Top 1200 Family Growing Up Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Growing up in rural Louisiana, the ecosystem around our home wove harmoniously into our family and into our daily life. Every life lesson that trickled its way into my being came from a mutually respectful relationship between the environment and my family.

The competitive spirit and the way we worked hard growing up came naturally to me from my family.

I always thought I desperately wanted a husband and a big family, because I didn't have it growing up.

All of my youth growing up in my Italian family was focused around the table. That's where I learned about love.

Thank goodness I had a great family growing up, a great foundation. But I will say my faith, my parents, my family, all that stuff is very, very important. And I'll say that until the day I die.

Growing up in a Singaporean Chinese family, for me food is almost the primary means of communication between family members, both immediate and extended... hey, it beats discussing which cousin did better at end of semester exams, or who's getting married next, right?

When I was growing up, we didn't have much money. What was important in my house was to have food on the table, be happy, and have our family.

I had a hard time growing up, and boxing kind of served as my second family.

I didn't grow up in one place, so I never had a certain mentality. I have some aspects of growing up in Texas, but I also have a lot of East Coast family. I would have loved to grow up on the East Coast.

Growing up is difficult. Strangely, even when we have stopped growing physically, we seem to have to keep on growing emotionally, which involves both expansion and shrinkage, as some parts of us develop and others must be allowed to disappear...Rigidity never works; we end up being the wrong size for our world.

I grew up in Kolkata in a traditional family. We had friends who lived in mansions just like the one in 'Oleander Girl.' Growing up, I was fascinated by the old house and the old Bengal lifestyle.

I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.

One of my favorite memories from growing up in Brazil is being in the kitchen with my family and watching everyone bake and cook.

The unparalleled love of a mother is always there for the kids, specially when they're growing up and about to leave the family and go away.

My dad worked all sorts of jobs when I was growing up and finally ended up as a surveyor; my mum delivers meals to old folk around where we live. We didn't have much money when I was growing up, but I had a very happy childhood.

YouTube is growing up, is basically my view of it. Growing up means our creators are growing up; they're getting more well known. We're providing programs for them to generate more revenue so they can generate even better, high-quality shows, and then also connecting them with the advertisers.

Imagine growing up never feeling loved by your family - the most basic of human needs.

Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought up to revere rules. Without rules, there was only anarchy.

The saddest thing was actually getting fed up with one another. It's like growing up in a family. When you get to a certain age, you want to go off and get your own girl and your own car, split up a bit.

My whole family growing up played sports, so I'm definitely from a strong sporting background.

To say that a family is happy I think is to diminish it, taking out what is interesting. Growing up, I don't think my family was any happier or unhappier than anyone else's. My mother and father should have been divorced or never even married. On the other hand, I remember many moments of happiness.

I loved Lil Wayne growing up; he was like the king when I was growing up. I remember 'Fireman.' That was one of my favorite songs.

Growing up black in America, and with Southern roots in my family, I was informed in my own life.

Growing up, I never known anybody in my family actually to interact with a person of color.

I never missed a Sunday lunch growing up and I've continued that tradition with my own family.

Even growing up, if I dealt with any pressure to be a certain way, I knew that as an artistic lane, dancing was the one that was a little more freed up - like no one in my family is really doing that, I can be that person.

Absolutely the worst thing about this job is the travel and being away from family. I have a wife and three wonderful children, the kids are all active in sports and it's very difficult to up and leave and miss them growing up.

When I was growing up, I used to love television. TV was everything. And it was a real connector for my family.

My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.

Growing up, my dad was 'get a real job, don't go pursuing your dreams, that's how you become homeless.' So, do I pick my family or do I pick my own happiness, and how much does my own happiness depend on my family?

Musicals are made of several climaxes that keep growing and growing; when you think it's over, it still continues growing up in plateaus.

The only black folks in town when I was growing up were me and my cousins and one other family.

I had a really hard time growing up; we were a large family, and we didn't have much money at home.

I was the first in my family to go to college, and so, growing up, I thought that dressing well opened doors.

My family raised bird dogs when I was growing up in Jonesboro, Arkansas, and I'm a gun owner myself.

Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing up--thatis our new work, and it is total. Mere instruction will not suffice.

Growing up means letting go of the dearest megalomaniacal dreams of our childhood. Growing up means knowing they can't be fulfilled. Growing up means gaining the wisdom and the skills to get what we want within the limitations imposed by reality - a reality which consists of diminished powers, restricted freedoms and, with the people we love, imperfect connections.

Jack Palance was my distant uncle - that's the family gossip. Growing up, my family knew everything about his face getting burned and scarred in the military and how that mutilation led him to become such a famous 'heavy' in films. I prayed for good scars of my own. Not just acne scars.

I wish my family had taken more pictures when I was growing up. Instead of always having to draw everything.

My mother's side of the family is from the Bahamas, and I spent time there on and off when I was growing up. It's the place where I feel at peace.

The main source of good discipline is growing up in a loving family, being loved and learning to love in return.

I grew up camping with my family. We took so many trips. We had an RV, actually, when we were growing up. We did a ton of camping trips and went across the country.

Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.

Growing up South African, I was comparatively in a world of privilege, especially being the youngest and being figuratively wrapped up in cotton wool by the rest of the family.

Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a bit of family lore and history from her, which was interesting.

Most Missourians can't imagine growing up and spending their adult life without their family.

Growing up, my mates and I would have rather been Sid Vicious or members of the Royal Family.

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.

Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get by.

Growing up, we loved 'The Royle Family'. Caroline Aherne, she was just incredible.

My sister and I - growing up, it was just the two of us, so we love that we're getting a big family and, you know, lots to be grateful for.

I come from a big family of storytellers and, growing up, I liked hearing about the years before I was born.

Growing up, my family wasn't very tight. We were more like a tour group with secrets.

My family has always made clothes. Growing up I can remember sewing machines being everywhere.

My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.

My family, growing up, we really didn't have tradition because my parents divorced when I was 11.

Growing up in a business-orientated family meant that I naturally learnt the tricks of the trade.

Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.

It's hard to give up the self-esteem connected to being codependent and appearing 'right,' which is probably a survival behavior learned from growing up in a crazy family. It feels like you will actually disappear.

Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben, I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about. I always woke up before the plane landed.