Quotes about growing
growing-up reading alternatives
Reading keeps me sane. Growing up, it was my scape, my alternative; it provided both rebellion and peace. Amber Heard
growing-up live-life kids
Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people. Chuck Palahniuk
growing-up stupid phases
Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn't know that hope is just another phase you'll grow out of.
growing-up parent proof
You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece.
growing-up firsts moments
We all have this moment, when your folks first see you as someone not growing up to be them.
growing-up believe matter
More and more we are taught something throughout our growing up, our education, and continuously, no matter how much we believe in this thing, something comes up that forces us to revise our entire belief system. No matter whom you idolize, it turns out that Louis Armstrong collected vast amounts of pornography.
growing-up divorce white
Ever wonder why people are so determined to reach for white picket fences, supposed normalcy, a nuclear family? Well, try growing up without one. Chuck Eddy
growing-up believe kids
I don't want my kids growing up believing that there is nothing destructive in the world. Chuck Connors
growing-up differences strange
We're all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up. Annie Proulx
growing want exhausted
I'm looking very much forward to growing older. I want to be an exhausted older woman but with a very full life behind me and one still going. Angelina Jolie
growing-up kids sacrifice
When I was growing up I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn't have parents. It's not a humanitarian thing, because I don't see it as a sacrifice. It's a gift. We're all lucky to have each other.
growing-up kids rocks
When I was growing up I never babysat. I was considered to 'punk rock' to be trusted with kids.
growing-up book ambition
When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like ants. Writers are not hard to kill either. But not books: however systematically you try to destroy them, there is always a chance that a copy will survive and continue to enjoy a shelf-life in some corner on an out-of-the-way library somehwere in Reykjavik, Valladolid or Vancouver. Amos Oz
growing-up grows
You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't. Anthony Doerr
growing-up children want
The master never seemed to have his fill of gazing at his firstborn child. "What do you want him to be when he grows up?" someone asked. "Outrageously happy," said the master. Anthony de Mello
growing-up growing sometimes
Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes. Annette Funicello
growing-up play long
It's not about, 'Let me play as long as I can so I don't have to grow up.' It's about, 'Let me play as long as I enjoy it,' and when it's time to step away, I can step away gracefully even if I'm still good enough to keep playing, because I'm ready for that next phase. Angela Ruggiero
growing-up church-music musical
The most consistent musical experience I had growing up was church music. Amy Grant
growing-up children world
The world my children are growing up in is so much more sophisticated and exposed - emotionally, intellectually, sexually.
growing-up successful men
The most successful hyperpowers are the ones where there was actual intermixing. Tang dynasty China was Chinas golden age, and contrary to what I was told when I was growing up, Tang China was founded by a man who by todays standards was no more than half Chinese. It was a mixed-blood dynasty that pulled in barbarians from the steppe. Amy Chua
growing-up kids years
I want to live 50 more years. I'm 33 years old... and I want to live to at least be 80 and see my kids grow up and see my grandkids. That's important to me. Alonzo Mourning
growing-up growing height
I have the power of my height. Growing up, it was a total drawback. There was nothing good about it at all. Allison Janney
growing-up growing tricks
Growing up in a business-orientated family meant that I naturally learnt the tricks of the trade. Anne Robinson
growing-up mean vampire
You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die. And it means something else too, doesn't it? I shall never ever grow up. Anne Rice
growing-up class theatre
I was never the class clown or anything like that. When I was growing up and doing theatre in Seattle I was always doing very dramatic work. Now I can't get a dramatic role to save my life! Anna Faris
growing-up children passion
One loses the capacity to grieve as a child grieves, or to rage as a child rages: hotly, despairingly, with tears of passion. One grows up, one becomes civilized, one learns one's manners, and consequently can no longer manage these two functions - sorrow and anger - adequately. Anita Brookner
growing-up gay self
I know one gay ex-Mormon who is a talented, self-destructive alcoholic. Whenever he is drunk and going on a tear, we are back to the Mormon Church and his being thrown out of the Mormon Church and growing up with this sense of being evil. Andrew Solomon
growing-up children gay
The world changed, and the idea of having a family became feasible for homosexuals. But I was still left with the question as to what it would be like for a child to grow up with gay parents.
growing-up people damage
I did grow up in a household in which I felt that to be myself was to damage the people I loved.
growing-up nfl my-favorite
Peyton was the best, my favorite quarterback growing up. Andrew Luck
growing-up dad college
My dad hasn't said much about his college days. Oh, a few times, he might start telling stories. And I've seen some highlight film of him from college. I remember thinking he looked really small. Which is funny, because growing up, I thought he was a pretty big guy.
growing-up pain support
Pain happens to everyone. To grow up, to fulfill your potential, to develop into what God wants you to be-this process takes support. No one succeeds alone. Clay Aiken
growing-up understanding actors
I finally realized that yeah I did want to be an actor and it wasn't out of habit, but I needed to grow up for myself and then kind of re-enter the industry with a sound understanding of what my sensibilities and my values are as a relatively formed human being. Claire Danes