Quotes about growing-up
growing-up crazy kids
To a young kid growing up in Canada, America seemed to be crazy about the future; dazzled by it. Graydon Carter
growing-up warrior boys
If we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then the boy can grow up and become truly masculine. John Eldredge
growing-up children character
I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts. John Mahoney
growing-up people design
I like stuff designed by dead people. The old designers. They always got it right because they didn't have to grow up with computers. All of the people that made the spoon and the dishes and the vacuum cleaner didn't have microprocessors and stuff. You could do a good design back then. John Maeda
growing-up father son
A father would do well, as his son grows up, and is capable of it, to talk familiarly with him; nay, ask his advice, and consult with him about those things wherein he has any knowledge or understanding. By this, the father will gain two things, both of great moment. The sooner you treat him as a man, the sooner he will begin to be one; and if you admit him into serious discourses sometimes with you, you will insensibly raise his mind above the usual amusements of youth, and those trifling occupations which it is commonly wasted in. John Locke
growing-up artist actors
Growing up I didn't want to be an actor. I sort of didn't want to go into the family business; the main reason being there was something I wanted to do far more, which was be an artist. John Lithgow
growing-up men white-man
When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn't like it. John Lewis
growing-up son parenting
I wanted to give five solid years of being there all the time (with Sean). I hadn't seen my first son Julian grow up, and now there's a 17-year-old man on the phone talking about motorbikes. No matter what artistic gains I get, or gold records, if I can't make a success out of my relationship with the people I love, then everything else is bullsh*t. John Lennon
growing-up parenting want
Well, I just want him to grow up happy. That's the main thing.
growing-up sick different
I don't want to grow up but I'm sick of not growing up - that way. I'll find a different way of not growing up. There's a better way of doing it than torturing your body.
growing-up kids ideas
I always loved the idea of a spy movie and part of it came from my personal love of spy movies. It started when I was growing up as a little kid in the 60s. John Lasseter
growing-up curls details
The spirit of Route 66 is in the details: every scratch on a fender, every curl of paint on a weathered billboard, every blade of grass growing up through a cracked street.
growing-up kids people
People who get into animation tend to be kids. We don't have to grow up. But also, animators are great observers, and there's this childlike wonder and interest in the world, the observation of little things that happen in life.
growing-up children book
Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.
growing-up actors remember
I didn't grow up really wanting to be an actor. I don't remember ever not being an actor. Jodie Foster
growing-up thinking down-and
I think I've always been aware of it with my music. I think growing up basically and having a lot to deal with and just slowing down and having something to say and something to retract from, I think I just knew that what I was doing was extremely honest. Justin Vernon
growing-up mean thinking
I didn't grow up with indie rock - I mean, I listened to bands that are considered indie rock, but I think that term is dead and uninteresting.
growing-up church memphis
I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say. Justin Timberlake
growing-up children media
The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted. Julie Christie
growing-up grows
Who didnt grow up through the 90s watching Friends? Josh Hopkins
growing-up mean kids
My idol growing up was Charlie Chaplin. I was obsessed with him. I mean, while other kids were watching Jim Carrey and the likes in the '90s, I was watching Charlie Chaplin films, because I was a bit of a geek. I became obsessed with this idea of physical comedy. Josh Gad
growing-up character men
I just think of interesting roles to play. I guess that I have matured, I guess growing up and becoming a man, your taste in characters changes and I think I have become more interested in active characters as I have become less contemplative in my personal life. Things have become a little bit more interesting in the doing these days and less interesting in the thinking about the doing. Josh Hartnett
growing-up believe opportunity
Growing up in the acting world, you have a lot of opportunities to change who you are and what you believe in based on how people treat you. I never wanted to do that. Josh Hutcherson
growing-up thinking way
I still love the theology of the Mormon religion and think it is a wonderful way to grow up. Katherine Heigl
growing-up fun ballerina
When I grow up I am going to be a ballerina. I will be in Giselle. It will be so much fun being a ballerina. Karen Kain
growing-up believe blood
This last year... I learned something about family. Like it's not about blood alone. It's being connected... it's growing up together and loving each other. It's believing in the same God and knowing you'd do anything for the person across from you at dinner. Karen Kingsbury
growing-up ocean imagination
Growing up, Catholic church really was such an incubator for my imagination, because all of those mysteries felt embedded in this insanely green, tropical landscape: the ocean nearby, the giant banyan trees. It all felt part of one seamless mystery to me. Karen Russell
growing-up cities late
D.C. is a hard city to grow up in. I couldn't find my footing there. Also, I got a late start academically, and I was dyslexic. Justin Theroux
growing-up pride men
Because men have a history, it is difficult for them to imagine what it is like to grow up without one, or the sense of personal expansion that comes from discovering that we women have a worthy heritage. Along with pride often comes rage – rage that one has been deprived of such a significant knowledge. Judy Chicago
growing-up neurosis golden
Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up. Judith Viorst
growing-up home childhood
Somewhere slightly before or after the close of our second decade, we reach a momentous milestone--childhood's end. We have left asafe place and can't go home again. We have moved into a world where life isn't fair, where life is rarely what it should be.
growing-up people stories
I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head. Judy Blume
growing-up kids opportunity
Something awful happens to a person who grows up as a creative kid and suddenly finds no creative outlet as an adult.