Growing Up Quotes

I always loved the look of musicians. I've always admired them because they have a look - when I was growing up, it seemed that the ones I liked didn't need to have a stylist.

Growing up, I didn't know very much about my heritage and the Soviet Union and things of that nature. But when I saw the Soviet Union play hockey for the first time, to me, it was profound.

When I was growing up in Wakefield in the 90s I would get in fights for carrying a guitar around.

I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.

Growing up, I was in and out of trouble in group homes and other institutions, and when I was 14, I was locked up in a psychiatric hospital for a number of months for behavioral problems.

I think I always had joie de vivre. But I had pretty bad self-esteem growing up and much of my adult life.

I went through some real challenges growing up. I joined the Army two weeks out of high school when I was 17, and never looked back.

I love this simple maiden, She grows upon me more and more, And--ask the moon who 't was that kissed, Last night upon the shore!

There wasn't a lot of music in the home when I was growing up. We didn't have a piano or anything like that but my grandmother, had been a well-known piano teacher.

Growing up during the Cold War period, I always found that, although we always thought that the world would end in some sort of nuclear holocaust, at some point, everybody was pretty hopeful.

Every leader wants to put his or her imprint on the work that they do, and grow up in specific eras.

When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician.

I didn't grow up in the ocean -- as a matter of fact -- near the ocean -- I grew up in the desert. Therefore, it was a pleasant contrast to see the ocean. And I particularly like it when I'm fishing.

I was a big fan of Jean-Claude Van-Damme growing up, and I always wanted to be a martial artist 'cause of him.

What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man.

Growing up, I had a singing teacher who was an amazing champion of mine who helped build up my confidence, and I also count my therapist as one of the best teachers that I've ever had.

In the end, love is growing up. We feel so much stronger since we are together in this life, than when we were before trying to figure it out alone. Love is all!

Work is a great thing. This is something my father taught me. He didn't want me to grow up to be somebody's wife.

I grew up without a father, and my mother grew up without a father and her mother grew up without a father. So we have this long heritage of growing up without fathers.

Im just lucky to have great parents. My sisters an actress. My brothers a musician. I found it hard growing up in such a... creatively driven family. I wanted to have this thing to create, myself.

I was always interested in myths growing up. So, first I got into some Roman myths, then I was interested in Norse, then Celtic, then I started spreading to all the other mythologies.

To a young kid growing up in Canada, America seemed to be crazy about the future; dazzled by it.

In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realize it is far more common for men to turn into rats.

Growing up, I was a kid pretending to be an adult.

My mom was always making me clothes. We'd go to the fabric store, pick out patterns, and it was a creative process. I heard that word a lot growing up: creative.

When you're a parent, you're just like, God, I hope they like me when they grow up. I hope that I did a good job. I hope they're gonna be happy.

I have a sort of sisterly feeling toward him [Ben Affleck]. I want him to do well and grow up and be a happy person and a fully realized man.

I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that.

I have tons of rescuing fantasies based on the movies I saw when I was growing up. I wanted to be Robin Hood and the Three Musketeers and the Scarlet Pimpernel.

I don't want to hear any words like that while I'm here. Scout, you'll get in trouble if you go around saying things like that. You want to grow up to be a lady, don't you?' I said not particularly.

I think parenting is a huge responsibility. It was in my time when I was growing up and there still continues to be that responsibility.

I think it's really good for a family or children to have a dog, cat, bird or whatever to grow up with.

I hate how people say I'm growing up fast.

For me growing up, I've found that I don't really go out and party and I don't hang out - when I come home and I'm home, I'm a pretty chilled person.

I should have known growing up and not having any money ever that I should have kept every dollar that I had.

I love London, and it's a privilege for my children to grow up here.

Growing up, I loved Bill Cosby and Bob Newhart. They are a big reason I'm a storyteller because they are two of the best.

As a young person growing up in Washington, D.C., summers were hot, humid and relentless. My friends and I grew more restless and adventurous with every passing year.

I grew up in the United Methodist Church, and church was always a very big part of my growing up.

No one grows up thinking they want to be a ghostwriter. No one plans on that job.

Children today will grow up taking for granted that an African-American or a woman can, yes, become the president of the United States.

He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.

Hoodie was just a nickname I had growing up and I just wanted to have a name that would stick in peoples' minds and be a little bit funny and representative of who I am.

You dream that you want to be a monster maker when you grow up, and that's what happened. I refused to take no for an answer. I just was a very driven kid, who's now a very driven semi-adult.

Growing up I always felt like I was living on the other side of the tracks. I knew the people on the other side had more resources, more money, happier families.

When I grow up, I want to be an actress. But I want to be a legend of something.

I guess that's one of the things about growing up in the fifties - it never occurred to me that you wouldn't be at least as successful as your parents.

I do think any modern storyteller is influenced by the stories we all grow up with and become familiar with, our shared cultural narratives.

Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.

My dream was to eventually make movies. To be part of the fairy tales, stories and novels I loved reading so much growing up.