Growing Up Quotes

I didn't even know Vogue existed when I was growing up.

I learned the word non-conformist in fourth grade and immediately announced that I would grow up to become one.

Women want the fairytale. Not all women, of course, but most women grow up dreaming about the kind of man who would risk everything for them, even knowing they might get hurt.

My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee and Fats Domino are the classics, they're the best songs ever.

Over the years, you grow up, you mature and you see things in a different way, and it's reflected in the writing.

Most of us grow up with a sense of "I'm not intelligent enough." It's such a sad thing that in the West we worship a certain kind of left-brain intelligence.

For me, it's good fortune to be between two cultures. Growing up in Germany taught me a lot. I am a world citizen. Today I can adapt well no matter where I am. Even when it's not always easy.

I played pretty darn competitive-level hockey. Then the good old knee injury. Obviously, it's a blessing in disguise, but growing up Canadian, that's our religion, that's our football.

I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.

Im pretty shy when I go home because I was pretty shy growing up, and I think I go back to that person.

I don't think I ate a green vegetable until I was 30. I didn't grow up with a mom who enforced that at all.

As a kid growing up in Southern California, I was a frequent visitor to the Disneyland and developed a deep love of the magic and wonder of Disney.

Igby was a really good opportunity for me to grow up. The cast was great.

I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me. We agree to disagree.

Caring about the environment has always been a big part of my life. When you grow up in a really beautiful place and you hear that it is jeopardised you want to do something.

At school I'd want to be so small that nobody could see me, and so my work depicts and reflects me - what it felt like to grow up in a world of pain.

Growing up as a kid, the back of my house faced a little community airport about four or five miles from my house.

My two favorite musicals growing up in were 'Annie' and 'Sweeney Todd,' and my best friend and I would sing all the songs when I was a kid.

I used to play hockey when I was growing up. Everyone sort of learns how to skate and play hockey at an early age.

In our culture, we grow up thinking that failure is a terrible thing, that it's a setback, or worse, the end. Often it turns out to be the beginning of something better.

My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get.

I've always been the goofy kid. Growing up, I always enjoyed the comedic aspect of relating to women. Even on camera, it was always the funny take on it.

Come back when you grow up girl, you're still living in a paper doll world.

When I was growing up, I installed refrigerators in supermarkets. My father was an electrical engineer.

When people talk about how in America, anybody can grow up to be President, I'm not sure George Bush is exactly what they had in mind.

How could they let me grow up like that—happy and pink and stupid?

I was very introverted growing up and I had small circle of friends. Any opportunity I got to rap or articulate things through rhyme or hip hop was great for me.

Growing up in the Pacific Northwest as a young girl, whenever I felt emotionally overwhelmed, I would take a walk in the woods. Being in the stillness and grandeur of trees had always calmed me.

the real reason I had wanted to grow up, the main reason I had been willing to even consider becoming an adult, was so I could have as many pets as I wanted.

Growing up I always shopped at Victoria's Secret with my mom and saw Angels like Gisele and Karolina Kurkova in the windows.

I was a total nerd growing up. I'd rather sit home and read a novel on New Year's Eve and say, 'Wow, I read the whole thing in one night!' That was my idea of a big time.

Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that.

I grew up going to school and high school and then shooting a movie for a few months. It's an odd way to grow up and is kind of forced maturity.

Growing up, I thought wearing a suit was a burden.

The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.

Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.

I was a huge 'Bewitched' fan growing up.

I definitely knew that I loved acting from the very beginning. I was such a ham growing up. Wherever the camera was, I wanted to be right in front of it.

Mere physical growing up, mere mastery of the bare necessities of subsistence will not suffice to reproduce the life of the group. Deliberate effort and the taking of thoughtful pains are required.

Everybody grows up with comedy. I mean, Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing.

My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.

I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.

If you grow up where a snow mountain lifts its proud crown on the home horizon, in some strange way it becomes a member of the family.

No adult can bear a child’s burden or grow up in his stead.

I always felt the Jewish part more. In fact, growing up I felt like a Jew among WASPs. My brother is more decidedly Waspy.

Growing up, Santa Claus would cover the presents with a white blanket, so when we'd wake up Christmas morning, we had to wait for my dad to do the big reveal of all the presents Santa brought.

I'm in a position now where I can play certain roles and when I get older, I won't be able to. So, I don't have a strategy of trying to grow up too quick, I just want to kind of look at everything.

I didn't grow up with my Kenyan family. I grew up in a small, conservative suburb of Chicago.

I grew up singing in Kansas. My dad had a band when I was growing up. So I sang in church and school and started singing with his band when I was seven. So I've been singing all my life.

I had to grow up fast. I had a lot of obstacles to overcome. It made me a lot stronger, growing up like that.