Top Growing Up Quotes

My father was an electrical engineer who worked at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. When I was growing up, my mother wrote humor columns for the local paper. She was the Erma Bombeck of Murrysville, Pa.

Growing up, all I did was play sports. I always loved music, but I never even thought I'd be on stage one day.

Growing up in Northern California, I've only seen snow at Christmas maybe twice in my life! I was always jealous of my cousins on the East Coast with their white Christmases.

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

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

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

I know more about my father than I used to know: I know he wanted to be a pilot in the war but could not, because the work he did was considered essential to the war effort… I know he grew up on a far...

I made him walk on a lead and he jumped for joy, the way creatures do, and children do and adults don't do, and spend their lives wondering where the leap went.

Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets.

I was going to be a memory when I grew up.

How shall I tell you of the world you faceStrident with sound of weapons and of hate,Make you aware now of the narrowing spaceBetween the hope of mortal and his fate?

A huge thing for me growing up was going to see my favorite bands and feeling like, 'Okay, cool, they proved themselves and did things in a special way.' That's the most important thing.

Growing up in Huntington Beach, you were either a traditional sports athlete, a skateboarder, or a surfer. I got my first skateboard when I was five and skated off and on over the years, did a little...

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.

I loved scary movies growing up.

I've always wanted to design a home collection line because growing up, I was obsessed with reorganizing my room.

I loved theater growing up, and my mom always took us to the touring productions that would come through town. We would go to Chicago all the time and see shows. I loved it.

Roman history was kind of unavoidable where I was growing up. It was everywhere - all the place names and ruins and forts. My dad's a history buff, and I spent a lot of time on Hadrian's Wall. I becam...

He had a third martini. He looked at me intently and took hold of my arm. 'Look', he said. 'You're a fish in a pond. It's drying up. You have to mutate into an amphibian, but someone keeps hanging on...

You are young, said my father. You won't get any younger even if you clean your teeth twice a day.You'll get older, said my mother, that's what happens.Then what happens?You won't be able to find the...