Growing up Quotes · Page 93

Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

My music is about all these things that happen to you while growing up in search for some kind of truth.

— MO

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

— Russell Baker

Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples.

— Anonymous

I want to represent the street, not in a negative sense, but in the sense that when I was growing up, that's…

— Fred Foster

Owning the Eagles is the ultimate fulfillment of every fantasy I ever had growing up in Philadelphia.

— Norman Braman

Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken.

— Mike Huckabee

Just because I'm nice to someone, doesn't make me two faced. It's called growing up. You should try it sometime.

— Anonymous

My mom was always making me clothes. We'd go to the fabric store, pick out patterns, and it was a creative process.…

— Gwen Stefani

Growing up in my mother's Pueblo household, I never imagined a world in which I would be represented by someone who looked…

— Deb Haaland

Growing up, I was fascinated with Buck Rogers' airplanes. As I began to mature in World War II, it became jets and…

— Buzz Aldrin

Growing up Mormon, you learn how to be very, very organized, and it's a passionate group. I mean, in that way, it's…

— Dustin Lance Black

That's such a great thing about New York, after growing up in a place and being there for twenty plus years, there's…

— Steven Strait

I loved being an attacker so much. I mean, it wasn't so much that I didn't think defending was fun or anything…

— Julie Ertz

I always knew I wanted to be a character in the movies. When I was growing up, I had to have a…

— Josh Ryan Evans

I am new to superhero comics, though growing up I read Archie comics, religiously. I've been doing a lot of catching up,…

— Roxane Gay

I went into the Army, and one day, in the middle of a bull session, somebody called me an atheist. Believe it…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

The solution for rising up kids in the income distributionlies is in creating better childhood environments for kids growing up, especially in…

— Raj Chetty

“It's hard at times, but it makes a kid strong in ways that most people can't understand. Teaches them that even though…

— Nicholas Sparks

My father died of brain cancer in 1991. I do not know anyone whose life has not been touched by the loss…

— Alicia Coppola

Why are entire flocks of industrial birds dying at once? And what about the people eating those birds? Just the other day,…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Growing up on an all-boys' team wasn't the easiest thing. I'd have guys come after me on the ice and just hit…

— Hilary Knight

Maybe children just want whatever it is they don't get. And then they grow up and give their children what they wanted,…

— Laura Moriarty

Growing up, my parents managed to show me the importance of reading without cramming it down my throat. A difficult task, I'm…

— Anonymous

My parents divorced, and I didn't have much of a daddy growing up.

— Pink

The whole point of growing up is learning to stay on the laughing side.

— Lauren Oliver

“It feels like the world is folding up around me, like origami paper, and I’m trapped inside of its breathless center.”

— Jennifer Elisabeth

I was a dancer, growing up, and I definitely thought that was going to be my profession.

— Margaret Qualley

Parents: They want you to act older...but treat you like a kid...

— Jerett Parker

Serena. Venus. Serena. Venus. Serena, Venus, Serena, Venus. That's all I watched growing up.

— Coco Gauff

Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.

— David Blaine

“I'm going to go throw up now, because ive turned into my dad. If vomiting doesn't work, I'll see if I can…

— Veronica Blade

I was the third parent, growing up, and it did make me a very overly responsible adult.

— Rashida Tlaib

Growing up, all I cared about in a song, before I really listened to lyrics, was that beat.

— Walker Hayes

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I was actually born in Miami. We would spend the summers there growing up, so it's like my second home.

— Dominik Garcia-Lorido

It's properly scary playing a leading man. Growing up, I always wanted to be a character actor.

— Rafe Spall

Growing up a preacher's kid wasn't the easiest thing. Everybody's always watching you to see how you'll behave - or misbehave.

— Frances McDormand

I spent a lot of time growing up in Oregon after I left California. Spent a lot of time in the woods.

— Sam Elliott

“And then I know I'm being a man, not just some kid who's upset and wants it his way.”

— Angela Johnson