Top 1200 Grow Up Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I had to grow up and learn to listen for the unspoken as well as the spoken-and to know a truth.

I can't age on the inside, and I'm totally okay with that. I have no need to grow up and see myself as mature.

You have to eventually grow up and take control of your life, which is very hard to do.

I didn't grow up in a home that glorified Hollywood. We didn't watch TV. We didn't have a lot of magazines around.

I wish and pray my babies will grow up and find someone wonderful to love.

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

When you grow up, life makes you so busy that you completely lose the excitement around a festival.

I was always enamored with TV shows and movies. But you didn't grow up in my town and turn into an actor.

You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth. That means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime.

If I grew up with a lot of money, where everything was just handed to me, I feel like those are the people that, a lot of time, grow up to do worse things. Or they'll start in a business really young, like eight or something, through all their schooling.

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

Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.

Gold and silver grow, and so does every other kind of metal, the same as the hair upon my head, or the wheat in the field; they do not grow as fast, but they are all the time composing or decomposing

You want your kids to grow up in a world that's better than the one you grew up in. I'm not talking about my own family's wealth. I'm talking about the actual world and all the issues that we have.

I grew up watching old musicals and seeing Ginger Rogers wearing a beautiful fitted bodice that had ostrich feathers. I love how it moved when she danced. Theatrical pieces like that stayed with me. I wanted to grow up to wear those kinds of things.

If you begin to face your fears, something bittersweet is going to happen to you: You'll grow up.

A regular wind-up toy world this is, I think. Once a day the wind-up bird has to come and wind the springs of this world. Alone in this fun house, only I grow old, a pale softball of death swelling inside me. Yet even as I sleep somewhere between Saturn and Uranus, wind-up birds everywhere are busy at work fulfilling their appointed rounds.

I was lucky enough to grow up in a house where we listened to all kinds of music. We listened to Haitian, hip hop, soul, classical jazz, gospel and Cuban music, to name a few. When you have access to that as a child, it just opens up your world.

I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up

Success is to improve, grow up, build one team with personality, and then I want to win.

I know for sure my son will grow up one day to say I was a great dad.

I did not grow up around films. So, I would say books have been my major influence.

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

Do I prefer to grow up and relate to life directly, or do I choose to live and die in fear?

Everything is so dreamy when you are young. After you grow up it kind of becomes -- just real.

We can grow economically and restore America's leadership in the world, so that everybody has a chance to rise up.

I love young people. I identify with them. It never was a goal of mine to grow up.

I didn't grow up with any concept of people being deviants unless they mistreated others.

Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.

Its crazy! I'm watching Linsanity hoping every shot goes in. Hope I never grow up.

17 is the weirdest age, because you can't figure out if you want to grow up or be a child.

I want my girls to grow up learning that it is important their mum worked like a man.

Debts grow and grow. And the more they grow, the more they shrink the economy. When you shrink the economy, you shrink the ability to pay the debts, so it's all an illusion that the system can be saved. The question is, how long are people going to be willing to live in this illusion?

My father said, Don't grow up to be a woman, and what he meant by that was, a housewife ... without any interests.

I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life.

I didn't grow up hunting whitetail, but I would stalk tuna and white sea bass and yellowtail.

I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.

Something has happened where you almost never grow up in America. Maybe it's the greater wealth.

My son, Wolf, was born when I was past 40 and the author of a best-selling novel. That means he has grown up a middle-class child - one who sometimes asks me for stories of my childhood but knows nothing of what it means to grow up poor and afraid. I have worked to make sure of that.

I feel like I've started to grow up and be more of a woman instead of this crazy girl.

'Sons' was about working class white guys. And even though I didn't grow up in a motorcycle club, I grew up in a working-class, white-guy neighborhood.

Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English.

When all is said and done, the greatest satisfaction you'll have in this life as you grow old will be seeing your children grow in righteousness and faith and goodness as citizens of the society of which they are a part.

I didn't grow up jumping in front of the class and performing, but I definitely had a hunger to be creative.

I didn't grow up watching detective shows. I've never even seen an episode of 'CSI.'

Looking back, I realise I had to grow up and be responsible at a very tender age.

All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.

You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth - that means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime.

And the light by which she had read the book filled with troubles, falsehoods, sorrow, and evil, flared up more brightly than ever before, lighted up for her all that had been in darkness, flickered, began to grow dim, and was quenched forever.

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

I grew up in Le Mars, Iowa, and even though it's a great place to grow up and be raised as a kid, there wasn't a lot to do. It was fairly boring, and I think the way I either escaped the boredom or found a way to keep myself occupied was through movies and TV shows.

It was never an ambition to grow up and win an Academy Award, so when it happens, you go, 'Weird!'

today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.

Working with UNICEF made me grow up and recognize how fortunate I am.

You grow up inside these neighborhoods and these communities, and you have friends, friends that you love, friends that you grew up with since elementary. And you have their trust, and you have their loyalty. So it brings influence. So no matter how much of a leader I thought I was, I was always under the influence, period.

I still love the theology of the Mormon religion and think it is a wonderful way to grow up.

Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up.

I've been a Leeds fan for as long as I can remember. When you are about five or six, you adopt a team - obviously, I didn't grow up in Leeds. I grew up in a small town on the Irish border, and most of the people my age were Leeds fans, both then and now.

Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up.

I feel ashamed that so many of us cannot imagine a better way to do things than locking children up all day in cells instead of letting them grow up knowing their families, mingling with the world, assuming real obligations, striving to be independent and self-reliant and free.