Quotes about growing
growing-up hockey play
I used to play hockey when I was growing up. Everyone sort of learns how to skate and play hockey at an early age. Bob Dylan
growing-up hero mcdonalds
There used to be a time when the idea of heroes was important. People grew up sharing those myths and legends and ideals. Now they grow up sharing McDonalds and Disneyland.
growing-up way twenties
When I was growing up - say in the fifties - the thirties to me didn't even exist. I couldn't even imagine them in any kind of way, so I don't expect anyone growing up now is gonna even understand what the sixties were all about, anymore than I could the thirties or twenties.
growing-up men self
We were in front of a live audience and I would be acting with the man who was playing my lover, and we used those words, and the audience would titter and laugh, and make me uncomfortable doing the scenes. ... I wanted to sort of stop and yell at them, "What's so funny? What's the matter with you people? Grow up!" It made me very self-conscious at times. Billy Crystal
growing-up mean thinking
I think age is terribly overrated. You're okay as long as you don't grow up. By all means grow old, but don't mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something. Billy Connolly
growing-up people want
Being overly identified with [a certain period of time] becomes a noose around your neck, and people don't want you to grow up, they don't want you to change, they don't want you to evolve. Billy Corgan
growing-up thinking train-wrecks
I dont think we're the type of band people look at and say, 'I want to grow up to be just like that'. We're like a train wreck.
growing-up smart kids
All these guys picking on smart kids and calling them geeks and dweebs are going to grow up and want to know why they don't do something about the terrible state the world is in. I can tell you why. By the time they grow up, most of the kids who realy could have changed things are wrecked. Bruce Coville
growing-up everyday generations
When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got from our lives the better our lives would get, I thought, because persecution had been such a burden to Jewish families for generations. Bruce Feiler
growing cameras good-marriage
Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras? Brigitte Bardot
growing-up father son
The Lord created you and me for the purpose of becoming Gods like Himself; when we have been proved in our present capacity, and been faithful with all things He puts into our possession. We are created, we are born for the express purpose of growing up from the low estate of manhood, to become Gods like unto our Father in heaven. That is the truth about it, just as it is. The Lord has organized mankind for the express purpose of increasing in that intelligence and truth, which is with God, until he is capable of creating worlds on worlds, and becoming Gods, even the sons of God Brigham Young
growing-up better-off ifs
I don't know. I'd be a lot better off if I would've studied more when I was growing up, you know? Brian Regan
growing-up bees idiot
I would have been a lot better off if I’d studied more when I was growing up, y’know. But you know where it all went wrong was the day they started the spelling bee. Because up until that day I was an idiot, but nobody else knew.
growing-up children want
Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?
growing-up children want
The question isn't so much, Are you parenting the right way? as it is: Are you the adult you want your child to grow up to be?
growing-up names feet
When you grow up with a name like Brad Thor, people expect you to be 6-foot-4 and a pile of muscles. Brad Thor
growing-up good-life kids
I grew up in a family where the internalized understanding was that the kids were going to grow up into a better world. I worry, because I don't think my kids are going to have that. The world is very scary. The world would be scary without the choices the current administration made, but they just exacerbated it. And it ticks me off. I want my kids to have a good life. Bradley Whitford
growing-up father film
So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation. Barbara Broccoli
growing-up should-have parent
My parents were of the opinion, because they had started skating very young, that you should have something that you do that you care about, because it structures your life as you're growing up. Anton Yelchin
growing-up growing
L.A. Woman is amazing, but when I was growing up I was into the Who. Bruce McCulloch
growing-up character keys
I like flawed characters very much. A lot of times I get asked to do parts that are kind of small but key - three-scene roles that are three kick-ass scenes. Growing up, watching as many movies as I did, I was always into character actors like that. Bobby Cannavale
growing-up athlete theater
Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.
growing-up compulsory optional
Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional. Bob Monkhouse
growing-up father doors
My father actually lived next door to Hobie Alter [creator of the Hobie catamarans]. So growing up, we had prototypes and experimental things that we could play with; it was just fabulous. I actually bought my first surfboard in junior high. I saved my money. Bo Derek
growing-up children book
I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up. Beverly Cleary
growing-up people old-friends
I really have to thank Facebook ... I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time. I would never say the people on it are losers, but that's only because I'm polite. People say 'But Betty, Facebook is a great way to connect with old friends.' Well at my age, if I wanna connect with old friends, I need a Ouija Board. Needless to say, we didn't have Facebook when I was growing up. We had phonebook, but you wouldn't waste an afternoon with it. Betty White
growing-up men kind
As I got older, I got into all kinds of things in the streets - but for some reason, I never got caught up with the gangs growing up. Everybody dug me, man. I never had problems. Bernie Mac
growing today thanks
Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young gratefully' with thanks to designers, beauticians and plastic surgeons. Edith Head
growing-up listening stuff
Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles. Eddie Murphy
growing-up growing
There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God? Eddie Izzard
growing-up kids anchors
Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things. Ed Bradley
growing-up hair chinese
I knew I was Chinese, but growing up, it never occurred to me that that had any particular implication or that it should differentiate me in any way. I thought it was a minor detail, like having red hair. David Henry Hwang
growing-up character racism
I felt pretty good growing up. I didnt feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if there was going to be a movie or a television show with Asian characters, I would go out of my way to avoid them, because they portrayed all Asians as either ridiculously good or ridiculously bad; you know, the whole Charlie Chan-Fu Manchu thing.