Growing Up Quotes

As a very young man growing up in Texas, usually I got a shotgun or cowboy boots for Christmas.

~ Robert Wilson

Some of my favorite records growing up were Christmas albums. The ones I liked best were the albums that you could listen to from start to finish. You could put them on while you're decorating the tree or driving around looking at Christmas lights.

~ Chris Young

Bullying is something every kid in public, parochial, or private school has witnessed by graduation. While unfortunate, it is part of growing up.

~ Pat Buchanan

I didn't necessarily want to be famous growing up, but I knew I would be a good famous person because I'm not offended if somebody comes up to me and knows things about me and wants to engage me in a conversation.

~ Nate Berkus

As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course, as we all know from fairy stories, when you achieve that ambition, you find out you don't want it.

~ Jarvis Cocker

I was inspired by many teachers when I started my channel, Bob Ross being one of them. His voice was so soothing, almost like hypnosis. He was that great of a teacher, even the casual viewer could learn how to paint from watching his show. Growing up, I just remember him being so mesmerizing on screen.

~ Michelle Phan

Growing up in Kansas City, I was always neat, the teacher's pet, know-it-all type.

~ Gretchen Rubin

I know it affected me when I saw certain actors growing up. I had a drama teacher that would take us to see plays in New York, and it was seeing James Earl Jones and Raul Julia - I mean, this guy comes from the place my mother comes from. He's doing Shakespeare right now, and it doesn't seem to matter that he has an accent.

~ Jimmy Smits

Every single substitute teacher growing up could not pronounce my name, so whenever someone pauses, I'm like, 'Oh, that's me.'

~ Cary Fukunaga

I like to be at a party and be a quiet observer, be in conversation. I wouldn't say I was a class clown growing up, but I would definitely sit back in class and take snipes at the teacher.

~ Eric Stonestreet

Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.

~ Beverley Mitchell

I think that the main thing that you can learn from watching 'The Spectacular Now' is just learning about growing up and moving on.

~ Kaitlyn Dever

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

~ Max Lerner

If you're growing up in a chaotic world without reason, your instinct is to become a performer and control the circumstances around you. You lead from weakness into strength; you have an undefended back.

~ John Le Carré

Growing up, when I was younger, I didn't feel all that tough or smart or strong. As I got older, I was able to discover my own strength.

~ Alexandra Daddario

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

~ Winona Ryder

Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.

~ Claire Danes

My whole life, growing up, I always wanted to be in comedy. I never felt comfortable doing the 'teen hunk' thing.

~ Dustin Milligan

Growing up, I had an internal struggle with my body because I was really chubby. My sisters were younger, and they were all skinny and all cute. As a teen, I definitely had, like, an extra 30 pounds of weight.

~ Christina Milian

I was a handful growing up.

~ Olivia Wilde

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.

~ Alice Hoffman

Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.

~ Dale Earnhardt

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

~ Terry Brooks

I was a typical teen growing up in the 1960s, when everybody was into gurus and meditation.

~ David Suchet

When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.

~ Linda Hunt

I've always enjoyed the teen angst thing. I had a lot of teen angst as I was growing up, so I think I have a lot to say about it through characters before I have to move on.

~ Magda Apanowicz

Teenage girls read in packs. It's true today, and it was true when I was a teen growing up in a small town in northeast Oklahoma.

~ Ally Carter

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

~ Gary Cherone

The trick is growing up without growing old.

~ Casey Stengel

I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

~ Chinua Achebe

I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.

~ Magic Johnson

I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the detective Dick Tracy. It was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and he really inspired me. I would have loved to be part of that golden age of Hollywood in the 1940s. It made me want to become an actor.

~ Ryan Gosling

I suppose even when I was growing up, I noticed I was most happy when I was absorbed in something, lost in the moment and forgot the time, whether was conversation, movie, or a game I was playing. That was my definition of happiness. And I was least happy when I was all over the place, distracted and restless.

~ Pico Iyer

Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.

~ Usain Bolt

Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.

~ Diane Ackerman

Just growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it's like no other place.

~ Wiz Khalifa

Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?

~ Elizabeth Janeway

My family... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up.

~ Emeril Lagasse

I've always been a strong family advocate. I had a wonderful family growing up.

~ Cheryl Ladd

Growing up, yeah, I had a magic kit with learn tricks and learn card tricks, but I was never... I used to watch whatever magic special was on as a kid, but then, it's not that I lost interest, but to be a magician, you really, it's really hard work. Learning lines is hard enough; learning sleight of hand, that's real practice.

~ Steve Buscemi