Quotes about growing-up
growing-up children want
The master never seemed to have his fill of gazing at his firstborn child. "What do you want him to be when he grows up?" someone asked. "Outrageously happy," said the master. Anthony de Mello
growing-up growing sometimes
Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes. Annette Funicello
growing-up play long
It's not about, 'Let me play as long as I can so I don't have to grow up.' It's about, 'Let me play as long as I enjoy it,' and when it's time to step away, I can step away gracefully even if I'm still good enough to keep playing, because I'm ready for that next phase. Angela Ruggiero
growing-up church-music musical
The most consistent musical experience I had growing up was church music. Amy Grant
growing-up children world
The world my children are growing up in is so much more sophisticated and exposed - emotionally, intellectually, sexually.
growing-up successful men
The most successful hyperpowers are the ones where there was actual intermixing. Tang dynasty China was Chinas golden age, and contrary to what I was told when I was growing up, Tang China was founded by a man who by todays standards was no more than half Chinese. It was a mixed-blood dynasty that pulled in barbarians from the steppe. Amy Chua
growing-up kids years
I want to live 50 more years. I'm 33 years old... and I want to live to at least be 80 and see my kids grow up and see my grandkids. That's important to me. Alonzo Mourning
growing-up growing height
I have the power of my height. Growing up, it was a total drawback. There was nothing good about it at all. Allison Janney
growing-up growing tricks
Growing up in a business-orientated family meant that I naturally learnt the tricks of the trade. Anne Robinson
growing-up mean vampire
You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die. And it means something else too, doesn't it? I shall never ever grow up. Anne Rice
growing-up class theatre
I was never the class clown or anything like that. When I was growing up and doing theatre in Seattle I was always doing very dramatic work. Now I can't get a dramatic role to save my life! Anna Faris
growing-up children passion
One loses the capacity to grieve as a child grieves, or to rage as a child rages: hotly, despairingly, with tears of passion. One grows up, one becomes civilized, one learns one's manners, and consequently can no longer manage these two functions - sorrow and anger - adequately. Anita Brookner
growing-up gay self
I know one gay ex-Mormon who is a talented, self-destructive alcoholic. Whenever he is drunk and going on a tear, we are back to the Mormon Church and his being thrown out of the Mormon Church and growing up with this sense of being evil. Andrew Solomon
growing-up children gay
The world changed, and the idea of having a family became feasible for homosexuals. But I was still left with the question as to what it would be like for a child to grow up with gay parents.
growing-up people damage
I did grow up in a household in which I felt that to be myself was to damage the people I loved.
growing-up nfl my-favorite
Peyton was the best, my favorite quarterback growing up. Andrew Luck
growing-up dad college
My dad hasn't said much about his college days. Oh, a few times, he might start telling stories. And I've seen some highlight film of him from college. I remember thinking he looked really small. Which is funny, because growing up, I thought he was a pretty big guy.
growing-up winning thinking
Another factor is the education and culture in which you grow up. I didn't grow up in the culture of victory, where you are expected to be or have to be, the best. It was not at all like that in my family. Tennis was really a hobby. If it led to something, great. If not, there were other things in life. I think that was something I was missing at some points in my career, because when I see Hingis or the Williamses, you see how they were educated for this: to win, to be the best, a bit the American mentality. Number one. Number one. Number one. I didn't have this. Amelie Mauresmo
growing-up teenager drinking
As a fairly innocent teenager, growing up in a village in Wales, I just thought, "God, I would like to go and hang about Soho and write great poetry and try to avoid drinking myself to death." Andrew Davies
growing-up giving parent
I loved my family so much when I was growing up, my parents, my sister. I wanted to be able to give them everything they ever dreamed of. Andrew Dice Clay
growing-up war princess
When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue. Anthony Holden
growing-up kids boys
I was bullied as a boy - lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up. Anthony Hopkins
growing-up book adults
When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults. Alison Bechdel
growing-up people grows
People grow up by living. Alice Sebold
growing-up thinking evil
For me, heaven would be a lack of alienation. The whole time I was growing up, I felt comfort was inherently evil. I think that, for me, heaven isnt about couches and milk shakes and never having a troubling thought again.
growing-up father life-is-short
My father worked on assembly lines in Detroit while I was growing up. Every day, I watched him do what he needed to do to support the family. But he told me, 'Life is short. Do what you want to do.' Anita Baker
growing-up nice teenager
I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era. Andy Grove
growing-up children kids
I also love being able to do something that kids and families can enjoy because I have two children of my own and I want them to grow up watching all the fabulous animated movies and cartoons that I loved to watch as a kid. Amy Poehler
growing-up alive want
Tell me Cameron Ann Morgan, what do you want to be when you grow up?... Alive Ally Carter
growing-up hard-times way
I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way. Allen Iverson
growing-up perfect rolling
Growing up I used to love bands like Free and ELO and the Rolling Stones. When Robert Plant got in touch it made perfect sense to me. Alison Krauss
growing-up fun team
Growing up I definitely looked up to Dominique Moceanu. She was my favorite gymnast and she was on that '96 Olympic team. She was always so fun to watch. I kind of wanted to model my career after hers. Alicia Sacramone
growing-up matter offensive
I'm fascinated by offensive subject matter. Always have been. It is very natural to me, as any teach I've ever had growing up could attest. Anthony Jeselnik