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I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like What I'm Going to be If I Grow Up — Lenny Bruce

We didn't have a lot of money growing up, so my mom didn't buy a lot of extras, like sweet things. — Julianne Moore

We're so preoccupied with protecting children from disappointment and discomfort that we're inadvertently excusing them from growing up. — LZ Granderson

One can only hope that our horizons widen as we grow taller. — J.R. Tompkins

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention. — Mr. T

When I was growing up, we always had music playing in our household. I enjoy spending time with my father singing. — Pattie Brooks

I grew up in a musical family; the majority of my growing up was done in Hawaii. It's what we do. You sing, you dance, you play ukulele and you drink. — Dwayne Johnson

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

We don't grow up in vacuums. We grow up in societies. — Asne Seierstad

My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement. — Lindi Ortega

We have to get you a haircut sometime today. You're starting to look like a sulky rock star."
"Well, I am a rock star," he said, deadpan — Thea Harrison

You wanna know something," was Dad's refrain while we were growing up, "get a book." Of course,he predates Google, but it stuck with me. — Melissa Jensen

There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God? — Eddie Izzard

We can all agree that first loves can be a scary thing, and that growing up is hard to do. — Meg Cabot

My parents didn't take me to the theatre to see Chekhov when I was growing up - we went to see 'Francie and Josie' once every five years. — Peter Capaldi

Hip-hop, you're close to 50. When can we grow up? — Sho Baraka

We're just kids growing up on an island, doing bad things in pretty places. — Kaui Hart Hemmings

When we were growing up, our mother taught us never to have your belly button exposed. — Mary-Kate Olsen

I'm very close to my parents and we built a sailboat together when I was growing up. We're partners. — Rex Smith

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

As exciting, difficult, and memorable as our past can be, there comes a time when we have to get on with living. — Patrick Carman

Life is a progression of becoming who we are. — J.R. Rim

Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets. — John Green

Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that. — Ally Condie

We had been younger. Yup, you can grow a lot in the blink of an eye. — Liz Thebart

We hated Cleveland growing up. There's a lot of people in Cleveland we still hate to this day. — LeBron James

When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils. — Park Chan-wook

My brother and I had a lot of freedom growing up, and thankfully, we both turned out OK. — Nikki Reed

Growing up, we had folk records. — Alison Krauss

When I was growing up, both my grandmothers would play the organ, and we would all sing. — Janelle Monae

We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up. — Craig Charles

No matter your position or place in life, it is imperative to create opportunities for children so that we can grow up to blow you away. — Adora Svitak

All of the signs we invented growing up and we never invented one for 'he's standing right behind you'? — Skye Callahan

We teach what we need to learn. And we teach it until we get it. — Irene Tomkinson

The joy of reading with our children doesn't stop as they, and we, get older; it simply changes. — Paul Kropp

My growing up years, we watched 'Happy Days,' every night. I don't know what was reruns and what was new. — Sarah Silverman

We really don't get to understand /why/ most of the time. It's true. — Matthew Quick

If I don't see the reason of someone being my friend, chances are, we are just floating and I need a ship to set sail. — Michael Bassey Johnson

But I'm warning you, we're growing up. — Brandi Carlile

I was actually born in Miami. We would spend the summers there growing up, so it's like my second home. — Dominik Garcia-Lorido

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

One of these days we're gonna have to grow up, have to get real jobs and be adults, someday, just not today. — Kenny Chesney

Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up — Jodi Picoult

By trying so hard to provide the perfectly happy childhood, we're just making it harder for our kids to actually grow up, — Lori Gottlieb

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be. — Ellen Page

We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up. — Geri Halliwell

Growing up, we used to watch a lot of 'Indiana Jones' and 'Star Wars' and wear hand-me-down jeans and jumpers. I wasn't really one for dresses. — Kimberley Nixon

For if we try to go on protecting them we prevent them from growing up to be ordinary, confident adults, capable of looking after themselves. — Dorothy Rowe

We both have a lot of growing-up to do ... A lot of the world to see & figure out on our own.
Leo — Emily Giffin

I was good at keeping secrets from my parents (it's one of the things we learn while growing up, after all). — Jojo Moyes

Growing up seemed to mean that the only kind of pretending that was still safe was pretending we could do without it. — Saleema Nawaz

The adventures of the boy who doesn't want to grow up has universal appeal. We all want to keep something of the child in us. — Tessa Jowell

I played tennis and softball, and we had horses, growing up. — Beth Riesgraf

When I was growing up, we spoke Egyptian, we ate Egyptian food, we had other Egyptian friends. It was my father's preference. — Leila Aboulela

I was born when my dad was 50 ... It's weird growing up with a dad that much older than you. We'd go to the movies, we're both getting discounts. — Gary Gulman

We're about to hit that age when we'll be too exhausted to maintain friendships, and the days of hanging out will be long behind us. — Gume Laurel III

For me when I was growing up, some of the happiest times were when we went to a small island called Nantucket off Massachusetts. — Gwyneth Paltrow

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.
Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children. — Jodi Picoult

When we were growing up, we had all these crazy, in-your-face guys around the house. For us, it was like, 'Ugh! Actors again.' — Inga Cadranel

When I was growing up we didn't have a massive house and there were five women running around, so my dad and I had to stick together! — Louis Tomlinson

When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair. — Tamsin Greig

If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up. — Mike Singletary

Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up. — James Dobson

Maybe growing up means disappointing the people we love. — Nicola Yoon

My parents owned a plants nursery. We all grew up growing things and planting things and selling things, and I also managed landscape crews. — Jack Dangermond

The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps. — Maggie Stiefvater

We are stronger as a group than an individual. Think in a cooperative and communal way, set up local food hubs and create growing communities. — Arthur Potts Dawson

I'm sure it must have been even more wonderful then, when we were young and knew nothing about the pain of growing up. — Yoko Ogawa

By empowering a woman, we empower a child. By educating a girl child, we make it possible for her to grow up to become an empowered woman. — Winnie Byanyima

As we grow up, we are exposed to hate and greed and anger and jealousy and peanut brittle and all kinds of things, our subtly body erodes. — Frederick Lenz

Growing up means curbing appetites, shifting from "me" to "we," understanding private choices have social consequences and public outcomes. — Jen Hatmaker

We're never going to escape the idea of being young. Which I don't mind myself. I mean, who wants to grow up anyway? — Niall Horan

My brother and I, we were both relatively good-looking guys growing up, but we had our awkward stages, where we were just hard to look at. — Dan Fogler

We don't do all our growing up between birth and adolescence or even our twenties. If we're fortunate, we never stop. — Diane Guerrero

Was this part of the process of growing up, that we finally noticed the people closest to us in a different, clearer light? — Tan Twan Eng

I had a really hard time growing up; we were a large family, and we didn't have much money at home. — Luis Suarez

If we held grudges for all the idiotic things we said and did as freshman and sophomores, the hallways would be silent. — Kenneth Logan

Growing up, I didn't know anything about money other than we didn't have any. — LZ Granderson

My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more. — Karin Slaughter

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

Everyone has to grow up and that's what we're all doing; we're just doing it in different ways. — Karrine Steffans

Growing up, I thought it would be great if I could do big theaters. Now we're doing arenas. — Jeff Dunham

I think we need to do as much as we can to give back to these young kids growing up. I think we've done a pretty decent job so far. — Mario Lemieux

We always had our own vegetables growing up and now I'm doing it with my kids at our house in the country. — Stella McCartney

We had a small farm growing up. It was my grandfather's farm, and we didn't torture the animals, and we didn't feed them stuff we wouldn't eat. — Sandra Lerner

Maybe, there's a moment growing up when something peels back ... Maybe, maybe, we look for secrets because we can't believe our mind. — Susanna Kaysen

We weren't allowed to have secular music in the house growing up. I was home-schooled, and gospel was the only choice we had. — John Legend

But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey. — Leigh Steinberg

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

He's stuck with me and I'm stuck with him. We're stuck. That's what growing up is all about, I guess. — Lauren Oliver

Where'd the days go, when all we did was play? And the stress that we were under wasn't stress at all just a run and a jump into a harmless fall — Paolo Nutini

I do like the way people behave toward me and Theresa when we're together-everyone's voice changes to music, and we get all sorts of smiles. — Kenneth Logan

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted. — Barbara Kingsolver

A change in those moments, some switch turned off forever, the end of trust or safety or love, and how do we ever find the switch again? — David Vann

Each of us extracted different people from our parents by our personalities and hence we had different experiences growing up. — Lisa Unger

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

None of us really grow up. All we ever do is learn how to behave in public. — Keith Johnstone

It is us who change. We grow stronger, and the problems appear less imposing. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

I'd pull my little brother on our motorcycle on an inner tube behind it. We would go fishing, we would hunt some, growing up. — Sam Brownback

We all do things we regret. It's part of growing up. — Sue Grafton