and it took off.

  Drew Waters

  Growing Up, Kids, Doctors

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• For kids growing up now, there's no difference watching 'Avatar' on an iPad or watching YouTube on TV or watching 'Game of Thrones' on their computer. It's all content. It's just story.

  Kevin Spacey

  Growing Up, Kids, Games

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• As a kid growing up in a small town in Washington State, my only exposure to New York City was through movies. The town with its towering skyscrapers, fascinating people and teeming energy absolutely captivated me.

  Robert Osborne

  New York, Growing Up, Kids

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• As a kid growing up in the little city of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, I dreamed of one day playing in the NHL, but never did I expect it to be as much fun as it turned out to be.

  Ron Francis

  Growing Up, Fun, Kids

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• When you're a kid growing up, and you think you're gay, you know that you're different; you're often teased and it can really destroy your self-esteem. But sports can be great for building self-esteem.

  Greg Louganis

  Sports, Growing Up, Self Esteem

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• When I was a kid growing up in the States in the late '70s and early '80s, as soon as 'Dallas' came on on a Friday night on CBS at 9 P.M., we stopped everything from that moment on as a family.

  John Barrowman

  Friday, Growing Up, Kids

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