Growing Quotes

When you grow up in America things like Christianity waters down your feeling... When you're taught to love everybody, taught to love you're enemies, what value does that put on love?

Everything I was afraid of when I was growing up, I've become. I've taken on my nightmares, like the devil and the end of the world, and I've become those things.

I was never happy as a child, so it wasn't something I took for granted.i did'nt grow up as an average, american child. An average child grows up with an expectation of being happy.

[On middle age:] ... the very real possibility for you of growing fat as you near death and thus being seen by everyone while you are both DEAD AND FAT.

When you grow up--and from the look of things, you have awhile--but you learn things never go back to normal simply because everyone's sorry. Sorry is ridiculous.

Teacher: What do you want to be when you grow up? Marji: I'll be a prophet.

Hypertext is an idea. The Internet is a medium. They grow up beside each other, they influence each other, and their evolving relationship will probably provide a great story for future biographers.

But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose.

I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.

Although investors have been concerned with China's slowing growth rate, China remains one of the largest and fastest-growing economies in the world.

Growing up, I used to watch Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, All in the Family. Those were the shows I watched growing up with my family. And, believe it or not, McMillan and Wife and Columbo.

It's not fair that a Palestinian child cannot grow up in a state of their own, living their entire lives in the presence of a foreign army that controls the movements of the parents every single day.

I wasn't ready to write my own songs when I was in my early 20s. I'm still growing but I definitely grew because of my experiences on the road and in the studio.

I would tell everyone to go to college, no matter what. It gives you time to grow up.

No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and beautiful.

Boston didn't always have the best reputation, nor did I, growing up in Boston, as a kid with challenges and obstacles in front of me.

There is a banking adage that if it's growing like a weed, it's a good chance that it's a weed.

It's so important to raise people to grow up to be who they are and not be forced to be who they're not. What an awful thing to do to people - it's like being in prison.

I think that there's got to be a comic gene in some way, but it's so much about it is how you grow up.

Growing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death.

I'm trying not to let the anger and the violence that erupt take over my life. I guess it comes with the growing process, I don't know. A little mellowing.

I can't say I was much of a gamer growing up or that I am now, but I'm certainly part of that culture or it's part of, you know, the sort of time that I grew up in.

Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

When we were growing up, our mother taught us never to have your belly button exposed.

The imaginary audience for my life is growing small and silent.

I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth.

Growing up as a mixed-race kid myself, when you are in the middle of it and you're young...you don't think about it consciously. It's your reality.

Growing up in Boston, I was always Matt, Son of Former New England Patriot Don. And then when my brother Tim was a senior in high school, I became Matt, Brother of Tim.

One of the things that's fun about that is that sometimes you grow up knowing about someone because they were famous, but you don't really know what they were like before they were famous.

I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.

When you grow up, you're told that rock 'n' roll is the only authentic way to express yourself. Live instrumentation, singer, live drums. You're told that's the best medium to communicate.

No one will guide you in the right direction, in the end you have to learn for yourself. You have to grow up yourself.

You have two numbers in your age when you are ten. It's the beginning of growing up.

Growing up is like taking down the sides of your house and letting strangers walk in.

“How does one grow up?” I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause; then she answered, “By thinking.”

The beginner hugs his infant poem to him and does not want it to grow up. But you may have to break your poem to remake it.

Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist is to keep on growing.

Everyone grows old but not everyone grows up.

I am convinced that most people do not grow up ... our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias.

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older.

I think that the notion of justice and the issues and values that I understood growing up and [have] continued to embrace throughout my life and into my career have been the same.

To grow up with the loss of your mother is a scar that never goes away.

I still have a fantasy of being a musician when I grow up.

I grew up in Ann Arbor, about 25 miles west of Detroit. And when you grow up in that area, you get a healthy dose of Motown automatically.

I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul, Motown, jazz, Frank Sinatra, everything.

Independent contractors - a rapidly growing piece of the workforce - can often achieve the best quality of life. They can choose from where they work, whom they work for and for how long.

We can all agree that first loves can be a scary thing, and that growing up is hard to do.

So Sophos thinks you're going to marry me." "While I think you'll marry Sophos." "I might. We'll see what he's like when he grows up.

When I was in 10th grade, I took one of those tests that's supposed to tell you what you should be when you grow up. The test told me that I should be a journalist.