Growing Up Quotes

“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.

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.

I grew up in Ann Arbor, about 25 miles west of Detroit. And when you grow up in that area, you get a healthy dose of Motown automatically.

I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul, Motown, jazz, Frank Sinatra, everything.

We can all agree that first loves can be a scary thing, and that growing up is hard to do.

So Sophos thinks you're going to marry me." "While I think you'll marry Sophos." "I might. We'll see what he's like when he grows up.

When I was in 10th grade, I took one of those tests that's supposed to tell you what you should be when you grow up. The test told me that I should be a journalist.

Canada had the good health-care system and educational system. It was a privilege for me to grow up there.

When you grow up in one town and your life revolves around it, you are very aware of any darkness on the edge of town. That's because it's scary and it's inviting.

Growing up in the Northwest, I did play in an all-girl band. I snuck into clubs. No one ever questioned or thought twice about it.

So the America I came to know growing up was filled with all the excitement and possibilities found in living the American dream.

I was always a big kid and I'm okay with that, but I know that it would have been better growing up if I had seen role models who had figures like me, beauty comes in all different packages.

Caine met Diana's disbelieving gaze and laughed aloud. "Why so gloomy? Doesn't every little girl want to grow up to be a queen?" "Princess," Diana said. "So, you got a promotion," Caine said.

I love sports. I've played basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, track and field growing up.

I wanted to grow up to be just like my father.

Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which played pop songs, or the pirate radio boats off the coast.

Since Catherine [Zeta-Jones] and I got together, I've cut back dramatically. My priorities changed, and I still love acting and all that, but not as much as I love watching my two kids grow up.

Obviously you look at "Magic" (Ervin Johnson) and Michael (Jordan) and you learn from them growing up, but I think you are just born with it from day one.

I know this'll sound obnoxious, but acting was very much an accident for me. I didn't have, like, posters of Marlon Brando in my bedroom when I was growing up.

I have a daughter, and fairies meant a lot to her growing up.

I am deeply inspired by the courage and achievements of young people who didn't have the safety nets I had growing up.

I'm a first-generation American, so I had friends from several cultures while growing up, including Indian and Iranian friends.

When I was growing up, my parents took in foster children. From a young age, I learned that there are a lot of children in need.

The whole dream of having your own place is great, but the reality is having to cook and clean yourself and do the washing and make sure there's milk in the fridge. But you have to grow up some time.

If you grow up normal, you'll always be normal-I don't want to be normal. I want to be something else.

If you grow up normal, you'll only be normal.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I don't think anyone wants to grow up to be Mindy Lahiri, the same way no one wants to grow up to be Michael Scott.But that's OK.

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

I remember being asked when I was in high school what do I want to do when I grow up and the answer is so indicative - I would like to have been a successful playwright.

When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched obscure movies and only listened to obscure music.

Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling.

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.

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.

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

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