Growing Up Quotes
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Growing Up Quotes & Sayings
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We're so preoccupied with protecting children from disappointment and discomfort that we're inadvertently excusing them from growing up.
— LZ Granderson
Being a kid and growing up is such a cool part of life.
— Devon Werkheiser
Yeah, but most of the time I think being an adult is not all it's cracked up to be. I've always wanted to postpone growing up for as long as possible.
— Adrianne Noel
Me, I was growing up scrambling for meaning and I was full of confusion and fear.
— William Kent Krueger
Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.
— Bill Walton
My family put a lot of emphasis on homework, so there weren't too many comic books or video games for me, when I was growing up.
— Wentworth Miller
Something awful happens to a person who grows up as a creative kid and suddenly finds no creative outlet as an adult.
— Judy Blume
Growing up, she found, was a heartbreaking endeavor.
— Kiersten White
Adolescence in my growing up period was truly "Happy Days," the title of a TV show connotating the quality of this life period.
— Virgil Miller Newton
Growing up, I looked to people who had the same issues as me and were still living great lives.
— Molly Tarlov
Growing up, I meant to be a memory.
— Alejandro Zambra
Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.
— David Sanborn
I think the arts are very important for children growing up.
— Stephen Schwartz
It's always a struggle growing up in Akron.
— LeBron James
Both parents' rights must be in balance so children can grow up with a balance between both parents.
— Warren Farrell
When we were growing up, our mother taught us never to have your belly button exposed.
— Mary-Kate Olsen
Growing up in a house of five girls, I couldn't help but glance at a fashion magazine or two.
— Karlie Kloss
Red Riding Hood is not a fairy tale, but rather a universal story about courage and growing up
— Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
For me, growing up and going to school and not seeing any anti-bullying posters and not hearing people talk about bullying was very desolate.
— Shane Koyczan
I don't need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore,
like I always thought I would. — Charlotte Eriksson
like I always thought I would. — Charlotte Eriksson
Children have the unforgivable habit of growing up
— Bjarne Reuter
It made him wonder if all things taken from their home too soon lost some of their bloom.
— Dan Groat
I was always in love with Judy Garland, and when I was growing up, I fell in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, of course.
— Tammy Blanchard
Sometimes you really want to say "Duh," but you can't. It's a part of growing up, I guess.
— Adam Rex
No one in the group was really growing up besides me, which is pretty weird 'cause there was no one in that group more self-destructive than I was.
— Dee Dee Ramone
I dont think we're the type of band people look at and say, 'I want to grow up to be just like that'. We're like a train wreck.
— Billy Corgan
When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs.
— Gary Clark Jr.
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.
— Sidney Altman
I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language.
— Miguel
... I guessed that when you are nearly a man, you have to learn to put up with a lot of aggravation from little old bitty kids.
— Fred Gipson
Music education is very important. I think that for me growing up, I was disciplined very hard at home.
— Sean Mackin
What I do know is, I never plan on growing up inside.
— Jack Barakat
When I was growing up, my parents took in foster children. From a young age, I learned that there are a lot of children in need.
— Michelle Monaghan
Nobody thought that I was going to make it to the NBA. I only had a couple of believers growing up.
— Dwight Howard
I am living a simple life with a complicated mind and I have yet to find a state of mind where I feel safe with who I am, where I am, with what I do.
— Charlotte Eriksson
When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.
— Tom Robbins
Mam said I was growing up. I felt that I was dying.
— Delia Sherman
Growing up, I was a very shy kid but I felt that being on stage or playing another character would somehow open me up. And I think it did.
— Jesse Tyler Ferguson
I am an American, but a sense of otherness was part of my growing up. I spoke Norwegian before I spoke English. My mother is Norwegian.
— Siri Hustvedt
We can't have everything! It took a lot of growing up for me to realize this unalterable fact and to discipline myself into accepting it.
— Loretta Young
Growing up watching friends grow, from friends to lovers. Opens the eyes of many every time. Proving in this lifetime, real love still lives.
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Growing up is important, and I've got to do that gracefully, but also keep myself at a good pace.
— Miley Cyrus
I've never been able to stand up for myself while growing up, but I will stand up for you against anyone who ever threatens to hurt you in any way.
— Daniele Lanzarotta
The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face.
— Jodi Picoult
I didn't grow up really wanting to be an actor. I don't remember ever not being an actor.
— Jodie Foster
I spent a lot of time in Tower Records. I'm a huge music nerd, and Tower was instrumental to me when I was growing up.
— Colin Hanks
Martha looked at her son. So this was the beginning of growing up. This was where the road they had been traveling together first parted.
— Elizabeth Yates
Some children have the most disagreeable way of getting grown-up
— Lewis Carroll
She kissed me on the cheek, and my mom sang Theresa's name from the open front door. She loves Theresa. I think she loves me more when I'm with her.
— Kenneth Logan
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.
— Rick Nielsen
I was a total jock growing up. I went to super-dorky basketball clinics and was handpicked to play on a state team called the Texas Heat.
— Erin Wasson
I was a young lad when I was growing up.
— David O'Leary
Whenever I see Michael Jordan I'm still blown away because he was such a hero of mine growing up.
— Tom Brady
I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.
— Mark Hoppus
When I was growing up in L.A. in the late '70s and early '80s, Michael Jackson's was the first face on TV that looked like mine.
— Shawn Amos
I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon.
— R. Kelly
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.
— Olivia Palermo
I think the way I approach things has something to do with growing up and seeing my parents go to work every day.
— Kristen Stewart
Q: I want to be an author when I grow up. Am I insane?"
Neil Gaiman: "Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author." — Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman: "Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author." — Neil Gaiman
Growing up in New York, I loved watching my grandmother Estee put on her make-up - I always admired her sense of style.
— Aerin Lauder
My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.
— Karin Slaughter
I want to be someone that kids in my community look up to and want to strive to give back when they grow up.
— Ray Rice
Maybe growing up was just about becoming closer to the person you always were.
— Cecily Von Ziegesar
I think you grow up wanting to be a racing driver. Then it dawns on you that it's not going to happen.
— Dominic Cooper
If you grow up normal, you'll only be normal.
— Michelle Wie
When I was growing up in school, I wasn't the archetype of the classic American nerd; I was just different.
— Andy Biersack
My dream was to eventually make movies. To be part of the fairy tales, stories and novels I loved reading so much growing up.
— Irena A. Hoffman
For girls growing up, sometimes I think they get the wrong idea for what women should look like.
— Lily James
Growing up in the 70s and 80s, it took effort to be a nerd. You had to seek out the nerd stuff.
— Chris Hardwick
My parents lived, breathed, ate and slept theatre. Emotions were right on the surface. Growing up, the unreal had as much importance as the real.
— Megan Follows
Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.
— John Buchan
When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.
— Floyd Mayweather Jr.
I've got three sisters, five aunties, and my mom. It must have had an influence on me growing up.
— Zayn Malik
When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.
— Roddy Doyle
My mother always told me growing up I had a punchable face. Little did I know she was predicting my television career.
— Michael Emerson
You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd.
— Madonna Ciccone
When I was growing up, I always thought my hair was messy.
— Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.
— Abbie Cornish
There's something about strength that I really admire, that I failed to see a lot of when I was growing up.
— Michelle Rodriguez
Growing up, my sisters were both into dancing, so I went to a lot of dance recitals, mostly because there were always pretty girls in leotards.
— Jason Sudeikis
I've played a prostitute now three times. I don't know how it's come about that way. It's just a matter of me growing up.
— Brittany Snow
I wasn't even a big comedy nerd. A lot of the comedians I know - a lot of my friends are comedians - they knew a lot about comedy growing up.
— Demetri Martin