“I used to get made fun of a lot for being a male dancer, especially growing up in Boston. Kids are terrible, they don't realize how heavy words can be.” MadeKidsUsedFunRealizingGrowing UpGrowingTerribleMalesHeavyDancerBoston Author:Kenny Wormald
“When you're a kid, you have no power. You're physically small and weak, and adults are constantly telling you what to do. So it's incredibly compelling to imagine yourself not only as someone to whom exciting things happen but as someone who is more than those around you. The problem is that then you begin to grow up and realize you're just a lowly muggle. … Is it possible that all of us, weaned on these stories, end up inevitably disappointed with mundane life as it actually exists?” EndsStoriesProblemHappensKidsGrowsRealizingGrowing UpImagineAdultsWeakExcitingThings HappenDisappointedCompellingMundaneExciting ThingsMugglesMundane Life Author:Paul Waldman
“Lotta people don't realize when you grow up with people, you have an affinity, a relationship you don't get with anyone else. After you're twenty years old, anyone you meet after that, it's different from the people you knew before.” PeopleYearsDifferentGrowsRealizingGrowing UpTwentiesAffinity Author:Joseph Jarman
“We can't have everything! It took a lot of growing up for me to realize this unalterable fact and to discipline myself into accepting it.” FactsRealizingAcceptingGrowing UpGrowingDiscipline Author:Loretta Young
“I didn't realize how much of a Hoosier or a Midwesterner I was until I moved to New York. It's weird - growing up in Indiana, I wanted to get out, and now I completely romanticize Indiana. It just seems like there's a greater focus on family back there, which I suppose is something that kind of stayed with me.” KindSeemsWantedRealizingGrowing UpGreaterFocusGrowingNew YorkMovedIndianaMidwesternersHoosiers Author:Jim Gaffigan
“It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.” WantHeartAsksRealizingMy OwnSituationCourageGrowing UpGrowingBrokenBroken Heart Author:Ginnifer Goodwin
“Temptations are part of life, part of growing up. We grapple with them often - in some instances for our lifetime - before we come to realize that it is not so much the victory as it is the struggle that is holy.” RealizingStruggleGrowing UpGrowingVictoryHolyLifetimeTemptationInstanceParts Of Life Author:Joan D. Chittister
“You have to rely on your support system. Growing up, I always thought it was a sign of weakness to ask for help, but now I realize it's really a sign of strength to say, 'I need help, I can't do it all.'” NeedsI CanHelpingAsksRealizingSupportGrowing UpGrowingWeaknessRelyNeed HelpSupport Systems Author:Kerri Walsh
“Is there someone who passively watches his children growing up? We constantly and maximally invest ourselves into our children to realize our vision of happiness. But not for us - for those children. It's not enough that we molest ourselves, so we have to molest the children as well.” WellsChildrenEnoughHappinessRealizingVisionWatchesGrowing UpGrowingOur ChildrenChildren Growing UpGrowing Children Author:Ruben Papian
“Sometimes, when you grow up in one of these poverty-stricken neighborhoods where the educational system isn't the best, you don't realize that you have any choices.” SometimesChoicesGrowsRealizingPovertyGrowing UpEducationalNeighborhoodEducational System Author:Keke Palmer
“I think as you grow up, you realize you have obligations just in your life - being a citizen, being part of humanity - to help other people, to help your country, to help the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldCountryHelpingHumanityGrowsRealizingGrowing UpCitizensHelping OthersObligation Author:George Lucas
“I was having a good time before, but you grow up after a couple years and realize, "I can't get drunk like this every night." Things change.” YearsI CanNightGrowsRealizingGrowing UpCoupleDrunkGood TimesEvery NightThings ChangeHaving A Good Time Author:Mac DeMarco
“When I was growing up they used to say, "Robin, drugs can kill you." Now that I'm 58 my doctor's telling me, "Robin, you need drugs to live." I realize now that my doctor is also my dealer.” NeedsHumorFunnyUsedRealizingGrowing UpGrowingDrugDoctorsDealerRobins Author:Robin Williams
“People say 'nerd' condescendingly, but when you're older you start to realize that it's the nerds who grow up to be the cool ones.” PeopleGrowsRealizingGrowing UpNerd Author:Leelee Sobieski
“Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.” PeopleTryingMeanSeemsJobsRealizingCommonGrowing UpGrowingDollarsCommon SensePretendingMusic BusinessNashvilleLater In LifeSemesterBusiness Family Author:Caitlin Rose
“Until I was about 7, I thought books were just there, like trees. When I learned that people actually wrote them, I wanted to, too, because all children aspire to inhuman feats like flying. Most people grow up to realize they can't fly. Writers are people who don't grow up to realize they can't be God.” PeopleChildrenBookWantedGrowsRealizingGrowing UpTreeFlyingAspireFeatsInhuman Author:Fran Lebowitz
“When you have done the spiritual growing up you realize that every human being is of equal importance, has work to do in this world, and has equal potential. We are in many varied stages of growth; this is true because we have free will. You have free will as to whether you will finish the mental and emotional growing up. Many choose not to.” WorldHumansDoneSpiritualGrowthRealizingHuman BeingsGrowing UpGrowingStageThis WorldEmotionalEqualImportanceFree Will Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“To me Donnie Darko was about adolescence. And about how, as soon as you start to grow up and you sort of move out into the world, you realize everything is so trippy. That anything can be anything.” WorldMovingGrowsRealizingGrowing UpAdolescenceTrippy Author:Jake Gyllenhaal
“We need not only read Sacred Scripture, but learn it as well and grow up in it. Realize that nothing is written in Scripture unnecessarily. Not to read Sacred Scripture is a great evil.” NeedsWellsEvilGrowsRealizingGrowing UpWrittenSacredScriptureSacred Scripture Author:Saint Basil
“Sometimes children do not realize by how fragile a thread their security hangs. Perhaps it is as well they do not - most of them grow up before the thread can be broken.” WellsChildrenSometimesGrowsRealizingGrowing UpSecurityBrokenFragileThread Book:Simply Magic Source: Simply Magic
“I'm more honest in my lyrics than I am in anything else. It's where I feel the most safe to express myself. I write about growing up, my family, Maddie and getting pregnant. If I've lived it, why wouldn't I talk about it? I guess that's been the coolest thing - realizing that it's OK to just be myself and really tell my story.” IfsFeelsWritingStoriesRealizingGrowing UpGrowingHonestSafeMy FamilyPregnant Author:Jamie Lynn Spears
“There's a song called 'The Lights of My Hometown' that goes back to me growing up a regular kid. I mean, I lived in a town that I loved, but was too small for the dreams I was dreaming. You leave thinking the world has a lot more to offer than your hometown, only to realize years down the road that no matter where you grow up, you will never be able to recreate the innocence and feeling of 'home' anywhere else in the world. No matter who you are, or where that little town is, that's something we all have in common.” ThinkingWorldYearsMeanLittlesMatterFeelingsHomeDreamLightKidsAbleSongGrowsRealizingCommonGrowing UpGrowingOffersTownsWho You AreInnocenceDown The RoadHometownLittle Towns Author:Aaron Lines
“I was always interested in music, I felt it was time to do it, coming out of the punk scene [1979]. I thought it was ideal that anyone could just put together a group and make it work. Then, of course, it became a little more detailed after starting it and realizing that it was something serious, not just a one-off situation. I had to put a lot more into it. Also I did it to get a lot of things out of my system, things that had been put there while I was growing up in my family. A sort of exorcizing of demons.” LittlesTogetherCoursesFeltRealizingSituationGrowing UpGrowingGroupsSeriousSceneIdealsMy FamilyStartingDemonComing OutPunk Author:Rozz Williams
“Growing up in New York, I was sort of shocked when I realized that my children are Californians. They are 14 years old, and I explain to them frequently that they will never realize the glory of a snow day. You wake up and the world says, 'Oops, it's too much fun to go to school, you've got to stay home and deal with the snow!'” WorldYearsChildrenHomeSchoolFunRealizingDealsGrowing UpToo MuchGrowingNew YorkGloryWake UpI RealizedSnowMy ChildrenShockedCaliforniansToo Much FunSnow Day Author:Adam Savage
“It's interesting to get older and realize that part of your job growing up in this profession is to help the next generation. More and more, with Boyhood and with Ellar Coltrane and with Emma [Watson], I start to see that role. There's no better way. Nobody wants advice, so you can't really give it. You just have to try to wish them well on their journey.” WayWantGivingTryingWellsHelpingJobsNextWishRealizingInterestingRolesGrowing UpGrowingGenerationsJourneyAdviceProfessionNext GenerationBetter WaysWatsonEmmaBoyhoodColtrane Author:Ethan Hawke
“I think growing up it was never an issue for me to think about working out or having a healthy lifestyle because I danced so much. Then when I stopped dancing and I got into regular life mode, I didn't realize how much diet and nutrition and being active was so important. Not only for my physical state, but for my mental state, too. I think that's just as important as working out for your physical state.” ThinkingImportantStatesRealizingGrowing UpIssuesGrowingHealthyDancingWork OutActiveLifestyleDietsNutritionHealthy Lifestyle Author:Julianne Hough
“You don't really realize the effect those things have on you when you're growing up but then when you look back you can see how they molded you.” LooksRealizingGrowing UpGrowingEffects Author:Robbie Lawler
“I realized I was growing up or something like that. You have responsibilities...you've got to think about getting your act together. I didn't even know what it had been doing to me. I didn't realize how dangerous it was. People talked in terms of drugs and I used to think in terms of...well in Ireland, everybody drinks. Nobody gives it a second thought. You're Irish number one and you're a drinker number two. That's the first two things about us Irish.” PeopleThinkingKnowsGivingFirstsWellsTwoTogetherUsedTermRealizingNumbersResponsibilityGrowing UpGrowingDangerousDrinkDrugI RealizedTwo ThingsIrelandDrinkersSecond Thoughts Author:Van Morrison
“I have these "pinch me" moments when I realize I got to be the thing I wanted to be growing up. I'm right where I belong.” MomentsWantedRealizingGrowing UpGrowing Author:Jennifer Weiner