#growing up

When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#being famous #clear #everyone #famous #good

Growing up, I was a nerd. With actual taped eyeglasses. ↗

— Taye Diggs

#growing #growing up #i #nerd #taped

Growing up I was as big a tomboy as you can get. ↗

— Eliza Dushku

#get #growing #growing up #i #tomboy

Maybe there's less oppression growing up in a small village, and fewer rules, and less danger. ↗

— Luke Treadaway

#fewer #growing #growing up #less #maybe

I never really did sports growing up. Maybe that's why they intrigue me. The technology that goes into that clothing is steps ahead, so it's always been something I look towards. ↗

— Alexander Wang

#always #been #clothing #did #goes

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#beautiful city #certain #city #convenient #growing

When I was growing up in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, I sold doughnuts, popcorn and Kool Aid every day after school so that my family had some money and I could pay my school fees. It was a tough life. ↗

— George Weah

#aid #capital #could #day #every

I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical. ↗

— Jack White

#came #catholic #catholic guilt #come #egotistical

There are two types of Chinese growing up in America. One is the kind that does really well in school, with thick, thick glasses. And the other is involved with the gangs. ↗

— Donnie Yen

#chinese #does #gangs #glasses #growing

I had years of therapy to recover from this. A lot of it had to with being a people pleaser, being the ultimate good girl. I wanted everyone to like me. I didn't really have a voice. I was afraid of growing up. ↗

— Tracey Gold

#being #everyone #girl #good #good girl