Growing Up Quotes

Congo, my country, has the largest forest in Africa, maybe the second-largest in the world. I was born in a forest area, and when I was growing up, I assisted my uncle, who was a poacher. That was good, because it grew my passion for protecting the forest and plants. Corneille Ewango
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The only black folks in town when I was growing up were me and my cousins and one other family. Courtney A. Kemp
Family Me Black Other Folks Only Town Cousins Were Up Growing Growing Up
I think it's really cool that someone could have ovaries and the presidency. Growing up, I thought I could never be president because I was black and female. Now I know that's wrong. Within my own lifetime - that's different. Within my lifetime, interracial couples are more common. Within my own lifetime, biracial folks are able to claim that. Courtney A. Kemp
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Our parents didn't let us watch a lot of television growing up. We had Disney on Sunday nights, and at 8:30, they were like, 'Turn it off! Go to bed!' Courtney B. Vance
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Growing up, my dad and my mom were there for my sister and I. Courtney B. Vance
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Family is funny, and so it was not an unnatural thing for me, growing up, not to know anything about my dad or about the Vance side of our family. Courtney B. Vance
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I surrounded myself with women when I was growing up because I had this horrible psycho father. Now I'm trying to really appreciate and like men more. Courtney Love
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We weren't poor growing up on Long Island, but it wasn't lavish - just a regular middle-class house. Criss Angel
Long Lavish Long Island House Island Were Up Just Poor Regular Growing Growing Up
Looking back, I remember my family laughing a lot. We were never the kind of people that dwelled on hard times. My family laughs when things are tough. Growing up like that, I got used to making jokes about things that were difficult. So when I started doing stand-up, that's what I went towards. Cristela Alonzo
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I knew from the time I was 6 or 7 that music was something I had to do. Growing up, my parents did everything they knew how to do to support me. My dad was always kinda my roadie; he drove me from gig to gig. But I got my own gigs. I was this 12-year-old kid, shuffling business cards, calling people, telling them I wanted to play. Crystal Bowersox
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As a black woman I always felt growing up I had to do above and beyond stuff to be noticed, to feel like I could hang with everybody else. Crystal Dunn
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Growing up, I fluctuated between wanting to modify my looks and embracing them. Crystal Hana Kim
Embracing Between Looks Up Wanting Them Modify Growing Growing Up
Growing up, sports was my outlet, my way to portray a personality. I was very shy around people but, through sports, something I was good at, I was able to make friends. Curtis Joseph
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Skateboarding was the only thing I was ever good at. Growing up, I was doing that from, like, dusk till dawn. D. J. Cotrona
Good Only Dawn Like Till Doing Up Dusk The Only Thing Skateboarding Growing Growing Up Ever Thing
My home life, growing up, was like tumbling inside a washing machine as I shuttled around the middle of Kentucky with my mother. She was never content to stay in one place, or with one man, for too long. She was as smart as she was independent, though, and always landed some job that brought in a little money. Dakota Meyer
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Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father. Dale Earnhardt
Father Teen Hunting Up Growing Growing Up Enjoyed
I make my food in such a way that people can eat it every single day. My dad passed away from a heart attack, so it's always been very important for me to make food I love, the food we made growing up, but in a way that it won't be harmful to my body or to the people I love. Just as long as it's not boring. It has to be flavorful and delicious. Damaris Phillips
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I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me. Damian Lewis
Love Me Pool Seems Glamour Like Up Going Anywhere Height England Swim Growing Growing Up
Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up. Damien Rice
Music Me Holding Back Cleanse Feel Shed Enables Up Growing Growing Up Things
I'm fascinated by how much has changed from one generation to another. There are young people growing up now for whom apartheid is just a distant memory and the idea of military service is an abstract notion. Damon Galgut
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My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up. Damon Wayans
Drive Kids Never Had Up Growing Growing Up Competitive
Growing up with a sister, someone I talk to all the time, helps me appreciate women. Dan Abrams
Time Me Women Sister Someone Talk Up Helps Growing Growing Up Appreciate
We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.' Dan Brown
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My brother and I, we were both relatively good-looking guys growing up, but we had our awkward stages, where we were just hard to look at. Dan Fogler
Our Relatively Brother Guys Both Had Good-Looking Look Were Up Just Where Stages Hard Growing Growing Up Awkward
I used to have this fantasy when I was growing up where Princess Leia would be in the slave Leia costume and she would be in a vat of Breyer's ice cream. A recurring dream where I would eat my way to her. Dan Fogler
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My parents have always had this philosophy that overindulging your children is one of the worst things you could do as a parent. It's something that was hammered into my head growing up. And while my mom and dad are not professional authorities on parenting, I can confirm from experience that they had a point. Dan Levy
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