Top 1200 Kids Growing Up Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.

Growing up, I would never have thought that I'd be a double Olympic champion, with a lovely home and beautiful kids.

Today, kids are much more aware of what fashion means, but when I was growing up, it was popular, but not as popular as today. Like any kid, I was fascinated by drawing. But when some of the kids let go, I kept drawing and drawing.

I lived in St. Louis, Missouri, and now my kids are growing up in Los Angeles, so that's culturally very different.

I was the youngest of six kids, so yeah, feeding myself was important, but it's not like I was obsessed with food growing up.

No one ever told me when I was growing up that make-up and skirts were just for girls. If you're confident and you own it, [the other kids] are fine with it...I've always supported the lifestyle that I will do what I please and deal with it.

The unparalleled love of a mother is always there for the kids, specially when they're growing up and about to leave the family and go away.

All these kids who are growing up on Skrillex and all this digital music- what are they gonna think when they hear rock'n'roll?

The respect I had to give my brothers and sisters growing up I think has helped me. I want my kids to be raised the same way.

The kids growing up is a separate strand to your life. However bad a day you've had, that's the most important thing, and you have to remember that.

YouTube is growing up, is basically my view of it. Growing up means our creators are growing up; they're getting more well known. We're providing programs for them to generate more revenue so they can generate even better, high-quality shows, and then also connecting them with the advertisers.

Chelsea gave me all the trophies I have as a football player. I saw my kids growing up in London.

The way I survived growing up in Jersey City was by being funny. It wasn't by being tough. Nobody thought of me as a tough kid, except for the kids I beat up.

I guess, growing up at Australia Zoo and getting to travel all over the world, I have this great outlook on life, and that's what I hope I inspire other kids to have.

If we can inspire a kid to pick up a guitar - and less and less kids are doing so these days - it'd be really cool because I know how it felt growing up and how special that was for me.

I was growing up in the suburbs; I was one of eight kids. So I did have a community when I was younger, but all of my brothers and sisters were older.

Growing up means letting go of the dearest megalomaniacal dreams of our childhood. Growing up means knowing they can't be fulfilled. Growing up means gaining the wisdom and the skills to get what we want within the limitations imposed by reality - a reality which consists of diminished powers, restricted freedoms and, with the people we love, imperfect connections.

Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.

Growing up in Hollywood meant there were a lot of film stars' kids at my school - but no conspicuous wealth. It wasn't cool to show off that you had money.

Absolutely the worst thing about this job is the travel and being away from family. I have a wife and three wonderful children, the kids are all active in sports and it's very difficult to up and leave and miss them growing up.

I don't think many kids question their surroundings. Everything seems so permanent and inevitable growing up, even chaos.

I make sure in recruiting that the families know that the kids can come to me. I think that matters. I can be a mentor and a resource for them. I didn't necessarily have that all the time growing up.

There's absolutely no sort of acknowledgment or reward for this - except for the intangible of my kids growing up to be wonderful people.

I loved acting as a kid because I was kind of shy, so it brought me out of myself. Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible. It wasn't like some idea of going to Hollywood; it was in my backyard. I lived two blocks from Grauman's Chinese Theatre growing up. It was what people did. It's an industry town. So it wasn't some far-off fantasy, it was like "Oh yeah, when you grow up, you do this because that's what people do here."

Growing up, I absolutely loved skateboarding and dirt bike riding with my brother and the neighborhood kids.

Lunchtime and recess, that was a big part for me growing up. I think it's important for kids to have that.

Kids growing up in communities with rural hospitals see firsthand the types of jobs a STEAM education can provide.

If fathers aren't growing up, I would challenge them to want to be a father that is present in the home, so that their kids have that identity.

I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.

I used to get made fun of a lot for being a male dancer, especially growing up in Boston. Kids are terrible, they don't realize how heavy words can be.

I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.

I don't think that growing up in the entertainment industry is the healthiest place for kids. The track record kind of shows that.

The kids are really smart. They are sharp and they're not yet bent over by the system. I think there's a wonderful intelligence in today's youth, and it's a part of growing up.

Because my parents, growing up, they worked hard. Everyone in my family woke up early in the morning. I used to see my mother and my father go off to work, and come back and, no matter what, they had time for the kids.

I got kids that are growing up in a Donald Trump world because we screwed up because we haven't been able to craft a message and push policies that connect with working class people.

Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing up--thatis our new work, and it is total. Mere instruction will not suffice.

I think it's important to let kids be kids and be cautious about accelerated sexuality as pressure to mature too quickly. My hackles go up when I see a teacher making kids feel like they are older, special, mature. Let kids be kids.

Musicals are made of several climaxes that keep growing and growing; when you think it's over, it still continues growing up in plateaus.

Growing up in Middlesbrough I was taught to be resilient and competitive. My teachers made us believe that just because kids were at private school up the road, it didn't mean they were better than us.

I definitely think that movies have the possibility to be something positive, and are really becoming teaching tools for a lot of kids growing up.

My dad worked all sorts of jobs when I was growing up and finally ended up as a surveyor; my mum delivers meals to old folk around where we live. We didn't have much money when I was growing up, but I had a very happy childhood.

Brooklyn, when I was growing up, was awesome. It was stoopball and stickball - a lot of kids... the baby boom generation were all in the area. It was just a really great place.

I mostly played 'Pac-Man', but I played 'The Sims' with my kids when they were growing up.

I was not very strong growing up, and my uncle used to look at me, like, This kid is not growing up, he is growing tall but he can be broken like a banana.

It's cool to see a bunch of brown kids in the crowd. I wanna be a brown artist that they look up to. I didn't see that many artists with my same culture that I looked up to when I was growing up. The industry has always been whitewashed.

I was a fat girl growing up and had to change schools because kids were so mean.

When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters.

Growing up, I imagined I would come to New York, get married, move to the suburbs and have kids. It just didn't happen that way.

Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights - that's every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don't want your kids to hear growing up.

The kids I knew growing up who worked on bikes all loved the smell of gas. It is the liquid agent for speed.

When I was growing up, I never really ate vegetables. I was just a hot dog, hamburger, French fry person like most kids.

Look forward to the wonderment of growing up, raising a family and driving by the gas station where the popular kids now work.

Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible.

The biggest thing I noticed growing up when I was doing BMX racing or playing rugby through to secondary school level, was seeing the parents who were so desperate to see their kids do well that they were almost living their lives through their kids and putting huge pressure on them to the point they weren't enjoying it.

I don't wanna be a Londoner! Growing up, that was hell - being one of them kids who wears Air Force 1s and that. It made me feel sick.

...we’re just kids growing up on an island, doing bad things in pretty places.

The solution for rising up kids in the income distributionlies is in creating better childhood environments for kids growing up, especially in low income families. And so what means such things like schools, the quality of neighborhoods. If you think about what's gone on in Baltimore, it's a place of tremendous concentrated poverty. People aren't really seeing a path forward and I think revitalizing places like that can have a huge impact, even in the face of globalization and changes in technology.

I think so much of what informs us as performers is what we had to endure as kids growing up. I was the youngest in my family. I always got a lot of attention.

I'm most at peace in my home when there's chaos, and that means that my kids had their friends over a lot growing up.

Growing up is difficult. Strangely, even when we have stopped growing physically, we seem to have to keep on growing emotionally, which involves both expansion and shrinkage, as some parts of us develop and others must be allowed to disappear...Rigidity never works; we end up being the wrong size for our world.