I love the holidays on ‘The Middle’ because I feel like I’m getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up. – Eden Sher
Growing up I played in garage bands and cover bands with my older brother, and he got us a gig opening up for some hippie jam band. I was 15. I felt like such an adult! – Charles Kelley
I wouldn’t be where I am, if not for Jamaica. My formative years were here. I wouldn’t have the confidence that I have if I wasn’t born here, because growing up here I knew I could become anybody I wanted to become. There was no ceiling on top of me. – Michael Lee-Chin
I’ve been a Lakers fan since growing up in Oklahoma. My hometown’s finally got the Thunder, which is really exciting, but I’ve still got to stick with the Lakers. – Matt Kemp
There’s an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful. – Doris Lessing
Growing up, I watched shows such as ‘Blackadder’ and ‘Monty Python’ with my parents. – Mathew Baynton
I never take storms as seriously as I should, which is probably not the way I should be handling it. I think it’s to do with growing up in New Orleans and having a hurricane, like, once a week. – Chloe Bridges
I’m used to being around kids. Even when I was growing up in London, I had an older sister, I had a younger sister that I used to look after from time to time. – David Beckham
My grandfather was the king of a region in western Nigeria, where I had the privilege to live for seven years while growing up. But what we think of as royalty in the U.K. is very different to royalty in Nigeria: if you were to throw a stone there, you would hit about 30 princes. – David Oyelowo
When I was growing up, I lived in a neighborhood that was largely Latino and I thought I was Latino! – Meagan Good
I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death – it really lets them see mortality very clearly. – Gary Shteyngart
When I was growing up, it was the guys who were hardest at school who got the prettiest girls. It’s a status thing. – Martin Compston
I just feel like every kid is growing up too fast and they’re seeing too much. Everything is about sex, and that’s fine for me. I’m not saying I don’t like it. But I don’t think it should be everywhere, where kids are exposed to everything sexual. Because they have to have some innocence; there’s just no innocence left. – Ellen DeGeneres
Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up. – Damien Rice
Having been bullied growing up, it’s something that’s really near and dear to my heart. You probably won’t have many friends on Snapchat if you’re being a jerk. – Evan Spiegel
Rock never meant the same thing to everyone, but when I was growing up in the late seventies, everyone could identify the five, ten bands that formed the center. – Chris Cornell
Growing up as a high jumper, I said if I could ever jump 2.40, I’d be pretty satisfied with my career. It’s definitely a barrier for high jumpers. – Derek Drouin
I was not allowed to talk about being adopted when growing up. I walked around feeling like I was going to explode. – Michael Nyqvist
My dad was a big runner. Growing up, I watched him do half marathons, and he was always running six or seven miles. – Natalie Morales
I was working on ‘Harry Potter’ while I was growing up, and the attention it brought me made me feel quite isolated. – Emma Watson
When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn’t have anything growing up. – Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
I think a lot of guys want a son because of all of the things they do while growing up. A lot of guys want to share those experiences with their own sons. – Eli Manning
