Quotes about growing
growing-up fighting idols
God forbid I should bleed to death, eh? Then you'd have to cart around my rotting corpse. (Kyrian) Could you be any more morbid? Jeez, who was your idol growing up? Boris Karloff? (Amanda) Hannibal, actually. (Kyrian) You're trying to scare me, aren't you? Well, it won't work. I grew up in a house with an angry poltergeist and two sisters who used to conjure demons just to fight them. Buster, I've seen it all and your gallows humor isn't working on me. (Amanda) Sherrilyn Kenyon
growing-up writing opportunity
I always wanted to write movies that I'd direct. I didn't come at it from a writing standpoint more than a directing standpoint, except that growing up, I didn't have the opportunity to shoot as much as I did to write. Noah Baumbach
growing-up aunt east
When I was growing up in East Germay, everyone said there was no God. So I started looking for it myself. Nina Hagen
growing-up growing starting
Growing up, I was such a picky eater. I'm finally starting to expand. Mike Trout
growing-up kids boys
Initially with The Butcher Boy, there was this kid growing up in this strange, weird environment that I remember from when I was a kid. And Patrick's vision was so complete there. Neil Jordan
growing-up writing years
Over the years, you grow up, you mature and you see things in a different way, and it's reflected in the writing. Neil Diamond
growing-up brooklyn grows
Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything.
growing-up real long-ago
I've known from long ago that the universe was calling me. If you were one of those annoying adults that said, 'Oh, what are you gonna be when you grow up?' I would say, 'Astrophysicist .' And then they'd walk away real quickly. Neil deGrasse Tyson
growing-up growing overrated
Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author. Neil Gaiman
growing-up growing behind-you
It’s part of growing up, I suppose…you always have to leave something behind you.
growing-up trying grows
You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.
growing-up kindness lying
We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can. Because somewhere out there is someone who needs that story. Someone who will grow up with a different landscape, who without that story will be a different person. And who with that story may have hope, or wisdom, or kindness, or comfort. And that is why we write.
growing-up cowboy thinking
It's like you said the other day," said Adam. "You grow up readin' about pirates and cowboys and spacemen and stuff, and jus' when you think the world's full of amazin' things, they tell you it's really all dead whales and chopped-down forests and nucular waste hangin' about for millions of years. 'Snot worth growin' up for, if you ask my opinion.
growing-up children love-you
If you're not sure you could love your children, please don't have them, because they might grow up and kill us. John Waters
growing-up finding-yourself growth
If you find yourself perplexed, or perhaps in a quandary, remember that human growth is perpendicular. We grow up and we grow forward, we just have to keep on growing steadily in both ways. John Rzeznik
growing-up kids thinking
These younger kids - I think growing up with social media, they're just savvy. John Stamos
growing-up hate mature
I hate that word, mature, but I guess I am growing up. Sheryl Crow
growing-up talent restriction
When we grow up, we lose the talent for loving without restrictions. Nora Roberts
growing-up kids lucky
Well, I tried being in front of the camera as a student and that was terrifying. But the press stuff about me growing up on his [film] sets has been exaggerated. I was an extra as a kid and I was also a PA [production assistant] on one of his movies, so I was lucky to get production experience. But I was nowhere near him. Nicole Holofcener
growing-up crazy russia
I'm not talking about Russia in my music. I've never been to Russia. I'm not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China. I'm talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life. Nas
growing-up good-life role-models
People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up Nassim Nicholas Taleb
growing-up father interesting
When it became clear that in fact my father was saying, "It will be interesting to see what you want to do when you grow up," I realized that there was no pressure on that front. And I remember huge relief: Hey, I can go and do what I really know I have to do! N. T. Wright
growing-up school voice
Sometimes, growing up, I tried to be very Latina; I would change my voice... experiment with my hair a lot, trying to figure out who I was in a primarily white school. Monica Raymund
growing-up ebb-and-flow attention
I feel like confidence is something that ebbs and flows. I was given a lot of love and attention from my family growing up, so for sure I had a natural confidence. Milla Jovovich
growing-up children knowing
Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English. Mignon McLaughlin
growing-up mistake thinking
I'm growing up and continuing to learn from my mistakes and trying not to make the same ones over and over again, but am I going to live in a shell, or am I just going to hide from everybody and not do anything? I don't think that's the way I should live my life, and I'm not going to do it. Johnny Manziel
growing-up littles juvenile
Being a complete juvenile delinquent helped me grow up a little. Johnny Knoxville
growing-up people tests
Growing up in public is a test, and not many people know how to do it. Johnny Marr
growing-up real america
I had a feeling about what I wanted to say, and I wasn't really qualified to discuss real things out of America because I didn't grow up there.
growing-up rocks singers
When you grow up, you're told that rock 'n' roll is the only authentic way to express yourself. Live instrumentation, singer, live drums. You're told that's the best medium to communicate. Matt Tong
growing-up kids hard-work
I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work. Matt Taibbi
growing-up book romance
Growing up, I mostly read comic books and sci-fi. Then I discovered the book 'Jane Eyre' by Jane Austen. It introduced me to the world of romance, which I have since never left. Also, the world of the first-person narrative. Meg Cabot
growing-up first-love scary
We can all agree that first loves can be a scary thing, and that growing up is hard to do.