Growing Quotes

I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.

One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.

I wanted to be an Olympic swimmer when I was growing up.

It's a wonderful opportunity to be part of a child's growing up, which is always an endless springtime. You see the blossoming and the growing and the nurturing and the payoff.

Of course you keep telling yourself there's something to be learned from everything, and growing old shouldn't be that hard. That's the general drift.

Hopefully, one enhances [when growing older] his sense of humor. As he approaches 50, he'll need all the humor he can get.

I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.

and nobody knows what’s going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old

Don't regret growing older...remember that a lot of sugar is to be found at the bottom of the cup.

Growing up, I was prone to anxiety.

When I was growing up, you sort of did the unthinkable. You did something that has never really been replicated.

Growing old is not a thing to watch. It cannot be forgiven in others. Alone, it can be borne. Even indulged.

When I was growing up, I was always on stage but I loved other things.

I was an athlete when I was growing up.

When I was growing up in the '60s I would have thought that westerns would last forever.

The spirit of Route 66 is in the details: every scratch on a fender, every curl of paint on a weathered billboard, every blade of grass growing up through a cracked street.

I took tap classes growing up.

Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?

I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old.

My favorites growing up were always Billy Joel, Michael Jackson... and Placido Domingo.

I did every sport under the sun while growing up.

Life seemed so simple and joyous when I was growing up.

Growing up, Michael Jordan was my Olympic hero.

I actually was the accompanist for a couple of the musicals I was in growing up.

I had to learnto sew when I was growing up, because nothing else fitted me.

He's stuck with me and I'm stuck with him. We're stuck. That's what growing up is all about, I guess.

It's always a struggle growing up in Akron.

Growing up, I was taught a mans word is his bond.

Growing up, I was always really shy about my body.

Never complain about growing old... Some never have the privilege.

I was a competitive guy growing up.

We cannot avoid growing old; but we can avoid growing cold.

Growing old is, of all things we experience, that which takes the most courage, and at a time when we have the least resources, especially with which to meet frustration.

When I was growing up, I lived in a neighborhood that was largely Latino and I thought I was Latino!

Even with the best intentions, growing apart might just be an inevitable part of growing up.

I'm not scared of growing old, I'm just scared of not achieving everything that I want to do.

I had a lovely time growing up.

I didn't spend much time with my parents when I was growing up.

I was obsessed with football when I was growing up.

Growing up, I thought I'd have at least five kids.

I didn't watch a lot of TV growing up.

It’s part of growing up, I suppose…you always have to leave something behind you.

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

Growing up as an amateur, I wasn't much of a power puncher. I was more of a speed guy.

Growing up, I never thought about the thing called money.

Thats because, like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesnt teach; it merely brings us a sense of weariness and of growing older.

Growing up I had a real disconnect with the planet.

In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.

When you're growing up, you want to feel part of something.