Growing up, my parents were very much about the Egyptian culture. They never really wanted to assimilate in American culture.

It was so inspiring for me to watch tennis growing up. I thought I was really good playing, until my brother told me I wasn't!

Life is amazing, life is odd. Life is not what you expected it to be. Things happen... Growing up takes longer than you think.

It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine.

Growing up, it was just me and my mom, so we would play games where we'd listen to the radio and sing harmonies to each other.

Look forward to the wonderment of growing up, raising a family and driving by the gas station where the popular kids now work.

I've always been interested in space and the idea of exploration in that area since I was a child growing up through the '60s.

I've never wanted to be a fireman, in my life. I've never really wanted to grow up and be anything other than a film director.

I did not grow up with people, you know, pounding in my head, 'This is what you've got to do, this is what you're going to do.

I'm not religious. It's an issue, 'cause I've got two little kids, and I feel you can't grow up without knowledge of religion.

Every single substitute teacher growing up could not pronounce my name, so whenever someone pauses, I'm like, "Oh, that's me."

I'm watching my own daughter grow up. I see this overt sexual culture coming at her like a Mack truck. She's in seventh grade.

I didn't grow up wanting to become an actor at all. I wanted to be a sports trainer and I was actually an aerobics instructor.

We didn't have a whole lot of cash growing up. My mom was a single parent for a while before my stepdad came into the picture.

When men are growing up and they're reading about Batman, Spiderman, Superman ... those are not fantasies ... they're options.

we all grow up thinking our parents found us under cabbage leaves and that sex didn't exist before our personal coming-of-age.

I grew up in that world of power and politics in Washington, but when you grow up around it, you are completely unfazed by it.

A square egg in a dish of lentils won't make a marrow bend with the wind, nor will it make rhubarb grow up the milkmaid's leg.

Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.

Men at any age truly never grow up. All, no matter what importance they may have attained, are still no more than little boys.

I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey.

Growing up a preacher's kid wasn't the easiest thing. Everybody's always watching you to see how you'll behave - or misbehave.

Life should be a continual celebration, a festival of lights the whole year round. Only then can you grow up, can you blossom.

D.C. is a hard city to grow up in. I couldn't find my footing there. Also, I got a late start academically, and I was dyslexic.

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.'

Growing up, I never imagined my journey would pan out as it has, but the one thing I always knew was that I believed in myself.

Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.

I dont think we're the type of band people look at and say, 'I want to grow up to be just like that'. We're like a train wreck.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

Students should not only be trained to live in a democracy when they grow up; they should have the chance to live in one today.

I'm a first-generation American, so I had friends from several cultures while growing up, including Indian and Iranian friends.

When you grow up in the [film] industry, the director is your father. You follow your father's lead, but you make your own way.

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.

Growing up in Oklahoma, there wasn't much to do. Play sports, do a lot of drugs, or read and watch movies, which is what I did.

I felt for a really long time, "When I grow up I want to be an actor." And now I'm like, "Oh, this is it now. This is my life."

All these kids who are growing up on Skrillex and all this digital music- what are they gonna think when they hear rock'n'roll?

I want to represent the street, not in a negative sense, but in the sense that when I was growing up, that's what I grew up on.

I think I missed out on so many good experiences - maybe priceless experiences - playing with my friends when I was growing up.

It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up.

Growing up means leaving home and becoming a self supporting adult. I think this the hardest task any human being hast to face.

Growing up gorilla is just like any other kind of growing up. You make mistakes. You play. You learn. You do it all over again.

The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail.

Adolescence in my growing up period was truly "Happy Days," the title of a TV show connotating the quality of this life period.

People in London are so much more exposed to danger, or bad things. It took me quite a long time to grow up in that environment.

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.

My family put a lot of emphasis on homework, so there weren't too many comic books or video games for me, when I was growing up.

For me when I was growing up, some of the happiest times were when we went to a small island called Nantucket off Massachusetts.

Growing up where I did, the thought of working on a television show or in a movie... that existed on a parallel plane, you know?

I do believe that everyone growing up faces differential opportunities. With me, it was books and travel and some good teachers.

When I was growing up, my parents took in foster children. From a young age, I learned that there are a lot of children in need.

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