Growing Up Quotes

Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.

Part of me is still waiting to grow up, to be an adult, and the other part knows there is no such thing.

If you asked me, parents were supposed to affect the life of their child in such a way that the child grows up to be responsible, able to participate in life and in community.

When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.

Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.

I am actually a big sissy, and growing up, I never used to watch horror movies. Bambi gave me nightmares.

I just want my fans to grow up and enjoy the music first, I don't want to change the world that's not what my music is about.

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.

In a democracy, every little wrong idea may grow up to become national policy.

Etymology: from Latin ad-, "to" + visum, past participle of videre, "to see". Advice is what you get from your parents when you are growing up, and from your children when you are growing old.

When you're in a broken family and your role model is a violent male, boys grow up believing that's the way they're supposed to act. And girls think that's an accepted way men will treat them.

When my sister and I were growing up, she was made out to be the goody-goody one.

I'm appalled at how many people my age, or even five or ten years younger, have no tangible memories of important history that happened when we were growing up.

I thought that we were all like trees, flexible youths, saplings, who grow up heavy and stiff, spread seeds and get chopped down and turned into notebook paper.

I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.

When I was growing up, my mom told me every story that was happening to her. Most of the stories that come to me are through a female voice in my head. My stories seem to naturally be about females.

I wish friends held hands more often, like the children I see on the streets sometimes. I'm not sure why we have to grow up and get embarrassed about it.

I grew up in New York, in the Village, and I started going to Stella Adler pretty young. I was 13 or 14 years old. But I was also really shy when I was growing up.

Growing up gorilla is just like any other kind of growing up. You make mistakes. You play. You learn. You do it all over again.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on.

She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.

And, as my father used to tell me growing up, "Play it beautiful, play it beautiful." He said, "I don't care if you don't hit all of the notes. If you don't move a person's heart, it's not music."

Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there's always a library.

Acting is a child's prerogative. Children are born to act. Usually, people grow up and out of it. Actors always seem to me to be people who never quite did grow out of it.

My dream in growing up in the city of Detroit was to be Mayor. At the family picnics from the time I was 9-years-old that's what I told people I was going to be. The mayor of the city of Detroit.

Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up

I did gymnastics when I was growing up and to this day I can still do the splits.

You cannot compare your athletic achievement to the importance of children and giving them a safe environment in which to grow up and enjoy life.

You grow up trying to interpret, worshipping, visual symbols. It's a body-soaked imagery that you're looking at.

A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man.

I didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up.

I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up.

Growing up, I didn't dream of being nothing, of living in the ghetto my whole life. I wanted to get out.

Death was a big part of my life growing up. I went to lots of funerals.

Visits to 'the country' were very important to me growing up, especially working on the farm, experiencing all the wonders of cats and chickens and pigs and calves and outhouses!

I'm a tulip in a cup. I stand no chance of growing up

There's a pigeon's nest on the branch of the tree outside the window. A chick is growing up in it. I'm happy about that

Growing up, I always had two interests and two passions; one being public service and the other being the arts and acting.

I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

Growing up, theres a lot of pressure to be normal. But normal isnt as fun as being yourself.

I watched 'A Chorus Line' over and over when I was growing up, to the point that I was able to recite the entire movie.

I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.

It's like our daddies and moms always used to tell us growing up, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you earn.

Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism... Resist growing up!

I didn't grow up with money, but I grew up with a lot of space. All I did was surf. I was committed to the ocean. That's one thing about Australians; we have the capacity to embrace life.

For me when I was growing up, some of the happiest times were when we went to a small island called Nantucket off Massachusetts.

Having loved the Stones all the time I was growing up, I wasn't about to see them go and split up. It got very close to it in the 80s, when Mick thought that Keith hated him and vice versa.

Either you get a chance to be a kid when you are a kid, or you don't grow up.