Quotes about grow
growing-up hero cop
My uncle was a cop, a career cop, on the beat in downtown Chicago. He was my hero when I was growing up. Mike Pence
growing-up college thinking
The promise of learning is a delusion.... Tomorrow would alter the sense of what had already been learned, that the learning process is extended in this way, so that from this standpoint none of us ever graduates from college, for time is an emulsion, and probably thinking not to grow up is the brightest kind of maturity for us, right now at any rate. John Ashbery
growing-up mistake long
You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind. Joely Richardson
growing-up kids frustration
When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business. Joey Ramone
growing-up want crowds
I want to grow up with my audience. I don't expect to be getting through to the younger pop crowd. I learned that from Paul Simon. Joe Strummer
growing-up forever lasts
When I was growing up in the '60s I would have thought that westerns would last forever. Joe Dante
growing-up lines down-and
it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be. Jodi Picoult
growing-up voice sick
Sara: "You are so brave," I tell her, and then I smile. "When I grow up, I want to be just like you." To my surprise, Kate shakes her head hard. Her voice is a feather, a thread. "No Mommy," she says. "You'd be sick.
growing-up mistake thinking
Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up
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!
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-up winning firsts
She’s the kind of person who either dies tragically at twenty-seven, like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else grows up to win, like, the first-ever Nobel Prize for Awesome. John Green
growing-up moon tiny
Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets.
growing-up school perfect
My biggest downfall is my inner voice. Growing up as a dancer makes you very judgemental with yourself. You learn to look at yourself in the mirror and you criticise every line in your body. It's never perfect. I grew up with this because I had ballet every day in school. Carmen Electra
grow problem sets shining talk talks
I want a leader that sets out a path. I want one that doesn't just talk about cuts, but talks about the shining city on the hill. We're only going to get out of this problem if we grow this economy. Kevin McCarthy
growing-up america canada
Growing up in Vancouver, it's not like growing up in Middle America or the middle of Canada. It's a very movie town. Evan Goldberg
growing-up believe kids
I'm not in this just to change the law. It's about changing society. I want gay kids to grow up believing that they can get married, that they can join the Scouts, that they can choose the life they want to live. Evan Wolfson
growing-up home watches
I didn't grow up in a home that glorified Hollywood. We didn't watch TV. We didn't have a lot of magazines around. Evangeline Lilly
growing-up revenge fear
It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's children lest they grow up to play their own part, to the erasure of the enemy's graveyards and holy places so that his hated name can be forgotten. Christopher Hitchens
growing-up giving want
I remember when I was growing up, you would go to a bank to open a deposit, and they'd give you a toaster. A free toaster. These days, if you're a company, and you go to a bank, they could easily turn you away! They don't want your deposits anymore. Mohamed El-Erian
growing-up objectivity giving
When I was growing up, all I wanted to do was fit in, but if you're perpetually an outsider, it gives you a perspective that might have a little more objectivity than people who really feel connected to their social environment in which they grow up. Moby
growing-up thinking outsiders
I think that growing up very poor in a very wealthy town gave me a sense of being an outsider, and I hated it when I was growing up.
growing-up reading thinking
I guess...on one hand, I spent way too much time watching science fiction and reading science fiction when I was growing up. But a part of it is I also never felt much of a connection to the world in which I lived while I was growing up, and so, oddly enough, I think I felt a lot more connected to the worlds that I read about in science fiction.
growth vulnerable well-being
By being vulnerable, either with yourself or in the presence of another person, that's where all growth and ultimate well-being comes from.
growing-up echoes intimate-relationships
When I was growing up, albums were my closest friends, as sad as that may sound - Joy Division's 'Closer,' or Echo and the Bunnymen's 'Heaven Up Here'... I had a more intimate relationship with those records than I did with most of the people in my life.
growing-up book obscure
When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched obscure movies and only listened to obscure music.
growing-up diversity house
Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling.