Quotes of: Grow-up Keyword

To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning, not as something to celebrate.

Dennis Prager

All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?

James Hillman

A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.

Janet Jackson

I'd really like to show women my age - who've had children grow up or lost husbands or retired after working all their lives - that there are options. There are choices. We don't have to just sit around and be invisible.

Katherine Helmond

Growing up in Beirut, I used to go to the souks with my mother to buy fabrics... I understood fashion at an early age, and my first designs were when I was five.

Reem Acra

I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.

Roberto Cavalli

You grow up with a heightened sense of the Civil Rights Movement, but I think it wasn't until I became of age that I really had a great appreciation for the struggle that took place.

Terri Sewell

Growing up, my mom made us this amazing thing called The Mack Theatrical Wardrobe. It was a massive trunk filled with everything that you'd want as a kid if you were into imagination and play.

Allison Mack

My maternal granddad, Leonard, was full of amazing stories. He was an orphan, with 11 or 12 brothers and sisters, and he used to tell us about growing up near the Irrawaddy river and how one brother was eaten by a crocodile.

Jamie Cullum

These things have a life of there own and never existed when I was growing up certainly worrying when one would get made. It's kind of amazing how that one movie kept living through all these years.

Stockard Channing

I think we want our kids to grow up to be people who can think outside of the box, be creative and innovators, sort of the forward-thinkers of our future. I think a way to inspire that is through art and music.

Angela Kinsey

A photocopier is a camera in its own right. I was fortunate to grow up in the time and culture that I did. I was allowed to develop an awareness that the art that really moves me is actually based on an original image.

Wolfgang Tillmans

I want my kids to have the things in life that I never had when I was growing up. Things like beards and chest hair.

I Want

Leesha knew from experience that when parents don't parent, kids grow up fast.

The Sorcerer Heir

You going to be a scientist when you grow up?” That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got.

The Subtle Knife

Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which grow up ten years later into domestic hatred.

The Screwtape Letters

My fear of loneliness is like a disease.

Not Like My Mother: Becoming a Sane Parent After Growing Up in a Crazy Family

Part of growing up is narrowing your life choices to a manageable size.

Letting Go of Perfect: Women, Expectations, and Authenticity

I guess that’s what growing up is. Saying good-by to a lot of things. Sometimes it is easy and sometimes it isn’t. But it is all right.

The Luckiest Girl

You need a husband and some babies to look after. Otherwise you're going to grow up into a virago...

Spitfire

Mam said I was growing up. I felt that I was dying.

Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories