Growing Up Quotes

I don't speak French, but I took it for five years growing up. So, if I were in a situation where I had to be, like, 'Excuse me, pineapple dog house red, what time is it library?' - no problem.

Fashion has always been in my life, thanks to my mother and my aunt growing up. I think as I became an adult, my style evolved, and my love of fashion evolved even more.

I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up.

I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.

Growing up in the streets of Bed-Stuy, it was hard, yo.

I missed my dad a lot growing up, even though we were together as a family. My dad was really a workaholic. And he was always working.

Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.

Any time you can have your logo or your name on a shoe, growing up that's a dream come true.

I never really did sports growing up. Maybe that's why they intrigue me. The technology that goes into that clothing is steps ahead, so it's always been something I look towards.

A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all.

There is a sort of mythology that grows up about what happened, which is different from what really did happen.

Mental illness was a family secret. This patient had four children grow up in foster homes, and they never knew her. It was heart-wrenching for her granddaughter to find this out.

To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.

When we look at that jingoism and the sexism and the racism and the homophobia, that's not who we are, and that's not the country that I want my daughter to grow up in.

Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try.

When you're growing up in a family without a lot of money and four boys, it can't always be, 'Let's go see a specialist, see if you're okay.' If you got hurt, you just walked it off.

You deal. You survive. You grow up and you build a career. And you remember these big/little hardships. They make you human.

I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.

Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples.

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

My writing is consistently influenced by everything I watched and listened to growing up, so it's just this crazy collage of everything.

I've been trying to grow up some myself, in my heart, and it's happening quick and I feel good about it, and I want that to come out in the music.

Love and appreciate your parents. We are often so busy growing up; we forget they are also growing old.

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

It's funny, because music is one of those things it is natural to go into. You hear it so much growing up, it kind of permeates you and eventually you spew out some music of your own.

When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.

When I was growing up in Montana I had two dreams: I wanted to be a paleontologist and I wanted to have a pet dinosaur and so that's what I've been striving for all of my life.

Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.

When you grow up, your heart dies.

I'm terrified of growing up. Once you become an adult, how to you step back from that? It's something that wakes me up at night.

When I was a kid a growing up in Ontario, Canada, Lake Erie was so polluted, I never thought it would ever, EVER be turned around where they could start cleaning it out in my lifetime!

Growing up with two sisters, you either play by yourself or play Barbie with them. I played by myself.

To grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable.

Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child

Growing up is scary because it happens without you knowing it.

Growing up, my idols were Lucky Luke and Jolly Jumper. And Scottie Pippen.

My parents were always clear with my brothers and I when we were growing up that you have to have the courage of your convictions and that when you commit to something you must fully commit.

New Jersey shaped who and what I am. Growing up in Jersey gave you all the advantages of New York, but you were in its shadow. Anyone who's come from here will tell you that same story.

Growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something.

The Flaming Lips have been on Warner Bros. forever, and certainly everything I heard growing up was on a major label in some way, from the Cure to Radiohead to Bjork.

People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!

Charles Barkley, I used to watch him growing up. Then I met him. He was a big teddy bear.

I was obsessed with Jim Carrey growing up. It's why I wanted to become an actor.

Track and field was very big when I was growing up.

Giving up something that no longer serves a purpose, or protects you, or helps you, isn’t giving up at all, it’s growing up.

We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up.

When you're growing up, you just take what you've got.

I am so grateful to be a writer. I hope every child grows up and finds something to do that will seem important and that will seem precious. Happy living and, especially, happy playing.

Holiness is the very principle of eternal life, the very beginning of eternal life in the heart, and that which will certainly grow up to eternal life.