Growing Up Quotes

The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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

I had a lot of reading problems growing up.

The key to growing up well, is being tough enough.

That which happens to the soil when it ceases to be cultivated by the social man happens to man himself when he foolishly forsakes society for solitude; the brambles grow up in his desert heart.

I want to teach my daughter the importance of exercising and eating healthy as she grows up.

I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go.

I did not grow up with people, you know, pounding in my head, 'This is what you've got to do, this is what you're going to do.

Life should be a continual celebration, a festival of lights the whole year round. Only then can you grow up, can you blossom.

Mum and dad were very much friends, and up to life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up, they just taught me to be me.

Growing up I always loved films that transport you to another world and has things you never see in every day life.

When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.

Children have a right to grow up in a family with a father and a mother.

A better thing to grow up with is to be funny I think, and if I had, if I had my choice I would still pick that.

Sometimes I feel like the Tom Hanks character in Big. But my life is not a movie. I never have to go back to Coney Island to find the fortune-teller machine so I have to grow up again.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be 'sexy,' even before I knew what the word was.

Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.

Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.

When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.

To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.

[Flying kite with my friends] is one of the seminal memories of growing up for me.

Growing up, I was obsessed with Michael Jackson. I saw him at Wembley when I was 7 years old, it was my first proper show. He was like a god to me.

Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood.

All children, except one, grow up.

My mom, who gave me my confidence growing up. She's the one that always told me that I could be great and to never stop. And myself. Because I came such a long way.

I used to watch my grandmother make fancy, Julia Child-style beef bourguignon. And growing up in New York City, I was exposed to many cultures. I experimented with Puerto Rican and Jamaican food.

If you find yourself perplexed, or perhaps in a quandary, remember that human growth is perpendicular. We grow up and we grow forward, we just have to keep on growing steadily in both ways.

I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.

Growing up with my dad taught me to either lie like a pro or not bother.

Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.

As he was growing up, his family moved and lived in a number of different places in Utah, Arizona, and Wyoming. I didn't know then that moving around so much should have been a problem, so it wasn't.

The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.

One of the best feelings I had growing up was being completely exhausted at the end of the day after playing outside all day.

I didn't grow up thinking, 'Oh, maybe someday I'm going to have a shoe named after me.'

What is it with folks always talking about where they're from? You could grow up in a muddy ditch, but if it's your muddy ditch, then it's gotta be the swellest muddy ditch ever.

I might grow old in Brisbane, but I would never grow up.

I never really lived outside of the city growing up, but I'm always looking in between the lines of the city, and I magnetize over to the green spots.

I didn't really watch action films growing up! I grew up on stuff like 'Anne of Green Gables' - that was more when I was in elementary school. It was all I ever watched.