Growing Up Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

Growing up I had a lot of really negative energy in my life from people that were in my life, so I know to how to stand up for myself.

I think that's good that I have to watch how I act and what I say. I think that's a part of growing up.

I never had that many friends growing up so I learned to be okay with just me.

My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.

Harmony has always come very natural to us because we started singing harmony at an early age. We heard a lot of different music growing up.

Well, the stuff that I liked growing up was AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, but I also liked the Beatles and guys like Cat Stevens and Elton John.

I was looking for a last name that was a first name. Growing up, I knew a kid who was the most obnoxious kid I ever knew, and his last name was Herman.

If you like cats and have some, you get kittens; and if you like kittens and enjoy having them about, they grow up and you get more cats.

But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it.

I often heard about his cases and I often sat in on his trials. In the late 1960s when I was growing up I wanted to be a crusader like him but I didn't want to wear a suit and commute.

I had a great time with baseball growing up. I was lucky to grow up with it and to learn.

Growing up in England, people told you why you couldn't do things. Suddenly, I had a publisher banging on my door, and was given the creative green light to simply make.

I need to stop carving out four-hour chunks to do random things and go home and watch my children grow up.

Initially with The Butcher Boy, there was this kid growing up in this strange, weird environment that I remember from when I was a kid. And Patrick's vision was so complete there.

Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.

Something awful happens to a person who grows up as a creative kid and suddenly finds no creative outlet as an adult.

Extreme patience and persistence are required, Yet everybody succeeds at this before being handed The surprise box lunch of the rest of his life.

Values hold the team together, provide stability for the team to grow upon, measure the team's performance, give direction and guidance and attract like-minded people.

It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.

If the eye is constantly greeted by harmonious objects, having elegance of form and color, a standard of taste naturally grows up.

Sometimes, life threw up problems that even the wisest, most trusted mentor couldn't solve for you. It was part of the pain of growing up. And having to stand by and watch was part of being a mentor.

I'm a family guy. A lot of my songs are inspired by my kids. Simple relationships. Watching them grow up, watching them share experiences with me and vice versa.

I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts.

These younger kids - I think growing up with social media, they're just savvy.

The women I liked when I was growing up, as a little boy, were Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, because they had these curvaceous figures, and they were erotic to me.

If you're not sure you could love your children, please don't have them, because they might grow up and kill us.

I think that Phish has been a band, we've all had- I've had a great life growing up and everybody in my band's had a really good life, none of us have got anything to complain about at all.

Something has happened where you almost never grow up in America. Maybe it's the greater wealth.

Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.

Growing up listening to rap music, you almost feel like you should have haters. That's an important part of being a successful musician. It's a good thing, I guess.

You always have that moment where you grow up and you're like, "Oh, my god, I'm being exactly like my mother." I think that's everyone's greatest hope and worst fear.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music

For kids growing up now, there's no difference watching 'Avatar' on an iPad or watching YouTube on TV or watching 'Game of Thrones' on their computer. It's all content. It's just story.

I didn't read comics, growing up. I watched a lot of movies, and those were my comic books. And then, my exposure really increased by becoming affiliated with Spider-Man.

I was working on 'Harry Potter' while I was growing up, and the attention it brought me made me feel quite isolated.

I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.

When I was growing up there was a product made by Sony called the Sony Walkman - a rage, everyone had to have one. Well, you don't hear about the Walkman anymore.

I didn't grow up thinking I was pretty; there was always a prettier girl than me. So I learned to be smart and tried to be funny and develop the inside of me, because I felt like that's what I had.

Growing up, I would say Wonder Woman and Nancy Drew were definite role models for me. Historically, I know Amelia Earhart stands out for me.

I was able to grow up and do silly things and have a life with only a small amount of public scrutiny.

She's been through growing up without a mother & makes my heart all of a sudden.

Please tell me we don't grow up and turn into the adults that drive us crazy.

All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.

A new culture can only grow up in the soil of a purged humanity.

Sometimes, when you grow up in one of these poverty-stricken neighborhoods where the educational system isn't the best, you don't realize that you have any choices.