Growing Up Quotes

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

I think that's okay and that is part of growing up and that is good, to learn that the world isn't always your oyster or isn't everybody's oyster.

Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents.

I remember so many girls when I was growing up who hated the way they looked.

Don't we have to respond to people who don't seem normal to us? Will my child grow up able to accept that not everyone looks the same?

When I was growing up in the 50s it wasn't quite the same. Fathers were more protective and now they see all of the possibilities for their daughters.

My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.

People who grow up in a region doubtless have a better cultural awareness of their own cuisine, but it's also true that a lot of locals go to McDonald's, Applebee's and the like.

Growing up, I always thought of Detroit as a basketball town because of the Pistons, but everyone says it's really, at its core, a football town.

I suppose the point you grow up is the point you let the dreams go.

Let's roll for justice, let's roll for truth. Let's not let our children grow up fearful in their youth.

My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience.

It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.

ONE THING I AM NEVER GOING TO DO WHEN I GROW UP Is fall in love, drop out of college, learn to subsist on water and air, have a species named after me, and ruin my life.

I guess I probably took New York for granted. Growing up, playing in the street, going down to the Avenue to the record store and to the grocery store and stuff like that.

If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities from my children growing up here, and vice versa.

Growing up, I kind of adopted that mentality, going all out, being a warrior.

I was taught to fighter like Sugar Ray Leonard and Muhammad Ali when I was growing up.

When we grow up, we lose the talent for loving without restrictions.

Time to grow up. Time to stop bawling. Time to do SOMETHING. And that means, if I'm not sleeping, my nerd-herd isn't sleeping either-sun or no sun.

I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.

The goal of the Christian is to grow up into Christ.

Film and television was so strange to me because I didn't grow up in the business, I didn't know anything about it.

Speculative fiction is where my heart lies. It's what I read growing up, and it's what I read as an adult.

The boy grows upward, but the girl grows up.

When I was growing up, we always had music playing in our household. I enjoy spending time with my father singing.

I went through a lot of abuse and a lot of really difficult things growing up - depression, anxiety, attempted suicide.

It is hard to grow up in a society in which one's important problems are treated as nonexistent. It is impossible to belong to it, it is hard to fight to change it.

The stultifying effect of the movies is not that the children see them but that their parents do, as if Hollywood provided a plausible adult recreation to grow up into.

When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.

Being in the Final Four was a dream of mine growing up, and I was unable to fulfill that dream, but I feel like I had a great college career and won a lot of games.

I needed to grow up and do things all adults do. It was time to stop having everything spoon fed to me. It was about being independent.

I didn't grow up in church. I had no concept of God - existence, I - the name Jesus was synonymous with tooth fairy and Santa Claus.

I did not grow up watching much TV and film. I had a very, very, very, very, very, very church family, and a lot of, like, secular stuff was not around my house.

When I was growing up, 'Anna Karenina' was one of my favourite books.

The Comedy Store attracts all types of people, growing up I was able to meet them all.

I'm watching my own daughter grow up. I see this overt sexual culture coming at her like a Mack truck. She's in seventh grade.

Do I prefer to grow up and relate to life directly, or do I choose to live and die in fear?

The nice thing about growing up in that kind of environment is you were exposed to so much -- music, plays, art exhibits, rock concerts.

My dad is good at sticking with stuff and he has a strong work ethic, which is imbued in me. Growing up, he would constantly ask what I was doing and was I achieving anything.

It's only 60,000. It's not a big town. It's a big hockey town. Everybody plays hockey when you grow up.

If you're growing up in times of peace and live in a country where there's plenty of food and good healthcare, you grow up without any relationship with death.

I got tired of New York. I mean when you grow up somewhere, uh, I just basically wanted something different for myself and if I was planning on having a family.

Whether it was hunting, fishing, or playing sports, my children were going to grow up outside. They weren't going to be sitting on the couch inside. At least they didn't grow up to be nerds.

You ought to be able to grow up in a place and not have to get the hell out of it when you turn eighteen.

I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California.

How do you know they're growing up? Well, the bite marks are higher.

My parents divorced, and I didn't have much of a daddy growing up.

I think a lot of people have an idealistic view - if you grow up in the country, there can't possibly be anything wrong with you.