Growing Up Quotes

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.

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

When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.

I have two older sisters and one older brother and hold them largely responsible for the trouble I got into growing up. I believe as the youngest child, that is my right.

I was in lots of dodgy bands growing up and I always fancied myself in a band. But, you know, I was rubbish at writing music. So maybe one day I'll play a rock star, or punk rocker.

If you're a white kid growing up and you see a Black player and he's got the name of your college or your town across his chest, that means something.

God cares most not about making us comfortable, but about teaching us to hate our transgressions and to grow up spiritually to love him.

After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don't know how you're going to be in six months, you don't know what you're going to want, what you're going to need.

I have a lot of growing up to do. But I think, 'Hell, is it too late?'

Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more.

My dad is my everything. He always had the craziest speeches for Kylie [Jenner] and me growing up, good words to live by.

When I was growing up they used to say, "Robin, drugs can kill you." Now that I'm 58 my doctor's telling me, "Robin, you need drugs to live." I realize now that my doctor is also my dealer.

I've never had siblings, I didn't grow up in a big family; it was just me and my single mom. And hectic family dysfunction was actually something that I craved.

I wanted to be a concert pianist at Carnegie Hall; that is what I wanted to do from really early on. I actually was the accompanist for a couple of the musicals I was in growing up.

When I was growing up, I always knew that if I ever got anything, I was going to give back as much as I can. I learned that all you have to be willing to do is give your time.

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.

There are two types of Chinese growing up in America. One is the kind that does really well in school, with thick, thick glasses. And the other is involved with the gangs.

One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.

I was a lifeguard. It was my summer job growing up, and I never saved anyone. I never had to, thank goodness.

We are growing up. We are growing up! Out of the idiocies - the ignorances of racism and sexism and ageism and all those ignorances.

Despite being what would now be called a deprived child in a one parent family, I did not grow up with an urge to smash windows or to bash old ladies over the head in order to steal handbags.

Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.

The woman who creates and sustains a home, and under whose hands children grow up to be strong and pure men and women, is a creator second only to God.

I think there comes a point where you have to grow up and get over yourself, lighten up…and forgive

Growing up, my brother and I were begging for attention.

I had to grow up and learn to listen for the unspoken as well as the spoken-and to know a truth.

When I grow up I would like to be an artist in France.

Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career.

Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times.

I get enough sleep. I take very good care of myself. Growing up as a dancer, you know your body so well, you know what to do to overcome something.

When I grow up I want to be just like Benny Carter!

Men at any age truly never grow up. All, no matter what importance they may have attained, are still no more than little boys.

I wasn't attractive when I was growing up, and I don't think I am now.

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.

Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.

To grow up in intimate association with nature - animal and vegetable - is an irreplaceable form of wealth and culture.

Even during my father's 1984 gubernatorial campaign, it was, 'Do you want to grow up and be governor one day?' 'No. I am four.'

If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up.

When one does look up at the grand trees growing up almost to the sky, one does always have longings to pray.

With three boys in the house, my mother was always on us when growing up about keeping our faces clean, washing behind our ears, and brushing our teeth. So I still take my morning routine seriously.

When I grow up, I still want to be a director.

I kind of do this awkward body language because, growing up, I had a really hard time expressing myself vocally.

I refuse to totally grow up. I've always been someone who says and does things that push politically correct boundaries.

Growing up as a kid, there were so many people that I disliked, I daydreamed about hurting them. Hell just seemed like a good place for all of them to go. Unfortunately, I don't believe it exists.

I definitely love kimchi. The biggest influence that eating so much Korean food growing up had on me was that I have no limit for spiciness. The hotter the better.

We can choose this moment of crisis to ask and answer the big questions of society's evolution — like, what do we want to be when we grow up?

My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.