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Rock and roll doesn't allow you to grow up - especially if you're not trying very hard to. — Scott Weiland

I won't sit down
And I won't shut up
And most of all I will not grow up — Frank Turner

It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine. — Caitlin Moran

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

I can understand the dilemma of growing up in a bubble, and then not knowing what to do when unemployment beckons and reality bursts in. — Jessie Cave

I'm not scared of growing up, but it just happens, doesn't it? — Nicholas Hoult

And Finally I put down the last and the best advice I knew, on growing older. 'Stand up straight and try not to get fat. — Diana Gabaldon

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. — Peter Medawar

I do not tell her that sometimes it feels like compromising yourself is part of growing up. — Trista Mateer

It's hard to have done all one's growing up since 33 - but that's a damn sight better than not growing up at all. — H.P. Lovecraft

To grow up without risk is to risk not growing up. — Pamela Druckerman

There is no legislative change that can be made to make up for an economy that's not growing and not expanding. — Martin O'Malley

My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had to study and work hard. — Coco Lee

Growing up means learning to dig beneath surface behavior and discern the true motives of others, and to respond to intent, not behavior. — Ramon Stevens

Growing up is not going nearly as efficiently as I had hoped. — Anne Lamott

Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil? — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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 just want my fans to grow up and enjoy the music first, I don't want to change the world that's not what my music is about. — ASAP Rocky

When men are growing up and they're reading about Batman, Spiderman, Superman ... those are not fantasies ... they're options. — Jerry Seinfeld

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

Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost. — Lloyd Alexander

I've always wanted to be in comedy ... growing up with Asian parents and not seeing yourself represented in media - it was always just a daydream. — Anna Akana

Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading children. — Elizabeth Bowen

I think about how maybe it's not things that change but people that change, and maybe that's the change everyone is really talking about. — Susan Pogorzelski

Isn't it weird how people grow up when you're not looking? — Ann Benjamin

She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles. — J.M. Barrie

Growing older, it appears, does not mean growing up. — Michael Marshall Smith

Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me! — James M. Barrie

The only thing worse than not knowing where she belonged...was knowing where she didn't. — Tessa Shaffer

A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up. — Erma Bombeck

Anyone who has not known that inestimable privilege can possibly realize what good fortune it is to grow up in a home where there are grandparents. — Suzanne La Follette

I was not allowed to talk about being adopted when growing up. I walked around feeling like I was going to explode. — Michael Nyqvist

It's essential that a part of you not grow up. Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty. — Robin Quivers

Let us not be bored — Joe Buberger

Don't we have to respond to people who don't seem normal to us? Will my child grow up able to accept that not everyone looks the same? — Nancy Burson

Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest - learning when it was better to lie, rather than to hurt someone with the truth. — Jodi Picoult

Growing up, I was not used to good things happening to me. — Quinton Aaron

Success is like a mountain in front of you that keeps growing. If you're not careful, it will take up your whole life. — George Saunders

That's the terrible thing about growing up. You lose friends. It's inevitable. It's not like it's a surprise. But it is terrible. — Paul McCartney

Growing up in the south, N.Y.C. always seemed like a destination to visit but not to live in. — Martha Hunt

...[their] children were not growing up or being brought up, but were tumbling up. — Charles Dickens

The goal of the pastor is not to get people to show up but to get people to grow up. — John C. Maxwell

Growing up with my dad taught me to either lie like a pro or not bother. — Tammara Webber

When I was growing up, I said to my ex-girlfriend, 'I will not be successful until everyone in Holland knows my name.' And it worked. — Afrojack

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess. — Denise Van Outen

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I'm not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I'm 50? — Marilyn Monroe

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

Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations. — Cyril Connolly

Growing up under Saddam's rule, I witnessed many injustices occurring everyday in my country and yet I could not do anything to prevent them. — Zainab Salbi

Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word ... but words that flew through the air: jokes, riddles, puns. — James Howe

Both my parents were working in politics when I was growing up, so going on stage was not that great a leap. — Casey Wilson

The idea is not to please the most amount of people. Growing up in Versailles, the idea was to please the least amount of people. — Thomas Mars

I was the youngest of six kids, so yeah, feeding myself was important, but it's not like I was obsessed with food growing up. — Jim Gaffigan

Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak. — Keith Richards

If growing up means not seeing one's family and friends on the regular - all in the name of paying the bills, then growing up is overrated. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up. — Manny Montana

Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy. — Reba McEntire

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

I had a lot of growing and a lot of denying of self to do. I am not easily won over, but when I am, I am completely won over. — Willie Aames

I'm not religious. It's an issue, 'cause I've got two little kids, and I feel you can't grow up without knowledge of religion. — William H. Macy

I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up. — Dennis Ritchie

It's not nice to think of children growing up like mushrooms, in the dark. — Shirley Jackson

I'm still not totally sure I know what's true about me. — Kenneth Logan

Everyone grows old but not everyone grows up. — Maya Angelou

In the book, you lost your powers. In the movie, you chose not to use them as much. I guess I did a little of both. — Mara Wilson

I daydreamed that when you grow up there are more bullies and how wonderful that would be if it were true, but, it's not. — Taylor Swift

I'm living in the heart of gun culture, but I'm not a gun guy. I didn't grow up with them; I was never a hunter; my dad was never a hunter. — Jonathan Gottschall

What scientist would not long to go on living, if only to see how the little truths he has brought to light will grow up? — Jean Rostand

If he could only prevent himself growing up! He did not want to be a man. — Thomas Hardy

I'm not perfect and the older I get the more I realise that. — Graham Speechley

Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional baseball player instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not. — Casey Kasem

And not one person would notice the grey parts of her until it was too late, because everyone falls for a pretty face. — R. YS Perez

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

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

Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up. — Voltaire

I didn't grow up really wanting to be an actor. I don't remember ever not being an actor. — Jodie Foster

Jocelyn did not want to always remain the same. Where was the adventure in that? — Heidi Schulz

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. — Sam De Jong

Although I had no regrets, I told myself sadly that growing up was not the painless process one would have thought it to be. — Maya Angelou

When I was growing up, my parents always told me that I had to do what I thought was right and not listen to other people. That was hard for me. — Hillary Clinton

She's not a baby anymore, my love, said Tarik softly. That's what we have to accept, you and I. — Soheir Khashoggi

When people talk about how in America, anybody can grow up to be President, I'm not sure George Bush is exactly what they had in mind. — Will Durst

I did not grow up in the church. I'm not a church-goer now. I'm a very spiritual person. — Malcolm D. Lee

If you're not losing some friends then you're not growing up. — Timothy Goodman

Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion ... They begin haphazard. — Christopher Morley

I'm not everything I want to be, but I'm more than I was, and I'm still learning. — Charlotte Eriksson

She had switched from counting her years not up from birth, but back from death - a grab-bag of time not growing, but shrinking, use it or lose it. — Lois McMaster Bujold

It's not always easy growing up in an inner-city area, but in my music I want to show people that you can turn it into something positive. — Tinchy Stryder

I think many people love their problems. Gives them all sorts of excuses for not growing up and getting on with life. — Louise Penny

Believe it or not, I was a pretty shy youngster growing up. — John McEnroe

I can't answer a single one of these, which is how I know that whether I'm ready or not, I'm growing up. — Jodi Picoult

Everyone, when you're a teenager and you're growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it's not. — Ben Folds

I think I'm learning
that sometimes the bravest thing is not to face the world,
but to turn away from it. — Charlotte Eriksson

Growing up in a Mennonite background, there's not much media. — David A.R. White

I make mistakes growing up. I'm not perfect; I'm not a robot. — Justin Bieber

Tender are a mother's dreams, But her babe's not what he seems. See him plotting in his mind To grow up some other kind. — Clarence Day

Maturity is when your world opens up and you realize that you are not the center of it. — M.J. Croan

I hope, if you should live to grow up, you will endeavour to be very useful and not spend all your time in pleasing yourself. — Elizabeth Fry