Growing Up Quotes

The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following.

There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.

Where else but in America can a poor black man like Michael Jackson grow up to be a rich white woman?

I'm very close to my parents and we built a sailboat together when I was growing up. We're partners.

I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to Led Zeppelin, either. We all probably obsessed over the same old blues records growing up.

Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.

Equestrian and sailing are sports for people growing up on the mean streets of Connecticut.

Everything you do is autobiographical. Yeah, I grew up in a town called Redding and I had older brothers and sisters so it's all my memories of growing up.

There have been times I almost got a persecution complex. I felt like people wouldn't let me grow up. They always saw me as a smiling kid or goofy teenager, no matter how much I'd changed.

Dancing was always part of my culture growing up in Barbados. When I shot my 1st video I worked really hard with my choreographer to perfect the routines.

I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical.

You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books.

I have been a harmony enthusiast since I was a child, singing in choir and with friends growing up. I always put a ton of harmonies on my demos.

When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.

I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.

I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years.

Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.

I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done.

Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing up in Central Africa I read all Haggard's African novels.

I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days.

I know what's it's like to grow up with ADHD and how important it is for parents, caregivers and patients, to have access to accurate information.

There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify.

Overseas, kids grow up in a soccer culture. The German player sees the game eons above the American player the same age.

Acting never crossed my mind for a moment when I was growing up.

It's just a fact of life. Everybody grows up and goes through changes, and our audience has seen it all.

I'm not sure anyone - and I could be wrong in this - grows up thinking, I want to be a single mom.

But I was so wrapped up in sports growing up as a kid, that I think I was going to grow to be a pro ball player. But I found out real quick that was not going to happen.

I mean, I grew up riding. I can't ever remember not being able to ride or rope and all that stuff. It was part of my life growing up, so it was fun for me.

Anyone who grows up with parents who are very influential, there are cases where people run away from that if they have parents who are really lame.

It's hard for bands to stick it out because people grow up, and it never really pays off. If you're looking for some sort of payoff, it's not gonna happen

Our purpose is to grow up and become love

Don't you ever grow up, it could stay this simple.

How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?

I want to marry her, when I grow up to be a man.

When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar.

I'm a huge fan of the animated film 'The Land Before Time' and that was one of my favourite animated films when I was growing up.

Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.

It's so funny how my name has always been such a big deal. When I was growing up, my family was always moving. I had to meet new people all the time. And they'd laugh.

Love teaches you to care for others. It also gives you your best chance to grow up.

Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there.

I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.

I was so poor growing up...if I wasn't a boy...I'd have nothing to play with.

There were a lot of bad feelings when Lindsey first left the band. But there's been a lot of healing going on, growing up, maturing. The bond is a great deal stronger than what we first thought.

Never try to grow up too fast, but don't linger in the child you were

I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my favorite sport.

Our moral imperative is to work with all our powers for that day when the children of the world grow up without the fear of nuclear war.

When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he ever hired: 'Is your goal to be a head football coach?

I'm not sure what we're running from. Nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up. Getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if running we won't have to get on with our lives.

As a kid growing up in the little city of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, I dreamed of one day playing in the NHL, but never did I expect it to be as much fun as it turned out to be.

I wish I could freeze time or go back in time and watch my kids grow up all over again because it is just going by too fast.