Growing Up Quotes

When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.

My kid wants to be a prison warden when he grows up so he can put thumb tacks on the electric chairs.

While growing up, I lived in my own fantasy world. I had kind of a rough childhood, so I created my own reality.

Symbolic racism is hurtful and it is especially hurtful to Black children who get called Black Pete in school and grow up with the sense that they are inferior to white kids.

I still think I'm going to do something else when I grow up

Eating cookies that you bake with your grandmother is one of the greatest social steps one must experience in order to grow up into a decent world citizen, in my opinion.

It was very interesting growing up in South Africa then. It was extraordinary. It was multiculturalism before it became an issue.

I started as a tap dancer in Durban, which is on the coast. That was an important part of growing up, turning on the radio in the morning and hearing Zulu singing or the news in Zulu.

It's not uncommon for young people to expect things. It's part of growing up.

Just being friends with people now for over 15 years, you realize what we all came out of. What we came out of was the intense feeling of growing up. It sounds kind of cliché, but it's true.

I was growing up in the suburbs; I was one of eight kids. So I did have a community when I was younger, but all of my brothers and sisters were older.

Growing up, my room was covered in posters. I was like, "I want to make posters."

I played football growing up in junior high and high school.

Well, I'm from Indiana. So to me when I was a little kid growing up, Cincinnati was the glamorous New York of it all.

When I was growing up my favorite show was 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', and I loved all the stuff that Norman Lear did.

I was taught coming up in the Phillies organization to be seen and not heard by people like Pete Rose, my hero growing up, and players like Mike Schmidt and Steve Carlton and Manny Trillo.

I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.

I'd pull my little brother on our motorcycle on an inner tube behind it. We would go fishing, we would hunt some, growing up.

People link the 80s to that very liberal theme, growing up in a very liberal world, having ideals or not having ideals. The 80s were an confusing era.

The seeds of Death are sown in us when we begin to live, and grow up till, like rampant weeds, they choak the tender flower of life.

I think so much of what informs us as performers is what we had to endure as kids growing up. I was the youngest in my family. I always got a lot of attention.

I love being the bad guy, simply because I was always so responsible, so predictable growing up.

You grow up and share life experiences. That's one of the best parts of this business. You share how you're mellowing out and your new sense of self.

I was a fat girl growing up and had to change schools because kids were so mean.

It is rare, I think, for parents to let their children -- of any age -- grow up and become peers.

Acting was my after-school activity. I never planned on growing up and becoming an actor.

Growing up sometimes forces us to confront the distance between our childhood hope and the truth.

My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing. There was a lot of Mozart and the Beatles.

I've always been interested in space and the idea of exploration in that area since I was a child growing up through the '60s.

Maybe it was just part of growing up with someone. Once you have a rhythm and stay with it long enough, it's not hard to find again.

Growing up means :propelling yourself forward into whatever lies ahead, one turn of the wheel at a time.

Buffys very similar to me to me when I was growing up. A child in an adult world, sort of trapped between the two. Does Buffy go to the prom or does she save the world from demons?

I did a lot of theater growing up, and in college I was in the musical 'Chicago.'

Traditionally, I have no right to talk about race. I'm white; I didn't grow up in an all-black neighborhood. But the license I see for myself is I'm a member of the world.

Growing up, I always loved Disney movies, but the first movie I remember seeing is 'Sleepers,' so I wasn't really taken to children's movies.

I caught my second wife screwing my stepdad. OK? It's a cruel world, Walt. Grow up.

I will say that growing up as a kid in an urban environment and having lived in cities all my life, the one achievement that everyone can look forward to is getting the perfect parking spot

My parents wanted me to grow up around horses and open spaces.

I wanted to be an actor because it gave me the opportunity to express myself in ways I wasn't comfortable expressing myself, as a kid growing up in St. Louis.

Sunday night was such a big night for television when I was growing up - you know, The Wonderful World of Disney.

Growing up in Hawaii, the ocean is where I'm most at home. When I'm away from it and landlocked I long for the ocean. There's something about it, I'm at peace with it.

I was a swimmer growing up. I was a miler - like long, long distance. So I was in the water for four or five hours a day. That's not the way you want to spend your teenage years.

Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.

Music education is very important. I think that for me growing up, I was disciplined very hard at home.

It's hard enough growing up and figuring out who you are and what on earth you wanna be and it doesn't help when people are constantly cutting you down

I do agree to a certain extent that it is unfortunate that I have to be a little more aware of being a kid and growing up and figuring out who I am, but at the same time, it's part of what I love.

Growing up, I realized as an actor I had to figure out how to use my platform in order to give back.

Growing up, I always wanted to be a singer, and Ive done that.

My kids are Irish; I want them to grow up playing Gaelic football and learning Irish.

I did not want to be a Champion growing up, just a fast skater.