Top Growing Up Quotes Collection
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When I was just a kid, growing up in Brooklyn, I was constantly making home videos with my family – real silly high-concept productions like, 'Attack of the Killer Handkerchief.' I guess I knew even then that I wanted to be an actress.Collection: Growing Up
I suppose that when you're growing up, you're bound to reach an age when you feel buffeted by all the changes in your life, when either your mind begins outpacing your body or your body begins outpacing your mind and you're not quite in conversation with yourself anymore.Collection: Growing Up
To grow up requires a whole life but to become old one night is enough.Collection: Growing Up
As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch breath, still marveling at our thumbs, still learning to use the brand-new gift of language. Being so young, we can be excused all sorts of folly and can permit ourselves the hope that someday, as a species, we will begin to grow up.Collection: Growing Up
This was another item about growing up: you encountered all the cliches of love and loss and heartbreak.Collection: Growing Up
You have two numbers in your age when you are ten. It's the beginning of growing up.Collection: Growing Up
I wanted to show America a different kind of man. If there was someone like me when I was growing up, my whole life would have been different.Collection: Growing Up
I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposesCollection: Growing Up
I will say that growing up as a kid in an urban environment and having lived in cities all my life, the one achievement that everyone can look forward to is getting the perfect parking spotCollection: Growing Up
People say 'nerd' condescendingly, but when you're older you start to realize that it's the nerds who grow up to be the cool ones.Collection: Growing Up
Pain happens to everyone. To grow up, to fulfill your potential, to develop into what God wants you to be-this process takes support. No one succeeds alone.Collection: Growing Up
I don't think I'd have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I'd known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed.Collection: Growing Up
I always said that, when I grow up, I want to be like Joss Whedon: I want to have my own world.Collection: Growing Up
What is it with folks always talking about where they're from? You could grow up in a muddy ditch, but if it's your muddy ditch, then it's gotta be the swellest muddy ditch ever.Collection: Growing Up
I still don't know what it really means to grow up. However, if I happen to meet you, one day in the future, by then, I want to become someone you can be proud to know.Collection: Growing Up
So much of growing up is an unbearable waiting. A constant longing for another time. Another season.Collection: Growing Up
Just because you grow up in the public eye doesn't mean that you're immune to the same sort of issues and feelings that any other woman would go through.Collection: Growing Up
Growing up, I was always really shy about my body.Collection: Growing Up
When youre growing up, its always nice to have someone you can relate and look up to. Im proud of how I conduct my business and how I have accomplished all that I have accomplished, and hope that I can be a positive influence on not only the Mexican community but also young boxers and people all around the world.Collection: Growing Up
I tried to make it as real for them as possible. The thing about being reality is that reality is not always fun. They did a big piece of growing up that day.Collection: Growing Up
I enjoy being an actress a lot, because I can feel different women's lives. I have the chance to feel like a geisha one day, and on another day maybe a scientist. That's the interesting part for me. My profession has helped me to grow up.Collection: Growing Up
I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.Collection: Growing Up
Getting old is horrible, but it is interesting . . . one of the things I've realized is that growing old is compulsory, but growing up is optional.Collection: Growing Up
I do think any modern storyteller is influenced by the stories we all grow up with and become familiar with, our shared cultural narratives.Collection: Growing Up
These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be hereCollection: Growing Up
My absolute favorite growing up was Super Friends. The assemblage of so many mighty heroes in one place was, to me, mind-blowing. It was Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Aquaman, and then sometimes Hawkman and some other, lesser heroes.Collection: Growing Up
I think I learned the most from Eminem because I spent the most time with him in the studio. Going to L.A. with Dre was a learning experience, just seeing how the dude works and being up-close and personal with a dude whose music I appreciated growing up.Collection: Growing Up
I might grow old in Brisbane, but I would never grow up.Collection: Growing Up
The Canadian kid who wants to grow up to be Prime Minister isn't thinking big, he is setting a limit to his ambitions rather early.Collection: Growing Up
I think living in the West, we live in a culture where everybody strives for perfection, whether it's in body, health, spirit, skin, hair, nails. Perfect happiness would be a constant state of bliss, which doesn't exist. Growing up and going through the loss I went through, I never had a moment where I believed a constant state of bliss was possible. Instead, I tried to create many moments. But, I didn't know how to get there. Because of what I went through, I have a natural tendency towards darkness. Though it may be in my DNA as well.Collection: Growing Up
Take this one in my belly. He (or she) is determined to be here. I can feel the force of his being. It's as if he has something to do here and just wants to arrive and grow up so he can get to it.Collection: Growing Up
When I grow up, I'd like to be dangerous.Collection: Growing Up
The truth is, marijuana probably isn't going to make you kill people. Most likely isn't going to fund terrorists, but pot makes you feel fine with being bored and it's when you're bored that you should be learning a new skill or some new science or being creative. If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you're not good at anything.Collection: Growing Up
Inside me, I think that an animal goes through a lot of pain in the whole cycle of death in the slaughterhouse; just living to be killed. That whole situation is really messed up for animals, growing up in those little cooped-up pens. I just don't think its worth eating that animal. I think animals should be free. There's so much other food out there that doesn't have to involve you in that cycle of pain and death.Collection: Growing Up
Growing up gorilla is just like any other kind of growing up. You make mistakes. You play. You learn. You do it all over again.Collection: Growing Up
Coming from California and growing up where I did, I've always had a fondness for and innate sensitivity to light, texture, and warmth.Collection: Growing Up
The key to growing up well, is being tough enough.Collection: Growing Up
It's astonishing how quickly cultural references change. Each new generation of parents grows up with a new slate of cultural understanding, television shows, and unique parental issues. The biblical principles remain the same, however, so this was a slight reworking, not a major overhaul.Collection: Growing Up
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.Collection: Growing Up
I was wowed by Margo Jefferson's memoir, Negroland, which is about growing up black and privileged in Chicago in the fifties and sixties. It was a window into an alien world. Obviously, I'm not black, but what was really alien to me was her family's focus on respectability. I was never taught when to wear white gloves, what length skirt is appropriate.Collection: Growing Up
It's essential that a part of you not grow up. Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty.Collection: Growing Up
I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up.Collection: Growing Up
I love live music. I love going to the event. And to know them as people and to have seen the Grateful Dead grow up and become who they are is so incredibly special.Collection: Growing Up
When I grow up I want to be an old woman.Collection: Growing Up
If your gonna screw up, do it while you're young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back.Collection: Growing Up
Everyone got older but forgot to grow up.Collection: Growing Up
Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up.Collection: Growing Up
I definitely knew that I loved acting from the very beginning. I was such a ham growing up. Wherever the camera was, I wanted to be right in front of it.Collection: Growing Up
I'm nice because, when I was growing up, so many people weren't nice to me, and I remember how that felt. And I don't want to make anyone else feel like that. I value nice.Collection: Growing Up
Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom. But the personality formed in an environment of coercive control is not well adapted to adult life. The survivor is left with fundamental problems in basic trust, autonomy, and initiative. She approaches the tasks of early adulthood-establishing independence and intimacy-burdened by major impairments in self-care, in cognition and memory, in identity, and in the capacity to form stable relationships. She is still a prisoner of her childhood; attempting to create a new life, she reencounters the trauma.Collection: Growing Up