Growing Up Quotes

The trick is, when you grow up, find work that feels like play.

I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

Sometimes, growing up, I tried to be very Latina; I would change my voice... experiment with my hair a lot, trying to figure out who I was in a primarily white school.

If you don't grow up by age 35, you don't have to.

I feel like confidence is something that ebbs and flows. I was given a lot of love and attention from my family growing up, so for sure I had a natural confidence.

As a kid I was into horror. I loved horror. Horror was huge. I was always into horror. Goosebumps for me was massive growing up. Horror for me was always a big thing.

The audience and I are friends. They allowed me to grow up with them. I've let them down several times. They've let me down several times. But we're all family.

When I was a kid, they'd say, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" kids would go Wonder Woman, an astronaut. Do you know what I always said? World domination - so we're on our way.

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

Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from the sciences to music to writing to literature.

Rugrats was my favorite cartoon growing up as a kid.

It was great for me getting a chance to grow up as a normal kid just out of the spotlight, versus all of them growing up in New York. They always had that intense media and spotlight on them.

Many dogs grow up without rules or boundaries. They need exercise, discipline and affection in that order.

To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents.

Growing up crowds your mind with new thoughts and new feelings so that you forget how you used to think and feel.

Everyone said to me growing up, "You're like an American. You have to go to America. That's your spiritual home."

I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.

I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.

Home was not the place where you were born but the place you created yourself, where you did not need to explain, where you finally became what you were.

I loved scary movies growing up.

As exciting, difficult, and memorable as our past can be, there comes a time when we have to get on with living.

I'm glad I was faced with different cultures when I was growing up because I wasn't fazed by it. It has been a huge benefit to me; I feel comfortable wherever I go.

The hardest part of growing up is learning how to wait

Growing up in Jersey City was interesting. I got to learn a lot about different cultures: I had Hindu friends, Middle Eastern friends, black friends, Spanish friends.

I get so annoyed at people not looking after their parents. The deal is when we are growing up they look after us and as they grow older we look after them. That's the deal.

I was actually a huge tomboy growing up.

Sometimes, she thought, life makes you grow up early. And some people never grow up at all.

Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading children.

It was great growing up a nomad. To this day I still love hiking and back packing.

When Asian people grow up fast they go to college at 13. White people grow up fast it's about fudge packing and triple D's at 13.

Washington is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals are deplorable. Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.

I loved growing up in Canada. It’s a great place to grow up, because - well, at least where I grew up -it’s very multicultural. There’s also good health care and a good education system.

We grow up being told, "Be a good girl." When you're told to be good, you have to get rid of whatever is bad.

There was a nobility in poverty when I was growing up. My mom was poor but she was planting roses and she was cleaning the steps, you know what I mean. You didn't feel sorry for yourself.

Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken.

You can't grow up without taking a few knocks on the way. All parents know that, but children when they're growing up, they take some knocks, and nasty knocks sometimes if they've been too protected.

When I was growing up in comedy, there were maybe 10 comics in the whole country. Everyone had a day job. You worked free for years in little clubs, then you got your big break and became a star.

I didn't grow up with my dad, so it was always very funny to me, and always has been, what an important part DNA plays in one's life.

Isn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair?

I'm really enjoying growing up. I feel like so much of my life was in an existential crisis when I was young, and I don't feel as bogged down by that anymore.

When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because he had such a confidence and a single mission that was so intimate.

I loved Lucille Ball growing up.

I'm a huge candy fan. My favorite growing up was always Sour Belts or Sour Straws.

The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child.

All my closest friends are the ones I made while in college or who knew me growing up. They keep me grounded, and I adore that about them.

There's a lot of negative messaging and it beats on you after a while. And people are growing up with that stuff and they start believing it themselves.

Growing up, I watched shows such as 'Blackadder' and 'Monty Python' with my parents.

Makes you grow up quick. Hard work makes you strong. I work hard every day; that's where I get my strength. That and knowing who I am.

I never read comics growing up. I didn't have money and I don't like to touch paper.

When I was growing up, I said I wanted to be a model, but people said I had no chance and when I realized my ambition, people in the business still continued to state negative stuff.