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

“Growing up with three older brothers and being the youngest and the only girl, my mom always made me tough. She's taught me over the years how to be a strong, independent woman, how to carry yourself in a positive way and anything that my brothers can do, I can do.”

“You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.”

People Shows Feelings Lying Girl Grows Attitude Growing Up Nice Tough Alternatives Shy Lied Realised Unloved Boyish Nice Feeling

Author:Maj Sjowall

“When I was growing up in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, I sold doughnuts, popcorn and Kool Aid every day after school so that my family had some money and I could pay my school fees. It was a tough life.”

School Pay Growing Up Growing Tough My Family Aids Fees Popcorn Doughnut After School Tough Life Kool Aid

Author:George Weah

“Sweet is the rose, but grows upon a brere; Sweet is the juniper, but sharp his bough; Sweet is the eglantine, but stiketh nere; Sweet is the firbloome, but its braunches rough; Sweet is the cypress, but its rynd is tough; Sweet is the nut, but bitter is his pill; Sweet is the broome-flowre, but yet sowre enough; And sweet is moly, but his root is ill.”

Enough Grows Growing Up Sweet Tough Roots Rose Ill Bitter Rough Nuts Pills Cypresses

Author:Edmund Spenser

“Its tough growing up where I grew up. My family is very small and really tight. Just being around the neighborhood, my brothers were always around. I didnt want to be in any trouble because I knew my mom or brothers would find out. I didnt want to hurt their feelings. I just tried to do everything right.”

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Author:Derrick Rose

“It was the world of Southern, rural, black growing up, of folks sitting on porches day and night, of folks calling your mama, 'cause you walked by and didn't speak, and of the switch waiting when you got home so that you could be taught some manners. It was a world of single black older women schoolteachers, dedicated, tough; they had taught your mama, her sisters, and her friends. They knew your people in ways that you never would and shared their insight, keeping us in touch with generations. It was a world where we had a history.”

“Growing up in New York is like living in a horror museum because there are so many strange people walking the streets and riding the subways. You learn to develop a tough front if you live here, just in case you get into any kind of trouble and you need to talk your way out of it.”

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Author:Christopher Walken

“The one thing about players today is that they're very sensitive, and very fragile. They didn't grow up with tough coaches.”

Today Grows Growing Up Player One Thing Tough Coaches Sensitive Fragile

Author:Doug Collins

“My mother's people, the people who captured my imagination when I was growing up, were of the Deep South - emotional, changeable, touched with charisma and given to histrionic flourishes. They were courageous under tension and unexpectedly tough beneath their wild eccentricities, for they had and unusually close working agreement with God. They also had an unusually high quota of bullshit.”

People Mother Given Imagination Growing Up Growing Emotional Tough South Tension Touched Agreement Courageous Bullshit My Imagination Captured Charisma Eccentricity Quota Histrionic

Author:Willie Morris

“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.”

Way Kids Cities Growing Up Growing Beats Tough Survived Jersey Being Funny Jersey City

Author:Michelle Rodriguez

“Whenever I get into a tough situation...I think of growing up, and I say, 'This situation won't be the worst one I've ever been in.”

Thinking Situation Growing Up Growing Worst Tough Tough Situations

Author:Billy Wagner

“I'll always be the baby in the family. I'm the youngest sister, but growing up with so many boys, it makes you tough. You get teased. There's no tiptoeing around each other. You say it the way it is; you're honest.”

Way Boys Growing Up Growing Honest Baby Tough

Author:Nicola Peltz

“I want to be a positive influence in little girls' eyes. Little girls need to be confident and grow up with a healthy state of mind. It's a tough, tough world out there.”

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Author:Christy Carlson Romano

“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

“Growing up, it was tough to balance, but looking back I appreciate my parents' efforts to make sure I was well-rounded.”

Wells Parent Effort Growing Up Growing Balance Tough Appreciate Looking Back Well Rounded

Author:P. K. Subban

“Growing up the way I did, it was tough being one of only a few black people in the town and in school. What my upbringing got me is never feeling completely safe emotionally. Never knowing when something racial was going to pop off based on how I look. So that's something I've carried with me personally and is reflected in my work.”

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Author:Gina Prince-Bythewood

“Growing up in the social media world, it's tough. Your face changes, you get older, your face fills out, and you fall into liking makeup and different stuff like that. And for people saying that, for the most part - it would kind of hurt my feelings when you haven't done anything. You just kind of have to keep being yourself and move forward with what you love.”

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Author:McKayla Maroney

“We've always done things the way we wanted to. It's true that our experience affects some of our decision making, but that's a part of growing up and evolving as a band and as people. The first five or six years were really rough. We had no money. We were lost and crazy and made mistakes, but we learned a lot and suffered through tough times, and I think what we did reflected where we were and who we are.”

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Author:Jared Swilley

“The last 15 years we had one of the biggest economic booms. But I think a few bubbles have burst in a few countries. So we are all going through the same things. But let's say Ireland, in the '70s and the '80s was tough, but if you grow up with a tough background it makes you strong.”

Thinking Country Strong Growing Up Economic Tough Bubbles Ireland

Author:Gavin Friday

“I remember being like, 12 years old, and this was in the days before cell phones, or at least, having a cell phone. Some girls, I can't even remember who they said they were, called and said they had a crush on me. But it turned out to be a prank, and I thought that was just straight up nasty, you know what I'm saying? You're just sort of developing. You're insecure, your bones are growing... you have trouble sleeping. And all of a sudden, someone's pranking you on top of that? It's tough growing up.”

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Author:Chris Baio

“What it means to be a man is to take on all the emotional pain and work through what you got to work through with the people you love while at the same time getting your business done. And it's tough. I think that most children when they grow up they kind of realize that the things they didn't like about their parents or didn't understand about them they get now and that you know every year you get more responsibilities. You get more overhead. You get more things you got to take care off.”

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Author:John Buffalo Mailer

“Growing up in the public eye was really tough. When you're 14 and your body is changing, your life is changing, and people are watching every step you make, it's really hard to deal with. But I was pretty lucky, people didn't watch me that closely.”

People Hard Body Eye Life Is Deals Steps Watches Growing Up Growing Lucky Tough Your Body Changing Your Life Every Step Public Eye Watch Me Life Is Changing

Author:Mandy Moore

“When I was growing up, my mother, who had been through a lot of terrible things in life, taught me that when life is tough your instinct is to close your heart. But if you can accept what happened and reach out to someone, there will always be someone less fortunate, or someone that can bring a solution and help your life.”

“Keep in mind that part of growing up is dealing with difficult issues, and the benefits can be great if you have the courage to ask for help. Human beings are not designed to go through life alone. No one has to bear the burden of tough times all by themselves.”

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Book:Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul on Tough Stuff: Stories of Tough Times and Lessons Learned

Source: Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul on Tough Stuff: Stories of Tough Times and Lessons Learned

“The key to growing up well, is being tough enough.”

Wells Enough Growing Up Growing Keys Tough

Author:Robert B. Parker

“I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write songs like, "What I'm going to do if I grow up".”

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Author:Lenny Bruce

“It's alright, just wait and see, your string of lights is still bright to me. Who you are is not where you've been. You're still an innocent. It's okay life is a tough crowd, 32 is still growing up now.”

Stills Light Life Is Waiting Growing Up Growing Tough Okay Who You Are Crowds Innocent Strings Alright

Author:Taylor Swift

“Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he’s been robbed. The fact is that most putts don’t drop, most beef is tough, most children grow up to just be people, most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration, most jobs are more often dull than otherwise. Life is like an old-time rail journey—delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride.”

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