Growing up Quotes · Page 43

“Hm. Didn’t you use to be a lot smaller?” “Yes,” said Jinx. “Because I used to be six.”

— Sage Blackwood

I suppose the point you grow up is the point you let the dreams go.

— Neil Gaiman

Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.

— Mary Oliver

I think growing up in Vancouver is a different lifestyle than growing up in most other places.

— Finn Wolfhard

Growing up gorilla is just like any other kind of growing up. You make mistakes. You play. You learn. You do it…

— Katherine Applegate

I think growing up in the West Midlands helped, it was fairly chill.

— Ben Francis

I try to see the lightness of life, and that comes from having a hard time growing up.

— Motsi Mabuse

To grow up requires a whole life but to become old one night is enough.

— Ignazio Silone

I've always been a person afraid of the dark. I was taught that when you have complete darkness, that's when spirits walk.…

— Tony Dorsett

Oh, but she never wanted James to grow a day older or Cam either. These two she would have liked to keep…

— Virginia Woolf

When I was growing up, my parents always told me that I had to do what I thought was right and not…

— Hillary Clinton

Growing up, most girls have this image of how they want their wedding to be and things like that. I had none…

— Elana Meyers

One of the things my dad told me when I was growing up was, 'Find your calling. Find what you're meant to…

— Travis Knight

“I’ve always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl — this hunger to love other people into their…

— Jennifer Elisabeth

Growing up, Guess always had these amazing billboards and cool affordable clothing. I wore it then, and I still wear it now!…

— Tiesto

I was put on so many different musical stages growing up that I didn't think about what kind of music we played.…

— Trombone Shorty

He's [Harry S. Truman] just your dad, and you love him. It's only when you grow up, and step back from him,…

— Margaret Truman Daniel

I grew up in a family that my father was a very, very, a person with so many ideas, so many new…

— Hafez Nazeri

I hope my music inspires people and I want to be a good role model for everybody, not just the girls but…

— Tonya Mitchell

“At their core, Tiger Eyes, Forever..., and Sally J. Freeman are all books about teenage issues, but to an adult reader, the…

— Jennifer O'Connell

When I was young, a lot of the guys could sell themselves to me on the way to the ring with the…

— Enzo Amore

You know what happens to guys? There's what I call the individual time of their career, and the team time of their…

— Mike Babcock

I don't even remember hearing about [Immorality Act of 1927]. I just knew about it. I was born into it, so I…

— Trevor Noah

Any swagger is just defense. When youre reminded so much of who you are by people - not a fame thing, but…

— Peter Dinklage

Overseas, kids grow up in a soccer culture. The German player sees the game eons above the American player the same age.

— Tony DiCicco

We want to create a kind of cycle where casual gamers are gradually growing up to become passionate players.

— Satoru Iwata

I'm just a normal person like you growing up, living my life, trying to figure out what life really is.

— Wazim Shaw

I have a boyfriend and a dog, and I still haven't figured out what I want to be when I grow up.

— Chelsea Clinton

I did not grow up spoiled in any way. I just wanted to be on TV.

— Miley Cyrus

Growing up I studied classically and did lots of shows in school.

— Idina Menzel

Growing up in Caracas, Venezuela, the ubiquitous music is salsa, cumbia, merengue, a little bit of samba.

— Devendra Banhart

The world would be a better place, if more men would raise their kids and stop acting like a kid. Grow the…

— Sonya Parker

“Maybe that was what growing up was, understanding where the real magic lived in this world. Inside our very own hearts.”

— Gina Linko

I know that in my past I was young and irresponsible - but that's what growing up is. You learn from your…

— Lindsay Lohan

When I was growing up I looked up to a lot of different players. I looked up a lot to my dad…

— Nikola Vucevic

To grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Growing up in New Jersey, bat mitzvas were all about the elegant parties.

— Judy Gold

When I was growing up, I wanted to be Michael Jackson. I used to sing and dance and perform with my sister…

— David Lammy

We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.

— Margaret Mead

He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.

— Holly Black