“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.” NeedsI CanAgeGrowsGrowing UpOkayMature Author:Kay Panabaker
“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.” PeopleThinkingI CanBigsSeemsKidsLostGrowsSidesGrowing UpOkayAppreciationMiserableToysLocksChildlikeGrumpy Author:Andy Partridge
“I never had that many friends growing up so I learned to be okay with just me.” Growing UpGrowingOkayMany FriendsFriends Growing Up Author:Priscilla Ahn
“We face challenges every day both big and small. But regardless we are always ready for any obstacle, and we have each other to stay grounded, grow together and for comfort. Our memories growing up are what built our foundation. I think we are proof to never give up. None of us are perfect, and we're okay with making fun of our flaws.” ThinkingGivingBigsTogetherFacesFunGrowsChallengesMemoriesPerfectGrowing UpGrowingReadyComfortGiving UpBuiltOkayFoundationObstaclesProofFlawsGroundedNever Giving UpOur Memories Author:Christina Milian
“It's okay to grow up, it's just slowing down that's the scary part. Running out of time. It's okay to grow up, but it doesn't mean you have to become like your parents.” MeanRunningGrowsParentGrowing UpLike YouOkayScarySlow DownSlowingRunning Out Of Time Author:Billie Joe Armstrong
“I don't know what I could say specifically, except that everything I've learned as a kid of course must somehow play into what I do now. I think when everything kind of drifted away, I had to go out into the world and learn how to emotionally be okay with all that, which to me was a decades-long process. But also I happened to find my way in life, to find a living, to figure out what I wanted to be when I grow up. I think all of that now probably helps me. It probably gives me more life experience to draw from.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWayGivingKindLongPlayHelpingKidsWantedCoursesGrowsProcessGrowing UpHappenedFiguresDrawsOkayGive MeDecadesMy WayI've LearnedHelp MeLife ExperienceWay In Life Author:Jackie Earle Haley
“What a waste of an education Rick Santorum is! ... Let's just pray that none of his home-schooled kids grow up to be an airline pilot, okay? That's all I'm asking. Please dear God, do not let any of these home-schooled kids grow up to be a surgeon, an airline pilot, or a nurse. Or somebody that's in charge of my trans-vaginal mandatory ultrasound. Seriously, no science-y things for them, you know, just religion, let them be all preachers or something.” KnowsHomeKidsGrowsGrowing UpPrayingPleaseWasteOkayAskingDearNursePilotsPreacherAirlineSurgeonsTransSchooledDear GodUltrasoundsAirline Pilots Author:Randi Rhodes
“I was always a big kid and I'm okay with that, but I know that it would have been better growing up if I had seen role models who had figures like me, beauty comes in all different packages.” IfsKnowsHas BeensDifferentBigsKidsRolesGrowing UpGrowingFiguresModelsOkayLike MeRole ModelsPackages Author:Mia Tyler
“Growing up in a place that has winter, you learn to avoid self-pity. Winter is not a personal experience, everybody else is just as cold as you, so you shouldn't complain about it too much. You learn this as a kid, coming home crying from the cold, and Mother looks down and says, 'It's only a little frostbite. You're okay.' And thus you learn to be okay. What's done is done. Get over it. Drink your coffee. It's not the best you'll ever get but it's good enough.” LooksLittlesSelfDoneEnoughHomeKidsMotherGrowing UpToo MuchGrowingCryColdDrinkOkayDown AndWinterComplainingCoffeePityOver ItComing HomeGood EnoughGet OverSelf PityPersonal Experiences Author:Garrison Keillor
“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.” ThinkingMeanLongAgeGrowsAbilityWonderGrowing UpOkayMatureOverratedChildlike Author:Billy Connolly
“When you're growing up in a family without a lot of money and four boys, it can't always be, 'Let's go see a specialist, see if you're okay.' If you got hurt, you just walked it off.” IfsHurtBoysGrowing UpFourGrowingOkayLots Of MoneySpecialistsGot Hurt Author:Ryan Reynolds
“I think that's okay and that is part of growing up and that is good, to learn that the world isn't always your oyster or isn't everybody's oyster.” ThinkingWorldGrowing UpGrowingOkayOysters Author:Morgan Saylor
“I feel like it's okay for us to grow up because a lot of us want to get rich and die young.” WantFeelsYoungDiesGrowsGrowing UpRichOkayGet RichDie Young Author:Master P
“My problem with my parents growing up was not that I was afraid to cry in front of them - they always wanted me to cry because they wanted me to be okay, but it felt kind of icky and gross to cry in front of my parents. So my problem was the polar opposite - I didn't want to cry in front of them because I didn't want to give them the satisfaction.” WantGivingKindProblemWantedFeltParentGrowing UpGrowingFrontsCryOkayOppositesSatisfactionGrossPolar Opposites Author:Lucas Hedges
“I think part of growing up is not actually finding a fixed idea of who you are, but rather being like, "Oh, wait. I'm different all the time. I'm going to change every second and grow and be fluid." And that's okay.” ThinkingDifferentWaitingGrowing UpOkayWho You Are Author:Amandla Stenberg
“Having my parents be divorced, you're forced to realize, "Sooner or later I'm going to be on my own and have to figure it out." I have so many brothers that are younger than me, so I have to have that mindset of, "Okay, what am I going to do now?" I have to show them what growing up is - it's not me living at dad's house until I'm 25.” HouseParentRealizingGrowing UpBrotherOkayMindsetDivorced Author:Christian Madsen
“I was always okay with the fact that I was taller and bigger than everybody else growing up. My mom, my dad, and my friends always told me I was beautiful.” FactsBeautifulGrowing UpGrowingMomDadMy FriendsOkayBiggerMy DadMy Mom Author:Jordin Sparks
“It's alright, just wait and see, your string of lights is still bright to me. Who you are is not where you've been. You're still an innocent. It's okay life is a tough crowd, 32 is still growing up now.” StillsLightLife IsWaitingGrowing UpGrowingToughOkayWho You AreCrowdsInnocentStringsAlright Author:Taylor Swift
“Okay, I thought. Here you are. You are here. And you move forward because that's the way it works; that's the only place u can go. You keep going until it stops hurting, or until you find new things to hurt you worse, I guess. And that is the human condition, all of us lurching along in our own private miseries, because that's the way it is. Because, I guess, God didn't give us any choice. You grow up, I remembered Abigail telling me. You learn.” WayGivingHumansMovingChoicesGrowsHurtGrowing UpConditionsOkayMiseryMoving ForwardRememberedKeep GoingHuman ConditionNew ThingsAbigail Author:Jennifer Weiner