Quotes about growing-up
growing-up differences parent
Growing up, I was watched by my parents and strongly critiqued. Instead of saying they loved me or showing physical attention, they would joke that I had a Roman nose - that it was roamin' all over my face. Teasing was their way of showing love, but then you are young, sometimes you can't tell the difference. Neil Strauss
growing-up children justice
Let's roll for justice, let's roll for truth. Let's not let our children grow up fearful in their youth. Neil Young
growing-up kids thinking
I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food. Rachel McAdams
growing-up thinking laughing
I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool. Rachel Nichols
growing-up mean ideas
We're never going to escape the idea of being young. Which I don't mind myself. I mean, who wants to grow up anyway? Niall Horan
growing-up teenager school
I think teenagers in the States grow up too fast. In Canada, kids are exposed to different things. Like school is very different; it's not nearly as social. Canadian teenagers see it as a much more serious place. Neve Campbell
growing-up growing
Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything. Noam Chomsky
growing-up people training
Very good training to just be a person is growing up in Canada. People say a lot of things about Canada, like that it's boring, but if you look around the world, you can praise boring. It's a very civilized place to grow up. I'm very proud of it. Mike Myers
growing-up father listening
Everything I do is autobiographical in some way. 'Wayne's World' was me growing up in the suburbs of Toronto and listening to heavy metal, and 'Austin Powers' was every bit of British culture that my father, who passed away in 1991, had forced me to watch and taught me to love.
growing-up hero cop
My uncle was a cop, a career cop, on the beat in downtown Chicago. He was my hero when I was growing up. Mike Pence
growing-up college thinking
The promise of learning is a delusion.... Tomorrow would alter the sense of what had already been learned, that the learning process is extended in this way, so that from this standpoint none of us ever graduates from college, for time is an emulsion, and probably thinking not to grow up is the brightest kind of maturity for us, right now at any rate. John Ashbery
growing-up mistake long
You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind. Joely Richardson
growing-up kids frustration
When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business. Joey Ramone
growing-up want crowds
I want to grow up with my audience. I don't expect to be getting through to the younger pop crowd. I learned that from Paul Simon. Joe Strummer
growing-up forever lasts
When I was growing up in the '60s I would have thought that westerns would last forever. Joe Dante
growing-up lines down-and
it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be. Jodi Picoult
growing-up voice sick
Sara: "You are so brave," I tell her, and then I smile. "When I grow up, I want to be just like you." To my surprise, Kate shakes her head hard. Her voice is a feather, a thread. "No Mommy," she says. "You'd be sick.
growing-up mistake thinking
Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up
growing-up teenager moving
I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they have to grow up and move past JK Rowling they can move to me. From Jo to Jodi!
growing-up doors faces
The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face.
growing-up mean kids
No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst.
growing-up one-day may
...as it turned out, growing up was just as she'd feared. One day when your alarm clock rang, you got up and realized you had someone else's thoughts in your head... or may be just your old ones, minus the hope.
growing-up people parent
Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.
growing-up wall smart
All teenagers knew this was true. The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face. For years, parents tell you that you can be anything, have anything, do anything. That was why she'd been so eager to grow up-until she got to adolescence and hit a big fat wall ofreality. As it turned out, she couldn't have anything she wanted. You didn't get to be pretty or smart or popular just because you wanted it. You didn't control your own destiny, you were too busy trying to fit in.
growing-up kids thinking
Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.
growing-up people missing
I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't.
growing-up vermont matter
Growing up in Vermont, no matter what I did, I didnt get much recognition. Keegan Bradley
growing-up energy different
It was really cool to work with Dakota Fanning. I've watched her grow up and I've always loved her films, loved her. It was amazing working with someone who was American as well, because obviously it's going to be a different energy straightaway. We got on really well; she's so professional and hardworking. Kaya Scodelario
growing-up thinking parent
I think the way I approach things has something to do with growing up and seeing my parents go to work every day. Kristen Stewart
growing-up parent firsts
Growing up, I never heard my parents curse, never. The first time I ever said a curse word was with my sister Kim. Kourtney Kardashian
growing-up successful years
As you become more successful, the gender barrier disappears. The credibility challenges you have during your growing up years starts disappearing when you start demonstrating success. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
growing-up teenager growing
I was a handful growing up. Olivia Wilde
growing-up survival woods
I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods. Margaret Atwood