- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that.
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I was the typical little sister who wanted to be just like her older brother. When I was growing up, my brother wrote phenomenal stories, so I wanted to write them, too.
- Harmony
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I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.
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I was terrified of growing up to become the anti-me, maturing into a woman whom I would not recognise and who wouldn't recognise her younger self.
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I danced growing up. I had two friends of mine that, actually, one of them wound up dancing with Alvin Ailey.
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My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.
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When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.
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I've only ever known growing up across different countries - to me it's just fun.
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Growing up in the English countryside, I feel like I'm in a Jane Austen novel when I walk around. I just feel comfortable and confident in those surroundings.
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Growing up, I always liked so many different sounds from so many different genres - the different aspects they could bring.
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