Growing Up Quotes

I want to grow up as an actress and as a woman. Be independent.

As far as ethnicity, you grow up being sensitive to things around you and then become more proactive about it.

Grief diminishes when it has nothing to grow upon.

When I was growing up, there were so many musicals you could watch. I like the fantasy of musicals and I love music.

Growing up, I wanted to be a sports commentator. Then my aunt introduced me to the fashion industry, and everything sort of fell into place.

I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey.

The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.

Who doesn’t want a Cy Young Award? What kid didn’t grow up wanting to be the best? I’m no different. I want to be the best. I’ve always wanted to be the best.

The kids I knew growing up who worked on bikes all loved the smell of gas. It is the liquid agent for speed.

My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any beauty regimen into my world.

I hadn't read the Dr. Strange comics growing up.

Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.

My favorite movies growing up were things like 'The Wizard of Oz,' but as I got older, I really began to admire people like Steven Soderbergh.

Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain.

It's hard for me to say you have to accept that the world is meaningless and the landscape is there before and after. That's not something we learn much in our culture growing up.

Growing up in the Bay Area, I played early on with these quartet groups who set guidelines for me. I remember the guys would all have the same clothes and shoes, like these uniforms. I was in awe.

I probably wouldn't be acting if I didn't grow up in Hollywood.

I'm very fortunate to have parents who have kept me grounded, so I hopefully won't end up in a bad situation when I grow up.

When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It's the total field.

I'm a boy who doesn't want to grow up.

I was forced to grow up quicker than most. I was forced to be a young man at a young age.

My kids are growing up and it's hard to accept they are their own person and they're independent.

Growing up, we didn't have anything. My mum wasn't well, so I was in three care homes then foster homes before me and my little brother went back to her. I was passed from pillar to post.

Growing up in the entertainment industry, I've had a lot of people tell me I'm not good enough.

When I was growing up, there was always somebody who wanted to pick a fight with me. I'd say, I'm not a famous boxer, my father is. If you want to fight somebody, go fight my Dad.

There's a generation now that didn't grow up in nature. Some of these adults are parents and they know that nature is good for their kids but they don't know where to start.

I wanna grow up and be a critic.

When you're growing up you need your parents, but you don't want to be associated with them because you're trying to have your own life.

To foreswear romantic love forever. To never grow up, never get married. To be maiden eternally.

I don't like losing money. I don't go gamble. Because I don't want to lose any money. I didn't grow up with any money and I'm not going to go gamble and lose money.

Americans are brought up to believe they can grow up to be the president of the United States. Brits are told, It won't happen to you.

I had great memories of growing up in a working class estate. I remember it being sunny all the time. So we're putting that on screen. It's not people wallowing in degradation.

I've been very blessed. My parents always told me I could be anything I wanted. When you grow up in a household like that, you learn to believe in yourself.

When you grow up around racing, you just want to race for a living. It doesn't matter what it is.

I was signed at 18 and had to grow up quickly.

My father was never very friendly. When I was growing up, I thought the doorbell ringing was a signal to pretend you weren't home.

I think I have a finely tuned sense of humor. I think just being around it and growing up in it... my dad and Mel Brooks and Norman Lear. These are the people I grew up around.

One nice thing about growing up Catholic is it makes you open-minded about other people's religions, since ours is nuttier than yours.

You don't really realize the effect those things have on you when you're growing up but then when you look back you can see how they molded you.

I come from a family who prided themselves, both sides, on memory. And I was told growing up, constantly, that I was born with a really good memory.

We split a bottle of Norman cider. Not everybody sells Norman cider by the bottle.

In an Italian household, there were two figures for me growing up - you had the Pope and you had Frank Sinatra, and, of course, Tony Bennett. And not necessarily in that order.

Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.

Me growing up in the '60s and '70s, there was almost something romantic about drugs, Keith Richards taking drugs and stuff.

So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts.

Cruel children, crying babies, All grow up as geese and gabies, Hated, as their age increases, By their nephews and their nieces.

I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life.

I want a shot for people like me to grow up and do something with themselves.

I love Seattle, but I am definitely excited to be in a new place. Growing up there and then living in an apartment in the city for seven years, I just felt stagnant.

We tell children what they should do when they grow up so we can impress the people next door.