Quotes about growing-up
growing-up mean home
When I was growing up, my favorite player was Reggie Jackson - and I never got the opportunity to get an autograph from Reggie. I was so frustrated. I mean, he was my idol. And I couldn't get no autograph. I would go through punishment waiting on him (after games) because he was always the last guy to come out. And I would go back home with no autograph. Rickey Henderson
growing-up kids parent
There's a generation now that didn't grow up in nature. Some of these adults are parents and they know that nature is good for their kids but they don't know where to start. Richard Louv
growing-up want honest
When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen. Richard M. Nixon
growing-up kids parent
The world is divided between kids who grow up wanting to be their parents and those like us, who grow up wanting to be anything but. Neither group ever succeeds. Richard Russo
growing-up mistake thinking
I have made plenty of mistakes. The key to life is to learn from them. I have been a little too introspective, but I think that stemmed from insecurity or shyness. I took a long time to grow up. Richard Gere
growing-up book kids
As a kid growing up in the 1950s I became acutely aware of the changes taking place in American culture and I must say I didn't much like it. I witnessed the debasement of architecture, and I could see a decline in the quality of things like comic books and toys, things made for kids. Old things seemed to have more life, more substance, more humanity in them. Robert Crumb
growing-up directors cinema
I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director. Robert Carlyle
growing-up children thinking
I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me. Roald Dahl
growing-up fun children
When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: A stodgy parent is not fun at all! What a child wants - and DESERVES - is a parent who is SPARKY! Roald Dahl
growing-up critics grows
I wanna grow up and be a critic. Richard Pryor
growing-up taken thinking
We grow up as natural optimists as Americans. Catholic priests were so hopeful as we watched the Vatican II experience. Yet, it's a punch in the belly to see what has happened in the church and the world. Dualistic thinking seems to have taken over the church and our politics to a really neurotic degree. Richard Rohr
growing-up ghetto thinking
I remember crying all the time. My major thing growing up was I couldn't fit in. Because I was from everywhere, I didn't have no buddies that I grew up with...Every time I had to go to a new apartment, I had to reinvent myself, myself. People think just because you born in the ghetto you gonna fit in. A little twist in your life and you don't fit in no matter what. If they push you out of the hood and the White people's world, that's criminal...Hell, I felt like my could be destroyed at any moment. Tupac Shakur
growing-up couple government
I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government! Trevor Rabin
growing-up marijuana skills
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. Trey Parker
growing-up police groups
I'm from Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. So, you grow up around police officers. Some of them are in your family, some of them you have encounters with. I had a young police officer we were friends with in our group. Tracy Morgan
growing-up color purple
My life growing up was a twisted Bronx version of The Color Purple. It had a much different soundtrack and no trees, but that desperation was the same. Tracy Morgan
growing-up careers choices
Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day. Tracy Morgan
growing-up thinking taught
I think growing up in a big family taught me a lot of problem solving and how to share and compromise, and that's been helpful in my marriage. Sarah Jessica Parker
growing-up school thinking
It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think. Sarah Dessen
growing-up long enough
Maybe it was just part of growing up with someone. Once you have a rhythm and stay with it long enough, it's not hard to find again. Sarah Dessen
growing-up lying mean
Growing up means :propelling yourself forward into whatever lies ahead, one turn of the wheel at a time. Sarah Dessen
growing-up love-is guy
I love being the bad guy, simply because I was always so responsible, so predictable growing up. Sandra Brown
growing-up life-experience share
You grow up and share life experiences. That's one of the best parts of this business. You share how you're mellowing out and your new sense of self. Sandra Bullock
growing-up mean giving
I was 23 when I learned how to cook; I grew up around the same time. It was precisely then that Thanksgiving started to mean something more. Growing up, Christmas was always about me, and eventually you, when I finally started to enjoy the giving part. But Thanksgiving is always about us. Rosecrans Baldwin
growing-up grandmother order
Eating cookies that you bake with your grandmother is one of the greatest social steps one must experience in order to grow up into a decent world citizen, in my opinion. Roseanne Barr
growing-up thinking too-late
I have a lot of growing up to do. But I think, 'Hell, is it too late?' Ronnie Wood
growing-up children made
Working with UNICEF made me grow up and recognize how fortunate I am. Roger Moore
growing-up age three
Growing up, I missed the whole 'Three Stooges' thing. Either they weren't on the station in my hometown, or we hadn't bought a TV set yet, or they came to town too late for me. I'm pretty sure that at the right age, I would have loved them. Roger Ebert
growing-up giving childhood
It's essential that a part of you not grow up. Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty. Robin Quivers
growing-up bills growing
Growing up, I loved Bill Cosby. Robin Thicke
growing-up thinking accepting
Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up. Robert Smith
growing-up growing
I don't see what the point is in growing up. Robert Plant
growing-up voice want
I still feel like I have a lot of growing up to do til I find the voice. Everybody has their own voice and their own thing they want to say to the world. Sasha Alexander