Quotes About Growing up

There can be no fooling ourselves into thinking this is something other than what it is—the willful ejection of Molly from our nest. It's too late for second thoughts, anyway. She has to be moved into her dorm in time for freshman orientation. It's been marked on the kitchen calendar for weeks—the expiration date on her childhood.

But it's the nature—no, the duty—of a child to grow up and leave you. Doesn't seem fair, does it? The person you love most in the world is destined to leave you and break your heart.

I just wanted to compile these stories about growing up with my father and I wanted people to be able to enjoy them individually, but also the entire book as a whole.

I did a number of local children's theater plays growing up, but in 5th grade, I had some good times on stage making people laugh as a troll in 'The Hobbit.' That solidified my dream to be on 'Saturday Night Live,' which was hugely influential for me growing up.

Growing up in Carol City, it was always a creative place for me to be because it was mad influential, especially going to Carol City High.

You cannot separate sexuality from cheerleading. It is inherently what it is - growing up with the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders and all of that stuff.

I was a funny kid growing up, and I did improv in college and went to Pratt Institute, but I did it very informally. It was just me and some of my friends goofing around on campus.

A lot of what I listened to growing up was blues, but also folk and indie music. So there's this marriage of songs that structurally are quite bluesy. Sound-wise, there's a lot of indie as well. But you can't really say I'm pop-blues, because that's insulting to blues. It just can't exist.

School work and intellectual interests such as music and the arts were not especially important to me while I was growing up, although mathematics, my favorite subject, was fun. Baseball was my first passion: I played sand lot and Little League and rooted for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Growing up, I never known anybody in my family actually to interact with a person of color.

Theirs was the eternal youth of an alternating self, a youth with the constant although unfulfilled promise of growing up

I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.

Curiosa sensación: cuando era pequeño, el año 2000 pertenecía a la ciencia ficción. Debo de haber crecido porque, ahora, resulta que es el año pasado.

Many children today are growing up without discipline. As they become adults and the discipline of job or family demands are placed upon them, they do not know how to cope . . .children need discipline to be useful members of society. Likewise, God's children need discipline to be useful members of His family.

What's my age again?

I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned how to dance- waiting for the bathroom.

Scout, I´m telling you for the last time, shut your trap or go home - I declare to the Lord you´re gettin´ more like a girl every day!" With that, I had no option but to join them.

I think I'll be a clown when I get grown, said Dill. Yes, sir, a clown... There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.

As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else left for us to learn, except possibly algebra.

Dill Büyünce palyaço olaca??m, dedi. Jem ve ben bakakald?k. Evvet! Palyaço. Ä°nsanlara gülmenin d???nda bir ÅŸey yapm?yorum. Onun için bir sirke girip kat?lana dek güleceÄŸim. Sen ÅŸa??rm??s?n Dill, dedi Jem. Palyaçolar üzgündür. Ä°nsanlar onlara güler.

It's not becoming to a child. It's—cynical.

When my brother Jem was 13, he had his arm badly broken at the elbow.

Dill's eyes flickered at Jem, and Jem looked at the floor. Then he rose and broke the remaining code of our childhood. He went out of the room and down the hall. "Atticus," his voice was distant, "can you come here a minute, sir?

while" in Maycomb meant anything from three days to thirty years. Jem and I exchanged glances. "Jem's growing