Growing Quotes
One of the difficult things about growing older is that you start losing so many friends. On the other hand, the older you get, the less time you have to wait until you see them again.
Just because you’re grown up and then some doesn’t mean settling into the doldrums of predictability. Surprise people. Surprise yourself. (281)
A twenty-three-year-long study in Ohio determined that people who saw growing older as something positive lived a whopping seven and a half years longer than those who didn’t. (356)
The important part of growing older was the growing part. Resisting change meant forever standing still, which was a sad way to live.
They run, they touch, they learn, they play, They listen, they work hard at growing all day.
She swallowed the ridicule & washed it down with criticism, It was far sweeter than the taste of obscurity.
...tears and rain are the same thing, they're meant to wash you clean and make you grow. If you don't let them out, you'll drown inside.
Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being.
Lords of blue and Lords of gold, Lords of wind and waters wild, Lords of time that's growing old, When will come the season mild?When will come blue Madoc's child?
But me They cannot touch, Old age and death. The strange And ignominious end of old Dead folk!
Or maybe they weren’t changing. Maybe they were just now becoming what they had always wanted to be.
One who has passed the thirtieth yearalready is as good as dead--it would be best to kill you off by then.
I'd prefer to die in Texas when I'm old. They say most good things end the same way they started, and that's where I entered the world, so that's how I'll leave it.
Whenever my mum gets depressed about her age, she goes to Paris.
When you're growing up, I think there's this idea that the coolest people are the ones who are really rude and feverish. But I've come to realize that isn't cool.
Growing up, you'd see Michael Jordan on everything from Gatorade to shoes - everything. Obviously, that's something pretty cool for an athlete to aspire to.
A huge thing for me growing up was going to see my favorite bands and feeling like, 'Okay, cool, they proved themselves and did things in a special way.' That's the most important thing.
I did play other sports growing up. I played cricket and all those other things, but I was just so much more talented in golf, and that's all I wanted to do.
I remember growing up, having sports to go to, having recess, those were the things I looked forward to. Yes, I'm an athlete, but I had buddies who weren't, and they looked forward to it, too.
Growing up, all I did was play sports. I always loved music, but I never even thought I'd be on stage one day.
I was on the snowboard team at my school, but that was the only sports team I was on. I played soccer growing up in elementary school.
Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.
Growing up in the '60s and early '70s, with the space flight and the Apollo program, I always loved planes. I always loved rockets and I always loved space travel.
Growing up in Northern California, I've only seen snow at Christmas maybe twice in my life! I was always jealous of my cousins on the East Coast with their white Christmases.
As a very young man growing up in Texas, usually I got a shotgun or cowboy boots for Christmas.
Bullying is something every kid in public, parochial, or private school has witnessed by graduation. While unfortunate, it is part of growing up.
Every single substitute teacher growing up could not pronounce my name, so whenever someone pauses, I'm like, 'Oh, that's me.'
I like to be at a party and be a quiet observer, be in conversation. I wouldn't say I was a class clown growing up, but I would definitely sit back in class and take snipes at the teacher.
Growing up, when I was younger, I didn't feel all that tough or smart or strong. As I got older, I was able to discover my own strength.
My whole life, growing up, I always wanted to be in comedy. I never felt comfortable doing the 'teen hunk' thing.
I've always enjoyed the teen angst thing. I had a lot of teen angst as I was growing up, so I think I have a lot to say about it through characters before I have to move on.
I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
Just growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it's like no other place.
Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that.
Growing up eating fruits and vegetables fresh from our farm added a lot to the way I taste and look at food today, and I wanted the same for my kids and other kids.
When I was growing up, you didn't know there was a women's national team. Now girls grow up dreaming of playing for Canada.
David Letterman was my guy growing up. My parents recorded the tenth anniversary special for me, and I watched it 40 times.
These things have a life of there own and never existed when I was growing up certainly worrying when one would get made. It's kind of amazing how that one movie kept living through all these years.
I was a huge Muppet fan growing up, but that was the extent of my puppet knowledge. I really loved the art form and the whole Henson universe.
I loved Superman growing up. I saw a couple of those movies in the theater, and I watched 'Superman II' 8000 times.
I never was interested in being part of the fashion world - I just wanted to design shoes. I didn't even know 'Vogue' existed when I was growing up. 'Vogue, ' what is that?'
I've got three sisters, five aunties, and my mom. It must have had an influence on me growing up.
I loved theater growing up, and my mom always took us to the touring productions that would come through town. We would go to Chicago all the time and see shows. I loved it.
My dad worked for different companies that made whiskey for a long time, so we were definitely whiskey drinkers. Growing up, my friends would get toy cars, and I would get swag from whisky companies.
