Growing Up Quotes

We're growing up and I don't like it, " said Tacy, as they say at Heinz's later, drinking coffee.

Most people made comments on how I was the strongest woman they knew.That was before the title wave of disaster hit my charmed life.

Unfortunately the ‘warrior’ archetype accidentally dropped the soap in the shower and he has been getting boned senseless by the ‘soldier/lobbyist archetype’ ever since.

Boredom is a powerful reason, and the prospect of fun is a powerful draw - especially when you are young.

To become a man is to carry out your word because you gave your word. And your word is you as a man." - The Legacy Letters, by Carew Papritz

Because I was conceived and born and I grew up. I'm breathing and my heart is beating and as much as it hurts ― as much searing, monumental pain it causes me ― I have to exist.

Stephanie took another puff from her candy cigarette, reached into her purse, brought out the rest of the pack, and said, "Want one of these damned cigarettes?

Cry your guts out because nothing is sadder than an adult who forgets how to be a child.

I am what you made me, Father.

Step-parents, those fairy tale villains, Have been given a bad name.They're easy targets.When the family goes awryHow easy to blame them.I was blessed by the right steps...

Magda looks at me as if I've gone mad. Or I've grown up. It's kind of the same thing.

Hm. Didn’t you use to be a lot smaller?”“Yes, ” said Jinx. “Because I used to be six.

When I was young, I used to wish I would fit in… I’m glad I didn’t get my wish.

We can't go back, Alexa", he said. " We can't go back once we've started growing up, and the world can't be made simple again.

Why can't a girl just want to know stuff and not do stuff?

Oh God, I'm miss­ing the gene which makes you grow up and buy a flat in Streatham and start visiting Homebase every weekend. Everyone's moving on without me, into a world I don't understand.

Learning is one letter short of maturity.

Oak, granite, Lilies by the road, Remember me?I remember you.Clouds brushingClover hills, Remember me?Sister, child, Grown tall, Remember me?I remember you.

It seems only yesterday I used to believethere was nothing under my skin but light.If you cut me I could shine.But now when I fall upon the sidewalks of life, I skin my knees. I bleed.

We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together.

nobody tells us as little girls that we may fall in love and have moments of hating our beloved, or have ridiculous arguments at 2 AM over something that neither person understands.

Because…sometimes I think you meet people and they make you better, even if you’re not with them forever.

I didn't begin life hating my grandmother. Like every child, I adored her. Until I formed a brain and got to know her.

I think that's every unresolved person's dream, to wake up one day and know what they want to do the rest of their life.

I jumped on Sinbad's bottle. Nothing happened. I didn't do it again. Sometimes when nothing happened it was really getting ready to happen

If I could have all of those things, I wouldn't mind if I touched her or not.

Sometimes, life threw up problems that even the wisest, most trusted mentor couldn't solve for you. It was part of the pain of growing up.And having to stand by and watch was part of being a mentor.

…girls were like poems: weird, incomprehensible and boring, but those “in the know” assured me that they were beautiful.

We are not sure what we will become, only what we want to and don’t want to. We often become what we never thought we could, then we become fine with that.

Growing up changes morethan playground gamesand body shapes.

That time when past begins to look longer than the future

She's growing up, " Sister Evangeline said.And I wanted to tell her no, I'm not. Everything is exactly the same.

And then I know I'm being a man, not just some kid who's upset and wants it his way.

A lot of childhood effort, worry, and whispering goes into cracking the codes of adult life. Children have to be accomplished spies.

I was born at a very early age. As I grew up, I got older... So far though, this is the oldest I've ever been.

Lord, but did he grow up nice.

As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.

When you're growing up, I think there's this idea that the coolest people are the ones who are really rude and feverish. But I've come to realize that isn't cool.

Growing up, you'd see Michael Jordan on everything from Gatorade to shoes - everything. Obviously, that's something pretty cool for an athlete to aspire to.

A huge thing for me growing up was going to see my favorite bands and feeling like, 'Okay, cool, they proved themselves and did things in a special way.' That's the most important thing.

I did play other sports growing up. I played cricket and all those other things, but I was just so much more talented in golf, and that's all I wanted to do.

I remember growing up, having sports to go to, having recess, those were the things I looked forward to. Yes, I'm an athlete, but I had buddies who weren't, and they looked forward to it, too.

Growing up, all I did was play sports. I always loved music, but I never even thought I'd be on stage one day.

I was on the snowboard team at my school, but that was the only sports team I was on. I played soccer growing up in elementary school.

Growing up in the '60s and early '70s, with the space flight and the Apollo program, I always loved planes. I always loved rockets and I always loved space travel.

Growing up in Northern California, I've only seen snow at Christmas maybe twice in my life! I was always jealous of my cousins on the East Coast with their white Christmases.

As a very young man growing up in Texas, usually I got a shotgun or cowboy boots for Christmas.

Bullying is something every kid in public, parochial, or private school has witnessed by graduation. While unfortunate, it is part of growing up.

Growing up in Kansas City, I was always neat, the teacher's pet, know-it-all type.

Every single substitute teacher growing up could not pronounce my name, so whenever someone pauses, I'm like, 'Oh, that's me.'