Growing Up Quotes

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.

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

When men are growing up and they're reading about Batman, Spiderman, Superman ... those are not fantasies ... they're options.

I did not grow up with silver spoon in my mouth.

Let's face it, we were all once three-year-olds who stood in the middle of the living room and everybody thought we were so adorable. Only some of us grow up and get paid for it.

In reality, I never want to grow up.

I definitely know that I'm quirky. I know that I'm different. Red hair definitely made me different growing up.

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.

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

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.

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

I've always been really hot on westerns. All my life growing up, cowboy, cowboy, cowboy.

I believe in soulmates, especially growing up and seeing how much my parents loved each other. They always said that they had been married in past lives, too.

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.

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.

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.

When I was growing up, my parents always told me that I had to do what I thought was right and not listen to other people. That was hard for me.

Coming from California and growing up where I did, I've always had a fondness for and innate sensitivity to light, texture, and warmth.

I didn't see a lot of comic books growing up.

I had to find a relationship with someone who could simultaneously make me grow up and keep me forever young.

I'm only waiting for my wife to grow up.

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

I have 8-year-old twins, and I want them to grow up in a world where they can be anyone they want without any shame, without holding back, without being judged for it.

When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen.

I was born when my dad was 50... It's weird growing up with a dad that much older than you. We'd go to the movies, we're both getting discounts.

Growing up, the two things that made my blood boil were religious intolerance and animal cruelty. I’ve never understood it. I can’t stand to have an animal in pain.

Grow up. Get a life. Life is pain. Anybody who tells you something other than that is trying to sell you something.

Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie.

To grow up without risk is to risk not growing up.

I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director.

I was the little kid growing up. I wasn't picked on because, honestly, I was fast, so I could run away from the bullies.

When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.

The child needs a helping hand or he'll grow up to be an angry young man some day.

Everything is so dreamy when you are young. After you grow up it kind of becomes -- just real.

I'm totally growing up.

I was actually a huge tomboy growing up.

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.

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.

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.

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

I didn't grow up in a traditional family, and I never had a family dinner around the table, so whenever I actually had a dinner 'plan,' it meant a lot to me; it made me feel excited and safe.

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.

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.

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

I loved Lucille Ball growing up.

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.

All these teenagers tell us how much they want to grow up and then when they do they want to be young again.

My mom was really busy when I was growing up, but she did a really good job in terms of balancing her home life with her professional life. She basically took me everywhere.

When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only white man in this unit full of black men.