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

“It wasn't until I left that I realised it's not weird to grow up in certain cities and, by the age of 27 or 28, for all of your friends to still be alive. I can think of a lot of kids that I knew in Chicago who were supposed to grow up but didn't.”

Thinking Stills I Can Kids Age Certain Left Grows Cities Growing Up Alive Chicago Realised

Author:Chance the Rapper

“We were the children of white flight, the first generation to grow up in postwar American suburbs. By the time the ’60s rolled around, many of us, the gay ones especially, were eager to make a U-turn and fly back the other way. Whether or not the city was obsolete, we couldn’t imagine our personal futures in any other form. The street and the skyline signified to us what the lawn and the highway signified to our parents: a place to breathe free.”

Way Firsts Children Form Turns Grows Parent White Cities Growing Up Imagine Generations Streets Gay Breathe Flight Highways Obsolete Suburbs Lawns Skylines

Author:Herbert Muschamp

“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.”

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Author:Jake M. Johnson

“It was a great place to grow up. There were always kids around in our neighborhood. We had a basketball hoop in the back of our house, a little front yard where you could get touch football games going. I know you think of it as a big city, but it was fun for me to grow up in New Orleans. I remember it as a very normal childhood.”

“Growing up as a city kid is a joyous time!”

Kids Cities Growing Up Growing Joyous

Author:Theophilus London

“Many believe that Hillary Clinton was channeling President Obama during her recent speech in New York City. She focused on equality, justice, and how hard it was for her growing up as a young black man in Hawaii.”

Men Believe Hard Young Black President Justice Cities Growing Up Growing New York Speech Clinton Focused New York City President Obama Hawaii Channeling

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“When you grow up in a city like Boston, where I grew up, a lot of kids became criminals or cops. I never really had a bad take on cops other than I hate when there's one behind me on the highway.”

Kids Hate Grows Cities Behinds Growing Up Grew Grew Up I Hate Criminals Cop Highways Boston

Author:Donnie Wahlberg

“I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like that you feel everything is perishing, evanescent and going away very quickly.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Firsts Book Ideas Grows Cities Growing Up Growing Suicide Going Away Detroit Perishing

Author:Jeffrey Eugenides

“People often assume New York City is no place to keep a dog. This is certainly what my parents told me when I was growing up there. But I have found this not to be the case at all.”

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Author:Jill Abramson

“As the daughter of immigrants, growing up in New York City, you are either at the table or on the menu.”

Cities Growing Up Growing New York Daughter Tables Immigrants New York City Menus

Author:Grace Meng

“Sometimes when I talk to little children I remind them of the fact that when I was growing up myself, I used to play with frog eggs and tadpoles and I used to walk in the field, I used to literally copy whatever my mother was doing on the land. And that may be the reason why I eventually developed the passion for green and for the Earth. So it is extremely important for adults and especially those who are in charge of cities to make sure that we do not lose touch with the land and with the environment. And especially our children.”

“Today's children are living a childhood of firsts. They are the first daycare generation; the first truly multicultural generation; the first generation to grow up in the electronic bubble, the environment defined by computers and new forms of television; the first post-sexual revolution generation; the first generation for which nature is more abstraction than reality; the first generation to grow up in new kinds of dispersed, deconcentrated cities, not quite urban, rural, or suburban.”

Source: Childhood's Future

“New Yorkers always hate LA! I love both cities! I do love the sunshine and the beach after growing up in rainy England.”

Hate Cities Growing Up Growing England Beach Sunshine New Yorkers Rainy

Author:Louise Roe

“When we were visiting New York City, I took my kids to the same playground where I went growing up. It was fun to feel that connection of having gone there as a kid and being there as a parent.”

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Author:Ben Stiller

“It's not always easy growing up in an inner-city area, but in my music I want to show people that you can turn it into something positive.”

People Want Shows Turns Easy Cities Growing Up Growing Areas Inner City

Author:Tinchy Stryder

“My dream in growing up in the city of Detroit was to be Mayor. At the family picnics from the time I was 9-years-old that's what I told people I was going to be. The mayor of the city of Detroit.”

People Years Dream Cities Growing Up Growing Old People Mayors Detroit Picnics

Author:Kwame Kilpatrick

“I think that what I was talking about was that as a woman growing up in a Mormon tradition in Salt Lake City, Utah, we were taught - and we are still led to believe - that the most important value is obedience. But that obedience in the name of religion or patriotism ultimately takes our souls. So I think it's this larger issue of what is acceptable and what is not; where do we maintain obedience and law and where do we engage in civil disobedience - where we can cross the line physically and metaphorically and say, "No, this is no longer appropriate behavior."”

“When I was growing up in Baltimore, the Colts were not just a team that played in the city. It was part of the city. Football players didn't make close to the money they make today and most took jobs in the off-season. Some were mechanics, others worked at furniture stores, and you could find them drinking at a neighborhood watering hole.”

Today Jobs Cities Growing Up Growing Player Team Football Seasons Drinking Stores Holes Neighborhood Mechanic Furniture Football Player Baltimore Off Season Colts

Author:Barry Levinson

“I was really lucky to grow up in an extremely diverse neighborhood. I grew up in a city called Southfield, and it's one of the most diverse cities in the country. Just from the different socio-economic statuses and racial and ethnic groups I was around, I was around all different types of music from the beginning.”

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Author:Mike Posner

“If you grow up in the suburbs, you hear of people dying of old age, car wrecks, cancer. In the city, it's always people dying of violence or stray bullets.”

People Ifs Age Grows Cities Growing Up Violence Dying Car Cancer Old Age Bullets Wrecks Suburbs People Dying Car Wreck

Author:Suge Knight

“The way I survived growing up in Jersey City was by being funny. It wasn't by being tough. Nobody thought of me as a tough kid, except for the kids I beat up.”

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Author:Michelle Rodriguez

“All I know about 1970s New York City is that it's where I grew up, and you always have an umbilical connection to the time and place of your growing up. It was cheap, didn't have too many people in it, you could go to the movies or whatever on the spur of the moment, you could get by without working too much and especially without involving yourself in the corporate world.”

People Knows World Moments Cities Growing Up Too Much Growing New York Grew Grew Up Connections Corporate New York City Involving Spurs Corporate World Too Much Work Spur Of The Moment

Author:Luc Sante

“I have always loved jazz music and as a teen growing up in New York City and then later on as an adult have great memories of the jazz clubs that were all located on 52nd Street. I still catch as many jazz shows as I can when I am in New York. And when I perform, I have my jazz quartet by my side. Jazz musicians keep things spontaneous and very "live," which is the way I like to perform.”

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Author:Tony Bennett

“Yeah, no one really grows up competing in the bobsled. You have to be 16 years old before you can even drive one. And there are really only two places in the country where you can bobsled - Park City, Utah, and Lake Placid, New York.”

Years Two Country Grows Cities Growing Up New York Yeah Parks Lakes Competing Utah Placid Lake Placid

Author:Elana Meyers

“There's very little you're not exposed to in New York City, in terms of ideas and physical things - sights, sounds, smells, different kinds of people. But one good thing about growing up fast is you get over it fast, too.”

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Author:Olivia Thirlby

“D.C. is a hard city to grow up in. I couldn't find my footing there. Also, I got a late start academically, and I was dyslexic.”

Hard Grows Cities Growing Up Late Dyslexic

Author:Justin Theroux

“One of my pleasantest memories as a kid growing up in New Orleans was how a bunch of us kids, playing, would suddenly hear sounds. It was like a phenomenon, like the Aurora Borealis -- maybe. The sounds of men playing would be so clear, but we wouldn't be sure where they were coming from. So we'd start trotting, start running-- 'It's this way! It's this way!' -- And sometimes, after running for a while, you'd find you'd be nowhere near that music. But that music could come on you any time like that. The city was full of the sounds of music.”

Men Way Sometimes Would Be Running Kids Sound Memories Cities Growing Up Clear Growing Bunch Phenomenon New Orleans Kids Growing Up Sound Of Music Aurora Kids Playing Trotting

Author:Danny Barker

“I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know?”

Knows Mean Inspiration Grows Parent Cities Growing Up Household Humbling Inner City Single Parent

Author:LeBron James

“Petersburg, growing up at home, all by my family and friends, Petersburg really, city-raised me, you know everybody there.”

Knows Home Cities Growing Up Growing My Family Raised Family And Friends

Author:Trey Songz

“I love Chicago. It was an awesome place to grow up. It's a big city but it doesn't feel like one. I can't imagine that if I had kids I would raise them anywhere else besides Chicago.”

Ifs Feels I Can Bigs Kids Grows Cities Growing Up Imagine Raises Chicago Imagine That Big Cities

Author:Chris McCaughan

“When I was growing up, I fetishised New York City. It was the land of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, it was where Leonard Cohen wrote 'Chelsea Hotel', it was CBGBs and all the punk rock clubs. Artists and musicians lived there, and it was cheap and dangerous.”

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Author:Moby

“Growing up in Jersey City was interesting. I got to learn a lot about different cultures: I had Hindu friends, Middle Eastern friends, black friends, Spanish friends.”

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Author:Michelle Rodriguez

“I feel like kids that grew up in New York City or in L.A. were exposed to all these subcultures and subgenres, whereas I was only exposed to the poppiest of pop music so I never had this negative connotation towards pop music. That's not South African music having an effect on me, but just how international music was filtered through South Africa affected me. It gave me a not-negative connotation towards pop music growing up.”

Feels Kids Cities Growing Up Growing Effects New York Grew Grew Up Negative South International Pops Affected New York City Exposed South Africa Pop Music Connotation Subculture African Music

Author:St. Lucia

“[London is] one of the best cities in the world. There is just so much culture there and so much history and so much diversity. It's just a perfect place to grow up. I studied at the Guildhall every Saturday so I'd always be in town every weekend doing that. I was kind of a city boy really.”

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Author:Douglas Booth

“I went to Paterson Public School No. 6. At the time, it was the worst school in the city. Ain't nobody want their kids to go to School 6; it was that bad. But it was where we lived. If you grow up in a bad area, there are bad things around it.”

Ifs Want Kids School Grows Cities Growing Up Worst Areas Bad Things Public School

Author:Fetty Wap

“I never really lived outside of the city growing up, but I'm always looking in between the lines of the city, and I magnetize over to the green spots.”

Lines Cities Growing Up Growing Green Spots Between The Lines

Author:Feist

“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.”

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Author:Cam Newton

“Mice and any rodentia. Guinea pigs. Even rabbits, I can't stand. Rabbits are cousins to rats. It's a class thing. If you had to grow up with rats scampering in your backyard, because the city services were cut in half and the population in your neighborhood doubled, then that also is going to mean that the flora and fauna are going to grow as well. So that's a part of it. That's why I can't go to Hindu countries where they respect rats and mice, and I can't go camping.”

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Author:Sandra Cisneros

“New York City pretty much reeked of music. Reeked of rap and hip-hop. As for me, growing up in a strict West Indian, Trinidadian household, and a Christian household as well, I had to fight for the right to go and actually be a part of it.”

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Author:Phife Dawg

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