Quotes about growing-up
growing-up maturity years
When young we have a vivid sense of basic values like trust and warm-heartedness, which we tend to neglect in today's competitive world as we grow up, yet from birth we all have a need for affection. The emotions we experience today have not changed much over the last few thousand years, but the interest increasing numbers of people are showing in their inner world and how their emotions work is a sign of maturity. Dalai Lama
growing-up als crooks
You had to grow up sometime. The fellows who grew early, they were in jeopardy. They became the cops and the crooks, and the crooks became the gangsters. The crooks became the Al Capones. Jack Kirby
growing-up men maturity
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. J. D. Salinger
growing-up school people
My parents sent me to a school across town, an integrated school, where I had the chance to meet and grow up with people who were from other parts of the world. ... I remember feeling that I would never have anything to contribute on St. Patrick's Day. I couldn't tell the stories that they might have been telling about their forebears and I felt left out. Isabel Wilkerson
growing-up father thinking
I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works. Ira Levin
growing-up actors sticks
Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness, Ioan Gruffudd
growing-up people guy
Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world. Jack Ma
growing-up kids golf
A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave. Jack Nicklaus
growing-up dinosaurs firsts
I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs. Jack Horner
growing-up father thinking
My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world. Jack Antonoff
growing-up film my-family
I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it. J. C. Chandor
growing-up boys views
My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula. J. C. Watts
growing-up fighting house
I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house. J. Cole
growing-up thinking race
I think being born in America and growing up exclusively within the American boundaries of race and race oppression is a very different experience for those of us who grew up under the boundaries of race and race experience in the Caribbean, or for those who grew up in Africa. Our experience has not made us monolithic. We're not all of the same stripe, coming from the same place with the same sense of what the tactics have to be to survive. Harry Belafonte
growing-up responsibility thinking
I think parenting is a huge responsibility. It was in my time when I was growing up and there still continues to be that responsibility. Harrison Ford
growing-up children opportunity
It's a wonderful opportunity to be part of a child's growing up, which is always an endless springtime. You see the blossoming and the growing and the nurturing and the payoff.
growing-up thinking want
My family never told me like you have to be one thing. What do you want to be when you grow up? They think it's the most ridiculous question. You can be many, many things. Hannah Simone
growing-up rights play
My family’s said to me from the beginning, ‘People are always going to tell you to pick what you want to be when you grow up. You take that and throw it out the window, that’s garbage. People are complicated and we love many things and we’re passionate about many things. You can be a human rights activist and also be doing these comedy plays in your community and that’s OK. All those things are a part of who you are and you can love them equally.
growing-up kids adults
Growing up, I was a kid pretending to be an adult. Guy Pearce
growing-up lying emotional
No one grows up. That's one of the sickest lies they ever tell you. People change. People compromise. People get stranded in situations they don't want to be in… and they make the best of it. But don't try to tell me it's some kind of… glorious preordained ascent into emotional maturity. It's not.
growing-up nice son
They just tested the tap water in Los Angeles and they found traces of estrogen and antidepressants in the tap water. So it's nice to know my son's going to grow up and have huge breasts but it's not going to bother him that much. Greg Fitzsimmons
growing-up expression punk
PUNK IS: the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to reason and ask questions. Greg Graffin
growing-up book eye
Part of growing up is learning your strengths and weaknesses. What better way to figure out that hand-eye coordination ain't your thing than by getting drilled in the mouth by a red, rubber ball? You only gotta get beaned in the face so many times before you figure out, 'I better hit the books because this is not working out. Greg Giraldo
growing-up self-esteem kids
It's all about self-esteem now. Build the kids' self-esteem, make them feel good about themselves. If everybody grows up with high self-esteem, who's gonna dance in our strip-clubs?
growing-up memphis st-jude
Growing up in Memphis, I have always admired St. Jude's for the magnificent work they do. Ginnifer Goodwin
growing-up grandmother animal
My grandmother lives on a farm. And growing up, I assumed that the animals that I was eating and the animals that I was wearing all came from farms like my grandmother's. They all had names, they were all smothered with love, and they all lived to be very old.
growing-up winning men
Growing up training, I use to get up so early I would wave to the garbage men going by. So, I had this relationship with Blue Collar America and I really liked it. I felt that lots of those people looked forward to me winning. Gerry Cooney
growing-up fool firsts
It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool. Harold MacMillan
growing-up islands nantucket
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
growing-up men feelings
I have a sort of sisterly feeling toward him [Ben Affleck]. I want him to do well and grow up and be a happy person and a fully realized man.
growing-up teenage kids
Basically, growing up, and being a teenage kid, I've always been interested in charity. And one of the benefits of being on a TV show and having a fan base, you kind of have the power to spread news around. Gregg Sulkin
growing-up superhero fans
I was a big Superman fan, growing up. I've always been a big superhero fan. Grant Gustin
growing-up kids boys
Initially with The Butcher Boy, there was this kid growing up in this strange, weird environment that I remember from when I was a kid. And Patrick's vision was so complete there. Neil Jordan