Quotes about growing-up
growing-up real kids
The meter is ticking [particularly in the face of climate change], so you've got to get to as much as you can as fast as you can. I grew up with 'This Land Is Our Land,' and public land doesn't belong to that administration or this one. We want our kids to grow up with real natural places, not just photos of them. Robert Redford
growing-up dad thinking
I think I have a finely tuned sense of humor. I think just being around it and growing up in it... my dad and Mel Brooks and Norman Lear. These are the people I grew up around. Rob Reiner
growing-up nice people
One nice thing about growing up Catholic is it makes you open-minded about other people's religions, since ours is nuttier than yours. Rob Sheffield
growing-up hate school
I didn't grow up in a creative environment. It was very boring town, boring everything. You go to school and you basically hate all the other kids because you don't understand them or what it's all about. At the same time I'm happy for that because I became very withdrawn and when you become withdrawn you develop your own bizarre-o personality. Rob Zombie
growing-up years lists
Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you're going to have years of failure.
growing-up children believe
We humans are born egocentric. The sky thunders and children believe that God is mad at them for something they've done - parents divorce and children believe it's their fault for not being good enough. Growing up means putting aside our egocentricity for truth. Still, some people cling to this childish mind-set. As painful as their self-flagellation may be, they'd rather believe their crises are their fault so they can believe they have control. In doing so they make fools and false gods of themselves. Richard Paul Evans
growing-up expression brain
So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts. Robert Louis Stevenson
growing-up believe getting-old
Growing up isn't simply getting old... Growing up is when you don't believe anymore. Walt Disney
growing-up men ideas
Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up. Voltaire
growing-up pain men
That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain. William Butler Yeats
growing-up shapes toes
Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.
growing-up creative progress
One must not consider a language as a product dead, and formed but once; it is an animate being, and ever creative. Human thought elaborates itself with the progress of intelligence; and of this thought language is a manifestation. An idiom cannot therefore remain stationary; it walks, it develops, it grows up, it fortifies itself, it becomes old, and it reaches decrepitude. Wilhelm von Humboldt
growing-up adventure boys
Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing up in Central Africa I read all Haggard's African novels. Walter Smith
growing-up wish world
I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world. Yo-Yo Ma
growing-up golf growing
I didn't know much about golf growing up. Yogi Berra
growing-up forever labels
The Flaming Lips have been on Warner Bros. forever, and certainly everything I heard growing up was on a major label in some way, from the Cure to Radiohead to Bjork. Win Butler
growing-up teenager growing
I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties. Winona Ryder
growing-up dad rocks
My dad took me to all the best rock and punk shows when I was growing up and music has always been a part of my life. So I'm very interested in the music scene and I suppose that's why I've ended up going out with musicians. Dave Pirner is still one of my best friends.
growing-up kids long
I'm quite comfortable looking at myself in movies, probably because I've been doing it for so long, since I was a kid. So I sort of watched myself grow up and go through adolescence, like, basically on camera.
growing-up guy dave
I was a big Dave Winfield guy growing up. Willie Geist
growing-up self growing
I had a lot of growing and a lot of denying of self to do. I am not easily won over, but when I am, I am completely won over. Willie Aames
growing-up cities today
Montreal is a very cosmopolitan, sophisticated, erudite, educated, glorious city today. But it wasn't quite that way when I was growing up there. There was a lot of anti-Semitism. And I had to deal with that in an area of the city that had very few Jews. William Shatner
growing-up children parks
We should make it a crime even to attempt to pollute. Our children should grow up next to parks, not poison. William J. Clinton
growing-up important behind-you
To avoid having bad things happen, learning to manage your anger and to actually share how you really feel about something, and get it behind you is one of the most important aspects of growing up.
growing-up america people
When people talk about how in America, anybody can grow up to be President, I'm not sure George Bush is exactly what they had in mind. Will Durst
growing-up race white
Traditionally, I have no right to talk about race. I'm white; I didn't grow up in an all-black neighborhood. But the license I see for myself is I'm a member of the world. Sarah Silverman
growing-up children taken
Growing up, I always loved Disney movies, but the first movie I remember seeing is 'Sleepers,' so I wasn't really taken to children's movies.
growing-up father school
My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing. There was a lot of Mozart and the Beatles. Sara Zarr
growing-up teenager luxury
When you're a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury, a frivolity, like a bubble bath. Sarah Addison Allen
growing-up elephants different
Different persons growing up in the same language are like different bushes trimmed and trained to take the shape of identical elephants. The anatomical details of twigs and branches will fulfill the elephantine form differently from bush to bush, but the overall outward results are alike. Willard Van Orman Quine
growing-up evil sacred-scripture
We need not only read Sacred Scripture, but learn it as well and grow up in it. Realize that nothing is written in Scripture unnecessarily. Not to read Sacred Scripture is a great evil. Saint Basil
growing-up knowing pittsburgh
Just growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it's like no other place. Wiz Khalifa
growing-up childhood way
The toughest thing for me was growing up and being stared at and being looked at and being talked about in that particular way. Other than that it was a good childhood. Wilt Chamberlain