Growing Up Quotes

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

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

Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief.

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

When I grow up I am going to be a ballerina. I will be in Giselle. It will be so much fun being a ballerina.

Look at pictures of me growing up. It wasn't always the way it is now. It was a bumpy road for me.

We don't like to kill our unborn; we need them to grow up and fight our wars.

You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up.

Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you're going to have years of failure.

Where'd the days go, when all we did was play? And the stress that we were under wasn't stress at all just a run and a jump into a harmless fall

I didn't grow up acting. I really just started, literally, when I was 18. I just feel like it's a thing of always just experiencing it and growing, as a person.

We all get misinformation growing up about people who are different from ourselves.

I don't like my physique. Who does? I was a skinny guy growing up, and I still feel like that same skinny kid.

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.

Our children will grow up confused, not respecting the Bible or anything else that is sacred.

God's ultimate goal for your life on earth is not comfort, but character development. He wants you to grow up spiritually and become like Christ.

A mustache really defines your face. My dad had a mustache when I was growing up, and I can still remember when he shaved it, he looked like a completely different person.

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

There used to be a time when the idea of heroes was important. People grew up sharing those myths and legends and ideals. Now they grow up sharing McDonalds and Disneyland.

Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.

Growing up in Atlanta I always had a sense of what fashion was, a sense of style - my parents always talked about the importance of making a first impression and that's stayed with me.

People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up

I didnt grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, Ive never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.

I did grow up watching Buck Rogers and Buck Rogers didn't stop at Mars. In my lifetime, I will be incredibly disappointed if we have not at least reached Mars.

Growing up, it was tough to balance, but looking back I appreciate my parents' efforts to make sure I was well-rounded.

In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.

Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas

Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

Why is a caterpillar wrapped in silk while it changes into a butterfly? So the other caterpillars can't hear the screams. Change hurts

And when you're poor, you grow up fast.

Growing up, I felt insecure about my build. I didn't feel very feminine. But as time went on, I learned to completely embrace my body.

My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.

The question isn't so much "Are you parenting the right way?" as it is: "Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?"

I think as you grow up, you realize you have obligations just in your life - being a citizen, being part of humanity - to help other people, to help your country, to help the world.

What's gotten in the way of education in the United States is a theory of social engineering that says there is ONE RIGHT WAY to proceed with growing up.

Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.

Too old to die young, and too young to grow up.

But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out of yearning, of passion, of all intensities of the soul?

Growing up I didn't have curvy role models, mainly because I didn't see enough curvy women represented in major ads.

As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed.

When you're growing up, you play dress-up - it's a game, it's a pastime. And then as you get older, getting ready and looking nice becomes this constant stress. I want to make it fun again.

We're all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up.

A square egg in a dish of lentils won't make a marrow bend with the wind, nor will it make rhubarb grow up the milkmaid's leg.

I just like being a kid. I enjoy it, I don't want to grow up.

A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Artists are a very important part of our society because they make a great contribution to our values. The artist creates a value system that we all grow up on, whether we know it or not.

I feel like it's okay for us to grow up because a lot of us want to get rich and die young.