Quotes about growing
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! Jodi Picoult
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
When you stop learning you stop growing. Ken Blanchard
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
growing-up school years
They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.
growing-up stupid imperfection
I see that there will be no end to imperfection, or to doing things the wrong way. Even if you grow up, no matter how hard you scrub, whatever you do, there will always be some other stain or spot on your face or stupid act, somebody frowning.
growing-up war media
And if the liberal media and political community cannot accept that sometimes the wrong people get killed in war, then I can only suggest they first grow up and then serve a short stint up in the Hindu Kush. Marcus Luttrell
growing-up let-it-go way
Sometimes, with autobiographies, it turns into a bit of score-settling. And looking back, I don't feel the way I did then, and you kind of grow up and let it go behind you. Marc Almond
growing-up kids deep-love
As a kid growing up in Southern California, I was a frequent visitor to the Disneyland and developed a deep love of the magic and wonder of Disney. Kidada Jones
growing-up opportunity casts
Igby was a really good opportunity for me to grow up. The cast was great. Kieran Culkin
growing-up dad play
I didn't grow up with my dad, so it was always very funny to me, and always has been, what an important part DNA plays in one's life. Kiefer Sutherland
growing-up thinking rocks
I'm a huge fan of Canadian rock-and-roll. When I was growing up, Rush came out with a record called Hemispheres, and I must have listened to that record for two years straight. Even when I was asleep I had it on. So, yeah, whenever I hear a Rush tune, the first thing I think of is Toronto.
growing-up home mean
My background is not typical hip-hop. I didn't grow up in the projects. I grew up in a single family home in a middle-class suburb. That doesn't mean I didn't experience hardship, but to me it's not about that, it's about the future and where we are trying to take it. Kid Cudi
growing-up people age
I'm not trying to snowboard for other people anymore. That just kind of comes with age and growing up. That's helped me a lot. Some of that started right after the last Olympics (in Vancouver). Kelly Clark
growing-up scary growing
I loved scary movies growing up. Katie Featherston
growing-up children people
I started [performing] so young that it might have just been that I kind of had to grow up and make people understand that I was worth listening to, even though I was a child. Margaret Cho
growing-up path adults
Most of us won't see one another after graduation, and even if we do it will be different. We'll be different. We'll be adults--cured, tagged and labeled and paired and identified and placed neatly on our life path, perfectly round marbles set to roll down even, well-defined slopes. Lauren Oliver
growing-up giving different
I have a basic theorem as to how I do my jokes. Growing up, I knew when to cross the line and when not to cross the line. It's the same with my comedy. I know what my audience will take and how much they won't take. I can't give you a formula for it. It's my own personal formula inside my head. Somebody else's might be different. Larry the Cable Guy
growing-up land world
Part of what's cool about being an actor or being in this industry, frankly, is to be able to travel to distant lands. That's part of the deal. I always thought when I was growing up, "I wanna be an actor and go see the world.' Lake Bell
growing-up waste growing
Don't waste your youth growing up. Pablo Picasso
growing-up crazy kids
This time, we're living in such a crazy moment in history. People still write and talk about Watergate, which was such a huge, looming backdrop when I was coming of age and when I was a kid growing up. I think we're living in one of those times right now where, in 20 years, people will be writing and talking about it. Patterson Hood