Growing Quotes

I think that, especially as the kids are growing up, they have so much stuff going on in their own lives, they don't really know how much they're looking at their mom as the big problem

I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.

I think it's such a blessing to be able to have a child, and good and bad, whatever you go through, it's so worth it, and it's such an unbelievable time - you have someone growing inside of you!

We all grow up with anger. It's part of the human condition. But what do you do with that? It seems obvious to me that you've got to use it for something, but you have to separate it from your ego.

I did grow up in New Orleans. I grew up right on the lake, right across the levee.

I'd always been a fan growing up, and in high school, I was really into Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen.

I love Wayne, I respect his talent. I've watched him grow up.

I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.

Saying that you want to be a model when you grow up is akin to saying that you want to win the Powerball when you grow up. It's out of your control and it's awesome — and it's not a career path.

I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.

I was a ballet dancer growing up and that's what I was convinced I would be.

Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.

Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.

I'm not Carl Lewis the athlete any more. I'm growing into a new person with new interests and new goals.

I don't know the answer. Maybe no one knows. Maybe when you grow up, you'll be the first to find out.

Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you grow up it cannot be cured. Chapter 25

[Students] are exposed to many things the majority of their teachers didn't encounter until much later in their growing up years.

There are times in life to grow, and there are times in life to shine. One can't grow and shine at the same time; it just doesn't work that way. Now you're growing. Tomorrow you'll shine.

I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up.

Children do not grow up all of a piece; look for the child of seven, especially to take many backward glances at the way he has come, while bounds and leaps unevenly ahead in his growth.

I feel like it's my responsibility to honestly cover a lot of subjects in part because I have two little girls and I really want them when they grow up to have a voice.

Every single substitute teacher growing up could not pronounce my name, so whenever someone pauses, I'm like, "Oh, that's me."

Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional Baseball player, instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not.

Growing up, my favorite TV show was Star Trek

That might be nice, an extra pair of arms," Jace said. "Handy in a fight." "Not if they're growing out of your..." Dorothea paused and smiled, not without malice. "Neck.

When asked what I'd be if I weren't a writer, I'm tempted to respond with one of father's favorite phrases, one I despised while growing up: "I hate 'what-ifs.'"

I remember growing up knowing I wanted to be on the stage. I wanted to get to London as soon as possible and start auditioning for theater.

Now I'll give you some advice, since you been asking for it. Happiness is like them plants you been yapping about. Sometimes it's growing right in your own backyard and you don't even know it.

I grew up in a sport that didn't allow you to grow up. There was always the threat of younger competition. So you had to maintain the image of youth.

Children need close friends to help them grow up, to discover things about themselves and about life. They also need close friends to keep them sane

Everyone got older but forgot to grow up.

The girls show more skin these days, but I think, generally, they behave the same way as when I was growing up.

A growing number of Muslims in America, more than 40 percent are African-American

There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death.

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!

I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.

I was a theater guy growing up and I wanted to be Al Pacino, and I think I just looked and sounded too funny.

I refuse to grow up. I won't become the adult guy.

I started modeling, doing the Sears catalog kind of thing, then did a lot of commercials when I was growing up.

I want my kids to grow up to be a useful citizen.

It is frustrating, because who wants to grow up and follow their parents?

I have a boyfriend and a dog, and I still haven't figured out what I want to be when I grow up.

I just wanted my daughter to grow up, get married, have children and get divorced like everyone else.

I've always been a strong family advocate. I had a wonderful family growing up

All of us, as we mature and grow up - if we're doing life right - we evolve.

The art world seems so much bigger than it was when I was growing up.

It is important to me to keep trying to push myself to try lots of new musical styles and approaches. To keep growing. It is my version of jumping out of planes.

My father, Arinze Ejiofor , was a musician and a doctor. Nobody's ever asked me about that combination and what growing up in that environment was like.

Id never really considered film. If Id thought about film more growing up, I probably would have changed my name. I had no concept of my name in lights.