Growing Up Quotes

I just didn't work that much while the kids were growing up.

When you're a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury, a frivolity, like a bubble bath.

I'm not trying to be like what I thought an NBA player is supposed to be growing up.

I still feel like I have a lot of growing up to do 'til I find the voice. You know, everybody has their own voice and their own thing they want to say to the world.

I can't tell you how many people would say to me as a teenager, 'Why don't you grow up and start thinking about getting a real job?

Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.

Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy.

I had a ton of animals; I had a goat growing up, a bunch of rabbits, a vegetable garden.

If I ever grow up, I don't want to be around for it.

Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.

I spent years growing up being told what my sexuality was.

Beauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up.

If my musical tastes are continuing to grow up, and I am not really too interested in the music that my kids listen to, then I assume that the audience is doing the same.

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.

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.

Just being young and growing up in this business is hard. Just growing up in general is hard.

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

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

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.

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

You're never too old to grow up.

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

What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

I don't see what the point is in growing up.

Helpless lust and unreasoning anxiety were just part of growing up.

At that age you think boys have as much personality as coat hangers and, you don't notice their looks. Then you grow up.

I am still into the people I listened to growing up, so I completely remember what is like to be a fan, I haven't changed.

My teacher asked me what I want to be when I grow up, I said happy. She told me I don't understand the assignment, I told her she doesn't understand life.

I think society had to grow up to the mentality of Peter Norman.

Growing up, I looked up to real women. I didn't go in for hero worship and I still don't. Everybody has feet of clay.

Growing up means leaving home and becoming a self supporting adult. I think this the hardest task any human being hast to face.

It seems like the more you grow up the more you fear things.

I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.

The way I survived growing up in Jersey City was by being funny. It wasn't by being tough. Nobody thought of me as a tough kid, except for the kids I beat up.

Growing up, I was a very shy, wallflower type. I was not a nerd, but not popular. I was just invisible, like that person you probably didn't know you were in school with.

I am an Asian designer. I was born in Taiwan. That is who I am. But I am a designer, like any designer of any race. Growing up in the '80s in Taiwan, the arts were not considered a career.

It's not always easy growing up in an inner-city area, but in my music I want to show people that you can turn it into something positive.

I was very independent growing up, but there were things that were bothering me that I never told anybody. I would talk to our animals at home.

Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English.

Blaming your faults on your nature does not change the nature of your faults. After growing up on a dairy farm, everything in life seemed easy

The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.

We can't have everything! It took a lot of growing up for me to realize this unalterable fact and to discipline myself into accepting it.

There's something about strength that I really admire, that I failed to see a lot of when I was growing up.

I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody.

Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get by.

When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs.

I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama school, it was with the intention of becoming an actor afterwards.

My first instrument was an accordion. Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage.

The Canadian kid who wants to grow up to be Prime Minister isn't thinking big, he is setting a limit to his ambitions rather early.