Best growing-up & people Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

“I think people who struggle to define themselves might never be satisfied because there is no definition. Living with responsibility is important, but I don't really think you have to grow up.”

People Thinking Important Might Grows Responsibility Struggle Growing Up Definitions Satisfied

Author:Kristen Bell

“It's like losing a son because I loved Michael and Michael loved me. But you know, as when people grow up and they make their own decisions and they move forward, there's a distance, and I think that Michael in some cases might have gone too far with some of the things he was doing.”

People Thinking Knows Might Moving Grows Decision Cases Gone Growing Up Son Losing Distance Moving Forward

Author:Berry Gordy

“I didn't know growing up what I wanted to do. I finally settled on broadcast journalism as a way to satisfy the urge to perform and also do something important, which is to give people in a democracy information to make good decisions.”

People Knows Way Giving Important Wanted Decision Growing Up Democracy Growing Information Journalism Urges Good Decision Broadcast Journalism

Author:Mort Crim

“You can't not be into basketball and grow up in Chicago or live in L.A., because people are so fanatical about the teams. You know what's going on with the games even if you don't watch.”

People Ifs Knows Games Grows Watches Growing Up Team Basketball Chicago

Author:Virginia Madsen

“I'm first generation American, and my parents were both from Nigeria. And so I always say that I'm literally an African American. So my last name is Famuyiwa, it's different. And so that was a part of my experience from people not being able to pronounce it to not sort of having sort of a shared, common history with a lot of the kids that I was growing up with because my parents were from Africa.”

People Firsts Different Kids Able Lasts Names Parent Common Growing Up Growing Generations African American Nigeria

Author:Terry Gross

“People think about autism as something with kids. Well, those kids grow up.”

People Thinking Wells Kids Grows Growing Up Autism

Author:Jason Katims

“I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.”

People Made Kids School Fun Growing Up Growing Fit High School

Author:Magda Apanowicz

“Children model the behavior of adults, on whatever scale is available to them. Ours are growing up in a nation whose most important, influential men - from presidents to the coolest film characters - solve problems by killing people. ... We have taught our children in a thousand ways, sometimes with flag-waving and sometimes with a laugh track, that the bad guy deserves to die.”

“... people are growing up in the slack flicker of a pale light which lacks the concentrated burn of a candle flame or oil wick or the bulb of a gooseneck desk lamp: a pale, wavering, oblong shimmer, emitting incessant noise, which is to real knowledge or discourse what the manic or weepy protestations of a drunk are to responsible speech. Drunks do have a way of holding an audience, though, and so does the shimmery ill-focused oblong screen.”

“If I grew up with a lot of money, where everything was just handed to me, I feel like those are the people that, a lot of time, grow up to do worse things. Or they'll start in a business really young, like eight or something, through all their schooling.”

People Ifs Feels Young Grows Growing Up Grew Grew Up Eight Lots Of Money Schooling

Author:Justin Bieber

“We cannot avoid the globalization of knowledge and information. When I was a boy growing up in Kansas, I could never think about a Buddhist, or a Hindu, or Muslim, or even a Protestant - I grew up in such a Catholic ghetto. That's not possible anymore, unless you live in a cave or something. So either we have knowledge of what the other religions and other denominations are saying, and how they tie into the common thread, or we end up just being dangerously ignorant of other people and therefore prejudiced.”

“I grew up at a time where I think most people had a social and political conscience. Some of the biggest changes in our country's political history happened at the time I was growing up, so I was raised to be a part of those things and to participate and I will continue to do that as much as I can.”

People Thinking I Can Country Political Social Growing Up Growing Happened Grew Grew Up Conscience Raised Our Country Political History

Author:George Clooney

“I'm really sorry for people growing up right now, because they have some cockeyed idea that they can get by with their eyes closed; the cane they're tapping is money, and that won't take them in the right direction.”

People Ideas Eye Growing Up Growing Right Now Sorry Right Direction Tapping

Book:Conversations with Grace Paley

Source: Conversations with Grace Paley

“All people, even one's own children, come with baggage. When they're little, you have to help them carry it. But when they grow up, you have to do that difficult thing of setting their baggage down and taking up your own again.”

People Children Littles Helping Grows Difficult Growing Up Down And Setting Settings Difficult Things Baggage

Author:Lucille Clifton

“Our status as a land of equal opportunity has made us a rich and powerful nation, but it has also transformed lives. It has given people like me the chance to grow up knowing that no dream was too big and no goal out of reach.”

Source: American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone

“In giving our daughter life, her father and I had also given her death, something I hadn't realized until that new creature flailed her arms in what was now infinite space. We had given her disease and speeding cars and flying cornices: once out of the fortress that had been myself, she would never be safe again ... We disappoint our kids and they disappoint us, and sometimes they grow up into people we don't like very much. We go on loving, though what we love may be more memory than actuality. And until the day we die we fear the phone that rings in the middle of the night.”

“Indians still consider the whites a brutal people who treat their children like enemies - playthings, too, coddling them like pampered pets or fragile toys, but underneath always like enemies, enemies that must be restrained, bribed, spied upon, and punished. They believe that children so treated will grow up as dependent and immature as pets and toys, and as angry and dangerous as enemies within the family circle, to be appeased and fought.”

Source: Hostiles and Friendlies: Selected Short Writings of Mari Sandoz

“I'm a big kid. I never lost my childlike appreciation of things. Too many people lock it out and throw their toys away and say, okay, I'm gonna grow up and be grumpy and miserable and not think about the magical side of things anymore -- and I can't seem to stop doing that.”

People Thinking I Can Bigs Seems Kids Lost Grows Sides Growing Up Okay Appreciation Miserable Toys Locks Childlike Grumpy

Author:Andy Partridge

“[There's] a joke that I've done forever: 'Nowadays they say that the largest majority of people will be Latino and you'll tell scary stories to your grandkids: "A long time ago when I was growing up, there used to be people who were white," and the kid says, "Really?" and you say, "Yeah, like the man who cuts our grass."' I've had that line forever and I love it.”

People Men Long Done Stories Kids Used Lines White Forever Growing Up Cutting Growing He Man Long Time Jokes Yeah Majority Scary Used To Be Grass Long Time Ago Latino Grandkids Scary Stories

Author:George Lopez

“'The Simpsons' was about children and married parents; 'Futurama' is about people in between; they're growing up and haven't settled down. Every other cartoon show seemed to be, you know, dumb dad, bratty kids.”

People Knows Children Shows Kids Parent Growing Up Growing Havens Dad Married Dumb Be You Cartoon Cartoon Shows

Author:Matt Groening

“Any swagger is just defense. When youre reminded so much of who you are by people - not a fame thing, but with my size, constantly, growing up - you just either curl up in a corner in the dark or you wear it proudly, like armor or something. You can turn it on its head and use it yourself before anybody else gets a chance.”

People Use Turns Dark Chance Growing Up Growing Fame Who You Are Size Corners Defense Armor Curls Swagger

Author:Peter Dinklage

“My personal style has developed from growing up in Oklahoma, middle America, where I was wearing jeans and cowboy boots and where people were not running around in miniskirts.”

People Running America Growing Up Growing Middle Style Boots Cowboy Jeans Oklahoma Personal Style Cowboy Boot Middle America

Author:Suzy Amis

“A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.”

People Looks Mother Growing Up Growing Access Pretty Things

Author:Bette Midler

“Growing up, I wasn't allowed dolls, and my brothers weren't allowed guns. I inherited my brothers' clothes. I was never dressed in pink, and they were never dressed in blue; there were none of those rules that people still bizarrely subscribe to.”

People Stills Growing Up Growing Brother Clothes Gun Blue My Brother Dolls

Author:Natascha McElhone

“I think we want our kids to grow up to be people who can think outside of the box, be creative and innovators, sort of the forward-thinkers of our future. I think a way to inspire that is through art and music.”

People Thinking Way Want Art Kids Grows Creative Growing Up Inspire Boxes Our Future Thinker Be Creative Innovators Art And Music

Author:Angela Kinsey

“The days of television as we knew it growing up are over. You have a bigger, wider world audience on the Internet, larger than any American television series. People don't watch television in the same context as before. Nowadays they watch their television on the Internet at their convenience. That's the whole wave, and it's now - not the future.”

People World Whole Watches Audience Growing Up Growing Television Internet Bigger Series Wave Over You Convenience American Television

Author:Criss Angel

“It's hard enough growing up and figuring out who you are and what on earth you wanna be and it doesn't help when people are constantly cutting you down”

People Hard Enough Helping Earth Growing Up Cutting Growing Who You Are

Author:Selena Gomez

“I don't even think places like the National Youth Theatre (NYT) are necessarily about wanting to be an actor when you grow up. They're about meeting people from different backgrounds and different religions and different cultures, and mixing with people that you wouldn't ordinarily meet.”

People Thinking Different Culture Actors Grows Growing Up Youth Meetings Theatre Backgrounds Mixing Different Cultures Different Religions Different Backgrounds Youth Theatre

Author:Ashley Jensen

“People know more about baseball players contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our childrens lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, Do you want to bring a child into this world? Thats pretty dire.”

People Thinking Knows World Want Years Children Whole Used Growing Up Fate Growing Player Policy This World Baseball Twenties Our Children Contracts Baseball Player

Author:Jackson Browne

“I wanted to give five solid years of being there all the time (with Sean). I hadn't seen my first son Julian grow up, and now there's a 17-year-old man on the phone talking about motorbikes. No matter what artistic gains I get, or gold records, if I can't make a success out of my relationship with the people I love, then everything else is bullsh*t.”

People Ifs Men Giving Years Firsts I Can Matter Wanted Grows Talking Growing Up Records Five Son Gains Gold No Matter What Parenting Phones Artistic Old Man Being There Sean Motorbike

Author:John Lennon

“My mother taught me to focus on being myself and not to worry what other people think about you. I know that as long as I'm a good person I'll stay on the right path. From my dad I learned that when someone tells you “No” it's only the beginning of a conversation. They both have always let me know that I can do anything I want to do as long as I don't give up. They are the most important role models in my life because they are exactly who I want to be when I grow up. They are supportive and understanding and I try every day to remember what they've taught me.”

“The truth is, marijuana probably isn't going to make you kill people. Most likely isn't going to fund terrorists, but pot makes you feel fine with being bored and it's when you're bored that you should be learning a new skill or some new science or being creative. If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you're not good at anything.”

People Ifs Feels Should May Grows Creative Growing Up Fine Truth Is Skills Terrorist Smoke Bored Fund Pot Marijuana Be Creative Being Bored New Skills

Author:Trey Parker

“The constant buzz and pressure and noise and static of the Internet, and the way it makes young people feel makes it difficult to grow up and develop the way one might want to.”

People Way Want Feels Might Young Grows Difficult Growing Up Internet Pressure Constant Noise Static Buzz

Author:Ethan Hawke

“I've gotten to watch a lot of football games. Growing up, watching sports, watching people compete, whether it's my brothers or teammates. I grew up observing and taking it all in. It's kind of my attitude.”

People Kind Games Sports Attitude Watches Growing Up Growing Football Brother Grew Grew Up My Brother Observing Teammate My Attitude Football Game Watching Sports

Author:Eli Manning

“I grew up in a really rural town, Stratford, Ontario, with 30,000 people. There's a big festival thrown in the town. A lot of people travel from all over the world to see it, and growing up, I actually used to busk on the street. I'd play my guitar, sing, and people would throw money in the case.”

People World Play Bigs Used Cases Growing Up Growing Streets Grew Grew Up Towns Guitar Thrown Festivals Ontario

Author:Justin Bieber

“I started reading Dickens when I was about 12, and I particularly liked all of the orphan books. I always liked books about young people who are left on their own with the world, and the four children's books I've written feature that very thing: children that are abandoned by their families or running away from their families or ignored by their families and having to grow up quicker than they should, like David Copperfield - having to be the hero of their own story.”

People World Should Children Book Stories Running Young Reading Left Grows Growing Up Four Written Hero Our Children Features Abandoned Running Away Ignored Orphan Children's Books Dickens

Author:John Boyne

“Growing up as a kid, there were so many people that I disliked, I daydreamed about hurting them. Hell just seemed like a good place for all of them to go. Unfortunately, I don't believe it exists.”

People Believe Kids Hurt Hell Growing Up Growing Don't Believe Good Place

Author:Rob Zombie

“People often assume New York City is no place to keep a dog. This is certainly what my parents told me when I was growing up there. But I have found this not to be the case at all.”

People Found Parent Cities Cases Growing Up Growing Dog New York Assuming New York City

Author:Jill Abramson

“Well, I think the way you feel as a teenager stays with you, forever. I really believe that. And we try to change and we hope that we change, but we don't really in big ways, in serious ways. I think the personality is formed at that time, for the good and for the bad. ... We all want to grow up and move on and appear to be different to people. And we want people to see us in a different way. But, I don't know, I think the personality is very, very strongly cemented, and we just bear whatever shortcomings we have and learn to live with it.”

People Thinking Knows Way Want Feels Trying Believe Wells Different Bigs Moving Grows Forever Growing Up Serious Personality Bears Teenager Different Ways Very Strong Shortcomings

Author:Steven Morrissey

“It was natural to see the struggle for dignity for black people in America as a sister struggle of the Jewish struggle. So growing up, it was always a part of my breakfast cereal to think of myself as someone who was part of a larger struggle.”

People Thinking America Black Natural Struggle Growing Up Growing Dignity Breakfast Black People Cereal Breakfast Cereal

Author:Eugene Jarecki

“I didnt grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, Ive never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.”

People Wanted Speak Grows White Audience Growing Up Hip Hop Hips Hops

Author:G-Eazy

“Growing up in England, people told you why you couldn't do things. Suddenly, I had a publisher banging on my door, and was given the creative green light to simply make.”

People Light Given Creative Growing Up Growing Doors England Green Publishers Banging Green Lights

Author:Nick Bantock

“Young people are often asked, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' and given advice about how to lead meaningful adult lives, but where's the encouragement to lead meaningful lives right now?”

People Want Young Given Grows Growing Up Advice Right Now Adults Encouragement Meaningful Meaningful Life

Author:Adora Svitak

“If you don't connect yourself to your family and to the world in some fashion, through your job or whatever it is you do, you feel like you're disappearing, you feel like you're fading away, you know? I felt like that for a very very long time. Growing up, I felt like that a lot. I was just invisible; an invisible person. I think that feeling, wherever it appears, and I grew up around people who felt that way, it's an enormous source of pain; the struggle to make yourself felt and visible. To have some impact, and to create meaning for yourself, and for the people you come in touch with.”

“You listen to any monologue on late-night TV or just in general, to people talking, and there's always a joke at someone's expense. It's sarcasm; it's nasty. Kids grow up hearing that, and they think that's what humor is, and they think it's OK. But that negativity permeates the entire planet.”

People Thinking Kids Night Grows Talking Growing Up Planets Tvs Late Jokes Hearing Sarcasm Expenses Negativity Nasty Monologues Late Night People Talking

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.”

People Grows Sides Poor Break Growing Up Negative Granted Mentality Relaxed Poor People Don't Take Anything For Granted

Author:Will Smith

“I think people talk about one love, but there is the need to love and the need to be loved are not the same thing and I suppose that's... and it's working that out is part of growing up.”

People Thinking Needs Growing Up Growing One Love

Author:Stephen Fry

“I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.”

People Thinking Growing Up Growing Old People Larger Than Life

Author:Chinua Achebe

“When I was growing up I used to think that the best thing about coming from Des Moines was that it meant you didn't come from anywhere else in Iowa. By Iowa standards, Des Moines is a mecca of cosmopolitanism, a dynamic hub of wealth and education, where people wear three-piece suits and dark socks, often simultaneously.”

People Thinking Used Three Wealth Dark Growing Up Pieces Growing Standards Suits Best Things Sock Iowa Mecca Hub Cosmopolitanism Des Moines

Book:The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America

Source: The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America

“Acting is a child's prerogative. Children are born to act. Usually, people grow up and out of it. Actors always seem to me to be people who never quite did grow out of it.”

People Children Seems Actors Grows Born Acting Growing Up Never Quit Prerogative

Author:Joanne Woodward

Growing Up Quotes

Related topics

Growing Up Quotes