Growing Up Quotes

In my entire life growing up I've never heard my dad say an unkind word about anyone. My father has always taken the high road in life and to me he's a complete inspiration without being a pushover.

I'm 36 years old, and I'm growing up. Little by little.

My personal style has developed from growing up in Oklahoma, middle America, where I was wearing jeans and cowboy boots and where people were not running around in miniskirts.

We are all powerless as children, and money looms so powerfully... we don't grow up to claim our financial power until we look money directly in the eye, face our fears, and claim that power back.

My experience in growing up in Scientology is that it is both mentally and at times physically abusive.

Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up.

I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.

Maybe, there's a moment growing up when something peels back... Maybe, maybe, we look for secrets because we can't believe our minds...

Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic: Those are sort of three layers of repression.

I think it's very important not to grow up with the unhealthy amount of attention that is sometimes put on people because they are 'actors'.

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.

Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children.

When I grow up I wanna be like Omar

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.

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

Growing up in a multicultural family, I never really felt that I was different - even though I was from most of the kids in my school. Especially with music, I try to just approach it as an equal.

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 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 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.

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 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.

I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.

I was a huge fantasy geek growing up. I was the dungeon master in my D&D game.

When it came to music growing up, it wasn't just gospel and R&B. My uncle brought rock 'n' roll to me when I was younger, and I loved it. I was open to all music.

If one person starts crying, I'll cry. If one person has no money, I'll give them mine. If I had a bicycle growing up, I always felt incredibly guilty when I see someone sitting at the bus stop.

I was mostly into comedies, growing up. That still will always be my favorite thing.

Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.

I was always small. I was a leadoff hitter growing up, until I was 13 or 14 years old and had a little growth spurt and started hitting home runs.

I tried to make it as real for them as possible. The thing about being reality is that reality is not always fun. They did a big piece of growing up that day.

You grow up watching certain films or admiring certain filmmakers, and to write a love letter to one and have them validate it, it's extraordinary.

Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.

When you're a little kid, growing up, most of us know what's right and wrong. Our parents teach us that discipline.

The little boy who goes to the store and forgets what his mother sent him for, will probably grow up to be a congressman.

As you grow up and get educated in the business, you go from, 'I want to do movies' to 'I want to work. In whatever.

I love my dad. He used to be a professional wrestler in Mexico. So it was cool growing up with him, because when he hit us, he didn't really hit us.

I didn't have any pets growing up.

Here's to Never Growing up

Growing up, I absolutely loved skateboarding and dirt bike riding with my brother and the neighborhood kids.

Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.

I didn't have the worst childhood, but I didn't have the best, and when you grow up like that, you have certain limitations invariably stuck inside you. Slipknot was a way to work it out.

Growing up, I was always the small guy.

Growing up in Jamaica, the Pentecostal church wasn't that fiery thing you might think. It was very British, very proper. Hymns. No dancing. Very quiet. Very fundamental.

My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids wont grow up to be connected to him.

When you're in an industry where you're forced to grow up so quickly, part of you never grows up, and that's a good thing.

I think people talk about one love, but there is the need to love and the need to be loved are not the same thing and I suppose that's... and it's working that out is part of growing up.

My parents were of the opinion, because they had started skating very young, that you should have something that you do that you care about, because it structures your life as you're growing up.

I have decided that maybe I want to write when I grow up. I just don't know what I would write.

The Poplar grows up straight and tall, The Pear-tree spreads along the wall

For me, my voice and music was always an outlet. Growing up in an unstable environment and whatnot, music was my only real escape.