Best Grew Up Quotes

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.

The way I grew up, I was always taught that it’s uncouth to talk about money, and that’s not what should inspire you.

I grew up in Tennessee where you either play football or you don’t do anything at all. So I was a bit of loner, being interested in music.

I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.

I grew up on Bond, and it is part of my culture, especially in Britain. Just to be known as a Bond girl is an incredible thing for me, because some of my favorite actresses have been Bond girls, like Diana Rigg and Honor Blackman, and they have continued to work and be brilliant. I am honored and flattered to be called that, even though I don’t really think my character is Bond-girly, but I’m still going to be labeled as a Bond girl, which is completely brilliant.

I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated.

I’ve an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women – my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.

My biggest downfall is my inner voice. Growing up as a dancer makes you very judgemental with yourself. You learn to look at yourself in the mirror and you criticise every line in your body. It’s never perfect. I grew up with this because I had ballet every day in school.

Where I grew up – we started out in Oklahoma and then moved to Missouri – it was considered hubris to talk about yourself. And the downside of that was that ideas rarely got exchanged, or true feelings.

I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I’ve always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses.

I was 17 when I auditioned for ‘Miss Saigon.’ I really grew up doing that show. I pretty much knew, almost a year into ‘Miss Saigon,’ that I was going to be a performer, that I was going to be singing and acting.

I am an unconventional beauty. I grew up in a high school where if you didn’t have a nose job and money and if you weren’t thin, you weren’t cool, popular, beautiful. I was always told that I wasn’t pretty enough to be on television.

I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.

The earliest movies that I loved were French movies and Italian movies. I grew up watching those kind of movies and often find the truest looks at human nature – you can find them in another countrys movies.

We’re all just kids who grew up way too fast.

I grew up going to the store, seeing the products [of L’Oréal ], seeing the commercials and the ambassadors. I never in a million years thought I’d be associated with them.

For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I’m making plenty of money.

My high school was nothing like West Beverly High, let me tell you. I grew up in Fredericktown, Ohio.

I grew up in Hollywood but not in any rich neighborhood.

I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.

I really didn’t know a lot of rock ‘n’ roll until I moved to L.A. Before that, when I was in New York, I grew up listening mostly to R&B and soul and jazz.

My whole family is in orthotics and prosthetics, so I grew up having to check for scoliosis every week. ‘Come over. Let me feel your spine.

With Die Hard it was just something that I, you know, I grew up with those movies. I made a Die Hard movie with my friends in my backyard during high school. It was terrible.

I grew up so thoroughly imbued with women’s rights that it was the most important question of my life from a very early day.

I grew up not seeing my father, and it is a hole in my heart that will never heal.

It’s an extraordinary thing, this tiny little province of Northern Ireland, where carnage happened. And I was part of it. I grew up in it.

But let’s just say, I’m Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.

I grew up watching films. Film has been part of my life since I was a child.

As someone who grew up in the Bronx, I certainly learned my share of four-letter words, but none are more powerful than nice.

I was always talking about peace and love, even when I was a kid. That’s how I grew up in my family.

I grew up in the South with my father; blues and country, that’s always been my core. But I had it in me not to do what was expected. I wanted to find my own footing.

I grew up with a lot of boys. I probably have a lot of testosterone for a woman.

I actually started modeling in Ethiopia, because that’s where I grew up, and I started out by just doing little fashion shows for school, and I liked it so much that I started pursuing it.