Best growing-up & age Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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 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

“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

“At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.”

“We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.”

People Thinking Firsts Believe Age Artist Growing Up Records Growing Youth Becoming Speech Responsible Obligation Amendments Freedom Of Speech Assured First Amendment

Author:Ja Rule

“A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.”

People Children Stills Age Young Opportunity Grows Growing Up Silly Young Age Silly Things

Author:Janet Jackson

“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.”

“The mediocre mind has no capacity for understanding. It is stuck somewhere near thirteen years in its mental age, or even below it. The person may be forty, fifty, seventy years old - that does not matter, that is the physical age. He has been growing old, but he has not been growing up. You should note the distinction. Growing old, every animal does. Growing up, only a few human beings manage.”

“So my biggest fun has been watching my daughters grow up. Now, unfortunately they're hitting the age where they still love me, but they think I'm completely boring. And so they'll come in, pat me on the head, talk to me for 10 minutes, and then they're gone all weekend. Right? They break my heart! So now I've got to start thinking, Well what's going to replace that fun?”

Thinking Wells Heart Has Beens Stills Age Fun Grows Break Gone Growing Up Minutes My Heart Daughter Boring My Daughter Weekend Hitting Talk To Me Breaking My Heart

Author:Barack Obama

“I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing up. Now that I'm an old, old veteran-age 29-I do things a lot differently. I don't go to the gentlemen's clubs anymore. I had to slow that down.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Age Winning Growing Up Growing Basketball Seven Clubs Eight Gentleman Championship Veteran

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I dont think theres any doubt that coming of age in Winnipeg both opened my eyes and made me hungry - if I can subvert all claims to be a real writer by mixing metaphors like that.”

Ifs Thinking Made I Can Different Real Eye Age Form Grows Growing Up Doubt Claims Metaphor Hungry Coming Of Age Mixing Winnipeg

Author:Guy Gavriel Kay

“I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the detective Dick Tracy. It was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and he really inspired me. I would have loved to be part of that golden age of Hollywood in the 1940s. It made me want to become an actor.”

Want Made Kids Age Film Actors Boys Growing Up Growing Hollywood Inspired Golden Obsessed Favourite Detectives Gangsters Golden Age Tracy

Author:Ryan Gosling

“[On her mother:] I was in nervous flight from her ever since I can remember anything, and from the age of fourteen I set myself obdurately against her in a kind of inner emigration from everything she represented. Girls do have to grow up, but has this battle always been so implacable?”

Kind I Can Age Remember Mother Girl Grows Growing Up Battle Flight Nervous Fourteen Emigration

Book:Under My Skin

Source: Under My Skin

“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.”

“Sisters, while they are growing up, tend to be very rivalrous and as young mothers they are given to continual rivalrous comparisons of their several children. But once the children grow older, sisters draw closer together and often, in old age, they become each other's chosen and most happy companions. In addition to their shared memories of childhood and of their relationship to each other's children, they share memories of the same home, the same homemaking style, and the same small prejudices about housekeeping that carry the echoes of their mother's voice.”

“Men at any age truly never grow up. All, no matter what importance they may have attained, are still no more than little boys.”

Men May Littles Stills Matter Age Grows Boys Growing Up Importance No Matter What Little Boys

Author:Diane de Poitiers

“we all grow up thinking our parents found us under cabbage leaves and that sex didn't exist before our personal coming-of-age.”

Thinking Age Found Sex Grows Parent Growing Up Coming Of Age Cabbage

Book:The Burning Point

Source: The Burning Point

“When I was growing up, my parents took in foster children. From a young age, I learned that there are a lot of children in need.”

Needs Children Age Young Parent Growing Up Growing Young Age Foster Children

Author:Michelle Monaghan

“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.”

Men Age Today Half Growing Up Successful Growing Blood Standards China Contrary Golden Chinese Barbarians Golden Age Dynasty

Author:Amy Chua

“It's a bittersweet feeling because this [filming in Chronicles of Narnia] has been a part of my life for six years - from the age of 15 to 21. For anybody that's a big growing up phase, especially in the unique experience of Narnia. But I feel honoured to have been a part of it but the tools I learned from Narnia I'm now taking forward to my next project.”

Feels Years Has Beens Feelings Bigs Age Next Growing Up Growing Six Projects Unique Tools Phases Bittersweet Chronicles Narnia Unique Experiences

Author:Skandar Keynes

“A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full;so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows; and you are a politician, a philosopher, or an explorer and adventurer. In old age the vessel dries up: there is no overflow: you are a child again.”

Men World Children Care Age Grows Interest Growing Up Politician Concern Affair Philosopher Old Age Vessel Explorers Adventurer Overflow

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Cruel children, crying babies, All grow up as geese and gabies, Hated, as their age increases, By their nephews and their nieces.”

Children Age Grows Growing Up Childhood Cry Baby Behavior Increase Hated Geese Nephew Niece

Book:A Child's Garden of Verses (Sparklesoup Classics)

Source: A Child's Garden of Verses (Sparklesoup Classics)

“I just kind of had my own impressions growing up with Hoover as a heroic figure in the 40s - actually the 30s, 40s, and 50s and beyond - but this was all prior to the information age so we didn't know about Hoover except what was usually in the papers, and this was fun, because this was a chance to go into it [ during filming 'J. Edgar Hoover' ]”

Knows Kind Age Fun Chance My Own Growing Up Growing Figures Information Paper Impression Heroic Papers Information Age Hoover J Edgar Hoover

Author:Clint Eastwood

“They really just taught me at an early age the values of hard work. Both my parents are two of the hardest working people that I know, so that was a big foundation for me and something I really cherish and it really helped me to grow up in that kind of household.”

People Knows Kind Two Hard Bigs Age Values Grows Parent Growing Up Taught Hard Work Foundation Hardest Cherish Household Value Of Hard Work

Author:Blake Griffin

“Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”

Inspirational Age Belief Growing Up Mines Adults Aging Disguise Cat Eye

Book:Cat's Eye

Source: Cat's Eye

“It is rare, I think, for parents to let their children -- of any age -- grow up and become peers.”

Thinking Children Age Grows Parent Growing Up Peers

Author:Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

“Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline and who manage to grow up before they blow up are invited to join the Yale faculty. Within the university they go on asking their questions and trying to find the answers ... it is a place where the world's hostility to curiosity can be defied.”

Men World Trying Children Age Grows Answers Growing Up Goes On Discipline Asking Curiosity University Blow Manage Faculty Invited Hostility Monarchy Parental Yale

Author:Edmund Morgan

“Unrestrained automobility, hedonism, individualism, and conspicuous consumption cannot be sustained because they take more than they give back. A spiritually impoverished world cannot be sustained because meaninglessness, anomie, and despair will corrode the desire to be sustained and the belief that humanity is worth sustaining. But these are the very things that distinguish the modern age from its predecessors, Genuine sustainability, in other words, will come not from superficial changes but from a deeper process akin to humankind growing up to a fuller stature.”

“I grew up extremely fast. I was racing at the age of five. I was racing on a semi-national level by the time I was 16. It makes you grow up fast.”

Age Grows Levels Growing Up Five Grew Grew Up Racing

Author:Justin Allgaier

“I used to play hockey when I was growing up. Everyone sort of learns how to skate and play hockey at an early age.”

Play Age Used Growing Up Growing Hockey Skates

Book:The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career

Source: The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career

“I prefer being able to see my opponent. It is just different for me; I didn't grow up with the internet age really.”

Different Age Able Grows Growing Up Internet Opponents

Author:Daniel Negreanu

“I don't think I really knew how fit I was when I was a kid. I rode with my dad quite long distances and I've been racing since the age of nine, so we did a lot of sport growing up. My earliest memories of my dad are watching him race, so it was inevitable when we were old enough that my brother and I would get on bikes.”

Thinking Long Enough Kids Age Sports Memories Race Growing Up Growing Brother Dad Fit Distance My Dad Nine Inevitable My Brother Racing Bike Long Distance

Author:Victoria Pendleton

“As a Canadian it's something you grow up with. Where I'm from in Canada the ground usually freezes in late October and the lake is frozen until late March. We learn to skate at a young age and I learned to skate when I was three. I was on an outdoor rink when I was three-years-old.”

Years Age Young Three Grows Growing Up Late Canada Lakes March Three Years Frozen Young Age October Freeze Skates Three Year Olds

Author:Gerad Adams

“All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?”

Thinking World Want Kids Age Today School Grows Can Do Hours Growing Up Computer Birthday 60th Birthday Curfew

Author:James Hillman

“I think it's almost better to start [acting] at a later age because you have more stuff to drawm from - more life experience. When you start too young, you grow up on a set.”

Thinking Age Young Grows Stuff Acting Growing Up Life Experience

Author:Josh Duhamel

“If you grow up in the suburbs, you hear of people dying of old age, car wrecks, cancer. In the city, it's always people dying of violence or stray bullets.”

People Ifs Age Grows Cities Growing Up Violence Dying Car Cancer Old Age Bullets Wrecks Suburbs People Dying Car Wreck

Author:Suge Knight

“Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.”

Thinking Age Certain Grows Growing Up Grownups

Author:Keith Richards

“What's culturally significant about MySpace is that it has become so pervasive that people of all ages are now using it. Even people who didn't grow up with it are getting used to it. People just get sucked in.”

People Age Used Grows Growing Up Significant

Author:Tom Anderson

“Overseas, kids grow up in a soccer culture. The German player sees the game eons above the American player the same age.”

Kids Age Culture Games Grows Growing Up Player Soccer

Author:Tony DiCicco

“I think there's a level at which you think that there's a reason that you're being singled out, that you're being chosen. As a kid, I was always mistaken for a girl. Before you reach that age where your sexuality starts to display itself, kids can look very androgynous, and I guess I leaned more toward the feminine. All those things were very hard, growing up, because you're trying to create an identity, and you're feeling shameful about the one that you're making. So, I identified with it a lot.”

Thinking Trying Looks Hard Reason Feelings Kids Age Girl Levels Growing Up Growing Identity Sexuality Chosen Feminine Display Mistaken Shameful Being Single Androgynous

Author:Matt Reeves

“I'm not trying to snowboard for other people anymore. That just kind of comes with age and growing up. That's helped me a lot. Some of that started right after the last Olympics (in Vancouver).”

People Trying Kind Age Lasts Growing Up Growing Olympics Vancouver

Author:Kelly Clark

“I think that everybody in life probably goes through obstacles at different times in life. I wouldn't really call them obstacles, I think that's just called growing up, and I think it's hard to be in the industry at such a young age”

Thinking Different Hard Age Young Growing Up Growing Industry Obstacles Young Age Different Times

Author:Kirsten Dunst

“I was forced to grow up quicker than most. I was forced to be a young man at a young age.”

Men Age Young Grows Growing Up Young Man Young Age

Author:Ray Rice

“I was very fortunate to grow up with parents who love to travel, so I traveled from a young age. My dad's a heart surgeon and goes to conferences all over the world. By the time I was seven, I traveled outside the country for the first time. We went to Paris. The next year, we went to London, and then Brussels.”

World Years Firsts Heart Country Age Young Next Grows Parent Growing Up Dad First Time Seven My Dad London Fortunate Paris Traveled Conferences Young Age Next Year Surgeons Brussels

Author:Candice Accola

“I do have issues with the fact that music is so accessible nowadays. When I was growing up, we had to find our music; we had to fight for it. But hey, you live in the age that you're born in, and you get on with it.”

Facts Age Fighting Born Growing Up Issues Growing Music Is Hey Hey You

Author:Andrew Loog Oldham

“I feel like the best kids shows aren't just for kids. The best kids shows have something in it for everyone. As you grow up, you're increasingly proud to be a fan of the show, rather than getting to an age where you suddenly become embarrassed that you ever liked it because it's only for seven-year-olds.”

Feels Years Shows Kids Age Grows Growing Up Fans Proud Seven Embarrassed Seven Years

Author:Alex Hirsch

“I'm appalled at how many people my age, or even five or ten years younger, have no tangible memories of important history that happened when we were growing up.”

People Years Important Age Memories Growing Up Five Growing Happened Ten Tangible

Author:Jello Biafra

“Kenya, being a third world country, from a young age your eyes are open to the real world. I'd like to think growing up there taught me to stand on my own two feet, make my own decisions about what I wanted to be.”

Thinking World Two Real Country Eye Age Wanted Young My Own Decision Growing Up Growing Feet Taught Thirds Real World Young Age Third World Kenya Third World Countries

Author:Chris Froome

“I've been a brand ambassador for Nigeria since I was age 11. Growing up in the U.K., I've had to defend Nigeria. and when I was 40, I finally woke up and decided to do something, and that's how the talk show came about.”

Shows Age Growing Up Growing Decided Brands Nigeria Ambassadors Talk Shows

Author:Mo Abudu

“I think age is terribly overrated. You're okay as long as you don't grow up. By all means grow old, but don't mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.”

Thinking Mean Long Age Grows Ability Wonder Growing Up Okay Mature Overrated Childlike

Author:Billy Connolly

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