#growing up

I've played a prostitute now three times. I don't know how it's come about that way. It's just a matter of me growing up. ↗

— Brittany Snow

#come #growing #growing up #how #i

When I was growing up, we used to play basketball in a park that was never shoveled when it snowed. The basketball rims were never fixed. And we understood then that there was a relationship between public policy and our quality of life. ↗

— DeForest Soaries

#between #fixed #growing #growing up #i

My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#background #because #came #cared #education

Growing up, I was encouraged to get a good education, get a real job doing something I enjoyed, and, should the opportunity present itself, consider public service as just that: a chance to serve, not an end in itself. ↗

— John Sununu

#consider #doing #education #encouraged #end

I didn't know when I was growing up that this was a very special program, that this wasn't going on in other parts of the country. Now I realize that I was lucky. ↗

— Benny Green

#going #growing #growing up #i #know

I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era. ↗

— Andy Grove

#during #era #fantasy #growing #growing up

Growing up in the time of Title IX - it was passed when I was 10 - I got a front-row seat to so many great moments in women's sports. Of course I didn't know it at the time. ↗

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#got #great #great moments #growing #growing up

Growing up Catholic has been a gift. ↗

— Moira Kelly

#catholic #gift #growing #growing up #up

Growing up with three boys in a heavily male-dominated world, I especially needed to express myself as a woman. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

#express #growing #growing up #heavily #i

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