Growing Up Quotes
Remember when you're young and you think your dad is Superman? And then you grow up and realized he's just a drunk who wears a cape.
We are too quickly losing important landscapes in this country to development - and I worry that if we do not act to protect them now, future generations will grow up in a profoundly different world.
It's all about self-esteem now. Build the kids' self-esteem, make them feel good about themselves. If everybody grows up with high self-esteem, who's gonna dance in our strip-clubs?
After working for 14 years on Wall Street and growing up in a family with strong roots in small business, I know how important the entrepreneurial spirit is to attaining the American dream.
I always said that, when I grow up, I want to be like Joss Whedon: I want to have my own world.
I've grown up, everyone's got to grow up. But there's something inside me, I'm always going to have that little sort of, how do you say, child streak.
All persons who bear the blessed title of parent have the personal responsibility to see that their children are growing up fully appreciative of the rights of God and their fellowmen.
When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn't like it.
I played futsal growing up in Baurd. In futsal you need to think quick and play quick so its easier for you when you move to normal football.
I think that’s the lesson you learn in life. As you get older you realize you’re never going to grow up and you’re never going to be ready. And you may, as well, do things now, don’t wait
It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
The main source of good discipline is growing up in a loving family, being loved and learning to love in return.
Growing up I had lots of role models. Looking back, my parents were my first role models.
I used to skip school to go there when I was growing up in Newark, ... I saw the Flamingos, the Heartbeats, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Jackson.
Sports teaches you very important lessons that are many and varied. It's probably the closest thing to the lessons we learned in fighting and warfare, about loyalty and growing up.
Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.
Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.
Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again
You have to give them unconditional love. They need to know that even if they screw up, you love them. You don't want them to grow up and resent you or, even worse, parent the way you parented them.
You never know what's going on in somebody's mind. There's a lot of pressure on someone growing up. You have to watch it.
I think age is terribly overrated. You're okay as long as you don't grow up. By all means grow old, but don't mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.
Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.
When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.
I was having a good time before, but you grow up after a couple years and realize, "I can't get drunk like this every night." Things change.
It's okay to grow up, it's just slowing down that's the scary part. Running out of time. It's okay to grow up, but it doesn't mean you have to become like your parents.
It's essential that a part of you not grow up. Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty.
If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.
I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere.
Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up.
Teddy, Vern, Chris: I don't shut up. I grow up. And when I look at you, I throw up. Aghhh! Gordie: And then your mom goes around the corner and she licks it up.
Growing up, I realized that fame is not what you think it is. It's a little bizarre. You have to learn how to cope with that and figure out who you are.
That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks.
A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand?
All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.
Respect children because they're human beings and they deserve respect, and they'll grow up to be better people.
I prefer being able to see my opponent. It is just different for me; I didn't grow up with the internet age really.
PUNK IS: the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to reason and ask questions.
I love being Canadian. I think growing up in Canada gives you a world perspective that I certainly enjoy.
I think everyone should pursue their dreams. Whether you want to play football, act, sing, become a writer or whatever you have burning inside you as you’re growing up, you should pursue it.
