Quotes About Growing up

I was surprised to hear you'd grown up on a ranch," he said. "What is that?" "You don't like cowboy art." She chuckled. "You think they go hand in hand?

I was a complete mama's boy but now that I've grown up, I have started sharing a great rapport with dad... He doesn't give me any big advice and instead asks me to listen to mum.

As I grow up, and knowing that the people who I'm reaching are so young, it for sure changes my perspective on how I want to be perceived.

When I play games, I'll make up little stories for just anything. It's almost the game of making up background stories for people you see on the street. You know what I mean? I wasn't exactly the popular kid in school growing up, so I found myself really observing people, and watching how they interact, and how they react to things.

I never was a big comic book fan. Obviously I'd heard them growing up from my friends who did read them, but I never was a big comic book reader.

'No Scrubs' is a mean song for a lot of reasons. If you're 18, 19-year-old guy, or even 17, your friend just got a license. You don't have a real job yet. It's like that song asks you to be an adult way faster than you should.

I understand that sometimes when you're young it's difficult to remember the difference between real life and what is part of fantasy.

Once I started to grow up, I realised that my parents are normal people and they can make mistakes.

They're great memories, not just as a footballer but as a person growing up - it sounds daft, but to come away from Liverpool to play the first-team football I needed. It's a fantastic place, a huge football club and they helped me a lot. I'm grateful for coming through there.

I was born in New York, but I grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut - that's where I went to school. I remember begging my way into choir in the 3rd grade, because you're not supposed to get in until 4th grade.

I haven't got any friends from where I grew up, but that's not to do with fame.

Family is very important to me. People often ask me how I managed to stay grounded and sane, having started as a child star and growing up in the industry, and really, it's God. But it's also my family and God in my family.

What cooler way to grow up for an American boy than to be around cars and football?

Much as I resented having to grow up in Des Moines, it gave me a real appreciation for every place in the world that's not Des Moines.

We had to grow up very fast. There never was a day when there wasn't shouting about the bills.

I've had to grow up with everyone watching me, which has been hard.

What is it to be normal, at 12, at 78? What is it like when you can't grow up?

First love is such a big thing growing up.

My baby will be growing up in Liverpool, so we have another Scouser.

I'd never really considered film. If I'd thought about film more growing up, I probably would have changed my name. I had no concept of my name in lights.

I always had games on Saturdays as I was growing up.

I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.

I definitely want to have kids. I've grown up around lots of people who were having kids when I knew them, because a lot of them were a lot older than me. And I saw the wonderful change in them.

I'm grown now. I ain't a kid no more.