“One that always stings is "Grow up." And it stings most when you have the suspicion that it is justified, that you have just done somethingchildish and you got nailed for it. It's probably been said to me a few times.” SaidDoneGrowsGrowing UpSuspicionJustified Author:Thomas Haden Church
“When we strive to remove all risk from childhood we also remove the foundations of a rational adulthood, and we eliminate the very experiences that will help kids grow up to be the empowered, creative, brave problem-solvers that they can and must be.” HelpingProblemKidsGrowsCreativeGrowing UpRiskChildhoodFoundationBraveStriveRationalRemoveAdulthoodEmpoweredProblem Solvers Author:Gever Tulley
“So many of my friends have always been women growing up... I always feel slightly more comfortable around women because with guys in general there's always more of a danger zone... it's very aggressive sometimes the way guys act with each other, putting each other down and calling each other names, so I was always too sensitive for that and used to hang out with the girls. And they were always really funny to me.” WayFeelsSometimesUsedGuyGirlNamesGrowing UpGrowingDangerCallingComfortableMy FriendsDown AndSensitiveZoneHanging OutAggressive Author:Paul Feig
“I did grow up in a rough neighborhood in Portland, which is an abstract concept for anybody who's rolled through Portland because now it looks like a TV set, literally.” LooksGrowsGrowing UpTvsConceptsAbstractNeighborhoodRoughPortland Author:Esperanza Spalding
“Growing up in Vancouver, it's not like growing up in Middle America or the middle of Canada. It's a very movie town.” AmericaGrowing UpGrowingMiddleTownsCanadaVancouverMiddle America Author:Evan Goldberg
“I was also a science fiction and fantasy fan, growing up, in games and books and movies. I love Tolkien and I love Dungeons & Dragons, so the opportunity to have a fantasy-based RTS, or real time strategy game, at that time, seemed cool. I started playing it, and the early games were simple, but fun and they had these great heroes.” BookRealOpportunityGamesFunSimpleFictionFantasyGrowing UpGrowingFansHeroStrategyScience FictionDragonsDungeonsBooks And MoviesGreat HeroScience Fiction And Fantasy Author:Duncan Jones
“Since I didn't grow up going to school dances, etc., I didn't have the normal . . . I grew up in a very different way so a lot of the childish concerns or teenage concerns weren't my concerns. My concerns were survival.” WayDifferentSchoolGrowsGrowing UpGrewNormalGrew UpSurvivalConcernDifferent WaysEtcTeenage Author:Rose McGowan
“People link the 80s to that very liberal theme, growing up in a very liberal world, having ideals or not having ideals. The 80s were an confusing era.” PeopleWorldGrowing UpGrowingIdealsErasThemeLinks80sConfusing Author:Sam de Jong
“But Stacie Orrico was my childhood hero. I was about 12 when I found her music. She is a contemporary Christian artist, and I can honestly tell you that I don't think I'd have a soulful voice if I didn't listen to Stacie. I wanted to sound just like her growing up, and to this day I STILL think I sound a little bit like her. But she is AMAZING!” IfsThinkingLittlesStillsI CanWantedChristianArtistFoundBitsSoundVoiceGrowing UpGrowingChildhoodHeroLittle BitHonestlyContemporaryThis DayLike HerSoulfulContemporary Christian Author:Christina Grimmie
“I wanna work harder & let myself bear the wound. even though it hurt a lot but the meaning is I can use this to help me grow up.” I CanHelpingUseGrowsHurtGrowing UpHard WorkBearsHarderWoundsHelp MeIt HurtsWork Harder Author:Seungri
“It's interesting for myself, growing up as an Asian-American filmmaker. Coming into the industry, my parents always said, "No one's going to give you the opportunity. You just have to do the work. Be better than everyone else, so they can't deny it."” GivingSaidOpportunityParentInterestingGrowing UpGrowingIndustryDenyFilmmakerAsianAsian American Author:Daniel Radcliffe
“My parents both renounced their material lives and were living as monks at an ashram in L.A. when they met each other. So we were always raised in this environment and when we moved to the ashram in Florida it was just like, "Oh, wow, now all of a sudden there's more people like us," because we were growing up in the middle of Texas with our parents, always being the weirdos.” PeopleParentGrowing UpEnvironmentGrowingMiddleMaterialsMetsMovedRaisedTexasWowFloridaMonkWeirdo Author:Taraka Larson
“We [with Nimai Larson] listened to hardly any music except Hare Krishna music growing up and the occasional Garth Brooks that our babysitter would play for us. From a very early age, we looked at music as mantra based, very cyclical, and having no linear time.” PlayAgeGrowing UpGrowingOccasionalKrishnaBrooksMantrasLinearHaresBabysitterHare KrishnaLinear Time Author:Taraka Larson
“One day, a pretty, fresh-faced young lady - intelligent and sincerely concerned - asked me if abortion wasn't preferable to making a young, unmarried girl have a baby she didn't want and which would, therefore, grow up unloved and probably turn out to be a criminal. I gave an answer which apparently she hadn't considered. I told her there were literally millions of people in this country who wanted but could not have children and who waited eagerly, sometimes for years, to adopt the baby she had described.” PeopleIfsWantYearsChildrenCountrySometimesWantedYoungTurnsGirlGrowsAnswersMillionsGrowing UpBabyOne DayConcernedIntelligentCriminalsAbortionSincerelyUnlovedUnmarriedYoung Ladies Author:Ronald Reagan
“I'm definitely a perfectionist. I started entertaining so young. I think naturally my personality is that of a perfectionist, and then on top of that, growing up in the industry I became very objective and analytical of myself early on and I find myself doing that in everything. It works good in my work, but sometimes it can be annoying, I imagine, to people in my life.” PeopleThinkingSometimesYoungGrowing UpGrowingImaginePersonalityIndustryObjectivesAnnoyingEntertainingPerfectionist Author:Keke Palmer
“As a kid growing up, the most simple things would make me so, so excited. I remember the first time my dad got a let-out couch; you could sleep in it like a bed and my sister and I just thought that was so magical.” FirstsKidsRememberSleepSimpleGrowing UpGrowingDadBedFirst TimeMy DadExcitedMy SisterCouchesSimple ThingsKids Growing Up Author:Keke Palmer
“I have to go with what comes naturally to me. Fantasy isn't my thing. I did enjoy the Oz books when I was growing up and certainly my grandson and I read Harry Potter together. You write what you can as well as you can.” WritingWellsBookTogetherEnjoyFantasyGrowing UpGrowingHarry PotterPottersGrandson Author:Judy Blume
“Sometimes I'll say, "I wrote that book," and the person will look at you as if you're really strange. One time that happened to my daughter on a plane. She was sitting next to a girl who was reading one of my books and my daughter said, "My mother wrote that book." And the girl started to quiz my daughter, asking her all sorts of questions, like what are the names of Judy's children and where did she grow up. My daughter thought it was so funny.” IfsLooksChildrenPersonsSaidBookSometimesMotherGirlReadingNextNamesGrowsGrowing UpHappenedStrangeDaughterSittingAskingPlanesMy DaughterOne TimeQuiz Author:Judy Blume
“All roads seem to have come back to Doctor Who in our life. But, no, it was a huge part of my growing up. I was a massive fan and it certainly inspired me to get into acting and to be ... one of those people that tells stories on TV. That was a huge part of my childhood.” PeopleStoriesSeemsActingGrowing UpOur LivesGrowingFansChildhoodTvsHugeDoctorsInspiredMassiveDoctor Who Author:David Tennant
“Thurgood Marshall was uniquely able to understand and comprehend what it meant to grow up in the Jim Crow south.” AbleGrowsGrowing UpSouthCrowJim Crow Author:Dahlia Lithwick
“Growing up, I didn't dream of being nothing, of living in the ghetto my whole life. I wanted to get out.” WholeDreamWantedGrowing UpGrowingWhole LifeGhetto Author:Snoop Dogg
“I think the worst atmosphere for a six-year-old is one in which there are no expectations whatsoever. That is, it's worse for the child to grow up in a vacuum where "whatever you do is alright, I'm sure you'll succeed." That is a statement of disinterest. It says, "I really have no fantasies for you at all."” ThinkingYearsChildrenGrowsFantasyGrowing UpWorstSucceedSixExpectationsStatementsAtmosphereVacuumsAlrightSix Year OldsDisinterest Author:James Hillman
“We were in front of a live audience and I would be acting with the man who was playing my lover, and we used those words, and the audience would titter and laugh, and make me uncomfortable doing the scenes. ... I wanted to sort of stop and yell at them, "What's so funny? What's the matter with you people? Grow up!" It made me very self-conscious at times.” PeopleMenMadeSelfMatterWould BeWantedUsedGrowsActingAudienceLaughingGrowing UpFrontsHe ManLoversSceneConsciousUncomfortableSelf ConsciousMy Lover Author:Billy Crystal
“I think growing up it was never an issue for me to think about working out or having a healthy lifestyle because I danced so much. Then when I stopped dancing and I got into regular life mode, I didn't realize how much diet and nutrition and being active was so important. Not only for my physical state, but for my mental state, too. I think that's just as important as working out for your physical state.” ThinkingImportantStatesRealizingGrowing UpIssuesGrowingHealthyDancingWork OutActiveLifestyleDietsNutritionHealthy Lifestyle Author:Julianne Hough
“Over the years, you grow up, you mature and you see things in a different way, and it's reflected in the writing.” WayWritingYearsDifferentGrowsGrowing UpDifferent WaysMature Author:Neil Diamond
“I don't think anyone wants to grow up to be Mindy Lahiri, the same way no one wants to grow up to be Michael Scott.But that's OK.” ThinkingWayWantGrowsGrowing Up Author:Mindy Kaling
“My dream of course, as a writer and a person who's an entertainer, is: Grow up to be Mindy Kaling, don't grow up to be Mindy Lahiri.” PersonsDreamCoursesGrowsGrowing UpEntertainers Author:Mindy Kaling
“Beauty is a complex theme, for sure. We all have a different concept and opinion regarding it, but we all like to look at things that are aesthetically pleasing. I had the typical high school experience, where you question what is beauty, and you're comparing yourself to others, it was just part of growing up.” LooksDifferentSchoolOpinionGrowing UpGrowingHigh SchoolConceptsComplexesCompareThemeTypicalComparing YourselfComparing Yourself To OthersSchool Experience Author:Elle Fanning
“My grandpa was an amateur stand-up comic when I was growing up. ... He'd have me come up onstage with him to deliver a punch line: 'Why is your nose in the middle of your face?' 'Because it's the scenter.'” FacesLinesGrowing UpGrowingMiddleCome UpComicNosesYour FaceGrandpa Author:Rachel Bloom
“I grew up feeling that to be gay was a tragedy. I didn't grow up thinking that it was morally wrong, but I grew up thinking that it would make me marginal, prevent me from having children, and quite possibly prevent me from having a meaningful long relationship. It seemed that this condition would leave me with a vastly reduced life.” ThinkingChildrenLongFeelingsGrowsGrowing UpConditionsGrewGayGrew UpTragedyMeaningfulLeaving MeHaving ChildrenLong Relationship Author:Andrew Solomon
“I did grow up in a household in which I felt that to be myself was to damage the people I loved.” PeopleGrowsFeltGrowing UpDamageHousehold Author:Andrew Solomon
“I know one gay ex-Mormon who is a talented, self-destructive alcoholic. Whenever he is drunk and going on a tear, we are back to the Mormon Church and his being thrown out of the Mormon Church and growing up with this sense of being evil.” KnowsSelfEvilChurchGrowing UpGrowingTearsGayDrunkDestructiveThrownExesAlcoholicsSelf Destructive Author:Andrew Solomon
“Growing up in the South, it was very patriarchal. When I applied to Stanford, I was told by a [male] college counselor, "You're never gonna get in, don't bother. They don't want you." I said, "I'm going to try." And I got in! But I wouldn't be the woman I am if I hadn't had that conflict to overcome. It has given me an underdog feeling all my life.” IfsWantTryingSaidFeelingsGivenGrowing UpGrowingCollegeConflictOvercomingSouthMalesBotherUnderdogCounselorStanford Author:Reese Witherspoon
“Most people grow up thinking everybody wants to come to America because America is the sweet spot of the planet. America is the greatest place in the world - which it is - and everybody wants to be here.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantAmericaGrowsGrowing UpPlanetsSweetSpotsPlaces In The World Author:Rush Limbaugh
“My parents aren't artists or anything, but growing up in Wales, especially in a Welsh language school and community, they have this thing called the Eisteddfod where people compete in singing and acting and dancing and oratory all sorts of things. From a very young age, it's been a part of my upbringing.” PeopleAgeSchoolYoungArtistLanguageParentCommunityActingGrowing UpGrowingSingingDancingYoung AgeUpbringingWalesOratoryWelshSinging And ActingSchools And Community Author:Iwan Rheon
“My foray into the wrestling world is well documented in that I have stated many a time that I am not the kid that grows up and aspires to put wrestling trunks and wrestling boots on and get in the ring and flies around to entertain people.” PeopleWorldWellsKidsGrowsGrowing UpRingsWrestlingBootsAspireTrunks Author:Bill Goldberg
“Growing up with my brothers has helped me a lot in training. I have learned a lot from them. The moves, their advice and all other stuff. I maybe the youngest, but my older brothers helped me a lot in order to achieve what they have achieved.” MovingOrderStuffGrowing UpGrowingAchieveAdviceBrotherTrainingMy BrotherI Have LearnedOlder Brother Author:Tomoki Kameda
“That's always been like a fascination to me - watching my family, three sisters and a brother and all growing up basically in the same situation and each one being so totally different and going on to completely different areas and directions. But for me to go into psychoanalysis really steadily, would be putting too much energy into trying to figure out why I am the way I am... Basically this is how I am and it's alright and I don't want to know why I'm this way.” KnowsWayWantTryingDifferentWould BeThreeEnergySituationGrowing UpToo MuchGrowingFiguresBrotherAreasMy FamilyFascinationPsychoanalysisAlrightThree SistersI Am The Way I Am Author:Jessica Lange
“Growing up, I was obsessed with Michael Jackson. I saw him at Wembley when I was 7 years old, it was my first proper show. He was like a god to me.” YearsFirstsShowsGrowing UpSawsGrowingObsessed Author:Matthew Healy
“I would probably say, 'Don't worry so much about stuff as you grow up.'” GrowsStuffWorryGrowing Up Author:Mark Hoppus
“When I was growing up skateboarding, a bunch of friends and I went to this thrift store and as we were leaving I jumped up and passed gas in my friend's face. I turned around and it wasn't my friend, it was this nice old lady who was just walking out of the store. That was probably one of the more awkward apologies I've had to make in my life.” FacesGrowing UpNiceGrowingWalkingMy FriendsLeavingStoresBunchGasApologyAwkwardOld LadyThriftSkateboardingWalking Out Author:Mark Hoppus
“India went through a dramatic revolution after the '90s when our economy started opening up for the first time and Indians were now experiencing the Western life, if you will. Drugs and sex and a lot of those influences came in as the economy stabilized, and we were growing up and experiencing that. The Indian writing market was very small at that time. Our literature was very attuned to what Western audiences were interested in, so everybody was writing about the slums in India and magic realism or stories about Hindus and Muslims and partition.” IfsWritingFirstsStoriesLiteratureSexAudienceEconomyGrowing UpGrowingMagicInfluenceRevolutionDrugFirst TimeIndiaWesternOpeningIndianDramaticRealismOpening UpSlumsPartitionMagic Realism Author:Karan Bajaj
“The reality that we were growing up in was very young and vibrant, and nobody was capturing that part of India. I started to backpack after getting out of college. I hiked and did a lot of things nobody was capturing in art at all in India, so I wrote my first novel. It was a very, trippy, experience-filled novel, and it ended up doing very well in India because nobody was writing about that at that point.” WritingFirstsWellsArtRealityYoungNovelGrowing UpGrowingCollegeIndiaFilledTrippy Author:Karan Bajaj
“Growing up in Atlanta, it brings a particular swagger about a person. There are three or four places in the country where people think of fashion: One is LA, obviously. Another is New York. And I think Atlanta has to be in the top five cities where fashion is very big.” PeopleThinkingPersonsCountryBigsThreeCitiesGrowing UpFiveFourGrowingFashionNew YorkParticularSwaggerAtlanta Author:Cam Newton
“That's always attractive to me, to work with music whose form is a big question mark. Even many of my favorite bands growing up, when I was just a kid learning to play drums and guitar and everything, were bands like Pink Floyd, where the arrangement, the number of bars in each section is unconventional and often lopsided, and there will be small little instrumental interludes and that sort of thing. So those odd forms, as well as dark content, are the things that I think are continuous through all the type of projects that I've been attracted to.” ThinkingWellsLittlesPlayBigsKidsFormDarkNumbersGrowing UpGrowingTypeBandProjectsMarkGuitarMy FavoriteBarsOddAttractiveArrangementsSectionsBig QuestionsUnconventionalQuestion MarkFavorite Bands Author:Charlie Clouser
“My German heritage, it's through food. Growing up in Switzerland, the thing that I remember the most is the food. And so the way that I experience people and places is through that - through its food and cuisine.” PeopleWayRememberGrowing UpGrowingHeritageCuisineSwitzerland Author:Princess Tatiana of Greece and Denmark
“I've worked over four dozen nine-to-five jobs before taking the chance to chase my dream of wanting to become an actor and filmmaker. Growing up in Brooklyn and Harlem, working at jobs like the bus company were great. I had benefits, a great salary, and security. But it wasn't my dream.” DreamJobsActorsChanceCompanyGrowing UpFiveFourGrowingSecurityBenefitsNineFilmmakerBusDozenSalaryBrooklynHarlem Author:Malcolm Goodwin
“As a kid growing up, this was sometimes a little bit intimidating to have a mom who was always, like, speaking up and always saying something that might be kind of controversial . . . . The thing I think that we got out of that that was really good was, like, we weren't afraid to make waves.” ThinkingKindLittlesSometimesMightKidsBitsGrowing UpGrowingMomLittle BitWaveBe KindControversialIntimidatingKids Growing UpSpeaking Up Author:Susan Wojcicki
“Think about all of the families where the father is a doctor and the son is a doctor or generations of coal miners. Why did they go into that line of work? Because that's what they were taught. Or was it in their genes? It's not an either/or question. It's both. I was inclined in that way. I was sensitive to music and poetry, and it was around me growing up.” ThinkingWayFatherLinesGrowing UpGrowingGenerationsTaughtSonDoctorsSensitiveGenesCoalMinersEither OrCoal Miners Author:Rosanne Cash
“My interests lie in nurturing children. That's part of the reason why the bullying thing has become an aspect of my life. I was bullied a lot growing up. I know firsthand the amount of life that is sucked out of you every time that happens, and how it affected me as a young adult.” KnowsChildrenReasonHappensYoungLyingInterestGrowing UpGrowingAmountAdultsAspectYoung AdultReason WhyAffectedBullyingNurturingBullied Author:Tyler Blackburn