Growing Up Quotes
I don't ever want to grow up. I guess I'm like Peter Pan. Grown-ups have problems. I want to stay happy.
I mean, when you grow up dancing, you have to become very comfortable in your own skin.
When I was young, all I wanted to be was a movie star. At a certain point, I started to grow up and really care about what I did.
All babies are incoherent, but they grow up. That is the principle difference between an infant and a poet.
When I was 12 years old, I was hanging out with 23-year-olds. I was into cartoons and Pokemon, and they're all talking about girls. It was a strange way to grow up.
The biggest thing is having a son. I got attached to him. Seeing him periodically is hard. Watching him grow up on pictures and videos is hard.
I mean it wasn't that they sat around thinking oh gosh I needed more choices in my grocery stores the way I had come to think about it as an American growing up.
In Baltimore, kids grow up very quickly. You're placed in a lot of situations that a child shouldn't be in and a lot of Baltimore kids lose innocence very soon.
As the only girl growing up for a long time with only boys, as you pointed out, it seems like I was always surrounded by guys. There was this sense in which my female body was a problem.
I did not write about that kind of insecurity and anxiety between myself and my brothers, because my father was the dominant male figure as I was growing up in that home.
I'm much more comfortable in pants and shirts, running around. There was a typical construction about womanhood when I was growing up that I rejected.
I really want to continue what I've already started with found sounds, but start borrowing from my past as well, so that it really spans me growing up.
I should mention that while I was growing up, Einstein was presented as a worthy role model for a young boy who was good at his studies.
I often meet young directors who, you know, had a 'Ghostbusters' picture on their wall as they were growing up. And it's really nice. It just shows how inter-generational our industry is.
I hated Sundays when I was growing up in Streatham, south London. Everything closed down and stopped.
If our parents fixed everything for us and did not allow us to do anything on our own, or intervened every single time, we would all grow up to be completely dependent.
As we grow up, it feels like you should either invite people into your life or not. There should be fewer and fewer instances of friends you ‘can only take in small doses.’
I think that most New Yorkers would object to calling me a New Yorker. I didn't grow up here.
No-one inspired me growing up more than Thom Yorke. I was eleven when the obsession hit hard and I'm still such a huge fan.
No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I grow up,'
Growing up and living in England, I'm surrounded by grey skies and sarcasm, so when I came to America, my first impressions were bright, hopeful, cheerful.
Luckily for me, when I was growing up in high school, I had a band, and I was a singer in the band. I'm less of a legit Broadway singer than I am a pop-rock singer.
We always had our own vegetables growing up and now I'm doing it with my kids at our house in the country.
I started as a stand-up comedian. I wanted to be Carol Burnett when I was growing up.
Growing up playing jazz and improvising has had a big impact on me, and it translates into my music.
Luckily, growing up "unfinished" can make geeks the very best people to guide and nurture the next generation of outsiders: We know you don't have to be finished to be awesome.
I didnt know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didnt know any arty types.
I'm an English boy. I played a lot of sports growing up, but I never had any kind of workout regimen.
I definitely had an advantage growing up in New York. It's different playing on a New York playground.
I had a lot of coaches growing up that were very hard on the kids in the name of building character, but it could have the opposite effect on kids.
San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military.
That's such a great thing about New York, after growing up in a place and being there for twenty plus years, there's still a whole island to discover.
I thought if I could understand why apes get mean and horrible and aggressive when they grow up, maybe I could understand why people get mean and horrible and aggressive and have wars.
I completely can't understand people of different faiths who say that their children will choose when they grow up. I think that if you believe in a religion, most people believe that it's right.
All the dangers in our world are like a blessed wake up call. They tell us to live life NOW... not tomorrow, not when the children grow up, not when we retire... but NOW.
When I was growing up, one or two girls were beautiful, but it was not an aspiration, right?
-When I was growing up, Lieutenant Uhura was a major role model for me, a strong black woman on the bridge of a starship… -In a miniskirt, answering the interplanetary telephone?
This was another item about growing up: you encountered all the cliches of love and loss and heartbreak.
I was always in love with Judy Garland, and when I was growing up, I fell in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, of course.
The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was CATS, for my birthday.
I've just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.
I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.
