#rowing

I had a happy, dramafree youth, growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. The only thing that was slightly unusual compared to most of my friends was that I was an only child... I don't think that's why my parents gave me a dummy, at least they've never copped to it. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#compared #dallas #dummy #friends #gave

Growing up I always shopped at Victoria's Secret with my mom and saw Angels like Gisele and Karolina Kurkova in the windows. ↗

— Lindsay Ellingson

#angels #growing #growing up #i #i always

Acting never crossed my mind for a moment when I was growing up. ↗

— Tommy Flanagan

#crossed #growing #growing up #i #mind

A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers. ↗

— Arthur Hertzberg

#being #bombers #born #growing #growing up

Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections? ↗

— Elizabeth Janeway

#biology #connections #family #good #growing

It's funny how all of this has worked out - I wasn't popular in high school, but now every drunken guy in the United States wants to be my pal. They all want to buy me a shot, and pretty soon I'm throwing up. ↗

— Jimmy Kimmel

#drunken #every #funny #guy #high

Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#growing-up #age

I want to be scared. I want to keep taking insane risks. I want to be scared because you're going to grow through that whether you want to or not. I don't want to play the same guy. I want to keep throwing curveballs to you guys and keep telling stories. ↗

— Taylor Kitsch

#going #grow #guy #guys #i

I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow. ↗

— Magnus Magnusson

#both #edinburgh #glasgow #got #growing

What’s so beautiful about girls?” I would implore. And the secret society of adults would reply with a smirk and wink as if I was merely a boy who couldn’t possibly have the mental maturity to comprehend such grown-up concepts as love and bleeding vaginas; “You’ll understand someday, James. ↗

— Jake Vander Ark

#growing-up #puberty #puppy-love #the-perfect-girl #age