Growing Up Quotes

When you're a kid, somebody's mid-forties, you think they're an old man. Then you grow up and it's like, I was a kid.

When I was growing up, when I was 11 years old I was listening to The Mothers of Invention. You know, I mean I was a Frank Zappa fan in Arkansas.

I dont think we're the type of band people look at and say, 'I want to grow up to be just like that'. We're like a train wreck.

Being overly identified with [a certain period of time] becomes a noose around your neck, and people don't want you to grow up, they don't want you to change, they don't want you to evolve.

Since I was a kid, every Thanksgiving growing up in New York, we always watched 'The March of the Wooden Soldiers' by Laurel and Hardy. Never miss it.

I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling.

You know growing up in Sweden meant we had a lot of rain when we played tennis. We were taught on clay courts but because of the weather, we had to go indoors a lot.

I think a lot of my girlfriends growing up gave themselves up to any boy who paid attention to them. I think young women now are a lot more particular. They pick and choose.

Growing up, I was always in the kitchen. Even in third grade, I made cooking videos called 'The Little Italian.' Very little production value, but it was good.

Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.

Growing up in Canada, most kids from Canada dream of playing in the NHL, and they also hope one day to be on a Stanley Cup team. That was a big goal.

When you grow up with a name like Brad Thor, people expect you to be 6-foot-4 and a pile of muscles.

I am, of comics I was never as big of a fan as I probably could have been I suppose but I'm definitely a fan of science fiction fantasy. My interests were in fantasy more than comics growing up.

I'm not a natural comedian, as an artist. I studied comedy growing up. I would watch Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence, all day.

Distance makes the heart grow fonder, a little bit, but there's a certain maturity level that just comes with experience and growing up.

Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?

I don't know. I'd be a lot better off if I would've studied more when I was growing up, you know?

I think that, especially as the kids are growing up, they have so much stuff going on in their own lives, they don't really know how much they're looking at their mom as the big problem

I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.

We all grow up with anger. It's part of the human condition. But what do you do with that? It seems obvious to me that you've got to use it for something, but you have to separate it from your ego.

I did grow up in New Orleans. I grew up right on the lake, right across the levee.

I'd always been a fan growing up, and in high school, I was really into Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen.

I love Wayne, I respect his talent. I've watched him grow up.

I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.

Saying that you want to be a model when you grow up is akin to saying that you want to win the Powerball when you grow up. It's out of your control and it's awesome — and it's not a career path.

I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.

I was a ballet dancer growing up and that's what I was convinced I would be.

Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.

I don't know the answer. Maybe no one knows. Maybe when you grow up, you'll be the first to find out.

Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you grow up it cannot be cured. Chapter 25

[Students] are exposed to many things the majority of their teachers didn't encounter until much later in their growing up years.

I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up.

Children do not grow up all of a piece; look for the child of seven, especially to take many backward glances at the way he has come, while bounds and leaps unevenly ahead in his growth.

I feel like it's my responsibility to honestly cover a lot of subjects in part because I have two little girls and I really want them when they grow up to have a voice.

Every single substitute teacher growing up could not pronounce my name, so whenever someone pauses, I'm like, "Oh, that's me."

Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional Baseball player, instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not.

Growing up, my favorite TV show was Star Trek

When asked what I'd be if I weren't a writer, I'm tempted to respond with one of father's favorite phrases, one I despised while growing up: "I hate 'what-ifs.'"

I remember growing up knowing I wanted to be on the stage. I wanted to get to London as soon as possible and start auditioning for theater.

I grew up in a sport that didn't allow you to grow up. There was always the threat of younger competition. So you had to maintain the image of youth.

Children need close friends to help them grow up, to discover things about themselves and about life. They also need close friends to keep them sane

Everyone got older but forgot to grow up.

The girls show more skin these days, but I think, generally, they behave the same way as when I was growing up.

Growing up I played in garage bands and cover bands with my older brother, and he got us a gig opening up for some hippie jam band. I was 15. I felt like such an adult!

I was a theater guy growing up and I wanted to be Al Pacino, and I think I just looked and sounded too funny.

I refuse to grow up. I won't become the adult guy.

I started modeling, doing the Sears catalog kind of thing, then did a lot of commercials when I was growing up.

I want my kids to grow up to be a useful citizen.

It is frustrating, because who wants to grow up and follow their parents?