Best Growing Up Quotes

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.

May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young.

The [basketball] floor comes easy; I’ve been doing that for a long time. But what’s not easy is growing up black in America.

Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one’s sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.

My fellow Americans, this is an amazing moment for me. To think that a once-scrawny boy from Austria could grow up to become governor of the state of California and then stand here… then stand here in Madison Square Garden and speak on behalf of the president of the United States – that is an immigrant’s dream. It is the American dream.

I’ve grown up, everyone’s got to grow up. But there’s something inside me, I’m always going to have that little sort of, how do you say, child streak.

When NASA dreams big America dreams big. People…kids say, ‘I want to do that when I grow up’. Because you want to do what’s visible to you.

I’m not trying to be like what I thought an NBA player is supposed to be growing up.

Grow up, Donald Trump. Grow up. Time to be an adult. You’re president. You gotta do something. Show us what you have.

The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life – mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.

My mother… she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

My idol when I was growing up was Michael Jordan the basketball player because of his work ethic rather than his talent and because of what he went through to be as good as he was.

I guess that’s one of the things about growing up in the fifties – it never occurred to me that you wouldn’t be at least as successful as your parents.

He has no idea what it was like to grow up in the South, where you had to hold your head down.

There are a million boys growing up in the United States who have never seen a saloon, and who will never know the handicap of liquor and this excellent condition will go on spreading over the country when the wet press and the paid propogandists of booze are forgotten. The abolition of the commercialized liquor trade in this country is as final as the abolition of slavery.

There is a method in man’s wickedness; it grows up by degrees.

I’ve an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women – my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.

My biggest downfall is my inner voice. Growing up as a dancer makes you very judgemental with yourself. You learn to look at yourself in the mirror and you criticise every line in your body. It’s never perfect. I grew up with this because I had ballet every day in school.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.

It was what God had taught me growing up that helped me overcome my fear and get back on the board. ‘Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go’ (Joshua 1:9).

I did not know the woman I would benor that blood would bloom in meeach month like an exotic flower,nor that children,two monuments,would break from between my legs.

A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand?

Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit, they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed ‘dignity’ to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism, and optimism is the stuff of which American business success is fashioned. Resist growing up!

Every little kid wants to grow up to be a cowboy, and I did.

Caine met Diana’s disbelieving gaze and laughed aloud. Why so gloomy? Doesn’t every little girl want to grow up to be a queen? Princess, Diana said. So, you got a promotion, Caine said.

Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?

I think back to when I was growing up in Fort Worth, Texas, in the 1950s, during the [John] McCarthy era, with two parents who founded a Unitarian Church. We lived in a little frame house, and my bedroom was just down the hall from the kitchen. My favorite memories of childhood are of the smell of coffee wafting into my bedroom as my parents and their friends talked about the big, important things – about racism and about how to move our country to live its values.

The question isn’t so much Are you parenting the right way? as it is: Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?

Growing up on stage, I was introduced to makeup at a young age and I will never forget the first time I tried on a L’Oreal Paris iconic lipstick – it was instant glamour and I’ve been hooked ever since.