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Growing Up Quotes

Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.

– Judd Nelson

Growing up in college, in high school, I was the focal point.

– James Harden

When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn’t become a registered voter until I moved to Tennessee, to Nashville, as a student.

– John Lewis

Sometimes we’re so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up.

– James Dobson

I always talk with models and they always tell me how awful it was growing up being tall and skinny. Then when you’re older, you’re really glad. I think it’s nice to have been through a terrible time and then all of a sudden be so lucky because then you appreciate it.

– Jerry Hall

Growing up where I did, the thought of working on a television show or in a movie… that existed on a parallel plane, you know?

– Jennifer Garner

When I was growing up, my dad didn’t have weights, so he made himself a weight bench. Instead of a hand-me-down jacket, it was a hand-me-down weight bench.

– Jason Statham

When I was growing up, I always thought my hair was messy.

– Julia Louis-Dreyfus

‘Buffy’ is about growing up. ‘Angel’ is really about already having grown up, dealing with what you’ve done, and redemption.

– Joss Whedon

I would say the country is a different country. It is a better country. The signs I saw when I was growing up are gone and they will not return. In many ways the walls of segregation have been torn down.

– John Lewis

I was very lucky growing up, and I got all my dad’s and aunts’ toys from the 1950s and 1960s and loved those old pedal cars.

– Jasmine Guinness

Growing up, I was prone to anxiety.

– Jane McGonigal

When I was growing up, the place I felt least alone was when I was reading.

– Julianne Moore

I never tire of the heroes that I knew growing up. The fun is not that much different from doing a television show: You’re stuck with a certain set of rules, and then, rather than trying to break them, it’s just trying to peel away and see what’s underneath them. That to me is really fun.

– Joss Whedon

I was a big Michael Jordan fan growing up. I don’t feel my game resembles his though.

– Jeremy Lin

I am a huge hip-hop fan, and growing up, I only listened to hip-hop, so I dressed accordingly.

– Jenny Lewis

The music that I’m known for is quiet and gentle, although when I was growing up and as a teenager, I was playing the opposite – I was screaming and playing bass and those loud electric guitars.

– Jose Gonzalez

I grew up in a semi-attached row house in Queens in New York. And my family and my grandparents and my father’s from Brooklyn, and so you’re essentially an outer boroughs kid, you’re growing up.

– James Gray

Language-wise, my mom and dad’s dialect, they’re pretty obscure. It’s Chinese, but not your traditional Chinese, like Cantonese or Mandarin. It wasn’t something that I got to use very much growing up. We eventually just spoke English around the house.

– James Wan

I didn’t watch a lot of American television growing up. I just liked to read a lot and watch movies – movies, movies, and more movies. My family used to make fun of me because I’d like every movie I saw.

– Joss Whedon

Growing up in Hitchin was comfortable and easy enough. My parents had some great records – and some not-so-great ones – and that’s where I got introduced to Motown and the Stones and Springsteen.

– James Bay

I think that getting responsibility and structure are huge parts of growing up.

– Jim Rash

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

– Joe Torre

When I was growing up, the first thing I wanted to be was a cowboy. That lasted till I was about ten. Then I wanted to be a baseball player. Preferably shortstop for the New York Yankees.

– Jerry Spinelli

My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up.

– Bobby McFerrin

Growing up, you’d see Michael Jordan on everything from Gatorade to shoes – everything. Obviously, that’s something pretty cool for an athlete to aspire to.

– J. J. Watt

I was always a tomboy growing up in Africa.

– Behati Prinsloo

I like health-conscious cooking, but growing up in the South, I do love southern cooking; southern France, southern Italy, southern Spain. I love southern cooking.

– Clarence Clemons

I’ve played a prostitute now three times. I don’t know how it’s come about that way. It’s just a matter of me growing up.

– Brittany Snow

When I was growing up, I wasn’t an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at school. I was very quiet.

– Clint Eastwood

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