Growing Quotes

I think people who struggle to define themselves might never be satisfied because there is no definition. Living with responsibility is important, but I don't really think you have to grow up.

I think the way I approach things has something to do with growing up and seeing my parents go to work every day.

I talk about role models a lot and wanting to be a role model for kids around me because I didn't have that growing up.

I think USA Cycling really needs to ride this wave and start looking at growing the sport. It's a tough one because cycling is such an endurance sport.

Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings, lest they grow up expecting peace and order, and be eaten alive.

Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.

I definitely think that movies have the possibility to be something positive, and are really becoming teaching tools for a lot of kids growing up.

The worst thing that could happen to a filmmaker is growing up wanting to be a filmmaker.

Some wounds cut us so deep that they stop us. Stop us from letting go, from growing up, from seeing the truth.

Everyone wants to grow up to be a faerie princess. Trust me, It's overrated

In Hollywood, you grow up quick.

Many people's unhappiness is rooted in the habitual role they play. While our family role may have made sense growing up, it often wreaks havoc in our adult lives.

The whole point of growing up is learning to stay on the laughing side.

All this time, I thought we were growing apart because I was leaving Lena behind. But really it was the reverse. She was learning to lie. She was learning to love.

I am growing stronger. I am a stone being excavated by the slow passage of water; I am wood charred by a fire.

I see a good marriage as being like two tall trees growing beside each other, each nourishing the grace of the other.

I was raised on The Beatles. I loved Led Zeppelin growing up. Judy Garland. Doris Day. That's where things began. I took a lot from the '60s and maybe from the '40s or '50s as well.

We hated Cleveland growing up. There's a lot of people in Cleveland we still hate to this day.

Every little kid wants to grow up to be a cowboy, and I did.

Most of us, if we are truly honest with ourselves, have an ever-evolving and ever-growing list of what we think we must change in order to be at peace or to be happy.

People say 'nerd' condescendingly, but when you're older you start to realize that it's the nerds who grow up to be the cool ones.

When I was growing up, there were no cell phones and no roads into the bush, and so if something happened to your plane, that was serious. Nobody was coming to rescue you.

I don't think many kids question their surroundings. Everything seems so permanent and inevitable growing up, even chaos.

I am accomplishing so much on a personal level now, breaking down boundaries and growing in to the person I want to be. Right now I am the change I want to see it the world - that makes me happy!

I grew up in Winnipeg, in the Canadian midwest, the fifth child. It was a great household to grow up in - I was loved to sweet death.

My parents were very supportive when I was growing up and have been all the way through.

I'd always been quite quiet growing up, and singing was a way of having a voice.

Growing up in Hollywood, like I did, I have a passion and a love for the movies, so I go to the cinema all the time.

As a little kid growing up in Hollywood, I was called 'a little crazy'. And now I guess I'm still that way.

A person cannot grow up through happiness. Happiness makes a person shallow. It is only through suffering that we grow up, transform, and come to a better understanding of life.

The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.

Love in its early stages rarely maintains a level, it always seems to be growing or diminishing.

I watched a few of Warren Beatty films when I was growing up...my Dad loved 'Heaven Can Wait.'

My mom brought me up on old Hollywood. I had been living in Los Angeles. Respecting old movies and growing up with people that were icons that I got to speak to.

I've only ever known growing up across different countries - to me it's just fun.

Snow White has always been one of my favorite fairy tales growing up. To be able to say, "I'm going to be Snow White" - it's crazy. It's an honor.

Growing up I always used to shop in Oxfam. I'd find things for 50p and then take them home, cut them up and make them into something new.

Growing up in Michigan was fine...until I realized where I was.

I did grow up with a really big interest in math and science; I liked it.

I know that in my past I was young and irresponsible - but that's what growing up is. You learn from your mistakes.

Even growing up, I was always the helper-outer, the sous-chef to my parents.

I danced growing up. I had two friends of mine that, actually, one of them wound up dancing with Alvin Ailey.

My memoir is about my time in film and the decision to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.

Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life.

Growing up, I stayed in a child's place. My father was murdered when I was 20. I was a model and never had a real job and my parents took care of me.

There is a certain expectation of girls to eventually grow up and behave and fall in line. I've always bucked against that.

Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.

As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor

Growing up with my dad being a musician, it seemed like a male centric world to me. I just didn't know many girls playing guitar.

A cluttered refrigerator door is to a growing family what a wet nose is to a healthy dog.