Growing Up Quotes

Death was a big part of my life growing up. I went to lots of funerals.

I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up.

You grow up trying to interpret, worshipping, visual symbols. It's a body-soaked imagery that you're looking at.

I did gymnastics when I was growing up and to this day I can still do the splits.

My dream in growing up in the city of Detroit was to be Mayor. At the family picnics from the time I was 9-years-old that's what I told people I was going to be. The mayor of the city of Detroit.

Growing up, I took so many cues from books. They taught me most of what I knew about what people did, about how to behave. They were my teachers and my advisers.

I don't grow up. In me is the small child of my early days.

We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.

Growing up there are always those kids who are only happy when they are making someone else upset. That is unfortunately just how some people are. Some people are just born with bad wiring.

Growing up, I always dreamed of winning an NBA championship, never a gold. A gold was something that never crossed my mind.

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

I was a nerd growing up, and I'm a little antisocial and awkward.

Young people are often asked, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' and given advice about how to lead meaningful adult lives, but where's the encouragement to lead meaningful lives right now?

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind.

If you want to grow up to be a big, strong pea, you have to eat your candy," Papa Pea would say.

My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.

If you begin to face your fears, something bittersweet is going to happen to you: You'll grow up.

Growing up, I knew you were supposed to have a profession - and something better than being a shopkeeper, which is what my parents were.

A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.

The world is divided between kids who grow up wanting to be their parents and those like us, who grow up wanting to be anything but. Neither group ever succeeds.

I'm an Asian guy growing up in London so I see myself as British, but India is part of my culture.

These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here

I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way.

I believe that children have to grow up as all-round personalities, but it cannot be at the cost of academics.

I love live music. I love going to the event. And to know them as people and to have seen the Grateful Dead grow up and become who they are is so incredibly special.

I had a lot of reading problems growing up.

This is what I've learned, in my life: Headbanging is crucial. Growing up is hard to do. There's nothing wrong with wearing a dress.

Maybe staying single meant that you never had to grow up.

Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.

If you had a son, it would be a great thing to have him grow up to be just like Gil Hodges.

Don't be too eager to grow up. It ain't as much fun as it looks

So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!

I was always that girl growing up who you could find dancing down supermarket aisles. It's that sense of not feeling inhibited. Dancing in supermarkets is my favorite thing.

A lot of children grow up in poverty with flawed parents, but their inner world is still as inherently filled with wonder and innocence as children who are kept away from the city's underbelly.

But I'm warning you, we're growing up.

I won't sit down And I won't shut up And most of all I will not grow up

I want girls to know that its okay when they grow up and their bodychanges.

Today the sort of thing for a guy in England growing up is that you have to suppress all your emotions. It's almost like you have to sit back and be cool.

I love the old movies from my past, when I was growing up. I just have a special place in my heart for them. They kind of feel like comfort food to me, so watching them is just cozy and warm.

Grow up, Donald Trump. Grow up. Time to be an adult. You're president. You gotta do something. Show us what you have.

I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else, or as smart, or whatever.

Dear Math, please grow up and solve your own problems. I'm tired of solving them for you. Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

To grow up requires a whole life but to become old one night is enough.

We can be better, we can be wiser, we can be more kind. Yes we have to change. We have to grow up and stop acting like 10 years old. Yes there is much to do, much to see, much to go into.

Growing up, watching the Premier League as far back as I can remember, feeling the trophy and having the medal around my neck was an unbelievable feeling.

Growing up, you look at guys like Jeff Thomson as heroes, so going past him is pretty special.

I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.

Growing up at my grandmother's table, she always had rice. She might do something as exotic as potatoes or spaghetti, but there was still always rice, just in case you needed a little rice fix.

I feel like I've started to grow up and be more of a woman instead of this crazy girl.