Quotes about growing-up
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 team golf
Everything we play when we are growing up, is team related. In this game (of golf) you can find all the answers yourself. You don't need to throw the ball in the air and play catch with yourself. You get a bucket of balls and go out there with your clubs, and you hit and learn and you get better. And there's no top. George Lopez
growing-up kids cutting
[There's] a joke that I've done forever: 'Nowadays they say that the largest majority of people will be Latino and you'll tell scary stories to your grandkids: "A long time ago when I was growing up, there used to be people who were white," and the kid says, "Really?" and you say, "Yeah, like the man who cuts our grass."' I've had that line forever and I love it.
growing-up thinking awkward
I think everyone has their awkward phases. Growing up isn't easy for everyone. Emily Ratajkowski
growing-up thinking people
I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I think I was always afraid of up or not being this very cool, amazing person that I wanted to be. Emily Mortimer
growing-up real kind
Everything is so dreamy when you are young. After you grow up it kind of becomes -- just real. Elvis Presley
growing-up ideas captains
Growing up, I had one very specific idea of what a wedding should be, and that was the wedding of Fraulein Maria and Captain von Trapp in 'The Sound of Music. Ellie Kemper
growing-up grows stills
And how can it be he's so in love with me? To grow up without love, and still have so much inside? Ellen Hopkins
growing-up soul age
I like growing up; I feel like I have an old soul. I like the age to match as much as it can. Elizabeth Gillies
growing-up endeavour should
I hope, if you should live to grow up, you will endeavour to be very useful and not spend all your time in pleasing yourself. Elizabeth Fry
growing-up couple children
Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family. Elizabeth Gilbert
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.