“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.” IfsLongStillsI CanEnoughPlayNextGrowsEnjoyStepsGrowing UpReadyLet MeGood EnoughPhases Author:Angela Ruggiero
“I'm terrified of growing up. Once you become an adult, how to you step back from that? It's something that wakes me up at night.” NightStepsGrowing UpGrowingAdultsTerrified Author:Lorde
“There was a nobility in poverty when I was growing up. My mom was poor but she was planting roses and she was cleaning the steps, you know what I mean. You didn't feel sorry for yourself.” KnowsFeelsMeanPoorStepsPovertyGrowing UpGrowingMomRoseSorryMy MomCleaningNobilityFeel Sorry For You Author:Ricky Gervais
“Eating cookies that you bake with your grandmother is one of the greatest social steps one must experience in order to grow up into a decent world citizen, in my opinion.” WorldOrderSocialGrowsStepsOpinionGrowing UpCitizensEatingDecentGrandmotherGrandparentCookiesWorld CitizenYour Grandmother Book:Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm Source: Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm
“Everybody grows up and they have to make decisions, and they try and make the best decisions that they know how to. It's taken them their whole lives to finally step out and start making their own decisions.” KnowsTryingWholeGrowsDecisionStepsKnow HowGrowing UpTakenWhole Life Author:Justin Bieber
“I would want my children to grow up and do what they wish to in a field that they choose to step in. They should not have to use the shadow of their father's name. I think that is a bit of a downer for a movie star's children.” ThinkingWantShouldChildrenUseFatherNamesWishStarsGrowsBitsStepsGrowing UpFieldsShadowMy ChildrenMovie StarDowners Author:Shahrukh Khan
“Barack wants to stop all children from working on the farm... Can you imagine this? I just, I can't fathom that. Did you ever think we’d grow up in America and see something like that? Let me take it one step further. He wants to disallow the 4-H from training children to work on a farm.” ThinkingWantChildrenI CanAmericaGrowsStepsGrowing UpImagineTrainingLet MeBarackFarmsFathom Author:John Raese
“I've tried, at every step in life, to find a lesson. And accepting criticism with the same grace that you do the applause is something every young athlete needs to learn. ... I think it served me well to learn how to handle everything that came with the game's ups and downs. Some people call it growing another layer of skin. I just call it growing up.” PeopleThinkingNeedsWellsYoungGamesAcceptingStepsGrowing UpGraceGrowingLessonsCriticismSkinsAthleteHandleNflLayersApplauseUps & DownsEvery StepYoung AthletesSteps In Life Author:Dan Marino
“Arrogance is a weed which grows upon a dunghill; it is from the rankness of the soil that she has her height and spreadings: witness, clowns, fools, and fellows, who from nothing, are lifted up some few steps on fortune's ladder: where, seeing the glorious representment of honour above them, they are so eager to embrace it, that they strive to leap thither at once, and by over-reaching themselves in the way, they fail of the end, and fall.” WayEndsFallGrowsStepsGrowing UpFailingSeeingFoolFellowsEmbraceFortuneStriveWitnessHeightArroganceGloriousSoilReachingLeapHonourWeedLaddersClown Author:Owen Feltham
“Growing up, for years and years I had no idea what the plots of operas were, and that's part of what fascinated me - I could make them up and learn bits and pieces of what was going on over time. There's something about it being always a step away that makes it more fun to chase.” YearsIdeasFunBitsStepsGrowing UpPiecesGrowingNo IdeaPlotFascinatedOperaBits And Pieces Author:Rufus Wainwright