Growing Up Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

Growing up in public is a test, and not many people know how to do it.

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.

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

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

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

As a kid growing up in the back streets of Dublin I used to pretend I was playing in the World Cup with my mates out on the streets, and now I will be doing it for real.

When kids grow up wanting to be you, you matter.

That's the terrible thing about growing up. You lose friends. It's inevitable. It's not like it's a surprise. But it is terrible.

I was bullied as a boy - lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

Growing up in Vancouver, it's not like growing up in Middle America or the middle of Canada. It's a very movie town.

I didn't grow up in a regular upbringing. I ended up at my grandmother's house past a certain age, so I took care of things myself. I moved out of home when I was 16.

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.

You know how you either grow up in a Michael Jackson house or a Prince house? For me it was Michael Jackson. I could never decide whether I wanted to be Michael Jackson or marry him.

What I want to do is, I want to put together a nice list of those guys who I really did admire when I was growing up, listening to names like Lord Finesse.

Growing up in England, of course you do absorb certain ways the royals wave their hands and carry themselves. Like most girls, I fantasized about being some sort of a princess.

Well, in Colombia everybody's very voluptuous, and you're supposed to be. You don't want to be skinny when all of your cousins are mermaids. You grow up thinking that's how beauty is.

Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.

For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn't grow up being told that I was a disabled child.

Oh, children, growing up to be Adventurers into sophistry, Forbear, forbear to be of those That read the rood to learn the rose.

I wish my family had taken more pictures when I was growing up. Instead of always having to draw everything.

They have, and bring with them, that upper-body strength. They have apparently developed that in their childhood and growing up, and they've further advanced in that regard.

I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.

Growing up, the most important thing, after taking care of your family and getting a decent job of work, was having a laugh. That was the point to life.

As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify nothing in the intellectual life of the race.

I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape.

Fashion is in my blood. Growing up, I was always clacking around the house in my mother's shoes.

My family never told me like you have to be one thing. What do you want to be when you grow up? They think it's the most ridiculous question. You can be many, many things.

A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.

You didn't grow up driving...you figured it out.

There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.

You can grow up with literally nothing and you don’t suffer if you know you’re loved and valued.

When young girls are encouraged to explore what they find interesting, they grow up to be interesting women.

I wasn't a wrestling fan growing up; I knew who Hulk Hogan was and stuff but I didn't watch it. I started watching wrestling about three years before I got involved with WCW.

I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up

I instantly connected with the sport and I have fond memories of growing up on my skating rink that my dad made for us in our backyard.

When people have children, they have to grow up!