#growing up

Unlike most other children, - especially unlike those of today - who are eager to become men and women as speedily as possible, I had a terror of growing up, which became more and more accentuated as I grew older. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#become #children #eager #especially #grew

Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#class family #edge #family #fire #give

I know, I'm like a kid. Maybe I was a bit too spoilt growing up. Everything just came like I wanted it to. ↗

— Asafa Powell

#came #everything #growing #growing up #i

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties. ↗

— Winona Ryder

#growing #growing up #i #really #sense

You know, my mother's beautiful, my dad was a really handsome man, and there was a lot of talk about looks when I was growing up. ↗

— Courteney Cox

#beautiful #dad #growing #growing up #handsome

Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person. ↗

— Usain Bolt

#down #everybody #good #good morning #got

Track and field was very big when I was growing up. ↗

— Usain Bolt

#field #growing #growing up #i #track

When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money. ↗

— Russell Brand

#growing #growing up #had #happier #i

Just being at home, growing up naturally, and being here now with my video and my music, I think people realize that I was in the Spice Girls 8 years ago. ↗

— Emma Bunton

#being #growing #growing up #here #home

We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for my birthday or for Christmas and the rest of the year I either had to mow lawns or find part time jobs to help supplement the cost of doing magic. ↗

— Lance Burton

#ask #birthday #books #christmas #cost