Quotes about growing-up
growing-up sound connections
I maintain, despite the moment's evidence against the claim, that we are born and grow up with a fondness for each other, and we have genes for that. We can be talked out of it, for the genetic message is like a distant music, and some of us are hard-of-hearing. Societies are noisy affairs, drowning out the sound of ourselves and our connection. Lewis Thomas
growing-up use thumbs
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. Lewis Thomas
growing-up people annoyed
I get so annoyed at people not looking after their parents. The deal is when we are growing up they look after us and as they grow older we look after them. That's the deal. Len Goodman
growing-up fun teenager
It was Die Hard in my father's workshop. And so when that opportunity came up, the possibility of doing it, it's more the teenager in me who says that, 'I have to, of course I'm going to.' So that's the fun of reinventing, or just getting involved in things that really, actually loved as a kid growing up wanting to grow up to be a director. Len Wiseman
growing-up school high-school
I was homeschooled growing up, and we fantasized about high school, about what that experience was going to be like. Vanessa Ray
growing-up track fields
Track and field was very big when I was growing up. Usain Bolt
growing-up
I looked up to Don Quarrie and Michael Johnson when I was younger. They were the best in the 200m which was my main event growing up. Usain Bolt
growing-up mushrooms too-much
This wasn't Weirdville, this was fricking Wonderland. Alice here was all grow up, but she was still chowing down on too much of that psychedelic mushroom. Suzanne Brockmann
growing-up believe girl-interrupted
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
growing-up feelings heard
I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard. Taylor Swift
growing-up school kids
When I was growing up, I didn't really know much about being popular or cliques or anything like that. In elementary school and middle school, you start to kind of realize what it's all about. There are cool kids, and then there's you, and you're just trying to figure out where you fit in.I learned a lot about acceptance and rejection,Those are the themes that you'll find spread throughout my music and weaved in throughout all of the lyrics. I really know what it's like to be accepted, and I also know what it's like to be rejected. And those are lessons I learned in Wyomissing. Taylor Swift
growing-up dad actors
I didnt know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didnt know any arty types. Stephen Mangan
growing-up thinking want
Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up Stephen King
growing-up heart thinking
Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two. Stephen King
growing-up children eye
A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder. Stephen King
growing-up men age
Do any men grow up or do they only come of age? Stephen King
growing-up comedian carols
I started as a stand-up comedian. I wanted to be Carol Burnett when I was growing up. Stephanie Miller
growing-up school rocks
Luckily for me, when I was growing up in high school, I had a band, and I was a singer in the band. I'm less of a legit Broadway singer than I am a pop-rock singer. Stark Sands
growing-up tvs watches
I didn't watch a lot of TV growing up; I watched more films. Taylor Momsen
growing-up thinking bitter
I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded. Taylor Swift
growing-up choices fans
I've just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans. Taylor Swift
growing-up lessons love-and-relationship
As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing - hopefully. Taylor Swift
growing-up fans inspired
No-one inspired me growing up more than Thom Yorke. I was eleven when the obsession hit hard and I'm still such a huge fan. Stacey King
growing-up kids thinking
No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I grow up,' Stacy Schiff
growing-up wrestling years
I wasn't a wrestling fan growing up; I knew who Hulk Hogan was and stuff but I didn't watch it. I started watching wrestling about three years before I got involved with WCW. Stacy Keibler
growing-up father struggle
The only guy that speaks at any sort of depth is, in my mind, Eminem. He's a guy that does music that talks about the struggles of addiction and before that violence, with growing up in a broken family, not being a good enough father. So, you know that's what I enjoy about it. It's harder to listen to than ever before because I have a bunch of kids and you just can't put it on. Marco Rubio
growing-up flower waiting
Thanks to the gods I didn't spend much time while growing up with my grandfather's mistress and preserved the flower of my youth, waiting for the proper time to demonstrate my virility. Marcus Aurelius
growing-up father military
Well, my father was in the Army and we traveled quite a bit when I was growing up, and I thought that I would like to have a military career, although I was drawn more towards the Navy. Marc Garneau
growing-up sunday down-and
I hated Sundays when I was growing up in Streatham, south London. Everything closed down and stopped. Simon Callow
growing-up ocean space
I didn't grow up with money, but I grew up with a lot of space. All I did was surf. I was committed to the ocean. That's one thing about Australians; we have the capacity to embrace life. Simon Baker
growing-up boys role-models
I should mention that while I was growing up, Einstein was presented as a worthy role model for a young boy who was good at his studies. Sidney Altman
growing-up passion hockey
The biggest thing for me is the passion that I've always had for hockey. I remember growing up, no matter what I did in life, my parents always told me to try to do my best at it and be my best. I can say going through different things that passion is the most important part. It's not skills or talent or any of that stuff. Sidney Crosby
growing-up dad imagination
Growing up, I didn't have television. My dad would make up stories and tell me stories, so my imagination ran wild. When I did see films, which was very few and far between, that was such an interesting medium that was so new to me. It wasn't something that was just part of my life, so it was really appealing and so different that I enjoyed that. Shiloh Fernandez