Quotes About Growing up

When I grew up, and I've said this a lot, but I was a long time Oklahoma fan. I always followed them all the way while growing up in Ohio.

I grew up in Oklahoma.

I grew up in Omaha and Milwaukee, and was always a very inquisitive kid.

One of the things I've had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and other companies for most of my life, is seeing how CEOs start to believe in their own infallibility. And that really scares me.

I don't mind being an only child; never have. I am lucky, though, that I have my friend Emily, who grew-up very close to me and so, there is someone I have shared memories with. I would miss that if I didn't have it, I think.

Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.

Because I was an only child, I lived in a very grown-up world.

Dónde está el niño que yo fui, sigue dentro de mí o se fue? Sabe que no lo quise nunca y que tampoco me quería? Por qué anduvimos tanto tiempo creciendo para separarnos? Por qué no morimos los dos cuando mi infancia se murió? Y si el alma se me cayó por qué me sigue el esqueleto?

The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.

The best thing about a small town is that you grow up knowing everyone. It is also the worst thing.

I told her how proud I was, now that she was growing up and had her very own job to do

It is natural, this heartbreak which arrives first when you are young and never leaves your house no matter where you move, but still everyone wants the kid to stop the fussing and shut up.

I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.

We need to let our children grow up to face the world armed with knowledge, with much more knowledge than we ourselves had at their age. It is scary, but the alternative is worse.

When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age.

He didn't want Lucy to grow up feeling alone, surrounded by everything and having nothing.

Butch: Y'know, when I was a kid, I always figured on being a hero when I grew up. Sundance: Too late now. Butch: You didn't have to say that—what'd you have to say that for?

People distrust you if you don't play the same games they do, Sonny. It's the same after you grow up.

When you're a famous, successful person at 16 years old, the rules change for you. Everybody is doing things for you to make life easier so you can go out and play. And I think you miss out on lot of growing up and a lot of reality checks.

You'll Never Feel as Tall as When You're Ten

In paese incontrò alcuni studenti in ferie. Ci si salutava, restando insieme per qualche minuto. una traccia di imbarazzo malgrado la reciproca confidenza. La consapevolezza che anche l'altro avvertiva che l'infanzia era definitivamente trascorsa.

All that happens when you grow up is that your ethics get completely compromised and you do extremely dodgy things you never imagined doing, apparently for the sake of others. Plus, growing up isn't in my job description.

Mrs. Fletcher tells Mom over and over that she should be making more conversation with me, because apparently I'm at a "dangerous age." (She's got to be talking about menstruation. I haven't started yet, but there's probably some risk of bleeding to death if you're taken unawares the first time. I won't be caught unawares, though. That's not how I'm going out.)

I'm definitely a bit of Peter Pan, reluctant to grow up....part of me would prefer not to have any responsibility whatsoever.