Growing Up Quotes - Page 15

• People think about autism as something with kids. Well, those kids grow up.

  Jason Katims

  Kids, Thinking, People

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• The trick is, when you grow up, find work that feels like play.

  Nathan Fillion

  Play, Tricks, Grows

  "Fictional character: Richard Castle". "Castle" (TV Series), www.imdb.com. 2009–2016.

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• Growing up, I wasnt sure about acting, but I knew I wanted to be part of the movie industry.

  Daniella Alonso

  Acting, Wanted, Industry

  "Daniella Alonso Leaves Her 'Caliente' Mark in Hollywood" by Mayara Guimaraes, www.foxnews.com. December 6, 2012.

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• I'm a first-generation American, so I had friends from several cultures while growing up, including Indian and Iranian friends.

  Michael Steger

  Generations, Culture, Firsts

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• I would love to do anything involving a good strong character, whether its in film, TV or theatre. My dream roles already been taken by Keira Knightley in Pride and Prejudice. Growing up, I really wanted to be Lizzie Bennett.

  Roxanne McKee

  Dream, Strong, Taken

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• Ive had many idols growing up. The inclination for idol worship comes naturally to me. Or it did, anyway. I think Ive gotten over it. It came as naturally to me as wanting to act.

  Kevin Corrigan

  Thinking, Idols, Idol Worship

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• I didnt really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.

  Alan Ritchson

  Baseball, Book, Passion

  "Alan Ritchson Exclusive Interview SMALLVILLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 19, 2010.

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• we can surmount the anger we feel. To find oneself like a young tree inside a tomb is to discover the power to crack the tomb and grow up to any height.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Anger, Tree, Cracks

  ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”

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• Those who have lost an infant are never, as it were, without an infant child. Their other children grow up to manhood and womanhood, and suffer all the changes of mortality; but this one alone is rendered an immortal child; for death has arrested it with his kindly harshness, and blessed it into an eternal image of youth and innocence.

  Leigh Hunt

  Children, Blessed, Suffering

  Leigh Hunt (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt (Illustrated)”, p.1782, Delphi Classics

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• When you grow up with a mother who has to wash dishes and clean hotel rooms, you know the importance of having a job, and you cant be without a job for any length of time, or you will be without anything.

  Edward P. Jones

  Mother, Jobs, Rooms

  "The two dollars a day literary sensation" by Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2004.

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• If you're not sure you could love your children, please don't have them, because they might grow up and kill us.

  John Waters

  Children, Love You, Might

  John Waters (2010). “Role Models”, p.160, Macmillan

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• Rugrats was my favorite cartoon growing up as a kid.

  Michael Angarano

  Kids, Cartoon, My Favorite

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• When youre asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, you obey that.

  Andrew Forrest

  Country, Prime, Ministers

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• Dare we let children grow up with no vital contact with the Saviour, never intentionally and consciously put into His arms? Not to bring them to Him, not to teach them to walk toward Him, as soon as they can walk toward anyone, is wronging a child beyond words. The terrible indictment uttered by the Lord, "Them that were entering in ye hindered," and the millstone warning for offending little ones, are close akin to the deserts of those who ruin a man's whole day of life by wronging his morning hours. Not to help a child to know the saving power of Christ is to hold back a man from salvation.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Morning, Children, Men

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• My father was never very friendly. When I was growing up, I thought the doorbell ringing was a signal to pretend you weren't home.

  Rita Rudner

  Father, Home, Friendly

  Rita Rudner (1993). “Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature”, Penguin Group USA

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• The great constructive energies of the child ... have hitherto been concealed beneath an accumulation of ideas concerning motherhood. We used to say it was the mother who formed the child; for it is she who teaches him to walk, talk, and so on. But none of this is really done by the mother. It is an achievement of the child. What the mother brings forth is the baby, but it is the baby who produces the man. Should the mother die, the baby still grows up and completes his work of making the man.

  Maria Montessori

  Mother, Baby, Children

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• What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man.

  Gertrude Stein

  Boys, Men, Use

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “The Geographical History of America: Or the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind”, p.43, Random House

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• [On her mother:] I was in nervous flight from her ever since I can remember anything, and from the age of fourteen I set myself obdurately against her in a kind of inner emigration from everything she represented. Girls do have to grow up, but has this battle always been so implacable?

  Doris Lessing

  Girl, Mother, Age

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “Under my skin”

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• Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without a comment is a wonderful social grace ... Children who have the habit of constantly correcting should be stopped before they grow up to drive spouses and everyone else crazy by interrupting stories to say, 'No, dear -- it was Tuesday, not Wednesday.

  Judith Martin

  Children, Crazy, Mistake

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• [On growing up in a large family with little money:] ... to take a bath ... we just had a pan of water and we'd wash down as far as possible, and we'd wash up as far as possible. Then, when somebody'd clear the room, we'd wash possible.

  Dolly Parton

  Water, Littles, Rooms

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• Sisters, while they are growing up, tend to be very rivalrous and as young mothers they are given to continual rivalrous comparisons of their several children. But once the children grow older, sisters draw closer together and often, in old age, they become each other's chosen and most happy companions. In addition to their shared memories of childhood and of their relationship to each other's children, they share memories of the same home, the same homemaking style, and the same small prejudices about housekeeping that carry the echoes of their mother's voice.

  Margaret Mead

  Mother, Children, Memories

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• That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks.

  Tillie Olsen

  Peace, Hands, Wrecks

  Tillie Olsen (2013). “Tell Me a Riddle, Requa I, and Other Works”, p.22, U of Nebraska Press

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• I learned two things growing up in Texas. 1: God loves you, and you're going to burn in hell forever. 2: Sex is the dirtiest and most dangerous thing you can possibly do, so save it for someone you love.

  Molly Ivins

  Sex, Love You, Texas

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• Men at any age truly never grow up. All, no matter what importance they may have attained, are still no more than little boys.

  Diane de Poitiers

  Boys, Men, Age

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• At school I'd want to be so small that nobody could see me, and so my work depicts and reflects me - what it felt like to grow up in a world of pain.

  Willard Wigan

  Pain, School, World

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