Growing Up Quotes

He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times.

You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls.

I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying.

I was just a big fan of tattoos always growing up, and I wanted something cool that symbolizes what I've been through in my life, and everything on my chest and my back is like a collage.

Most of our parents wanted the best for us, I knew, but we also wanted the best for them.

I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.

I was going to be a memory when I grew up.

Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own.

We were still at the age when girls are years older than guy, and the guys grow up by doing their best when the girls need them to.

She has given me a way out.

He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.

Like everyone I slipped into adulthood like a delinquent through the back door.

In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.

I was a typical teen growing up in the 1960s, when everybody was into gurus and meditation.

Growing up I didn't watch movies.

This is growing up, having to stomp out love, this is how people turn terrible.

Growing up, I had an insane crush on Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys.

I played sports growing up in high school.

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.

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. ♥

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

Everyone else we knew growing up is the same: image of their parents, no matter how loud they told themselves they'd be different

I'm at that age where I watch such things with two minds, one that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.

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

I think growing up in a big family taught me a lot of problem solving and how to share and compromise, and that's been helpful in my marriage.

Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.

My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had to study and work hard.

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.

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

most of us, as we undergo the growing up process, do not get what we want or even what we should. We get what we have, and no more, and we find out how to make what we have work for us.

Oh! Polly thought. Why aren't all girls locked up by law the year they turn fifteen? They do such stupid things!

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.'

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

I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.

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

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.

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

I still have a fantasy of being a musician when I grow up.

Boston didn't always have the best reputation, nor did I, growing up in Boston, as a kid with challenges and obstacles in front of me.

To grow up with the loss of your mother is a scar that never goes away.

I think that the notion of justice and the issues and values that I understood growing up and [have] continued to embrace throughout my life and into my career have been the same.

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older.

I am convinced that most people do not grow up ... our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias.

As a kid when I was growing up, as any kid, you think you know every thing and I was no different to that.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

Whenever I see Michael Jordan I'm still blown away because he was such a hero of mine growing up.

I can't say I was much of a gamer growing up or that I am now, but I'm certainly part of that culture or it's part of, you know, the sort of time that I grew up in.

Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.