Growing Up Quotes - Page 4

• One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed. (Bone Crossed)

  Patricia Briggs

  Different, Bones, Finding Out The Truth

  Patricia Briggs (2009). “Bone Crossed”, p.78, Penguin

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• You just don't notice the time of your own metamorphosis. Until you do. Every once in a while time dissolves and you remember what you liked as a kid. You jump on your hotel bed, order dessert first, decide to put every piece of jewelry you own on your body and leave the house. Why? Because you can. Because you're the boss. Because... Ooooh. Shiny.

  Sloane Crosley

  Kids, Dessert First, Order

  FaceBook post by Sloane Crosley from Nov 15, 2014

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• Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.

  Claire Danes

  Inspirational, Girl, Teenage

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

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• Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

  Phyllis Diller

  Children, Silly, Kids

  Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints (1966)

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• I am still into the people I listened to growing up, so I completely remember what is like to be a fan, I haven't changed.

  Lenny Kravitz

  People, Fans, Remember

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• When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

  C. S. Lewis

  Fear, Children, Reading

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.

  David Sedaris

  Funny, Children, Thinking

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• The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Childhood, Grew Up, Name Of The Wind

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

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• My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.

  Mark Twain

  Birthday, Age And Youth, Criminal Mind

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.113, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• I want to be just like Steph when I grow up.

  Andre Iguodala

  Nba Championships, Want, Grows

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• I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.

  Taylor Swift

  Feelings, Heard, Stills

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• Addiction is a symptom of not growing up.

  C.C. DeVille

  Addiction, Growing, Symptoms

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• I think growing up in Indiana prepares anyone for a life in comedy. I do feel like there is a certain kind of self-effacing cynicism among all Hoosiers.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Thinking, Self, Indiana

  "Ask Jim Gaffigan". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. November 28, 2007.

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• I enjoyed acting growing up; I did musical theater. I had a secret desire to be a television and movie actress, but it wasn't something I admitted to myself that I wanted to do, I guess.

  Amanda Schull

  Secret, Musical, Desire

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• Every time I look at it, It looks back at me I love the sea, its waters are blue And the sky is too And the sea is very dear to me If when I grow up and the sea is still there Then I’ll open my eyes and smell the fresh air Because the sea is very dear to me The sea is very calm and that’s why I like it there The sand is brand new and the wind blows in my hair And the sea is very dear to me.

  Esther Earl

  Eye, Blow, Hair

  Esther Earl, Lori Earl, Wayne Earl (2014). “This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl”, p.38, Penguin UK

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• Everyone has to grow up and that's what we're all doing; we're just doing it in different ways.

  Karrine Steffans

  Different, Way, Grows

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I come from a family who prided themselves, both sides, on memory. And I was told growing up, constantly, that I was born with a really good memory.

  Robbie Robertson

  Memories, Sides, Born

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• One of the things that's fun about that is that sometimes you grow up knowing about someone because they were famous, but you don't really know what they were like before they were famous.

  Matt Ross

  Fun, Knowing, Sometimes

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't think you can be too ashamed of anything as long as you were being yourself. I think why people feel, um, so entitled over me is that they've watched me grow up. But that's a blessing and a curse.

  Miley Cyrus

  Being Yourself, Blessing, Thinking

  "Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman: the Two Sides of Miley Cyrus". Interview with Tavi Gevinson, www.elle.com. April 30, 2014.

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• I think evil is our collective shadow. Each one of us has a tendency for the diabolical. If I put you in inhumane conditions, if you're not educated, if you're extremely poor, if you're humiliated, then as a child if you suffer abuse, then you will manifest even when you grow up.

  Deepak Chopra

  Children, Thinking, Evil

  "Deepak Chopra Traces Jesus' Untold Story". "Hannity & Colmes" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. November 10, 2008.

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• Me growing up in the '60s and '70s, there was almost something romantic about drugs, Keith Richards taking drugs and stuff.

  Robert Hilburn

  Drug, Keith, Stuff

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I attempt to be who I am and it's fun. At the same time, growing up doing what I'm doing can be a little crazy.

  Selena Gomez

  Fun, Crazy, Who I Am

  "Q&A: Selena Gomez on turning 21, Bieber, new album". Interview with Mesfin Fekadu, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. July 26, 2013.

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• I've always been a person afraid of the dark. I was taught that when you have complete darkness, that's when spirits walk. In our house when I was growing up, all the doors were always cracked a little bit at night so you could get light into the room.

  Tony Dorsett

  Dark, Night, Light

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• I mean, like a lot of kids growing up in the early seventies, I was fed Dr. Kissinger with my Fruit Loops. He was the Dr. Ruth of American foreign policy, and the model statesman.

  Eugene Jarecki

  Mean, Kids, Drs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Thinking, Cynical, Becoming

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “I Will Fear No Evil”, p.358, Penguin

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