Quotes of: Growing-old Keyword

My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.

Caitlin Flanagan

If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.

Charles H. Spurgeon

Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.

Harry Reasoner

In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.

Henry A. Wallace

Something has happened where you almost never grow up in America. Maybe it's the greater wealth.

Jonathan Ames

I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal.

Jennifer Connelly

I can understand the dilemma of growing up in a bubble, and then not knowing what to do when unemployment beckons and reality bursts in.

Jessie Cave

There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.

Dan Rather

No one in the group was really growing up besides me, which is pretty weird 'cause there was no one in that group more self-destructive than I was.

Dee Dee Ramone

Growing up, I always dreamed of winning an NBA championship, never a gold. A gold was something that never crossed my mind.

Dwyane Wade

I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.

Daddy Yankee

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

I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.

Bear Grylls

I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.

Barry Hannah

I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.

Brit Marling

I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.

Barbra Streisand

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

. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there's always a positive to a negative.

Barbra Streisand

I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up.

Caroline B. Cooney

No one knew I was gay growing up but I was bullied. I was a cheerleader, fairly popular and considered straight.

Cat Cora

Even during my father's 1984 gubernatorial campaign, it was, 'Do you want to grow up and be governor one day?' 'No. I am four.'

Chelsea Clinton