4,004 Quotes About Growing-up

I think the way I approach things has something to do with growing up and seeing my parents go to work every day.

I had to learnto sew when I was growing up, because nothing else fitted me.

When I was growing up, so many of the important changes for African-Americans were being made in the United States Supreme Court and were being made by lawyers. I followed the court very intensely and wanted to do that for my life.

But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey.

People say 'nerd' condescendingly, but when you're older you start to realize that it's the nerds who grow up to be the cool ones.

Growing up in Hollywood, like I did, I have a passion and a love for the movies, so I go to the cinema all the time.

To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so numerous at Laguna Pueblo when I was growing up. I learned to read as soon as I could because I wanted stories without having to depend on adults to tell or read stories to me.

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.

most of us, as we undergo the growing up process, do not get what we want or even what we should. We get what we have, and no more, and we find out how to make what we have work for us.