Growing Up Quotes

I'll never, ever be full. I'll always be hungry. Obviously, I'm not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I've never forgotten it, 'Once you've ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you'll never, ever be full.'

~ Dwayne Johnson

When my family did shy away from Indian food, we'd eat a lot of Chinese. We'd use the wok a lot. I never had a problem with Brussels sprouts or broccoli growing up. I always grew up with the mentality of finishing your plate.

~ Parvesh Cheena

When I was growing up on our 53-acre dairy farm, we were obsessed with food; it was the center of our lives. We planted it, grew it, harvested it, peeled it, cooked it, served it, consumed it - endlessly, day after day, season after season.

~ Bobbie Ann Mason

Growing up, my dad owned a restaurant in Washington, DC, and food was something I was passionate about. But when I finally got into it, I felt like it was so late in the game; that's why I worked seven days a week at Craft and Mercer Kitchen. I wanted to see how far I could take it.

~ David Chang

When I was growing up, I was eating fast food every day. I'd drink soda non-stop, candy, just everything. It was horrible. My go-to was McDonald's, for sure.

~ Ryan Lochte

Growing up eating fruits and vegetables fresh from our farm added a lot to the way I taste and look at food today, and I wanted the same for my kids and other kids.

~ Camila Alves

When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got from our lives the better our lives would get, I thought, because persecution had been such a burden to Jewish families for generations.

~ Bruce Feiler

When I was growing up, you didn't know there was a women's national team. Now girls grow up dreaming of playing for Canada.

~ Christine Sinclair

David Letterman was my guy growing up. My parents recorded the tenth anniversary special for me, and I watched it 40 times.

~ Timothy Simons

Growing up, I had a terrible pudding-bowl haircut. I used to cut it myself, and I'd sew my own clothing, too. I looked a little strange compared to the other kids. But the thing was, I felt I looked amazing, so what other people thought never bothered me.

~ Becki Newton

It's still amazing, but when I was growing up, Harlem was the Mecca of black culture. I was so inspired by it, the aspirational feeling you'd get spending time there. Experiences that were really specific to that place.

~ Mahershala Ali

I'm excited about 'Luke Cage' with Michael Colter, who plays Luke Cage. I play the villain, Cottonmouth. It takes place in Harlem. It'll just be amazing for people to get to see an African-American superhero, which there weren't any when I was growing up.

~ Mahershala Ali

My maternal granddad, Leonard, was full of amazing stories. He was an orphan, with 11 or 12 brothers and sisters, and he used to tell us about growing up near the Irrawaddy river and how one brother was eaten by a crocodile.

~ Jamie Cullum

These things have a life of there own and never existed when I was growing up certainly worrying when one would get made. It's kind of amazing how that one movie kept living through all these years.

~ Stockard Channing

Any swagger is just defense. When you're reminded so much of who you are by people - not a fame thing, but with my size, constantly, growing up - you just either curl up in a corner in the dark or you wear it proudly, like armor or something. You can turn it on its head and use it yourself before anybody else gets a chance.

~ Peter Dinklage

For me, growing up in Los Angeles in the '90s, Huell Howser was the most consistently watchable entertainer on TV. I was more of a radio geek as a teenager, but Huell I watched whenever I got the chance. A lot of us did.

~ James Adomian

My mother always used to say, 'Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God' - that's what she always said. The same God with different names.

~ Jane Goodall

I was a huge Muppet fan growing up, but that was the extent of my puppet knowledge. I really loved the art form and the whole Henson universe.

~ Rob Mcclure

Growing up, I had an insane crush on Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys.

~ Erin O'connor

Feeling earthquakes was part of growing up, and also preparing for them: doing earthquake drills, or having earthquake supplies. The looming feeling was part of my life. My experience of earthquakes has always been more the fear of them, or the possibility.

~ Karen Thompson Walker

In my experience, growing up in Brooklyn and all that, the real tough guys didn't act tough. They didn't talk tough. They were tough, you know? I think about these politicians who try to pose as tough guys - it makes me laugh.

~ Pete Hamill

The underlying message of the Lancet article is that if you want to understand aggressive behaviour in children, look to the social and emotional environment in which they are growing up, and the values they bring to the viewing experience.

~ Hugh Mackay

When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.

~ Park Chan-Wook

Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.

~ Zoe Saldana

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

~ Evelyn Waugh

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

~ Ginnifer Goodwin

I was a huge Beatles fan. We could talk about who I listened to growing up and what my sources were, but certainly the Beatles were a late, important resource for me, and I just took my guitar and a handful of songs, and I decided, well, I'll just go over and travel around Europe and see what comes of it.

~ James Taylor

I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.

~ Mike Krzyzewski

Growing up I didn't watch movies.

~ Denzel Washington

I loved Superman growing up. I saw a couple of those movies in the theater, and I watched 'Superman II' 8000 times.

~ Stephen Amell

I loved scary movies growing up.

~ Katie Featherston

Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.

~ Claire Danes

I never was interested in being part of the fashion world - I just wanted to design shoes. I didn't even know 'Vogue' existed when I was growing up. 'Vogue,' what is that?'

~ Christian Louboutin

I've always wanted to design a home collection line because growing up, I was obsessed with reorganizing my room.

~ Bethany Mota

I think growing up in a big family taught me a lot of problem solving and how to share and compromise, and that's been helpful in my marriage.

~ Sarah Jessica Parker

When I was growing up, I was so fascinated by Mel Blanc and all of the different voices that he did for 'Looney Tunes' and watching Robin Williams record voice-over for the genie in 'Aladdin.' It always seemed to be a major honor - something you have to earn. Like people trust you when they want to have you there without seeing you.

~ Jenny Slate

The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on.

~ Tyler Perry

Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day.

~ Tracy Morgan

It's so funny, because when I was growing up in a small town in New Hampshire, I was obsessed with Leonardo DiCaprio - from the 'Growing Pains'/'What's Eating Gilbert Grape' era, because he was superhot - and I carried a laminated photo of him in my wallet and said he was my boyfriend. But no one believed me.

~ Eliza Coupe

Growing up, I had a very vivid imagination and Leonardo was like my best imaginary friend that I spoke to. When things were tough, or I was scared in an unsafe environment, I always imagined that the Ninja Turtles would come to the rescue.

~ Ruby Rose