#growing up

My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up. ↗

— Damon Wayans

#drive #growing #growing up #had #i

Because my parents, growing up, they worked hard. Everyone in my family woke up early in the morning. I used to see my mother and my father go off to work, and come back and, no matter what, they had time for the kids. ↗

— Herschel Walker

#because #come #early #everyone #family

If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys. ↗

— Herschel Walker

#come #growing #growing up #had #i

I used to have acne when I was a kid growing up. You can imagine how serious that was in making you feel bad. And I had skinny bow legs. I mean, as a kid growing up, I was an insecure fella. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#bad #bow #feel #fella #growing

Growing up I didn't watch movies. ↗

— Denzel Washington

#growing up #i #movies #up #watch

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

But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it became his opinion that the most influential anti-semitism my father encountered when he was growing up was from Jews, because his relatives were German Jews, and doctors. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#anti-semitism #became #because #book #brother

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

I love being Canadian. I think growing up in Canada gives you a world perspective that I certainly enjoy. ↗

— Ryan Gosling

#canada #canadian #certainly #enjoy #gives