Growing Up Quotes

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.

I love being Canadian. I think growing up in Canada gives you a world perspective that I certainly enjoy.

We need to stop telling girls they can be anything they want when they grow up. Because it would have never occurred to them that they couldn't.

Ozzy is a powerful and attractive man. When I grow up I want to be Ozzy.

I have made plenty of mistakes. The key to life is to learn from them. I have been a little too introspective, but I think that stemmed from insecurity or shyness. I took a long time to grow up.

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

How I grew to believe Black hair has power, genius, and magic in it, defying gravity and limitation. I mean, look at how marvelous it is: Black hair grows up and out.

Don't waste your youth growing up.

When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became.

Once you grow up and discover yourself as a human being you look at things for what they are.

A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write songs like, "What I'm going to do if I grow up".

Growing up takes longer than you think.

Its OK to grow up, just as long as you don't grow old. Face it you are young.

Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male.

The sense of being led by an unseen hand which takes mine, while another hand reaches ahead and prepares the way, grows upon me daily.

Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything.

When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters.

I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital world, and they speak social.

We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.

Care about your children. Just bless them instead of worrying, as every child is the little Buddha who helps his parents to grow up.

Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.

As an African American child growing up in the segregated South, I was told, one way or another, almost every day of my life, that I wasn't as good as a white child.

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.

Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.

I want to be simple. I think that we try - and we think when we grow up - that we have the truth, because we experience and stuff. But that bullsh*t actually.

If we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then the boy can grow up and become truly masculine.

There is more danger of numerical sequences continued indefinitely than of trees growing up to heaven. Each will some time reach its greatest height.

The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.

You know it's said that you make your own face. So you don't really have a face until you are 30 or your mid-20s. When you are starting to grow up and show your character in your face.

I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say.

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

To call the police is a really big deal because you don't snitch - that's the culture you grow up in.

We need to let our children grow up to face the world armed with knowledge, with much more knowledge than we ourselves had at their age. It is scary, but the alternative is worse.

By empowering a woman, we empower a child. By educating a girl child, we make it possible for her to grow up to become an empowered woman.

You know, when I was a kid, I always thought Id grow up to be a hero.

As you become more successful, the gender barrier disappears. The credibility challenges you have during your growing up years starts disappearing when you start demonstrating success.

Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun

No-one wants to grow up and be a Gary Neville.

The reason adults should look as though they are having fun, is to give kids a reason to want to grow up.

When I was growing up, I always knew I'd be in the top of my class in math, and that gave me a lot of self-confidence.

As I learned from growing up, you don't mess with your grandmother.

I was painfully shy when I was younger but at some point you've gotta grow up. I think the genius in the man-boy thing is you tap into a woman's motherly instincts.

You have to grow up, start paying the rent and have your heart broken before you understand country.

We're never going to escape the idea of being young. Which I don't mind myself. I mean, who wants to grow up anyway?