Growing Up Quotes

Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up.

Everyone is always surprised by how old I am. They think I'm older, but it's always been that way. I'm the youngest of four - maybe you grow up quicker because you just watch the big people.

Magic Johnson was my favorite player growing up.

Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.

The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does.

I like growing up; I feel like I have an old soul. I like the age to match as much as it can.

Students should not only be trained to live in a democracy when they grow up; they should have the chance to live in one today.

It's like running away to join the circus, everyone wants to do it when they're young but then you grow up and get a proper job. But somebody's got to do it or you wouldn't have the circus.

we can surmount the anger we feel. To find oneself like a young tree inside a tomb is to discover the power to crack the tomb and grow up to any height.

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

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

If our children were to grow up truthful they much be taught by those who had a regard for truth; and not just a casual regard, a delicate regard. On this point we were adamant.

To be honest, I was kind of a shy kid growing up.

Being a complete juvenile delinquent helped me grow up a little.

A huge part of my passion for the sport comes from being Canadian and growing up watching Hockey Night in Canada on CBC with my parents and siblings.

When I was growing up in East Germay, everyone said there was no God. So I started looking for it myself.

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.

Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest - learning when it was better to lie, rather than to hurt someone with the truth.

humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies. one of the biggest lies in the story of humanity is the lie of our imperfection.

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

I think everyone has their awkward phases. Growing up isn't easy for everyone.

Growing up, I was such a picky eater. I'm finally starting to expand.

I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.

At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future.

Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives.

I attempt to be who I am and it's fun. At the same time, growing up doing what I'm doing can be a little crazy.

Growing up, I was in love with Jennifer Aniston from Friends.

There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.

We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all grow up and the rules we choose to write as a society don't matter at all.

I'm from a middle class family. I didn't grow-up rich, but I didn't grow-up poor. Each guy has to stick to his own story.

I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't.

I want to be a Huntress when I grow up!" shouted a voice from the throng. Kyna rolled her eyes and shook her head. "You can't be a Huntress, Liam. You're not a centaur and you're not a female.

We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.

It was nice growing up with someone like you - someone to lean on, someone to count on.

I can safely say that I had an incredibly difficult and trying past growing up and trying to be an artist and standing up as who I am in this world.

If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!

Dr. Barney stared at me, his lips puckered. What was he so serious about? Who hasn’t thought about killing themselves, as a kid? How can you grow up in this world and not think about it?

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.

Growing up poor, I didn't even have a lunch to take to school.

I think kids growing up, if they were picked on and feeling inferior at 12, they're going to feel that way at 72. You just deal with it better. I'm serious.

Growing up in the church in West Virginia, faith is always there. It's part of the fabric of the culture.

If you grow up in the suburbs, you hear of people dying of old age, car wrecks, cancer. In the city, it's always people dying of violence or stray bullets.

I am Peter Pan. He represents youth, childhood, never growing up, magic, flying.

I don't want to grow up, I want to grow down

The toughest thing for me was growing up and being stared at and being looked at and being talked about in that particular way. Other than that it was a good childhood.

...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.

It was a hard name having growing up as a child. Some kids would call me names like "Birbiglebug" and "Birbibliography" and "Faggot". Some were more clever than others.

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.

Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.