Quotes About Growing up

nerdier, more sensitive bunch who weren't interested in perpetuating the malice and exclusion they had felt growing up. "People made me feel bad when I was a kid," says Pedersen, "so why would I want to go out of my way to make people feel rotten, like somehow they don't belong or they don't cut the mustard?

The little boy had wandered away from his mother, tacking across the grass to the play structure. His mother watched him go, proud, tickled, unaware that every time they toddled away from you, they came back a little different, ten seconds older and nearer to the day when they left you for good. Pearl divers in training, staying under a few seconds longer every time.

But the truth was that, for all his noble intentions, if you didn't count the hours when the boy was sleeping, then Sammy had missed out on most of his childhood. Like many boys, Sammy supposed, Tommy had done most of his growing up when the man he called his father was not around, in the spaces between their infrequent hours together. Sammy wondered if the indifference that he had attributed to his own father

I'm just a child who's learned to impersonate an adult.

Growing older, it appears, does not mean growing up.

My dream job growing up was always to be an artist. It wasn't even that I would be a rapper or singer; I just knew I would be a public figure.

It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing. Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically.

I was the little sister that was annoying.

I'm a lot older than my little brothers and sister, so I think I grew up babysitting them.

I get picked on by my older brother and sister, and I get yelled at for picking on my little brother and for not cleaning my room.

My character's kind of grown up with Katniss. The beginning of the story, they're more or less brother and sister than anything. They're best friends. They've been keeping each other alive. It's a little frustrating, for the character. As the character, not as me.

I love kids. I always have. I was an only child until I was 12, and then my sister arrived.

My only after-school job before I got into acting was babysitting. I had younger brothers and sisters.

I have two older sisters.

People may think that two sisters are always on the same page and that they share a great rapport, but I did not have that sort of an equation with my sister, Shagun. While growing up, I would hate her.

Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times.

I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.

I guess I'd be nervous to skate and do hockey. Growing up in Hawaii there's not a lot of ice.

I think that ballet and skating definitely go hand in hand, especially growing up at Ballet West, which is an incredible academy.

I have always been doing sketch comedy since I was a kid because one of my mom's boyfriends was an improv comedy guy so were doing skits all the time growing up.

We can all agree that first loves can be a scary thing, and that growing up is hard to do.

My, Juanita, you're getting to be a big girl. How old are you? I can't keep track.

Grown-ups are supposed to be perfect. Both her parents laughed. Well, they are! Ramona insisted, annoyed by their laughter.

Ramona and her father