Growing Up Quotes

Growing Up Quote of the day

You score goals as a kid. Then you grow up stupid and become a goalkeeper.

I thought highly of myself growing up. I still do. There's not really much somebody can say to me to bring down my confidence or anything.

One of these days we're gonna have to grow up, have to get real jobs and be adults, someday, just not today.

I'm never going to grow up. Staying young is what it is all about for me.

Growing up too fast and I do recall, Wishin' time would stop right in it's tracks.

All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?

That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up.

Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.

Working with UNICEF made me grow up and recognize how fortunate I am.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

Tall, thin, curvy, short – whatever you are, you are beautiful.

So much of growing up is an unbearable waiting. A constant longing for another time. Another season.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar” story is about hope. You, like the little caterpillar, will grow up, unfold your wings and fly off into the future

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.

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted.

Growing up on a dairy farm, you certainly learn discipline and a commitment to purpose.

I never had a lot of friends growing up so having this insane amount of love and support really means a lot to me.

A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.

Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.

When you grow up in a totally segregated society, where everybody around you believes that segregation is proper, you have a hard time. You can't believe how much it's a part of your thinking.

My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.

Even though you're growing up, you should never stop having fun.

I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the door as soon as I turned 18.

People ask me from time to time what it was like growing up with Henry Fonda as my father. I say, Ever see Fort Apache? He was like Colonel Thursday.

Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influences early on but Otis Redding was the one person who made me wanna sing myself.

I just never want to completely grow up.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

Growing up, I was a nerd. With actual taped eyeglasses.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

We need not only read Sacred Scripture, but learn it as well and grow up in it. Realize that nothing is written in Scripture unnecessarily. Not to read Sacred Scripture is a great evil.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you,'

The thing about growing up with Fred and George," said Ginny thoughtfully, "is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

I hope, if you should live to grow up, you will endeavour to be very useful and not spend all your time in pleasing yourself.

I don't want to grow up,' Tom Waits said it. I live it. I put myself in a position to be a kid as long as I want to. I play loud music and scream for a living.

Rock and roll doesn't allow you to grow up - especially if you're not trying very hard to.

Evanescence fans aren't the popular kids in school. They aren't the cheerleaders. It's the art kids and the nerds and the kids who grow up to be the most interesting creative people.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic.

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

I still don't know what it really means to grow up. However, if I happen to meet you, one day in the future, by then, I want to become someone you can be proud to know.