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

“I mean, I grew up riding. I can't ever remember not being able to ride or rope and all that stuff. It was part of my life growing up, so it was fun for me.”

Mean I Can Able Remember Fun Stuff Growing Up Growing Grew Grew Up Riding Rope

Author:Tim McGraw

“I think 'growing up' would mean that you are incredibly tolerant and easygoing, liked everything, curious about the world because you weren't so egotistically driven.”

Thinking World Mean Growing Up Growing Driven Curious

Author:Louise Rennison

“I remember specifically my mother telling me growing up don't put my business in the street. I was like seven, and I am like, 'What does that mean.”

Mean Doe Remember Mother Growing Up Growing Streets Seven

Author:Karrine Steffans

“There was a nobility in poverty when I was growing up. My mom was poor but she was planting roses and she was cleaning the steps, you know what I mean. You didn't feel sorry for yourself.”

Knows Feels Mean Poor Steps Poverty Growing Up Growing Mom Rose Sorry My Mom Cleaning Nobility Feel Sorry For You

Author:Ricky Gervais

“What the color is, who the daddy be, who the mama is don’t mean nothin’. We family, carin’ for each other. Family make us strong in times of trouble. We all stick together, help each other out. That the real meanin’ of family. When you grow up, you take that family feelin’ with you.”

Mean Real Helping Together Strong Grows Growing Up Trouble Color Sticks Daddy Mama Helping Each Other Times Of Trouble

Book:The Kitchen House: A Novel

Source: The Kitchen House: A Novel

“When I was growing up, when I was 11 years old I was listening to The Mothers of Invention. You know, I mean I was a Frank Zappa fan in Arkansas.”

Knows Years Mean Mother Growing Up Growing Fans Listening Invention Frank Arkansas Zappa

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“I mean, like a lot of kids growing up in the early seventies, I was fed Dr. Kissinger with my Fruit Loops. He was the Dr. Ruth of American foreign policy, and the model statesman.”

Mean Kids Growing Up Growing Policy Models Fruit Feds Foreign Policy Drs Seventies Statesmen Loops Ruth Kids Growing Up American Foreign Policy Kissinger

Author:Eugene Jarecki

“Equestrian and sailing are sports for people growing up on the mean streets of Connecticut.”

People Mean Funny Sports Growing Up Growing Streets Olympics Sailing Connecticut London Olympics Equestrian Mean Streets

Author:Craig Ferguson

“I was the kid growing up who would play with G.I. Joes in a pink dress and then run off to play with my Barbies. It doesn't mean that I'm less girly, it just means that I have this other side of me. It's kinda cool to be a little bit of both, I think.”

Thinking Mean Littles Play Running Kids Bits Sides Growing Up Growing Little Bit Dresses Girly Barbie Kids Growing Up

Author:Adrianne Palicki

“I pretty much started out writing full time. I was an at-home mom and when my youngest entered kindergarten, I started writing. I was 35, and before that I really hadn't written at all. Which means, I guess, that a) it's never too late to start a writing career (or any career you really want) and b) it's OK to get to your mid-30s and still not know what you want to be when you grow up.”

Knows Want Writing Mean Stills Home Grows Careers Growing Up Written Mom Late What You Want Too Late Kindergarten Never Too Late

Author:Elizabeth Hoyt

“Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male.”

Want Mean Home Father Grows Boys Roles Growing Up Figures Models Males Hardest Role Models Absent Male Role Models

Author:Geoffrey Canada

“I was 23 when I learned how to cook; I grew up around the same time. It was precisely then that Thanksgiving started to mean something more. Growing up, Christmas was always about me, and eventually you, when I finally started to enjoy the giving part. But Thanksgiving is always about us.”

Giving Mean Enjoy Growing Up Growing Grew Grew Up Cooks

Author:Rosecrans Baldwin

“I worry about kids today - because of the sexual revolution, they're going to grow up and never know what "dirty" means.”

Knows Mean Kids Today Grows Worry Growing Up Modern Revolution Dirty Modern Life Sexual Revolution

Author:Lily Tomlin

“What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of therules and no involvement in decision-making. . . . Involving the adolescent in decisions doesn't mean that you are giving up your authority. It means acknowledging that the teenager is growing up and has the right to participate in decisions that affect his or her life.”

Giving Mean Littles Use Causes Decision Growing Up Growing Giving Up Authority Teenager Explanation Decision Making Rebel Arbitrary Involvement Assertion Involving Use Of Power

Author:Laurence Steinberg

“God would not make me wish for something impossible and so, in spite of my littleness, I can aim at being a saint. It is impossible for me to grow bigger, so I put up with myself as I am, with all my countless faults. But I will look for some means of going to heaven by a little way which is very short and very straight, a little way that is quite new[...] It is your arms, Jesus, which are the lift to carry me to heaven, And so there is no need for me to grow up. In fact, just the opposite: I must stay little and become less and less.”

Way Needs Looks Mean Littles I Can Facts Jesus Heaven Wish Grows Growing Up Impossible Arms Opposites Bigger Aim Faults Saint Lifts Spite Going To Heaven

Author:Therese of Lisieux

“I thought if I could understand why apes get mean and horrible and aggressive when they grow up, maybe I could understand why people get mean and horrible and aggressive and have wars.”

People Ifs Mean War Grows Growing Up Horrible If I Could Aggressive Apes

Author:Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

“Being a best-selling author just means the world for me. Some of my happiest memories, growing up, are being at book stores and reading books I couldn't afford, as a kid, and the midnight parties, waiting for the next Harry Potter book. The fact that I have that straw in my cap means more to me than anything I've ever accomplished before.”

World Mean Book Facts Kids Reading Next Waiting Memories Party Growing Up Growing Stores Selling Accomplished Reading Books Harry Potter Midnight Potters Caps Straws

Author:Chris Colfer

“Just because you grow up in the public eye doesn't mean that you're immune to the same sort of issues and feelings that any other woman would go through.”

Mean Feelings Eye Grows Growing Up Issues Immune Public Eye

Author:Amber Tamblyn

“When I was growing up, my favorite player was Reggie Jackson - and I never got the opportunity to get an autograph from Reggie. I was so frustrated. I mean, he was my idol. And I couldn't get no autograph. I would go through punishment waiting on him (after games) because he was always the last guy to come out. And I would go back home with no autograph.”

Mean Home Lasts Guy Opportunity Games Waiting Growing Up Growing Player My Favorite Punishment Idols Frustrated Back Home Autographs

Author:Rickey Henderson

“It's okay to grow up, it's just slowing down that's the scary part. Running out of time. It's okay to grow up, but it doesn't mean you have to become like your parents.”

Mean Running Grows Parent Growing Up Like You Okay Scary Slow Down Slowing Running Out Of Time

Author:Billie Joe Armstrong

“Because when does anybody really grow up? I mean, I feel more grown up now, more in a place of solidity and peace. But I think a lot of people take on these roles as parents, or husband or wife, and immediately think 'That's it. I'm grown up now. Done.'”

People Thinking Feels Mean Doe Done Grows Parent Roles Growing Up Wife Husband Solidity

Author:Priscilla Ahn

“If you're a white kid growing up and you see a Black player and he's got the name of your college or your town across his chest, that means something.”

Ifs Mean Kids Names Black White Growing Up Growing Player College Towns Chests Kids Growing Up Our Town

Author:Frank Deford

“Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.”

People Trying Mean Seems Jobs Realizing Common Growing Up Growing Dollars Common Sense Pretending Music Business Nashville Later In Life Semester Business Family

Author:Caitlin Rose

“I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas, cultures, and systems of thought we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word freedom means than I see much evidence of in America. To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that in Europe we're probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.”

“We're never going to escape the idea of being young. Which I don't mind myself. I mean, who wants to grow up anyway?”

Want Mind Mean Ideas Young Grows Growing Up

Author:Niall Horan

“Women and men grow up with both sexes. Our mothers and fathers mean a lot to us, so it's just a question of finding a balance between their influences. I've found mine. And it tends to be more on the male side. I mean male side the way we understand it in the West.”

Men Way Mean Mother Found Father Sex Grows Sides Growing Up Influence Mines Balance Findings Men And Women West Males Mother And Father

Author:Grace Jones

“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

“Confidence? Are you kidding me? I mean, please. Look, some players grow up and play like that. I remember losing junior matches. Just being down 5-2 in the third, and they all just start slapping shots.”

Looks Mean Play Remember Grows Growing Up Player Please Losing Shots Thirds Just Being Juniors Slapping

Author:Roger Federer

“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 spent two of my checks in telemarketing when I was 18 years old on my first pair of Gucci slippers, and this was before H&M and Zara. You couldn't just find cool stuff growing up, and for me, I care about cool stuff, it means a lot to me and people like me.”

Years Firsts Mean Two Care Stuff Growing Up Growing Checks Pairs I Care Slippers Gucci Cool Stuff Zara

Author:Kanye West

“I'm healthy enough to still skate, so I gotta go because growing up I didn't have - I mean, I grew up in Montana so... there was kind of a little half-pipe in my yard, and that was the extent of the skate terrain in Montana. So I've got to go out and make up for lost time.”

Kind Mean Littles Stills Enough Lost Half Growing Up Growing Grew Healthy Grew Up Yards Pipe Skates Montana Terrain Lost Time

Author:Jeff Ament

“You know, you grow up with the image of John Travolta being super cool - 'Saturday Night Fever,' Brian De Palma, handsome young god... he, in reality, is a very silly man. And I mean that in a good way. He'll walk around the set talking in little weird voices, making people laugh.”

“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

“There's a song called 'The Lights of My Hometown' that goes back to me growing up a regular kid. I mean, I lived in a town that I loved, but was too small for the dreams I was dreaming. You leave thinking the world has a lot more to offer than your hometown, only to realize years down the road that no matter where you grow up, you will never be able to recreate the innocence and feeling of 'home' anywhere else in the world. No matter who you are, or where that little town is, that's something we all have in common.”

Thinking World Years Mean Littles Matter Feelings Home Dream Light Kids Able Song Grows Realizing Common Growing Up Growing Offers Towns Who You Are Innocence Down The Road Hometown Little Towns

Author:Aaron Lines

“Sometimes it's frustrating if I'm out with the kids and have to deal with the paparazzi. That comes with it though. But it was fun becoming famous. I mean, I even wanted to one of the kids in FAME when I was growing up.”

Ifs Mean Sometimes Kids Wanted Fun Deals Growing Up Growing Becoming Fame Frustrating Paparazzi Becoming Famous

Author:Victoria Beckham

“I think age is terribly overrated. You're okay as long as you don't grow up. By all means grow old, but don't mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.”

Thinking Mean Long Age Grows Ability Wonder Growing Up Okay Mature Overrated Childlike

Author:Billy Connolly

“One of the big myths about people growing up is that they are "digital natives;" that just because they've been raised with the Internet - that you're very adept at using the app on your phone - it doesn't mean you have any idea about how the Internet actually works.”

People Mean Ideas Bigs Growing Up Growing Internet Raised Phones Myth Digital Apps Adept

Author:Astra Taylor

“I didn't grow up as a religious person under any sort of system or anything like that, I just felt like I've always been sort of intrigued by that - how it can make people's lives better - I mean, it's a powerful thing. So I was interested in thinking about that kind of stuff.”

People Thinking Kind Mean Persons Grows Felt Stuff Religious Powerful Growing Up Intrigued Religious Person

Author:Panda Bear

“I met him when I was 18. We split up when I was 38. He saw me grow up too. He was a client, and also a friend. Such things are more common than people might think. This arrangement was not so different than many American relationships. That's why the laws against prostitution have got to go. They are totally unfair and mean.”

People Thinking Mean Different Might Law Grows Common Growing Up Saws Mets Splits Clients Unfair Arrangements Prostitution

Author:Annie Sprinkle

“Perhaps this is an area where every generation starts from scratch. Although the crisis of the First World War inaugurated an especially strong period of disillusion with regard to the optimism of the previous age, the pattern has repeated itself in many ways in more recent times, e.g., the loss of faith in politics as a means of advancing human well-being. And perhaps this also has to do with basic elements in growing up.”

“I mean, growing up in New Orleans when you're in seventh and eighth grade and you're into music and you're a dorky dude, you know, you listen to the entire Rush catalog and the entire Zeppelin catalog and you go through these, like, phases of classic rock. It definitely speaks to our dorkiness and the similar hometown that we grew up in, the similar sort of schooling we went through and friends we had.”

Knows Mean Speak Growing Up Growing Rocks Grew Grew Up Classic Grades Phases New Orleans Schooling Hometown Zeppelins Eighth Grade Classic Rock Dorky

Author:Steve Zissis

“I didn't grow up with indie rock - I mean, I listened to bands that are considered indie rock, but I think that term is dead and uninteresting.”

Thinking Mean Grows Term Growing Up Rocks Band Indie Rock

Author:Justin Vernon

“You get to decide how you're going to look and what you're going to be when you grow up and when people learned that my parents actually had an arranged marriage people thought that was the most horrific thing on earth. I mean how could anybody allow their marriage of all things to be prescribed by somebody else?”

People Looks Mean Earth Grows Parent Growing Up All Things Horrific Arranged Marriage

Author:Sheena Iyengar

“I mean can you walk to school on your own? Can you study science? Can you study math? Can you go to a normal school? Do you need to go to a special school? What is going to become of you when you grow up? Are you going to have to live on social security and SSI?”

Needs Mean School Social Grows Walks Growing Up Study Special Security Normal Math Social Security

Author:Sheena Iyengar

“I mean it wasn't that they sat around thinking oh gosh I needed more choices in my grocery stores the way I had come to think about it as an American growing up.”

Thinking Way Mean Choices Growing Up Growing Needed Stores Sat Groceries Grocery Stores

Author:Sheena Iyengar

“It's an ironic thing about being an immigrant kid, growing up - 'cause I grew up in the UK and went to a British boarding school and we would go to chapel every Sunday morning. And we'd actually have religious studies and religious studies means Christian studies where you study the Bible.”

“Everybody grows up with comedy. I mean, Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing.”

Mean Grows Growing Up Comedy Tradition Theater Egyptian Old Traditions

Author:Bassem Youssef

“Success means to wake up, grow up, and show up, living your unique self, giving your unique gifts to the larger evolutionary symphony of life which needs your music.”

Needs Giving Mean Self Shows Grows Growing Up Unique Wake Up Symphony Self Giving Unique Gifts Unique Self

Author:Marc Gafni

“The code that most prisoners live by is an extension of the masculine roles they were taught growing up, how they were conditioned about what it means to be a man: you've got to be strong, you've got to be tough, you've got to be in charge.”

Men Mean Strong Roles Growing Up Growing Taught Tough Code Live By Prisoner Extensions Masculine Be A Man

Author:James Fox

“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.”

Ifs Wells Mean I Can Country Grows Cities Half Class Growing Up Cutting Population Neighborhood Pigs Mice Rats Cousin Rabbits Backyards Camping Guinea Flora Guinea Pigs Flora And Fauna

Author:Sandra Cisneros

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