Growing Up Quotes

None of us really grow up. All we ever do is learn how to behave in public.

That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.

Hell, when I was growing up, I could make a meal out of a package of Top Ramen and a bottle of Windex.

Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional.

I want my son to grow up in a place where the people are more powerful than the government and not the other way around.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Remember that your ultimate goal is for your children to grow up secure in your love, strong in their faith, and with sound character.

You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap.

I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration.

I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.

Raising children, be aware that the piles and piles of laundry will disappear all too soon and that you will, to your surprise, miss them profoundly.

Oh I love horror movies, yeah. I think my favorite movie growing up was 'The Omen.' I actually wanted to be that little kid.

If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult.

When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up.

That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.

Growing up, I wish I hadn't tried so hard to fit in. I'd tell myself to just embrace what you were born with because it's beautiful and you were made like that for a reason.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

We have a cultural notion that if children were not engineered, if we did not manipulate them, they would grow up as beasts in the field. This is the wildest fallacy in the world.

I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot.

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog.

I've always had to prove myself to people growing up. I had to show them that I could do this and I could do that and paying no mind to what the critics said.

My grandchildren are growing up and they could not understand why the Marcoses are still being crucified although we keep on telling them that we did not steal from the Filipino people.

I want my grandkids to grow up in the great outdoors. The last thing I want is for them to grow up to be nerds.

Growing up, I had a very busy social life. It wasn't until I was a sophomore in high school that I asked Mama if I could come into the kitchen and have her teach me how to cook something.

Growing up in Rhode Island, my friends would have strung me up if I had been a Yankees fan.

Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.

You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.

I grew up as a very sarcastic person. I was always the class clown, and to date girls I had to be really funny. I was really skinny growing up.

Although we didn't have much when I was growing up in Split, Croatia, my parents always tried to ensure that my sister and I had the things we needed, and it was enough for us.

Just being at home, growing up naturally, and being here now with my video and my music, I think people realize that I was in the Spice Girls 8 years ago.

That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.

I played hockey in North Dakota growing up and watch a lot of that.

When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.

Age is no guarantee of maturity.

Part of growing up is realizing you learn to love so many people. It's about forming those relationships and finding what will last forever.

Part of growing up is not waiting in line at a hipster breakfast restaurant. The eggs taste the same across the street. I promise.

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

Part of growing up spiritually is learning to be grateful for all things, even our difficulties, disappointments, failures and humiliations.

My access to music when I was growing up was through pirate radio, you know, transistor radio under the pillow, listening to one more and then 'just one more' until your favourite track comes on.

Life is amazing, life is odd. Life is not what you expected it to be. Things happen... Growing up takes longer than you think.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

No matter where you are or where you grow up, you always go through the same awkward moments of being a teenager and growing up and trying to figure out who you are.

Anyone who has not known that inestimable privilege can possibly realize what good fortune it is to grow up in a home where there are grandparents.

Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.

After working for 14 years on Wall Street and growing up in a family with strong roots in small business, I know how important the entrepreneurial spirit is to attaining the American dream.