G Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with G. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.”
Source: Shoeless Joe
“Growing up is a trap," snapped Dr. Robbins. "When they tell you to shut up, they mean stop talking. When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. Reach a nice level plateau and settle there, predictable and unchanging, no longer a threat.”
Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
“Growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something.”
Source: White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files
“Growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something. Each time you come out of it a little stronger, and at some point you realize there are more flavors of pain than coffee. Pain does two things: it teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. And everything that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one way or another.”
“Growing up is, at heart, the process of learning to take responsibility for whatever happens in your life. To choose growth is to embrace a love that heals.”
Source: All About Love: New Visions
“Growing up is difficult. Strangely, even when we have stopped growing physically, we seem to have to keep on growing emotionally, which involves both expansion and shrinkage, as some parts of us develop and others must be allowed to disappear...Rigidity never works; we end up being the wrong size for our world.”
“Growing up is hard, love. Otherwise everyone would do it.”
“Growing up is important, and I've got to do that gracefully, but also keep myself at a good pace.”
“Growing up is like taking down the sides of your house and letting strangers walk in.”
Source: Seventeenth Summer
“Growing up is like that, I suppose. The strings fall away and you're left standing on your own.”
Source: Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd
“Growing up is like walking through glass doors that only open one way--you can see where you came from but can't go back.”
Source: Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass
“Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”
“Growing up is loving what you can afford to.”
Source: THE WALLS CAME TUMBLING DOWN
“Growing up is made up of a million small moments in time, and one of the most painful is the moment you're severed from the whole, when you realise that your parent is complicated, and fallible and human.”
Source: Friday Brown
“Growing up is never easy. We think it happens when you reach a certain age, accomplish a goal, acquire a house, or reach a milestone, but it doesn’t stop.”
Source: Rewriting My Happily Ever After: A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery
“Growing up is never straight forward.
There are moments when everything is fine, and other moments where you realize that
there are certain memories that you'll never get back, and certain people that are going to change, and the hardest part is knowing that
there's nothing you can do except watch them.”
“Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy.”
“Growing up is not just about moving forward, but also an endless cycle of returning to our childhood wonders and wounds.”
Source: All I hear is the symphony
“Growing up is not synonymous with maturing.
Becoming an adult is a matter of age, not maturity.
Being an adult does not ensure “adult behavior.”
Adult behavior is a cultivated choice and a ongoing practice.
There are too many so-called adults who are nothing more than “grown up” disempowered children living under the guise of maturity.”
“Growing up is scary because it happens without you knowing it.”
“Growing up is something that you do your whole life. I want to always feel that I can be a kid if I want. Growing up has some negative connotations. Like, you're not supposed to roll around on the ground anymore. You're not supposed to make fun of yourself. You're not supposed to ride a bicycle. But I'm a Toys-R-Us kid.”
“Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples.”
“Growing up is the dumbest thing I ever wanted to rush into.”
“Growing up is the greatest adventure of all.”
“Growing up is when you understand you get what you give, not what you're given.”
Source: Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade: How to Survive Life's Smaller Challenges
“Growing up is, after all, only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what every one shares.”
Source: The Golden Notebook
“Growing up isn't simply getting old... Growing up is when you don't believe anymore.”
“Growing up it had been her entire world, an oasis where on hot summer afternoons they drank iced mint sherbets under a canopy of trees, and when the sun went down they ate juicy kebabs on three-feet-long skewers. As the evening wore on, they lit lanterns and the yard acquired depth like a stage. The waiters wheeled out a three-tiered chariot of fruit compotes, rum babas, crème caramel, and charlotte russe, with bottles of liqueurs and digestifs glowing on the lower shelf. Soon after, the music would start. Noor sat on her grandmother's lap, spooning pistachio ice cream into her mouth with vanilla wafers, while Pari serenaded them.”
Source: The Last Days of Café Leila
“Growing up it seemed like all Iranians naturally knew which foods fell into which category, and meals were subconsciously, or at times consciously, due to illness or the weather, designed around this hot and cold concept. Out of respect to the scientists and doctors in our family I will say that none of this is based on hard science, but even the doctors in the family agree that if it brings comfort (like a warm bowl of. . . soup), then that is all the more reason to embrace it.”
Source: Bottom of the Pot: Persian Recipes and Stories
“Growing up knowing that I wanted to be a sportscaster and knowing that the best school in the country was right in my back yard, I certainly knew all there was to know about Marty Glickman and about people like Bob Costas and Marv Albert and all of the other greats that have passed through there.”
“Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun”
“Growing up listening to rap music, you almost feel like you should have haters. That's an important part of being a successful musician. It's a good thing, I guess.”
“Growing up loving the Bible made me apt to love other books. I don't love them in the same way I love the Bible, but a lesser love came easily. The splendor of sunlight does not take away”
Source: The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization
“Growing up means :propelling yourself forward into whatever lies ahead, one turn of the wheel at a time.”
“Growing up means learning to go without."
"What a depressing thought."
"It's not so bad. Starve long enough, you forget your hunger."
He leaned closer. "If it's so easy to lose your appetite, maybe you were never truly hungry at all.”
Source: Rule of Wolves
“Growing up means learning what life is. When you're little, you have a set of ideals, standards, criteria, plans, outlooks, and you think that you have to sit around and wait for them to happen to you and then life will work. But life isn't like that, for anybody; you can't fall in love with a standard, you have to fall in love with a person. You can't live in a criteria, you have to live your life. You can't wait for your plans to materialize, because they may never materialize the way you think they will. You can't wait to watch your ideals and standards walk up to you, because you can't know what's yours until you have it. I always say, always take the first chance in case you never get a second one, but growing up takes that even one step further, growing up means that you have to hold on to what you have, when you have it, because what you have- that's yours- and all the ideals and criteria you have set in your head, those aren't yours, because those haven't happened to you.”
“Growing up means leaving home and becoming a self supporting adult. I think this the hardest task any human being hast to face.”
“Growing up means letting go of the dearest megalomaniacal dreams of our childhood. Growing up means knowing they can't be fulfilled. Growing up means gaining the wisdom and the skills to get what we want within the limitations imposed by reality - a reality which consists of diminished powers, restricted freedoms and, with the people we love, imperfect connections.”
“Growing up means realizing that The Joker, Riddler, and Harley Quinn are the sane response to the dumpster fire that is Gotham City. The guy dressing up like a bat is only prolonging the problem. Gotham can't be saved.”
“Growing up means wearing different masks at every stage of life.”
“Growing up meant realizing the adults you idolized were just as freaked the fuck out as you were; they just knew how to hide it better.”
Source: Let Your Hearts Be Light
“Growing up, my mom gave me the choice of either golf lessons or piano, and of course I chose the more musical option. That's how I learned to make triumphant trumpet noises with my mouth.”
Source: Powdered Saxophone Music
“Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.”
“Growing up my whole life, my mom was telling me how incredible and special I was and that I was going to change the world. I think it's important for girls to know that they can change the world, that they do have an impact.”
“Growing up north of San Francisco, I immersed myself in the local landscape and in books about Native Americans, cowboys, and pioneers that seemed to ground me in it, but to pursue culture in those days meant being spun around until dizzy and then pushed east.”
“Growing up on a dairy farm, you certainly learn discipline and a commitment to purpose.”
“Growing up on a farm taught me a reverence for all forms of life. We were a large and poor farm family, so that meant that we had to kill and eat our animal friends. When you do that you are aware of the sacrifice that someone is making so that you may live. My mother always made sure we were thankful for those precious gifts.”
“Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.”
“Growing up on Mad Men with so many incredible actors and then going on to other things with amazing people, I never had any formal acting training, but they are all acting schools, basically. Just watching and learning from the best is insane. It's like having an internship and watching all these amazing people doing their work. You just soak it up like a sponge, hopefully.”
“Growing up on movies and books to where the lead would never fail to secure their lovely eternity, did nothing more than allow my overactive imagination to dream up an innumerable amount of scenarios . Scenarios in which I would discover my forever in the twinkle of a stranger’s eyes or in the dimples of their crooked smile.”
Source: Strings of Fate