Growing Up Quotes

My mom is a great cook, and family dinners were a must growing up, even if that meant eating at 10 p.m. when my dad got home from the hospital. It's where we did our family bonding.

The most consistent musical experience I had growing up was church music.

Credulity as a character trait is encouraged in every child who grows up with religious training, which invariably insists on the virtue of blind faith and the sinfulness of doubting and questioning.

I look at old interviews and things and they say, 'What do you want to do when you grow up?' I say, 'I want to be a producer.' And I'm really fortunate that I was able to do it.

My family put a lot of emphasis on homework, so there weren't too many comic books or video games for me, when I was growing up.

My mom told me, 'don't grow up too quickly; once you're an adult, you're an adult.'

I don't want my kids growing up believing that there is nothing destructive in the world.

You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.

Adolescence in my growing up period was truly "Happy Days," the title of a TV show connotating the quality of this life period.

I was a very quiet child growing up. I always knew that I was funny - I just never put it to use.

Ever wonder why people are so determined to reach for white picket fences, supposed normalcy, a nuclear family? Well, try growing up without one.

Will you never grow up?" "I doubt it, and I certainly hope not.

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.

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.

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

Barry Goldwater once said ruefully, and I know how he feels. "It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be President . . . except me."

When you grow up poor, you have to either work really hard to try and get where you want to be, or you'll just stay put.

All these kids who are growing up on Skrillex and all this digital music- what are they gonna think when they hear rock'n'roll?

We should make it a crime even to attempt to pollute. Our children should grow up next to parks, not poison.

Whenever I get into a tough situation...I think of growing up, and I say, 'This situation won't be the worst one I've ever been in.

I always wanted to grow up fast. I longed for more than the Mississippi Delta could give.

I was into fantasy more than horror. I was growing up in the mid-'70s through the '80s, and I also got a healthy dose of that classic era of film.

Australia is an island surrounded by water. My fondest memories growing up were trips to the beach, walking around the harbour and playing in the beautiful parks.

My life growing up was a twisted Bronx version of The Color Purple. It had a much different soundtrack and no trees, but that desperation was the same.

I was so happy when I found out I had been drafted by the Yankees. Growing up in Taiwan, I had heard so much about the Yankees but had never even seen them on TV.

Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day.

Growing up is loving what you can afford to.

Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin.

I used to be in love with Sandra Bullock when I was growing up. Sandy B. was my girl. I remember seeing Speed when I was in seventh grade and just thinking, 'That's her.'

I know, I'm like a kid. Maybe I was a bit too spoilt growing up. Everything just came like I wanted it to.

When we are youths in the Dominican, we pick up bats and balls because baseball is part of what we grow up with. The fun feeling you get playing keeps your head up when you encounter difficult times.

Growing up isn't simply getting old... Growing up is when you don't believe anymore.

When she read just now to James, 'and there were numbers of soldiers with kettledrums and trumpets,' and his eyes darkened, she thought, why should they grow up, and lose all that?

There are certain fans who want me to rap about the same exact thing, but it's time to grow up.

When you grow up", I said, "do you ever stop feeling little and weak?" "No," she says. "There's always a little frail and tiny thing inside, no matter how grown-up you are.

There were moments growing up where I felt beautiful, but I truly didn't feel beautiful all of the time until I became a mom. It really allowed me to realize no one is perfect.

[Jo to her mother] I knew there was mischief brewing. I felt it and now it's worse than I imagined. I just wish I could marry Meg myself, and keep her safe in the family.

I reached up with my finger and traced the scar over my eyebrow, remembering when that was the greatest hurt I'd ever known.

Growing up is when you understand you get what you give, not what you're given.

I was a big fan of 'The Smurfs' growing up, even though by default - my mom used to force me to watch because she was a 'Smurfs' fan.

Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.

There’s a different flavor to children’s literature you read after you grow up than there was reading it as a child. Things that were sweet as a child become bitter once you grow up.

When you were too young and naïve to see the risks, I incurred your wrath to protect you. Scream at me for it if you must. Thank me for it when you finally grow up.

I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins.

That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.

Remember, childhood only lasts 10-12 years. There's a lot that has to be squeezed in to make for a lifetime of happy memories. ♥

Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets.

It was a sign of growing up, when the dark made no more difference to you than the day.

Growing up, I had one very specific idea of what a wedding should be, and that was the wedding of Fraulein Maria and Captain von Trapp in 'The Sound of Music.'

The years went by, and Mary Alice and I grew up, Slower than we wanted to, faster than we realized.