Grew Up Quotes

• Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2)”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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• That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Children, Growing Up

  "Walt Disney World: Then, Now, & Forever". Book by Jeff Kurtti, October 7, 2008.

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• Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

  Chili Davis

  Love, Happy Birthday, Happiness

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  When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Children, Growing Up, Thinking

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.73, Hachette UK

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• When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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  One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

  Michelle Obama

  Inspirational, Badass, Who I Am

  Michelle Obama, Lisa Rogak (2009). “Michelle Obama: In Her Own Words”, p.40, PublicAffairs

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• I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

  Anna Quindlen

  Children, Thinking, Independent Bookstores

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.119, Ballantine Books

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• People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Voice, People, Soul

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

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Motivational, Birthday

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Growing Up, Artist, Cities

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• Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

  Virginia Woolf

  Growing Up, Order, Losing

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• 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.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Women

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Nov 29, 2014

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• Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Children

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• I grew up in the heart of the Depression.

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Heart, Grew

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• I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Illinois, States, Middle

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• I grew up with a deep belief that wherever our troops fought, they were on the side of the angels.

  Jane Fonda

  Angel, Troops, Sides

  "The Truth About My Trip To Hanoi". www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Children, Should Have, Childhood

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Oxenford (2013). “The Auto-Biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry: From My Own Life”, p.54, Cambridge University Press

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• I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.

  Heidi Klum

  Family, Children, Kids

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• I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.

  Frank Langella

  Home, Household, Lungs

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• There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

  Philip Levine

  Memories, People, Poetry

  Philip Levine (2002). “So ask: essays, conversations, and interviews”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Teenager, School, House

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• I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Family, Issues, Political

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• I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

  Harriet Tubman

  Weed, Marijuana, Ignorant

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• One's home is like a delicious piece of pie you order in a restaurant on a country road one cozy evening - the best piece of pie you have ever eaten in your life - and can never find again. After you leave home, you may find yourself feeling homesick, even if you have a new home that has nicer wallpaper and a more efficient dishwasher than the home in which you grew up.

  Daniel Handler

  Country, Home, Order

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