Best Growing Up Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Growing up in Huntington Beach, you were either a traditional sports athlete, a skateboarder, or a surfer. I got my first skateboard when I was five and skated off and on over the years, did a little BMX racing as a kid, and then in my freshman or sophomore year I started getting a little bit more into skateboarding.”

“I grew up going to school and high school and then shooting a movie for a few months. It's an odd way to grow up and is kind of forced maturity.”

Way Kind School Grows Growing Up Grew Months Grew Up High School Shooting Odd Maturity

Author:Logan Lerman

“Growing up, I had a very normal relationship with my brother and sister. But, over time, they became my best friends, and now I hang out with them all the time. I'm very close with them.”

Growing Up Growing Brother Normal My Brother Hanging Out Brothers And Sisters My Best Friend Inspirational Sister Inspirational Brother And Sister

Author:Logan Lerman

“The Goonies' is classic. That's, like, the movie I bring with me if I go out of town for a long time, because it just makes me think of the best times I've seen it with my friends growing up. Dude, everybody knows that movie, everybody watches that film. Best family film ever made.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Long Made Film Watches Growing Up Growing Long Time My Friends Towns Classic Best Times Best Family Friends Growing Up

Author:Logan Lerman

“It seems like the more you grow up the more you fear things.”

Seems Grows Growing Up 20th Birthday

Author:Melanie Laurent

“I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.”

Thinking Way Littles Different Kids Able Wish Grows Bits My Own Growing Up One Thing Mystery Birth Little Bit Different Ways Farms Exposure

Author:Rachel McAdams

“Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.”

Children Parent Growing Up Growing Only Child Montreal Loving Parents

Author:Rudolph A. Marcus

“We always had our own vegetables growing up and now I'm doing it with my kids at our house in the country.”

Country Kids House Growing Up Growing Vegetables

Author:Stella McCartney

“I mean, I grew up riding. I can't ever remember not being able to ride or rope and all that stuff. It was part of my life growing up, so it was fun for me.”

Mean I Can Able Remember Fun Stuff Growing Up Growing Grew Grew Up Riding Rope

Author:Tim McGraw

“Yeah, I’ve played a lot of instruments, and I played in a lot of bands growing up and I’ve even had to play music in a lot of films that I’ve done.”

Done Play Film Growing Up Growing Band Yeah Instruments

Author:Alessandro Nivola

“A lot of the time with child actors, you get the feeling they’re trying to have a kind of poise or presentation that’s beyond their years that might be put on, but also might be because they’ve spent years just hanging out with adults and they don’t even have a sense of what it’s like to grow up with kids their own age.”

Trying Years Kind Children Feelings Might Kids Age Actors Grows Growing Up Adults Hanging Out Presentation Poise Child Actors

Author:Alessandro Nivola

“I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey.”

Ifs Firsts Bigs Remember Growing Up Growing Happened Heard Subjects Jokes Jersey

Author:Oscar Nunez

“I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.”

Littles Bits Growing Up Growing Little Bit Length Violin Skirts

Author:Denise Van Outen

“Growing up, I was in love with Jennifer Aniston from Friends.”

Growing Up Growing Jennifer

Author:Dylan O'Brien

“Everyone is always surprised by how old I am. They think I'm older, but it's always been that way. I'm the youngest of four - maybe you grow up quicker because you just watch the big people.”

People Thinking Way Bigs Grows Watches Growing Up Four

Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.”

Kind Growing Up Growing Artistic Bent

Author:Nick Offerman

“Growing up in the entertainment industry, I've had a lot of people tell me I'm not good enough.”

People Enough Growing Up Growing Industry Entertainment Good Enough Not Good Enough Entertainment Industry

Author:Renee Olstead

“I was signed at 18 and had to grow up quickly.”

Grows Growing Up

Author:Rita Ora

“Like so many other kids with special needs, I have been bullied. Kids in elementary school made me eat sand, and those same boys would walk behind me, teasing me. Finally I had enough, and I told them to grow up.”

Needs Has Beens Made Enough Kids School Grows Walks Behinds Boys Growing Up Special Sand Tease Had Enough Bullied Elementary School Special Needs

Author:Lauren Potter

“Don't you wanna grow up to be just like me, I slap women and eat mushrooms then OD.”

Grows Growing Up Violence Like Me Slap Violence Against Women Mushrooms

Author:Eminem

“I've never met anyone with a perfect upbringing. It seems to me that life on planet Earth just doesn't work that way. The basic challenges of getting our needs met and managing boundaries are inherent in growing up human.”

Way Needs Humans Seems Earth Challenges Perfect Growing Up Growing Planets Mets Boundaries Inherent Upbringing Planet Earth

Author:David Simon

“The human venture depends absolutely on this quality of awe and reverence and joy in the Earth and all that lives and grows upon the Earth. As soon as we isolate ourselves from these currents of life and from the profound mood that these engender within us, then our basic life-satisfactions are diminished. None of our machine-made products, none of our computer-based achievements can evoke that total commitment to life.”

Source: The Great Work: Our Way into the Future

“I wouldn't be where I am, if not for Jamaica. My formative years were here. I wouldn't have the confidence that I have if I wasn't born here, because growing up here I knew I could become anybody I wanted to become. There was no ceiling on top of me.”

Ifs Years Wanted Born Growing Up Growing Ceilings Jamaica Formative Years

Author:Michael Lee-Chin

“There's a generation now that didn't grow up in nature. Some of these adults are parents and they know that nature is good for their kids but they don't know where to start.”

Knows Kids Grows Parent Growing Up Generations Adults

Author:Richard Louv

“My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had to study and work hard.”

Hard Boys Growing Up Study Growing Hard Work Mom My Mom Strict Study And Work

Author:Coco Lee

“I was blessed to grow up in really interesting times and to go back to a home where I was very safe.”

Home Grows Interesting Growing Up Safe Blessed Really Interesting Interesting Times

Author:Dennis Lehane

“Growing up with three older brothers and being the youngest and the only girl, my mom always made me tough. She's taught me over the years how to be a strong, independent woman, how to carry yourself in a positive way and anything that my brothers can do, I can do.”

“It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality.”

People Should Young Literature Grows Wealth Quality Growing Up Generations Pity Variety Greek Latin Our Generation Freshness

Author:James Loeb

“I've got a vibe going on with a lot of what I've been doing, and to completely change it based off of me having a child might be a little confusing. I'm sure as my life goes forward, and she starts growing up, there will be a lot more things to include in my music. But, at this point, I'm just sticking to what I do.”

Children Littles Might Growing Up Growing Confusing

Author:Jake Owen

“Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?”

Thinking Years Children Wanted America Moving Grows Sides Animal Boys Growing Up Nice Years Ago Twenties East Profession Jungle Columbus Wild Animal East Side

Author:Abraham Polonsky

“I knew I would grow up and wear a costume one day, and that's exactly what happened.”

Grows Growing Up Happened One Day Costumes

Author:Cassandra Peterson

“When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he ever hired: 'Is your goal to be a head football coach?”

Kids Goal Growing Up Growing Football Dad My Dad Coaches Assistants Kids Growing Up Football Coach

Author:Chuck Pagano

“'Slumdog' was my first movie, and I had never been to India before - I was just a teenager in the U.K. with my headphones and my Nike shoes. What did I know about growing up in a slum?”

Knows Firsts Growing Up Growing India Shoes Teenager Slums Nike Headphones Nike Shoe

Author:Dev Patel

“I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.”

Children Book Reading Growing Up Growing Garden My Favorite Verses Favorite Book

Author:Francine Pascal

“Every leader wants to put his or her imprint on the work that they do, and grow up in specific eras.”

Want Grows Leader Growing Up Eras

Author:George Papandreou

“When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician.”

States United United States Growing Up Growing Becoming Politician Sweden

Author:George Papandreou

“When I was growing up, I was always on stage but I loved other things.”

Growing Up Growing Stage

Author:Jeremy Piven

“I can't age on the inside, and I'm totally okay with that. I have no need to grow up and see myself as mature.”

Needs I Can Age Grows Growing Up Okay Mature

Author:Kay Panabaker

“Some people do need to grow up, but I don't think I'm there yet. I don't think I'm ready to do grown-up things and be a grown-up.”

People Thinking Needs Grows Growing Up Ready

Author:Kay Panabaker

“I'm the biggest nerd - I love comic books and stuff like that! I don't have any friends who are actresses. I only had one girlfriend when I was growing up. Most of my friends were boys. I was such a tomboy. I enjoyed doing guy things.”

Book Funny Guy Stuff Boys Growing Up Growing My Friends Actresses Comic Enjoyed Girlfriend Comic Book Nerd

Author:Megan Fox

“I think to be - for me to be an American is - you know, it's one of the greatest things in the world for - you know, for me just because I've been able to grow up with everything. The freedom. You know, in my eyes this is the greatest country in the world.”

Thinking Knows World Country Eye Able Grows Growing Up

Author:Michael Phelps

“The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does.”

Way Doe Speak Grows Growing Up Landscape

Author:Molly Parker

“I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been suburban experiences.”

Writing Has Beens Kids School Parent Growing Up Growing Kids Growing Up

Author:Tom Perrotta

“I know what's it's like to grow up with ADHD and how important it is for parents, caregivers and patients, to have access to accurate information.”

Knows Important Grows Parent Growing Up Information Patient Access Accurate Adhd Caregivers Accurate Information

Author:Ty Pennington

“I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years.”

Knows Want Years Wanted President Growing Up Growing Ten Towns Chicago Mayors

Author:William Petersen

“When I was growing up I actually was into Bon Jovi!”

Growing Up Growing Bon Jovi

Author:Amy Ryan

“It wasn't until I left that I realised it's not weird to grow up in certain cities and, by the age of 27 or 28, for all of your friends to still be alive. I can think of a lot of kids that I knew in Chicago who were supposed to grow up but didn't.”

Thinking Stills I Can Kids Age Certain Left Grows Cities Growing Up Alive Chicago Realised

Author:Chance the Rapper

“I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.”

Thinking Stills Kids Games Grows Growing Up Refuse Imaginary Imaginary Friend Just Kids

Author:Ian Rankin

“I think 'growing up' would mean that you are incredibly tolerant and easygoing, liked everything, curious about the world because you weren't so egotistically driven.”

Thinking World Mean Growing Up Growing Driven Curious

Author:Louise Rennison

“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.”

Ifs Long Stills I Can Enough Play Next Grows Enjoy Steps Growing Up Ready Let Me Good Enough Phases

Author:Angela Ruggiero

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