Quotes about growing
growing-up emotional self
Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop the emotional musculature that will allow them to show self-restraint. Jeffrey Kluger
growing-up ice haha
Youre gonna grow up and marry some ice cream! Haha! Jeff Kinney
growing-up character thinking
I liked the idea that my character was not gonna be the typical dumb guy that I play, typically. I also loved the fact that it was dealing with kind of adult-extended adolescence, which I think is always interesting -- a bunch of people that don't wanna grow up. Jim Gaffigan
growing-up kids important
I was the youngest of six kids, so yeah, feeding myself was important, but it's not like I was obsessed with food growing up.
growing-up thinking self
I think growing up in Indiana prepares anyone for a life in comedy. I do feel like there is a certain kind of self-effacing cynicism among all Hoosiers.
growing-up age ink
A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day. Jim Bishop
growing-up kids growing
I just didn't work that much while the kids were growing up. Jill Clayburgh
growing-up thinking important
I think it is important to grow. Your fans are growing up with you whether you like it or not. You have to keep it fresh and exciting for them. You have to bring something new to the table each time. Jesse McCartney
growing-up kids house
Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible. Jennifer Jason Leigh
growing-up nice life-lesson
Why can't we just be nice? It's like, we grow up, and then we get right back into high school. Jennifer Lawrence
growing-up kentucky dinner
I grew up in Kentucky, but I did not grow up like that. I had heat, and I didn't have to shoot my dinner or anything.
growing-up dad thinking
I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.
growing spirituality consciousness
The tendrils of a new, deeper form of spirituality are growing. It's the greening under the surface crust of consciousness and social paradigm. Jean Houston
growing-up passion son
I lost my passion for work. No, that's a negative statement. I just had a bigger passion for something else, for my son, and growing up with him. James Caan
growing-up stress war
Everybody is always talking about droughts and sea level rise, but when human civilization, with more crowding and greater resource depletion, is under that much stress, it translates into wars and huge displaced populations. The Syrian refugee crisis is just a first taste of what it's going to be like. I don't want my kids growing up in that kind of world. James Cameron
growing-up boys two
These boys, now, were living as we'd been living then, they were growing up with a rush and their heads bumped abruptly against the low ceiling of their actual possibilities. They were filled with rage. All they really knew were two darknesses, the darkness of their lives, which were now closing in on them, and the darkness of the movies, which had blinded them to that other darkness, and in which they now, vindictively, dreamed, at once more together than they were at any other time, and more alone. James A. Baldwin
growing-up children london
I spent a lot of time in London when I was growing up and I've always picked up accents without even really meaning to. It used to get me into trouble as a child. Christopher Guest
growing sects posts
I joined a small but growing post-Trotskyite Luxembourgist sect. Christopher Hitchens
growing-up choices stuff
Everyone goes through their stuff when they are growing up. It's all relative. Everyone has the same situations on their menu. We just make the choices in terms of what situations we're going to eat. Gary Busey
growing-up children believe
Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism. Gary Bauer
growing-up kids firsts
In every language, the first word after "Mama!" that every kid learns to say is "Mine!" A system that doesn't allow ownership, that doesn't allow you to say "Mine!" when you grow up, has Frank Zappa
growing-up our-world size
Growing up is difficult. Strangely, even when we have stopped growing physically, we seem to have to keep on growing emotionally, which involves both expansion and shrinkage, as some parts of us develop and others must be allowed to disappear...Rigidity never works; we end up being the wrong size for our world. Jeanette Winterson
growing-up sorry rain
You're growing up. And rain sort of remains on the branches of a tree that will someday rule the Earth. And it's good that there is rain. It clears the month of your sorry rainbow expressions, and it clears the streets of the silent armies... so we can dance. Jim Carroll
growing-up stronger overcoming
I had to grow up fast. I had a lot of obstacles to overcome. It made me a lot stronger, growing up like that. Jevon Kearse
growing-up reality knowing
I can understand the dilemma of growing up in a bubble, and then not knowing what to do when unemployment beckons and reality bursts in. Jessie Cave
growing-up culture benefits
I'm glad I was faced with different cultures when I was growing up because I wasn't fazed by it. It has been a huge benefit to me; I feel comfortable wherever I go. Jessie J
growing-up real goal
Everything I did growing up was with that as the real goal - doing Broadway; doing theatre. That was always the big thrill for me. Jennifer Westfeldt
growing-up kids frustration
Growing up, my sisters and I would always talk stories. One of my frustrations was I didn't know anything about cameras. I didn't know how to make a film and I obviously didn't have a special effects budget. I was a kid. So I was learning to draw to get down the stuff that was in my head, that I couldn't afford to actually do. Jennifer Yuh Nelson
growing watches aging
Growing old is not a thing to watch. It cannot be forgiven in others. Alone, it can be borne. Even indulged. Jennifer Stone
growing-up realizing moments
I have these "pinch me" moments when I realize I got to be the thing I wanted to be growing up. I'm right where I belong. Jennifer Weiner
growing-up focus healthy
Having been born and raised in Washington, D.C., you kind of absorb politics when you grow up. And it continues to be a focus of mine, probably more than what is healthy for me. Jeffrey Wright
growing-up teenager kids
To this day, we get letters at Alternative Tentacles from young teenagers who hide their Dead Kennedys albums behind their mirror or in the mattress of their bed. Wouldn't it be better if the parents just discussed this with the kids instead of creating this culture of sneaking and dishonesty within the family? The moral of the story being, you don't hide reality from your kids because then they grow up to be smarter, more aware adults. Jello Biafra
growing-up california firsts
Growing up in a family that listened to almost nothing but classical music had its effects, as well. "California Über Alles," the first Dead Kennedys single, was inspired musically more by Japanese Kabuki than anything else.