Growing Up Quotes

When I was growing up in the south Indian city of Madras, there were only two political parties that mattered; one was run by a former matinee idol, and the other was run by his former screenwriter.

I had a lot of growing and a lot of denying of self to do. I am not easily won over, but when I am, I am completely won over.

Growing up in Paterson wasn't the easiest thing.

I have the power of my height. Growing up, it was a total drawback. There was nothing good about it at all.

I think that growing up is something that you should do gradually.

Next? Growing up to be Clint Eastwood, I hope.

I haven't had a lot of celebrities around me growing up.

The master never seemed to have his fill of gazing at his firstborn child. "What do you want him to be when he grows up?" someone asked. "Outrageously happy," said the master.

I was an Elvis freak. That's all I listened to growing up.

My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music.

Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes.

Everybody knows it hurts to grow up...and we're still fighting it.

Everyone, when you're a teenager and you're growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it's not.

When you grow up surrounded by willful ignorance, you have to believe that mercy has it's own country and that it's round and borderless.

I was very, very into animation when I was growing up. The Simpsons is still my favorite show. I have a really strong connection to it.

Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author.

As I got older, I got into all kinds of things in the streets - but for some reason, I never got caught up with the gangs growing up. Everybody dug me, man. I never had problems.

I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.

L.A. Woman is amazing, but when I was growing up I was into the Who.

I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era.

Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.

I didn't see a ton of movies growing up.

Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.

Growing old is not growing up.

I certainly and deliberately introduced a great deal of variety into the people in the clamshell, which I suppose grows out of growing up in an individualistic society we profess to have.

I wasn't really a big comic book guy, growing up. I watched cartoons, but the choices were a whole heck of a lot slimmer.

When I was growing up, Green Day had just come out.

The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded me

Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.

I never tire of the heroes that I knew growing up.

I am my father's daughter. It was not up to me growing up. I was his hunting and fishing buddy, so I've been shooting my whole life.

We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business. And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.

I've always dreamed of growing up to be Amy Poehler.

I want to live 50 more years. I'm 33 years old... and I want to live to at least be 80 and see my kids grow up and see my grandkids. That's important to me.

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought up to revere rules. Without rules, there was only anarchy.

I wasn't a kid growing up thinking, 'One day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech.' That wasn't on my mind.

Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.

The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.

How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother?

Although some people will say it's a cliché, I think not having had a father when I was growing up affect me negatively because I didn't have a good role model to follow.

Young women grow up in a really negative world today online and in person.

I had the choice to either grow up and find God in the situation or become bitter. I chose to find God. And I experienced freedom like I never knew before.

I sometimes read that it's time for German democracy to finally grow up. I don't see it as a sign of maturity if we treat military missions as something normal.

I think the problem with growing up and idealizing self-destructive artists is that you only see the beauty they created rather than all the pain that went along with it.

In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.

I think that's what growing up is all about. It's about taking on new responsibilities and learning what you can handle, and learning what you can't.

I was not very strong growing up, and my uncle used to look at me, like, This kid is not growing up, he is growing tall but he can be broken like a banana.

I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up.

When I grow up I wanna be like Omar