Growing Up Quotes

We have to remember everything. If we don't, by the time we grow up it'll be gone forever.

Growing up, there wasn't much emphasis on being nice or naughty. As a family, there wasn't much discipline. It was more relaxed at home, which I'm grateful for.

I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.

Growing up as a kid, we moved all over the country on a fairly frequent basis, from New Jersey to Texas, California, Illinois... we moved 21 times in my first 17 years.

Being in the hearing world was more of a challenge than being in the Deaf world, because I had to learn how to write and communicate in a way that I hadn't experienced growing up.

Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.

I got into the business all by chance. I really enjoy what I do now, but it wasn't always a huge dream of mine. I think I always had thought about it growing up, though.

Chris Farley, I was a huge fan of his growing up. I would love to do something kind of slapstick and funny, maybe where I could change my look even a little bit.

I do believe that everyone growing up faces differential opportunities. With me, it was books and travel and some good teachers.

I lost my passion for work. No, that's a negative statement. I just had a bigger passion for something else, for my son, and growing up with him.

Back in the days when I was growing up, the SWAC had as good of talent as any schools in the state.

I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university.

Growing up in a New Jersey suburb, my Catholic faith was an important part of my young life, shaping the way I approached the world.

I would just like my children to be able to eat fish when they grow up. Now, I don't think there's anything controversial about that.

Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family... what my mother called 'The Liar.'

My love of R&B and hip-hop has influenced my life not even as a musician, but generally in terms of growing up and looking to America as an inspiration.

I think sitting in the car with your parents and listening to music is an essential to growing up.

I go back there and all my friends are there when I have my golf tournament. They treat me the same way they did when I was growing up.

Souderton was a good town to grow up in. Everybody knew each other.

When a cult grows up, it becomes a culture.

It's the Peter Pan in me, I don't think I'll ever grow up.

I had the wonderful benefit of growing up with parents that not only encouraged me to follow my dreams, but supported my aspirations through school and beyond.

People think about autism as something with kids. Well, those kids grow up.

Growing up, Magic Johnson was my idol. He was a good example. He could always pass the ball extremely well and get his teammates involved.

Doesn't every generation feel like the one that's coming up behind them doesn't know how to grow up? I'm not sure if we're progressively getting worse or if your perspective shifts.

Growing up, my sisters were both into dancing, so I went to a lot of dance recitals, mostly because there were always pretty girls in leotards.

I loved movies. They inspired me more than anything growing up and wanted to do for others what those movies have done for me. I do a lot of other creative stuff but am not very good at it.

Growing up I played piano and I sang at a lot of weddings; I grew up in a very small town, a little coal-mining town in Virginia called Grundy. And my family was very sing-songy at home.

What scientist would not long to go on living, if only to see how the little truths he has brought to light will grow up?

And if I ever have any children of my own, no matter how unhappy I may be, I am not going to let them have any cares until they grow up.

Yeah I loved, as a kid growing up, I loved science-fiction.

Part of my growing up was always trying to make my parents proud and always trying to keep them happy. I think part of what held them together was my involvement in sports.

I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like that you feel everything is perishing, evanescent and going away very quickly.

Having been born and raised in Washington, D.C., you kind of absorb politics when you grow up. And it continues to be a focus of mine, probably more than what is healthy for me.

Mexican music runs through my veins. I loved it. Growing up, my father didn't allow us to listen to English music at home. That's all I heard. I had no choice.

Growing up where I did, the thought of working on a television show or in a movie... that existed on a parallel plane, you know?

My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up.

Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible.

Why can't we just be nice? It's like, we grow up, and then we get right back into high school.

I have these "pinch me" moments when I realize I got to be the thing I wanted to be growing up. I'm right where I belong.

Everything I did growing up was with that as the real goal - doing Broadway; doing theatre. That was always the big thrill for me.

Brooklyn, when I was growing up, was awesome. It was stoopball and stickball - a lot of kids... the baby boom generation were all in the area. It was just a really great place.

I'm not sure what I want to do when I grow up, or if I'm sure I ever want to grow up. I'm sure there are people that wish I would, but you know, my mom will get over it.

Part of what I'm doing with generations is that I try to express in my work pieces of my growing up years that I can look back on with great fondness - specifically, a sense of family.

I think it is important to grow. Your fans are growing up with you whether you like it or not. You have to keep it fresh and exciting for them. You have to bring something new to the table each time.

I didnt really watch Dallas growing up, as I was a bit young and into other things, like sports.

Growing up, I was a very shy kid but I felt that being on stage or playing another character would somehow open me up. And I think it did.

When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman when I grow up.

I can understand the dilemma of growing up in a bubble, and then not knowing what to do when unemployment beckons and reality bursts in.

If you do not give your children freedom, when they grow up, they will break away from the family, and then your hearts will be broken.