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I didn't know much about golf growing up. -- Yogi Berra
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. -- Chili Davis
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. -- Mark Twain
Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father. -- Dale Earnhardt
Even though you're growing up, you should never stop having fun. -- Nina Dobrev
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. -- e. e. cummings
I make mistakes growing up. I'm not perfect; I'm not a robot. -- Justin Bieber
Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl. -- Claire Danes
That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up -- Walt Disney
You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself. -- Ethel Barrymore
Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn. -- David Blaine
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. -- Abraham Lincoln
I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties. -- Winona Ryder
Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo. -- Zoe Saldana
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. -- Benjamin Franklin
I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house. -- J. Cole
I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way. -- Allen Iverson
Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken. -- Mike Huckabee
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. -- Henri Bergson
I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously. -- Kevin James
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. -- Phyllis Diller
The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats. -- John Cleese
I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts. -- Mike Krzyzewski
As a little girl growing up in a small farming town in Michigan, my idols were women like Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth. -- Dita Von Teese
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I was a total jock growing up. I went to super-dorky basketball clinics and was handpicked to play on a state team called the Texas Heat. -- Erin Wasson
I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes. -- Alice Hoffman
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. -- Anne Frank
Nowadays, if you have a mustache, people look at you like you're crazy. But when I was growing up, I never saw my dad without a mustache. -- Kevin Connolly
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. -- James A. Baldwin
When I look in the mirror I see the girl I was when I was growing up, with braces, crooked teeth, a baby face and a skinny body. -- Heather Locklear
Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging. -- Maya Angelou
I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me. -- Carol Burnett
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. -- Alden Nowlan
Mexican music runs through my veins. I loved it. Growing up, my father didn't allow us to listen to English music at home. That's all I heard. I had no choice. -- Jenni Rivera
My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism. -- Wayne Brady
Growing up, I had a very normal relationship with my brother and sister. But, over time, they became my best friends, and now I hang out with them all the time. I'm very close with them. -- Logan Lerman
Growing up, we didn't have anything. My mum wasn't well, so I was in three care homes then foster homes before me and my little brother went back to her. I was passed from pillar to post. -- Rebecca Ferguson
When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind. -- Patrick Rothfuss
When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.' -- Thomas Friedman
One of my favorite places is Seattle. Growing up, I never thought I'd be able to go to Seattle. I grew up in eastern South Carolina, so that's as far as you can get from Seattle, unless I lived in Miami. -- Josh Turner
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. -- Walt Disney
It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on. -- Nicholas Sparks
As a little girl growing up in Southside Jamaica Queens, if anyone would've told me I'd have my own perfume one day, and be able to inspire young black girls everywhere, to go into Macy's or Nordstrom's and see their face staring back at them - I wouldn't believe them. -- Nicki Minaj
Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective on gender issues, as it also did my gay brother and my lesbian sister. Our younger sister is the perfect Jewish-American wife and mother, and is fiercely proud of that fact. -- Roseanne Barr
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
Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and nurtured us through our infancy and childhood, provided us with the necessities of life, and nursed us through physical illnesses and the emotional stresses of growing up. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem. -- Natasha Trethewey
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
At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything. -- Alice Walker
Everything I've done in my career is a result of growing up in rural Oklahoma, because if I hadn't had the training from Mama and Daddy to work hard, to do what I'm told, to take directions, to mind and to do a good job at anything I set out to do, then I wouldn't be where I am today. -- Reba McEntire
Pain is Temporary, Quitting Lasts Forever. -- Lance Armstrong
A Year from Now You Will Wish You had Started Today. -- Karen Lamb
Be the type of man you'd want your daughter to be with. -- Thoughts of a real man
As you change so does your definition of fun. You're not lame, you're growing up. -- Trent Shelton
When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys -- Robert Louis Stevenson
It doesn't matter if a million people tell you what you can't do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that's all you need. -- Tyler Perry
I'm totally growing up. -- Kim Kardashian
Here's to Never Growing up -- Avril Lavigne
I was not funny growing up. -- Tim Meadows
Don't waste your youth growing up. -- Pablo Picasso
I loved 'Roger Rabbit' growing up. -- Stephanie Leonidas
Growing up I didn't watch movies. -- Denzel Washington
I was a handful growing up. -- Olivia Wilde
I loved scary movies growing up. -- Katie Featherston
I loved Lucille Ball growing up. -- Graham Norton
Growing up, I loved Bill Cosby. -- Robin Thicke
I loved fairy tales growing up. -- Lily James
I took tap classes growing up. -- Jon M. Chu
I'm growing older, but not up. -- Jimmy Buffett
Growing old is not growing up. -- Douglas Horton
I loved growing up in Tulsa. -- Bill Hader
I was a homebody growing up. -- Jennifer Hudson
Growing up takes longer than you think. -- Lauren Bacall
My dad never explained anything growing up. -- Tom Douglas
But I'm warning you, we're growing up. -- Brandi Carlile
I was a competitive guy growing up. -- Mark Sanchez
Growing up, I was prone to anxiety. -- Jane McGonigal
Growing up, I always wanted to sing. -- Damian McGinty
I didn't have any pets growing up. -- Ben Barnes
I felt like a dork growing up. -- Christina Milian
I was a super tomboy growing up. -- Britt Robertson
I had a lovely time growing up. -- Michael Kiwanuka
I never listened to country music growing up. -- Deana Carter
It's always a struggle growing up in Akron. -- LeBron James
Growing up, I was obsessed with Leonardo DiCaprio. -- Claire Foy
I was definitely an at-risk kid growing up. -- Ben Carson
Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes. -- Annette Funicello
I didn't have a good childhood growing up. -- Julie Roberts
Growing up in Paterson wasn't the easiest thing. -- Victor Cruz
I played sports growing up in high school. -- Erin Heatherton
Addiction is a symptom of not growing up. -- C.C. DeVille
Magic Johnson was my favorite player growing up. -- Russell Westbrook
I was a huge 'Bewitched' fan growing up. -- Madchen Amick
Growing up, I wanted to be a pilot! -- Colin Donnell
I was actually a huge tomboy growing up, -- Julia Jones
Growing up, I was always the small guy. -- Wayne Gretzky
Growing up, Michael Jordan was my Olympic hero. -- Kerri Walsh
I was a huge Radiohead fan growing up. -- Iwan Rheon
I was a total bad girl growing up. -- Elizabeth Reaser
I watched a lot of comedy growing up. -- Wanda Sykes
Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional. -- Carroll Bryant
My dad was so much fun growing up. -- Abby Elliott
The trick is growing up without growing old. -- Casey Stengel
I hadn't read the Dr. Strange comics growing up. -- Rachel McAdams
I always sang harmony with my family growing up. -- Linda Ronstadt
Peyton was the best, my favorite quarterback growing up. -- Andrew Luck
I've always been kind of an introvert growing up. -- Melissa De Sousa
Anybody who knew me growing up calls me Vinny. -- Vince Flynn
Growing up in Canada, I didn't watch football much. -- Sidney Crosby
Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional. -- Bob Monkhouse
The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded me -- Christina Ricci
The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded me. -- Christina Ricci
Growing older is mandatory, but growing up is optional. -- Heather Brewer
Mariah and Whitney Houston were my goddesses growing up. -- Ariana Grande
My brother and I tortured my mother growing up. -- Denis Leary
I guess I'm growing up in the film world. -- Devon Sawa
Growing up is loving what you can afford to. -- Babs Deal
I was a big Dave Winfield guy growing up. -- Willie Geist
I didn't see a ton of movies growing up. -- Kelly Preston

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