Growing Up Quotes

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.

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

I was a handful growing up.

I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.

It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.

Growing up is hard, love. Otherwise everyone would do it.

Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.

I don't think I'd have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I'd known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed.

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up.

My dad loves to cook. I'm half Thai, and growing up that's all we ate in my house. My dad was very big on the idea that dinnertime and cooking time was also family time.

If fathers aren't growing up, I would challenge them to want to be a father that is present in the home, so that their kids have that identity.

I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.

Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.

When you mention to people growing up in Cleveland they bring up the river catching on fire, or LeBron James leaving, they have these references, but no one imagines ending up there.

I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.

Being a kid growing up with Kurosawa films and watching Sergio Leone movies just made me love what it could do to you, and how it could influence you - make you dream.

I surrounded myself with women when I was growing up because I had this horrible psycho father. Now I'm trying to really appreciate and like men more.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

Louis: You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die. Claudia: And it means something else too, doesn't it? I shall never ever grow up.

Right now I'm just thinking about school and trying to get those grades and keep them up! In case I become a Norma Desmond when I grow up, I can have something to fall back on!

My father worked on assembly lines in Detroit while I was growing up. Every day, I watched him do what he needed to do to support the family. But he told me, 'Life is short. Do what you want to do.'

Peyton was the best, my favorite quarterback growing up.

When youre asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, you obey that.

I want to be just like Steph when I grow up.

As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.

Reading keeps me sane. Growing up, it was my scape, my alternative; it provided both rebellion and peace.

My mother was a huge Steelers fan, so they were my team growing up.

Growing up I used to love bands like Free and ELO and the Rolling Stones. When Robert Plant got in touch it made perfect sense to me.

As we all know, we're all highly influenced by the atmosphere that our parents create when we're growing up. And, if we do that the right way, that carries on to the next generation.

Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe.

All these child stars grow up and they're knockin' over banks and getting prostitutes. I'm, like, one of the only people I know that has managed to dodge all of that negative crap.

I'm not sure that love and like aren't like cats and dogs: One can't grow up to be the other, but they can be taught to live under the same roof.

Well, Mom and Dad are both actors, and Ive spent a lot of time watching my mom on stage and a lot of time on set with my dad, so it was very much a part of my growing up.

When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church.

Learn everything you can - everything. And then use all that you have learned to grow up too be a wise and good man.

My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.

I feel like life is so special and so great, every year I feel like I learn more, and I grow, and I think it's exciting to grow up.

I didn't know anything about fashion, growing up in Orange County. I just knew about it through music, how ska bands dressed.

The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted.

I would probably say, 'Don't worry so much about stuff as you grow up.'

You're never too old to grow up.

Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.

Now I'm growing and I can see my faults. I can look at myself objectively and say I can't blame anyone else; it was my own damn fault.

Pain is a part of growing-up. It is how we learn.

There needs to be more variety on television so young girls growing up don't feel pressured to look one specific way. Tall, thin, curvy, short, whatever you are, you are beautiful.

I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.

In growing up in Seattle, I don't know a single family that didn't barbecue or cook on the weekends and make its own kind of simple, pared-down, what I call Pacific Northwest cooking.