Quotes About Growing up

Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.

I do think kids should be kids. You have the rest of your life to be an adult.

I grew up in a little seaside town that I thought was absolutely rubbish and I couldn't wait to leave.

When I was a kid, I was mostly pretty sane. I've gotten more hypochondriacal.

I was that hyperactive when I was growing up, I rarely sat still to watch sport. I was always out there 'doing.'

While I was growing up all over, in all my different schools, I was always doing theater, auditioning for plays.

I was fortunate to be raised in Seattle, which was amazing, but that doesn't take away from the fact I was still a black kid growing up in America.

I've inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed.

When they're growing up, if you tell kids God exists, they believe it. It's the same with the techno-cultural society. They believe in it - that it's the road to paradise, that there are no limits.

When I was growing up, I never heard the word 'racism.' It was only in Paris I encountered that.

I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it's hard to parse how growing up in a Jewish community in Minnesota really affected it.

I've gone through my adolescence on TV so it's pretty cringey when I look back on some pictures and scenes, but that's part and parcel of being a child actor and growing up.

Did you hear that?" Casper said. "Bats," Cheyenne replied. Casper gasped with horror. "You know I hate bats," he hissed. "Bats bats bats bats bats," Cheyenne said. "Stop it! We're not kids anymore!" Casper shouted. "This way, Braveheart.

I wouldn't say we lived in a tough neighborhood, but when I was growing up we still called a story with a happy ending an alibi.

you can't keep children in the nursery forever. If you do, they never become grown-ups, but they're not really children either. They are just pets.

I've always been really interested in fashion, culture and visual arts in general: when I was growing up my parents half-expected me to go to art school, but I ended up working in Parliament, and then working in tech and data.

When I wrote 'Home Safe,' I wanted to look at a number of things: the mystery and joy and pain of creativity. What happens when a vital safety net is suddenly removed. The difficulty some people have in growing up. The way a deep love can be as crippling as it is satisfying. But mostly, I wanted to look at the mother-daughter relationship.

I vividly remember sixth grade. It's the year when kids turn mean, and it's definitely no longer okay to cry in public. So we force our hot tears back, and they burn our throats all the way down.

I can't imagine life without Vogue at this point. People say, what's changed? What's different But it's just part of growing up, meeting your soulmate and moving on with life.

I grew up reading 'British Vogue' - I am so honoured and humbled to be taking up the mantle of editor.

People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.

'Pi' was one of my favorite films growing up because I thought it employed paranoia and voice-over, and also because it used this unreliable narrator in a very fascinating way.

I was very young when my parents separated, and later, my mother remarried.

I've lived in the same apartment since seventh grade. It's in my name now; my mom moved upstate.