Best growing-up & born Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I wouldn't be where I am, if not for Jamaica. My formative years were here. I wouldn't have the confidence that I have if I wasn't born here, because growing up here I knew I could become anybody I wanted to become. There was no ceiling on top of me.”

Ifs Years Wanted Born Growing Up Growing Ceilings Jamaica Formative Years

Author:Michael Lee-Chin

“When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.”

Thinking Different Energy Felt Born Destiny Growing Up Growing Minutes Supposed To Be Destination Texas Intangible Intangible Quality

Author:Jamie Foxx

“I don't believe that the American dream should be reserved for those who are born into the elite or somehow have been given an advantage over others. My growing-up experience is probably the most important thing that guides my priorities and my work today.”

Should Believe Has Beens Important Dream Today Given Born Growing Up Growing Advantage Important Things Don't Believe Guides Priorities Elites American Dream Reserved

Author:Ken Salazar

“I was a Liverpool fan simply because my dad followed them. Unfortunately I wasn't born when the team had their golden era, but I enjoyed watching the likes of Michael Owen, Robbie Fowler and Steve McManaman when I was growing up. When Liverpool won the Champions League last year, I went mad. I was shouting so loud I think I woke up the entire village where I live!”

Thinking Years Lasts Born Growing Up Growing Team Fans Dad Mad My Dad Likes Golden Enjoyed Eras Loud League Champion Village Last Year Shouting Liverpool Champions League Liverpool Fans

Author:Theo Walcott

“First, I wanted to be Chris Farley. When I was growing up, Chris Farley was still on the stages and fun to us. In my house, John Belushi was king. I didn't grow up when he was - I was born in '78 - the reruns of Belushi in 'Animal House,' and knowing he was at Second City, he was viewed as a king in my house.”

Firsts Stills Wanted House Fun Grows Born Animal Cities Growing Up Knowing Growing Stage Kings Reruns Second City

Author:Jake M. Johnson

“It would be hard to imagine Heaven without children. It wouldn't be Heaven! It would be a pretty boring place without children. What are we going to do, all get to be old people and then stagnate and that's the end of it? Once all those that are already born grow up, the place would really lack life without new generations of children! If there were no children, it would be a dead society.”

People Ifs Children Ends Hard Would Be Heaven Grows Born Growing Up Imagine Generations Boring Heavenly Old People New Generation

Author:David Berg

“I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else ... I was not a Child Prodigy, because a Child Prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.”

People Knows Children Doe Kids Grows Born Growing Up Habit Prodigies

Author:Will Rogers

“The Lord created you and me for the purpose of becoming Gods like Himself; when we have been proved in our present capacity, and been faithful with all things He puts into our possession. We are created, we are born for the express purpose of growing up from the low estate of manhood, to become Gods like unto our Father in heaven. That is the truth about it, just as it is. The Lord has organized mankind for the express purpose of increasing in that intelligence and truth, which is with God, until he is capable of creating worlds on worlds, and becoming Gods, even the sons of God”

Source: The Essential Brigham Young

“I come from a family who prided themselves, both sides, on memory. And I was told growing up, constantly, that I was born with a really good memory.”

Sides Born Memories Growing Up Growing Both Sides Good Memories

Author:Robbie Robertson

“I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or something there on the beach. I was like a summer baby. But I did grow up in the South. I grew up in serious, serious Appalachia, in a very small town.”

Grows Parent Born Growing Up Serious Baby Grew Summer Grew Up Towns South Beach Vacation Small Town Virginia Carolina Cabins South Carolina Appalachia

Author:William Gibson

“Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family.”

Children Today America House Parent Born Chance Growing Up Growing Couple Married Europe Reverence Units Sweden Unmarried Married Couples

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“. . . if we have children. When they are just born we do everything for them. We are omnipotent, they are completely dependent on us, but then when they grow up you must take back your influence on them, to give them freedom.”

Ifs Giving Children Wisdom Grows Born Growing Up Influence Dependent Omnipotent

Author:Jürgen Moltmann

“Humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies.”

Believe Humans Truth Lying Grows Born Growing Up

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“No matter where we're born, which countries we're raised in, what cultures we come from, there are some universal experiences we all have as children. We all kind of start the same. We want the love of our parents, companionship, friends, we want to have fun, to play, and we're all hurt the first time we learn that the world is far from perfect place - it's the start of a series of epiphanies and realizations that is what growing up is all about.”

“When I was growing up, Forest Park was full of integrated families. It was amazing. One my best friends was Vietnamese. Another one was half-Mexican, half-black. Another one was from Colombia. Another one was born in the U.S., but his mom was from Germany and spoke with a German accent. So we all had multiple identities.”

Black Born Half Growing Up Growing Identity Mom Forests Germany Parks Spokes Multiple Accents My Best Friend Mexican Integrated Colombia Vietnamese Multiple Identities

Author:Dinaw Mengestu

“I am an Asian designer. I was born in Taiwan. That is who I am. But I am a designer, like any designer of any race. Growing up in the '80s in Taiwan, the arts were not considered a career.”

Art Born Race Careers Growing Up Growing Who I Am Designer 80s Asian Taiwan

Author:Jason Wu

“As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and my mother's family had fled the czars of Russia before that.”

Knows Mother Father Parent Born White Growing Up Growing Russia Germany Holocaust Nazi Nazi Germany Czars

Author:Eugene Jarecki

“Acting is a child's prerogative. Children are born to act. Usually, people grow up and out of it. Actors always seem to me to be people who never quite did grow out of it.”

People Children Seems Actors Grows Born Acting Growing Up Never Quit Prerogative

Author:Joanne Woodward

“Having been born and raised in Washington, D.C., you kind of absorb politics when you grow up. And it continues to be a focus of mine, probably more than what is healthy for me.”

Kind Grows Born Growing Up Focus Mines Healthy Raised Born And Raised

Author:Jeffrey Wright

“People don't grow up to become thrill junkies - they're born like that.”

People Grows Born Growing Up Thrill Junkie

Author:George Jung

“I always loved science and math growing up. I was born in Iran; I grew up there and then came to the United States when I was about 16 years old. And I thought that this was my opportunity to get involved with something really cool and great.”

Years States Opportunity Born United United States Growing Up Growing Grew Involved Grew Up Math Iran Get Involved Really Cool

Author:Anousheh Ansari

“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.”

Knows Men Way Long Kids Born Challenges Race Accepting Growing Up Growing Feet Beats Pushing Testosterone Kids Growing Up Challenging Myself

Author:Katie Uhlaender

“I was born in 1958, the same year NASA was established, which I like to think of as not a coincidence. I was 11 when they landed on the moon, Apollo Eleven. And, of course, everybody in the whole world was watching that. But I can tell you, at that time, nobody ever asked a girl, 'Is that something you want to grow up and do?'”

Thinking World Want Years I Can Whole Girl Courses Grows Born Growing Up Moon Whole World Coincidence Apollo Eleven Nasa

Author:Ellen Ochoa

“An AIDS-free generation would mean that virtually no child is born with HIV; that, as those children grow up, their risk of becoming infected is far lower than it is today; and that those who become infected can access treatment to help prevent them from developing AIDS and from passing the virus on to others.”

Mean Children Helping Today Grows Born Growing Up Risk Generations Becoming Aids Access Passing Passings Developing Treatment Viruses Hiv

Author:Anthony S. Fauci

“Growing up, I didn't know about families who were missing a father, because there weren't any in our neighborhood. Today over a third of American children are born into single-parent homes. Is this all men's doing?”

Knows Men Children Home Today Father Parent Born Growing Up Growing Missing Thirds Neighborhood About Family Single Parent Parents Home

Author:Timothy J. Russert

“We humans are born egocentric. The sky thunders and children believe that God is mad at them for something they've done - parents divorce and children believe it's their fault for not being good enough. Growing up means putting aside our egocentricity for truth. Still, some people cling to this childish mind-set. As painful as their self-flagellation may be, they'd rather believe their crises are their fault so they can believe they have control. In doing so they make fools and false gods of themselves.”

Source: Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series

“I do have issues with the fact that music is so accessible nowadays. When I was growing up, we had to find our music; we had to fight for it. But hey, you live in the age that you're born in, and you get on with it.”

Facts Age Fighting Born Growing Up Issues Growing Music Is Hey Hey You

Author:Andrew Loog Oldham

“When were you born, who are your parents, where did you grow up? None of us earns these things. These things were given to us. So when we strip away all of our luck and our privilege, and we consider where we'd be without them, it becomes much easier to see someone who's poor and say, "That could be me." And that's empathy.”

Given Grows Parent Born Poor Growing Up Easier Empathy Luck Privilege

Author:Melinda Gates

“We are born, we grow up, we live our lives as best we can. If we are thoughtful we are good parents and good partners. If we are wise we strive for integrity and intimacy. If we are fortunate we discover love and joy. If we are able, we make the world a little better than we found it.”

Ifs World Love Littles Able Joy Found Grows Parent Born Growing Up Wise Our Lives Integrity Strive Partners Intimacy Fortunate Thoughtful Good Parent

Author:Robert Reich

“Obviously you look at "Magic" (Ervin Johnson) and Michael (Jordan) and you learn from them growing up, but I think you are just born with it from day one.”

Thinking Looks Born Growing Up Growing Magic Johnson Jordan

Author:Michael Redd

“I was born when my dad was 50... It's weird growing up with a dad that much older than you. We'd go to the movies, we're both getting discounts.”

Born Growing Up Growing Dad My Dad Discounts

Author:Gary Gulman

“As soon as I was born, my mom said I was humming 'When the Saints Go Marching In,' or something like that, you know? It's in the family. And in that neighborhood [Treme, in New Orleans], I think everybody in the neighborhood has some type of musical influence, even if they don't play instruments or anything. It's the way they talk to you, the way they say your name - it's all musical.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Said Play Names Born Growing Up Influence Mom Type Instruments Musical Saint My Mom Neighborhood New Orleans Humming Musical Influence

Author:Troy Andrews

“Growing up there are always those kids who are only happy when they are making someone else upset. That is unfortunately just how some people are. And their parents were fine. Some people are just born with bad wiring.”

People Kids Parent Born Growing Up Growing Fine Upset Wiring

Author:Patton Oswalt

“We are all born with an open heart, but at some point as we are growing up, things happen in our lives where we start to shut down, like rejection, not fitting in, wanting approval, judgments, comparisons, and criticism of others.”

Heart Happens Born Growing Up Our Lives Growing Judgment Criticism Things Happen Rejection Comparison Approval Fitting Open Heart Criticism Of Others Not Fitting

Author:Agapi Stassinopoulos

“It's just cheaper to be White in America than it is to be Black, because of educational advances, because of the police incidents, because of the poverty we grow up in as African-Americans. So, it's just cheaper in this country if you're born a Caucasian than being born a Black person.”

Ifs Persons Country America Grows Black Born White Poverty Growing Up Police Educational African American Incidents Cheaper Black Person Caucasian

Author:Warren Ballentine

“My mom's younger sister was born with Down syndrome. I was close to my grandmother when I was growing up. I remember talking to my grandmother about politics, and she told me that she regularly voted for the Democrats because she knew that they were going to look out for people like her daughter. That made an impression on me, too.”

People Looks Made Remember Born Talking Growing Up Growing Mom Daughter Democrat My Mom Impression Grandmother My Grandmother Like Her Syndromes Younger Sister Down Syndrome

Author:Josh Earnest

“I've always said that growing up in postwar Japan, I never felt any connection to my work through those experiences. The work I do really comes from inside myself. For me, being born in Japan was an accident.”

Said Felt Born Growing Up Growing Connections Accidents Japan

Author:Rei Kawakubo

“[My parents] met in university back in the '70s. And I didn't grow up with my father. He - they separated before I was born.”

Father Grows Parent Born Growing Up Mets University

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“My kids are obviously growing up very privileged, but I want them to have a servant's heart. We do community service as a family, and I also call them out on things like getting impatient when they stand in line - because they hardly ever have to. But that's just the reality of what they were born into.”

Want Heart Reality Kids Born Community Lines Growing Up Growing Servant Privileged Impatient Community Service

Author:Kelly Clarkson

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