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