Growing Up Quotes

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.

When we were growing up, our mother taught us never to have your belly button exposed.

I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music.

I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth.

Growing up as a mixed-race kid myself, when you are in the middle of it and you're young...you don't think about it consciously. It's your reality.

Growing up in Boston, I was always Matt, Son of Former New England Patriot Don. And then when my brother Tim was a senior in high school, I became Matt, Brother of Tim.

One of the things that's fun about that is that sometimes you grow up knowing about someone because they were famous, but you don't really know what they were like before they were famous.

Growing up, I went to many schools, and I had to fit in to many different types of environments with totally different social groups. It helps me out as I move from job to job.

I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.

When you grow up, you're told that rock 'n' roll is the only authentic way to express yourself. Live instrumentation, singer, live drums. You're told that's the best medium to communicate.

The kids are really smart. They are sharp and they're not yet bent over by the system. I think there's a wonderful intelligence in today's youth, and it's a part of growing up.

No one will guide you in the right direction, in the end you have to learn for yourself. You have to grow up yourself.

When young people grow up....they shine so much that old people want to avert their gaze.

You have two numbers in your age when you are ten. It's the beginning of growing up.

The way everyone in London is right up against each other makes it very real to you growing up, the fact that people have different lives to you. And that causes problems; of course it does.

In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.

Growing up is like taking down the sides of your house and letting strangers walk in.

“How does one grow up?” I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause; then she answered, “By thinking.”

The beginner hugs his infant poem to him and does not want it to grow up. But you may have to break your poem to remake it.

Everyone grows old but not everyone grows up.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

My dream of course, as a writer and a person who's an entertainer, is: Grow up to be Mindy Kaling, don't grow up to be Mindy Lahiri.

Growing up as a little kid, I wasn't always this size. I got picked on a lot.

I never even watched football growing up. I just play the game.

I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language.

No one aspires as a child to grow up and enter into a domestic partnership. But they do aspire as children to grow up and be married.

Humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies.

I was always intrigued when I was growing up, and then in engineering school, with the idea of a perpetual machine. I think of the Wal-Mart culture as that.

Grow up? Get herself straightened out? Her mind reeled from the verbal battering. No matter what she did, her father would tell her she was wrong. Worthless. Undeserving.

My uncle was a cop, a career cop, on the beat in downtown Chicago. He was my hero when I was growing up.

Growing up is important, and I've got to do that gracefully, but also keep myself at a good pace.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing - hopefully.

Some of the worst things that have happened in my career, like things getting leaked, have actually been what's best for me, because people knew when I was on that show that I was really growing up.

I learned that it's super important to stay true to yourself and your family. I've also learned that I've got a lot to learn about life, but that's just part of growing up.

I did not grow up spoiled in any way. I just wanted to be on TV.

I daydreamed that when you grow up there are more bullies and how wonderful that would be if it were true, but, it's not.

When I was growing up I was an atheist, then an agnostic, and then I had a good eight or ten years of being quite a serious Christian.

Growing up, music was an important part of my childhood. I see it being just as important in my children and all children's growth and development, and in a parent's connection with their children.

Growing up in Mississippi, I realized that it was separate and unequal and all that, but it was still a safe place.

When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.

At the time I was growing up in the business I was very well established within the industry as a child actor and as I grew up and turned into a teenager there was less and less work.

Growing up, I had a ton of friends, and I had a great life, but people still made fun of me sometimes.

Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s, I lived in the shadow of a tyrannical state.

I think that growing up very poor in a very wealthy town gave me a sense of being an outsider, and I hated it when I was growing up.

There weren't too many books featuring other cultures and countries when I was growing up as an immigrant kid here in the States.