#growing up

I've inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#building #entailed #growing #growing up #had

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt. ↗

— Max Lerner

#discover #growing #growing up #hurt #point

So the America I came to know growing up was filled with all the excitement and possibilities found in living the American dream. ↗

— Mia Love

#american #american dream #came #dream #excitement

I would like to have seen my sons growing up. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#growing up #i #like #seen #sons

When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I. ↗

— George McGovern

#because #dakota #debt #growing #growing up

My family put a lot of emphasis on homework, so there weren't too many comic books or video games for me, when I was growing up. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#comic #comic books #emphasis #family #games

I was not allowed to talk about being adopted when growing up. I walked around feeling like I was going to explode. ↗

— Michael Nyqvist

#adopted #allowed #around #being #explode

Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you. ↗

— Adam Oates

#ball #british #could #family #father

Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up. ↗

— James C. Dobson

#children #concerned #did #give #giving

And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner. ↗

— Rachel Dratch

#adopt #alone #decided #even #growing