Browsing Topic Best Growing Up Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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

The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.

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

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.

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

Raising children, be aware that the piles and piles of laundry will disappear all too soon and that you will, to your surprise, miss them profoundly.

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.

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

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

Age is no guarantee of maturity.

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.

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.

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.

Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.

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!

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

I always wanted to be a zookeeper when I was growing up, and I’ve wound up a zookeeper! I’ve been working with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years! I’m the luckiest old broad on two feet because my life is divided absolutely in half – half animals and half show business. You can’t ask for better than two things you love the most.

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.

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).

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

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.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

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.

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.

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

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

New York has become almost a third-world country. When I was growing up it was mostly a Euro-American country. And it wasn’t until LaGuardia was elected in 1933 that Italians were even considered Americans. We’re at a great transition point in terms of population, demographics, and what it means to be a human being.

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.

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.

This Is Me: For the record, I am not gay and all my sexual experiences have been straight. I’m attracted to women, I love children and aspire to have a family one day … I know what it’s like to grow up and be told what your sexuality is, then realising that it’s not the full reality. I was accused of being gay before I knew who I was.

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.