Growing up Quotes · Page 78

Its OK to grow up, just as long as you don't grow old. Face it you are young.

— Jarvis Cocker

When I was growing up, I remember having read all the books in the library. I often tried to emulate my favourite…

— Ruskin Bond

He didn't want Lucy to grow up feeling alone, surrounded by everything and having nothing.

— Kim Harrison

“I lost my innocence very young and it had nothing to do with sex.”

— Jennifer Elisabeth

The goal of the pastor is not to get people to show up but to get people to grow up.

— John C. Maxwell

I went to Catholic school growing up. I can barely remember any prayers or anything!

— Kathryn Hahn

Imagine growing up never feeling loved by your family - the most basic of human needs.

— John Bishop

My growing up years, we watched 'Happy Days,' every night. I don't know what was reruns and what was new.

— Sarah Silverman

Etymology: from Latin ad-, "to" + visum, past participle of videre, "to see". Advice is what you get from your parents when…

— Evan Esar

When I was growing up in New York, we were the anomaly. Our family stayed, but back then families didn't stay. Once…

— Mike D

I reckon that growing up, listening to so much different music, I think over time I just kind of sucked it all…

— Courtney Barnett

My mom brought me up on old Hollywood. I had been living in Los Angeles, respecting old movies and growing up with…

— Lily Collins

When you're a famous, successful person at 16 years old, the rules change for you. Everybody is doing things for you to…

— Chris Evert

Oh, my mama was awesome. Very strict, overreligious, loved the Lord, loved rules. But she had to be that way because of…

— Kevin Hart

We're so preoccupied with protecting children from disappointment and discomfort that we're inadvertently excusing them from growing up.

— LZ Granderson

Cruel children, crying babies, All grow up as geese and gabies, Hated, as their age increases, By their nephews and their nieces.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

When I was a kid growing up in the '80s, the BBC showed those old Buster Crabbe serials like Flash Gordon and…

— Mark Millar

TIME WENT ON, life with the children unfolding in its own ecosystem, small plastic toys seeming to grow up from the carpet…

— Erica Bauermeister

When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on.…

— Anonymous

Growing up in Atlanta, it brings a particular swagger about a person. There are three or four places in the country where…

— Cam Newton

There's a song called 'The Lights of My Hometown' that goes back to me growing up a regular kid. I mean, I…

— Aaron Lines

I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing…

— Al Franken

My experiences growing up - my father lived in New York, so I was going out there in the summers and meeting…

— Mahershala Ali

All teenagers knew this was true. The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been…

— Jodi Picoult

Curiosity is a fundamental part of growing up and we need to encourage our kids to do it.

— Michaela Strachan

My favorite movie growing up actually is Defending Your Life because I'm obsessed with Albert Brooks.

— Alana Haim

“Magda looks at me as if I've gone mad. Or I've grown up. It's kind of the same thing.”

— Victoria Schwab

When I was growing up in Australia my dream was to play in Serie A and for the national team.

— Christian Vieri

Right from growing up I always wanted to be a teacher, but my dad discouraged me.

— Sara Davies

My dad is my everything. He always had the craziest speeches for Kylie [Jenner] and me growing up, good words to live…

— Kendall Jenner

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I played so many clubs growing up, and back in that period, in the '60s, we'd play, like, four, five sets a…

— Michael McDonald

Growing up, I absolutely loved skateboarding and dirt bike riding with my brother and the neighborhood kids.

— Daniella Monet

My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.

— Mark Twain

I got offered 'Black Mirror,' and my boyfriend and I were so excited. I used to read Charlie Brooker's column growing up.

— Chloe Pirrie

The only black folks in town when I was growing up were me and my cousins and one other family.

— Courtney A. Kemp

Chris Jericho was always someone I looked up to. I was a WWE fan growing up, and I remember his debut.

— Kevin Owens

Growing up I always shopped at Victoria's Secret with my mom and saw Angels like Gisele and Karolina Kurkova in the windows.

— Lindsay Ellingson

Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.

— Gale Norton

No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I grow up,'

— Stacy Schiff