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

“I think to be - for me to be an American is - you know, it's one of the greatest things in the world for - you know, for me just because I've been able to grow up with everything. The freedom. You know, in my eyes this is the greatest country in the world.”

Thinking Knows World Country Eye Able Grows Growing Up

Author:Michael Phelps

“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

“The dance world was a big part of my growing up.”

World Bigs Growing Up Growing

Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino

“I guess I'm growing up in the film world.”

World Film Growing Up Growing

Author:Devon Sawa

“Little kids grow up discovering the world that's shown to them and then when you become a teenager, it kind of shrinks a little bit. I think when you get past that point, one of the important things is that you see there is more to the world than yourself.”

Thinking World Kind Littles Important Kids Past Grows Bits Growing Up Little Bit Important Things Teenager Discovering Little Kid Shrinks Discovering The World

Author:Kenneth Lonergan

“I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.”

Ifs World Hard Would Be Kids Wanted School Jobs America Felt Parent Chance Class Careers Growing Up Growing Middle Middle Class Good School

Author:Al Franken

“Everything I was afraid of when I was growing up, I've become. I've taken on my nightmares, like the devil and the end of the world, and I've become those things.”

World Ends Growing Up Taken Growing Devil Nightmare End Of The World

Author:Marilyn Manson

“Growing up during the Cold War period, I always found that, although we always thought that the world would end in some sort of nuclear holocaust, at some point, everybody was pretty hopeful.”

World War Ends Found Growing Up Growing Cold Periods Nuclear Hopeful Holocaust Cold War

Author:George Clooney

“When I was growing up, Nashville was the place to go if you had songs to sell and thought you had talent and wanted to tour and be on Grand Ole Opry [radio show]. It was the big deal back in those days to play the Grand Ole Opry. And you could travel around the world saying, "Hi, I'm Willie from the Grand Ole Opry".”

Ifs World Play Shows Bigs Wanted Song Deals Growing Up Growing Talent Sells Radio Around The World Big Deal Nashville Places To Go Saying Hi

Author:Willie Nelson

“It's a difficult position. Do you endanger your child to fight for the right thing, or do you keep your mouth shut and let your child grow up in a world where their natural rights are stripped away from them?”

World Children Fighting Grows Difficult Natural Growing Up Rights Position Mouths Our Children Your Children Right Thing Natural Rights

Author:Jamie Bell

“Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well, I won't do that.”

People World Years Wells Children Real Remember Grows Forget Growing Up Growing Trouble Grew Up Treats Inferiors

Author:Walt Disney

“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 want MIT to be the dream of every child who wants to grow up to make the world a better place. We need to reach those young explorers and bring them with us on the great adventure of discovery and innovation.”

World Want Needs Children Dream Young Grows Growing Up Adventure Discovery Innovation Better Place Explorers Great Adventure Mit

Author:Susan Hockfield

“Traditionally, I have no right to talk about race. I'm white; I didn't grow up in an all-black neighborhood. But the license I see for myself is I'm a member of the world.”

World Grows Black White Race Growing Up Members Neighborhood License All Black

Author:Sarah Silverman

“When I was growing up, I would try to sing out of key very consciously. I was probably afraid of trying too hard to do something beautiful, and then I just wasn't good enough. But I've learned that I was also on the outside - wanting more challenge by living in that more conventional world.”

World Trying Hard Enough Beautiful Challenges Growing Up Growing Keys I've Learned Good Enough Conventional Something Beautiful Wanting More Trying Too Hard

Author:Jenny Hval

“I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital world, and they speak social.”

World Next Speak Social Growing Up Growing Generations Grew Grew Up Digital Next Generation Speak English Digital World

Author:Angela Ahrendts

“When you grow up in that (multi-ethnic) environment, you see the world differently. Being a mixed-race child, I didn't always see colour in people, I really didn't. It was other people that made me see the colour all the time.”

People World Children Made Grows Race Growing Up Environment Colour Mixed Race

Author:Halle Berry

“Being in the hearing world was more of a challenge than being in the Deaf world, because I had to learn how to write and communicate in a way that I hadn't experienced growing up.”

World Way Writing Challenges Growing Up Growing Communicate Hearing Deaf

Author:Jack Jason

“Growing up closes so many doors. The modern world doesn't allow for miracles, so we don't see them. It's a very precious gift, an open mind, but it's not passive. You've got to nurture it like a bed of roses; otherwise it will wither and die. Make sure you don't close off your mind to things you find strange. Sometimes they may be the only truth.”

World Mind May Sometimes Dies Growing Up Growing Doors Modern Strange Bed Miracle Rose Passive Nurture Modern World Open Mind Precious Gifts Bed Of Roses

Author:Tim Lebbon

“I never envisioned myself playing for the U.S. Olympic team -- growing up, I never envisioned playing in the NBA, to be real with you. I never envisioned that type of stuff. So this is like a dream that I never had come true. It's like I'm a part of what's really going on. It's still very hard for me to believe that I am really going to be a part of the biggest thing in the whole entire world.”

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Author:Carmelo Anthony

“The "cumulative effects" of unbridled commercialism, however difficult to assess, constitute one key to the impact of growing up in the core of the world's marketing system. Minimally, it suggests unpreparedness for, and lack of interest in, the world that exists outside the shopping mall.”

World Difficult Interest Growing Up Growing Effects Keys Impact Marketing Core Shopping Malls Cumulative Commercialism

Author:Herbert Schiller

“The world is a violent child none of us will get to see grow up.”

World Children Grows Growing Up Violent

Book:Zazen

Source: Zazen

“I believe that the world will be a safer place if there is enough food to go around, that it will be a more stable place if children grow up with opportunities instead of frustrations. Furthermore, I can only assume that if the United States plays a role in helping to create prosperous societies, we will have friends to call on in times of need.”

Ifs World Needs Believe Children I Can States Enough Play Helping Opportunity I Believe Grows United Poverty Roles United States Growing Up Assuming Frustration Stable Prosperous Time Of Need

Author:Bill Gates

“Hip hop - it's an art form but it's a culture as well. You grow up in the culture and you never leave it. It's a style of dress; it's a way of thought. I always grew up in the culture, and it was part of who I was and I carried it into every world I was in.”

World Way Wells Art Form Culture Grows Growing Up Style Grew Grew Up Dresses Hip Hop Hips Hops

Author:LeCrae

“I love being Canadian. I think growing up in Canada gives you a world perspective that I certainly enjoy.”

Thinking World Life Giving Enjoy Growing Up Growing Perspective Canada

Author:Ryan Gosling

“When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.”

“today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.”

World Firsts Children War Today Grows Growing Up Generations Nuclear War

Book:A Way of Seeing

Source: A Way of Seeing

“Eating cookies that you bake with your grandmother is one of the greatest social steps one must experience in order to grow up into a decent world citizen, in my opinion.”

World Order Social Grows Steps Opinion Growing Up Citizens Eating Decent Grandmother Grandparent Cookies World Citizen Your Grandmother

Book:Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm

Source: Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm

“this is the spirit of the enchantment under which Venice lies, pearly and roseate, like the Sleeping Beauty, changeless throughout the centuries, arrested, while the concrete forest of the modern world grows up around her.”

World Spirit Lying Grows Sleep Growing Up Modern Century Forests Concrete Modern World Arrested Venice Enchantment Sleeping Beauty

Book:Venice observed

Source: Venice observed

“We grow up as natural optimists as Americans. Catholic priests were so hopeful as we watched the Vatican II experience. Yet, it's a punch in the belly to see what has happened in the church and the world. Dualistic thinking seems to have taken over the church and our politics to a really neurotic degree.”

Thinking World Seems Grows Natural Church Growing Up Taken Happened Degrees Catholic Hopeful Priests Optimist Belly Neurotic Vatican Ii

Author:Richard Rohr

“Growing up my whole life, my mom was telling me how incredible and special I was and that I was going to change the world. I think it's important for girls to know that they can change the world, that they do have an impact.”

Thinking Knows World Important Whole Girl Growing Up Growing Special Mom Impact Incredibles My Mom Whole Life Changing The World

Author:Ashley Greene

“We marry to grow up, to escape our parents and to inherit our share of the world, not knowing who we are and who we will become, so it is left to marriage to make it clear which ones of us are growing in the same directions and which are ships meant to have passed in the night.”

World Night Left Grows Parent Marriage Growing Up Knowing Clear Growing Share Ships Who We Are Not Knowing

Book:Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others

Source: Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others

“Martina Navratilova is not a 'girl,' nor is Debi Thomas or Katarina Witt, and the women skaters weren't 'cute' in 1988. The problem with describing women as girls is that they never grow up and therefore can't take positions of authority in the world of sport. But the good news is that you can change language, so ultimately you can change the picture of women in sports.”

World Problem Girl Language Grows Sports Growing Up Position Authority News Cute Good News Describing Skater

Author:Anita DeFrantz

“Thus, at long last, as a visible emblem of unity was daily growing in the new Palace of Justice then being erected in the Strand, half way between the historic site of Westminster the historic centre of the commercial capital of the world, there began to grow up, in the minds of reformers, the vision of a great and united Supreme Court of Justice, with uniform principles, uniform law, and uniform procedure.”

“At school I'd want to be so small that nobody could see me, and so my work depicts and reflects me - what it felt like to grow up in a world of pain.”

World Want School Pain Grows Felt Growing Up

Author:Willard Wigan

“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.”

“As a child growing up, you never thought about being in a videogame, then to have a game of your own and be lucky enough to set the bar with it in the gaming world, it's a dream come true.”

World Children Enough Dream Games Growing Up Growing Lucky Bars Dreams Come True Gaming Children Growing Up Videogame Growing Children

Author:Tiger Woods

“My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any beauty regimen into my world.”

World Looks Mother Grows Lines Growing Up Emphasis

Author:Rachel McAdams

“Buffys very similar to me to me when I was growing up. A child in an adult world, sort of trapped between the two. Does Buffy go to the prom or does she save the world from demons?”

World Children Doe Two Growing Up Growing Adults Demon Trapped Save The World Prom

Author:Sarah Michelle Gellar

“Sunday night was such a big night for television when I was growing up - you know, The Wonderful World of Disney.”

Knows World Bigs Night Growing Up Growing Wonderful Television Sunday Wonderful World Sunday Night

Author:Scott Bakula

“I can safely say that I had an incredibly difficult and trying past growing up and trying to be an artist and standing up as who I am in this world.”

World Trying I Can Past Artist Difficult Growing Up Growing This World Standing Who I Am

Author:Matt Bomer

“The days of television as we knew it growing up are over. You have a bigger, wider world audience on the Internet, larger than any American television series. People don't watch television in the same context as before. Nowadays they watch their television on the Internet at their convenience. That's the whole wave, and it's now - not the future.”

People World Whole Watches Audience Growing Up Growing Television Internet Bigger Series Wave Over You Convenience American Television

Author:Criss Angel

“When children do not have three square meals a day, a proper education, and at least one adult who they know loves and is committed to them, its very unlikely they will grow up to be productive citizens of the world.”

Knows World Children Three Grows Growing Up Citizens Adults Committed Meals Productive Squares Unlikely

Author:Stephanie March

“I don't want my kids growing up believing that there is nothing destructive in the world.”

World Want Believe Kids Growing Up Growing Destructive Kids Growing Up

Author:Chuck Connors

“People know more about baseball players contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our childrens lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, Do you want to bring a child into this world? Thats pretty dire.”

People Thinking Knows World Want Years Children Whole Used Growing Up Fate Growing Player Policy This World Baseball Twenties Our Children Contracts Baseball Player

Author:Jackson Browne

“I don't have a background in design, so I think it's always about what I see in the world and what inspires me. So yes, I am designing for myself. I'm going through this whole evolution, which is a process of growing up and going from modeling to styling to designing.”

Thinking World Whole Process Growing Up Growing Design Inspire Evolution Backgrounds Modeling

Author:Erin Wasson

“I grew up in a really rural town, Stratford, Ontario, with 30,000 people. There's a big festival thrown in the town. A lot of people travel from all over the world to see it, and growing up, I actually used to busk on the street. I'd play my guitar, sing, and people would throw money in the case.”

People World Play Bigs Used Cases Growing Up Growing Streets Grew Grew Up Towns Guitar Thrown Festivals Ontario

Author:Justin Bieber

“I started reading Dickens when I was about 12, and I particularly liked all of the orphan books. I always liked books about young people who are left on their own with the world, and the four children's books I've written feature that very thing: children that are abandoned by their families or running away from their families or ignored by their families and having to grow up quicker than they should, like David Copperfield - having to be the hero of their own story.”

People World Should Children Book Stories Running Young Reading Left Grows Growing Up Four Written Hero Our Children Features Abandoned Running Away Ignored Orphan Children's Books Dickens

Author:John Boyne

“Gail Anderson-Dargatz has a noticing eye, a voice as unique as the countryside she writes about, and a heart large enough to love her entire cast of distinct and memorable characters. In The Cure for Death by Lightning she fashions an irresistible song out of the joys and dangers of growing up, the mysteries and wonders of life on a farm, the thrilling terror of trying to outrun the awful unseen force that pursues a growing girl. This novel opens a door to a shining, surprising world.”

“It's the continuation of everyone's childhood to see these young children who grow up full of life, full of intelligence, full of a sense of wonder. And within an instant they're gone from this world. It's terrible.”

World Children Young Grows Wonder Gone Growing Up Childhood This World Terrible Instant Young Children Continuation Sense Of Wonder

Author:Lucien Bouchard

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