Quotes About Growing up

Fashion is in my blood. Growing up, I was always clacking around the house in my mother's shoes.

I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it's a natural thing.

It's a terrible thing to hate your mother. But I didn't always hate her. When I was a child, I only kind of disliked her.

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

It felt like it disrupted my rhythm in growing up. But I will say that I'm really grateful for [my mother's] own personal transition.

To grow up with the loss of your mother is a scar that never goes away.

I was approaching adolescence. For some reason, I guess my mother thought it would be less crazy out in the suburbs, which it wasn't. I just think adolescence is hard for anyone.

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

I was in lots of dodgy bands growing up and I always fancied myself in a band. But, you know, I was rubbish at writing music. So maybe one day I'll play a rock star, or punk rocker.

I like listening to old soul music. I like Sam Cooke. When I was growing up, the first things I was listening to was Whitney Houston and Cher. They were really big inspirations for me.

Length of smile get reduced as people grow up!!!

Life is an adventure in growing up, and when you have lost a lot of people you realize each day is a gift.

But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out of yearning, of passion, of all intensities of the soul?

Me, I was growing up scrambling for meaning and I was full of confusion and fear.

Bobby had a gift and the gift was his simplicity. The world for Bobby Cole was a place he accepted without needing to understand it. Me, I was growing up scrambling for meaning and I was full of confusion and fear.

I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him, which is a very close one, really developed in more recent years.

The toughest thing for me was growing up and being stared at and being looked at and being talked about in that particular way. Other than that it was a good childhood.

These are the pieces of my youth, the small secrets and the not-so-great expectations that defined my coming of age.

Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career.

My father was never very friendly. When I was growing up, I thought the doorbell ringing was a signal to pretend you weren't home.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

I was a huge 'Star Trek' fan. I loved the 'Twilight Zone' growing up. In the future, I hope to create some thoughtful, sci-fi drama.

Next? Growing up to be Clint Eastwood, I hope.

My dark comic edge is the end result of trying to use humor to maintain my sanity growing up in a dysfunctional family in Honolulu.