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Growing Up Quotes
Childhood memories, changed towns, and questions of identity.
These quotes span the specific texture of growing up - undecided ambitions, hometowns that later feel transformed, and early sporting or family memories that stick for life. Related reflections continue in Experience.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
I had trouble getting jeans when I was growing up. I had little skinny legs and this booty that came out of nowhere.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we were growing up we were all asked to accept ourselves as British citizens, and I still hold on to this idea that multicultural Britain is possible.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always hated my mole growing up. I even thought about having it removed. At the time I didn't do it because I thought it would hurt, and now I'm glad I didn't.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, my fashion sense is outrageous, but I am a rebel. I am young and still growing up.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I always thought of Detroit as a basketball town because of the Pistons, but everyone says it's really, at its core, a football town.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in the middle of nowhere, there was a lot of twangy music around, but it didn't really connect with me then.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was a big runner. Growing up, I watched him do half marathons, and he was always running six or seven miles.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I had a natural love for women like Diana Ross, Mary Wells, Ella Fitzgerald. Then I got into Dionne Warwick, Nina Simone, and Patsy Cline.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince instead of the other way around.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just longed for certain connections and attachments with another person that I really lacked, I believe, growing up.
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- Nov 07, 2020