Quotes about growing
growing-up grief years
And I don’t want his body touching something I wear. He’ll contaminate it. (Sasha) Oh, good grief, Sasha. Grow up. You’re four hundred years old and you’re acting like a whelp. It’s not like he has cooties or anything. (Astrid) Yes he does! (Sasha) Sherrilyn Kenyon
growing-up fighting idols
God forbid I should bleed to death, eh? Then you'd have to cart around my rotting corpse. (Kyrian) Could you be any more morbid? Jeez, who was your idol growing up? Boris Karloff? (Amanda) Hannibal, actually. (Kyrian) You're trying to scare me, aren't you? Well, it won't work. I grew up in a house with an angry poltergeist and two sisters who used to conjure demons just to fight them. Buster, I've seen it all and your gallows humor isn't working on me. (Amanda)
growing-up book debt
Growing up, books were my lifeline, and I owe a debt to those writers that can never be repaid. They saved my sanity and gave me a world I could escape to. If I can pay that forward to another person, that's all I ask.
growing-up writing opportunity
I always wanted to write movies that I'd direct. I didn't come at it from a writing standpoint more than a directing standpoint, except that growing up, I didn't have the opportunity to shoot as much as I did to write. Noah Baumbach
growing-up aunt east
When I was growing up in East Germay, everyone said there was no God. So I started looking for it myself. Nina Hagen
growing-up growing starting
Growing up, I was such a picky eater. I'm finally starting to expand. Mike Trout
growing-up kids boys
Initially with The Butcher Boy, there was this kid growing up in this strange, weird environment that I remember from when I was a kid. And Patrick's vision was so complete there. Neil Jordan
growing-up writing years
Over the years, you grow up, you mature and you see things in a different way, and it's reflected in the writing. Neil Diamond
growing-up brooklyn grows
Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything.
growing-up real long-ago
I've known from long ago that the universe was calling me. If you were one of those annoying adults that said, 'Oh, what are you gonna be when you grow up?' I would say, 'Astrophysicist .' And then they'd walk away real quickly. Neil deGrasse Tyson
growing-up growing overrated
Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author. Neil Gaiman
growing-up growing behind-you
It’s part of growing up, I suppose…you always have to leave something behind you.
growing-up trying grows
You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.
growing-up kindness lying
We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can. Because somewhere out there is someone who needs that story. Someone who will grow up with a different landscape, who without that story will be a different person. And who with that story may have hope, or wisdom, or kindness, or comfort. And that is why we write.
growing-up cowboy thinking
It's like you said the other day," said Adam. "You grow up readin' about pirates and cowboys and spacemen and stuff, and jus' when you think the world's full of amazin' things, they tell you it's really all dead whales and chopped-down forests and nucular waste hangin' about for millions of years. 'Snot worth growin' up for, if you ask my opinion.
growing-up children love-you
If you're not sure you could love your children, please don't have them, because they might grow up and kill us. John Waters
growing-up finding-yourself growth
If you find yourself perplexed, or perhaps in a quandary, remember that human growth is perpendicular. We grow up and we grow forward, we just have to keep on growing steadily in both ways. John Rzeznik
growing-up kids thinking
These younger kids - I think growing up with social media, they're just savvy. John Stamos
growing-up kids littles
Growing up as a little kid, I wasn't always this size. I got picked on a lot. Terrell Owens
growing-up children married
No one aspires as a child to grow up and enter into a domestic partnership. But they do aspire as children to grow up and be married. Ted Olson
growing-up dad team
I was a Liverpool fan simply because my dad followed them. Unfortunately I wasn't born when the team had their golden era, but I enjoyed watching the likes of Michael Owen, Robbie Fowler and Steve McManaman when I was growing up. When Liverpool won the Champions League last year, I went mad. I was shouting so loud I think I woke up the entire village where I live! Theo Walcott
growing-up crazy littles
Even idiots can grow up a little bit. It should be a bit more subdued. ... The first celebration should be subdued, and the fourth one should be crazy. Theo Epstein
growing-up children adventure
The adventures of the boy who doesn't want to grow up has universal appeal. We all want to keep something of the child in us. Tessa Jowell
growing-up questioning grows
We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us. Margaret Mead
growing-up stress book
I did not write it [Coming of Age in Samoa] as a popular book, but only with the hope that it would be intelligible to those who might make the best use of its theme, that adolescence need not be the time of stress and strain which Western society made it; that growing up could be freer and easier and less complicated; and also that there were prices to pay for the very lack of complication I found in Samoa - less intensity, less individuality, less involvement with life.
growing-up believe people
There's a lot of negative messaging and it beats on you after a while. And people are growing up with that stuff and they start believing it themselves. Kevin Sorbo
growing-up two parent
We moved to Ireland when I was two and we settled in Killarney, Co Kerry. Where we were living in Germany is very industrial and very grey and my parents wanted to have countryside around for my sister and I to grow up in. Michael Fassbender
growing-up human-nature curious
I might have been curious about actors' lives when I was growing up. That's human nature.
growing-up father grows
I wanted to grow up to be just like my father. Michael Bergin
growing gaps way
This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It's not politically viable; it's not morally right; it's just not going to happen. Michael Bloomberg
growing-up thinking back-to-work
[Bill Gates] wanted me to stay working at Microsoft, but I didn't think he could be CEO and we could have the family life that we both had growing up, which is what we envisioned. I knew I would go back to work at some point later to some profession. I just didn't know what. Melinda Gates
growing-up kids thinking
I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.
growing-up empathy parent
When were you born, who are your parents, where did you grow up? None of us earns these things. These things were given to us. So when we strip away all of our luck and our privilege, and we consider where we'd be without them, it becomes much easier to see someone who's poor and say, "That could be me." And that's empathy.