Top Growing Up Quotes

I cared about Ben, but I was never in love with him. I was in love with what it said about me that I had a boyfriend like Ben, and that's just different.

Without making mistakes, there won't be lessons learned. Without getting hurt, there won't be knowledge gained. The only way we grow is by learning from the past. Always be willing to learn and grow d...

Laura knew then that she was not a little girl any more. Now she was alone; she must take care of herself. When you must do that, then you do it and you are grown up. Laura was not very big, but she w...

I knew that I did not want to go to that juvenile diversion program because I had an intuitive sense that it would turn me irrevocably into the kind of character that I was now only rehearsing to be.

I don't really enjoy it, Mom.""And you've always felt this way?""I don't know. I guess I want a break.

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 sto...

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

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

Growing up eating fruits and vegetables fresh from our farm added a lot to the way I taste and look at food today, and I wanted the same for my kids and other kids.

When I was growing up, you didn't know there was a women's national team. Now girls grow up dreaming of playing for Canada.

Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.

The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on.

Adults tend to repress their pleasure. Sad to say, I think we become adults only through disappointment, grief, and lies. So of course gradually we become tough, less sensitive.

No one explains this to you, he thought. That there are so many things without solution.

As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.

I played sports growing up in high school.

Any swagger is just defense. When you're reminded so much of who you are by people - not a fame thing, but with my size, constantly, growing up - you just either curl up in a corner in the dark or you...

My mother always used to say, 'Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be...

I was a big fan of 'The Smurfs' growing up, even though by default - my mom used to force me to watch because she was a 'Smurfs' fan.

Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.