I Never Grow Up Quotes

#1. Its crazy! I'm watching Linsanity hoping every shot goes in. Hope I never grow up.

Steve Nash

#2. You don't understand." His bulgy eyes are getting moist. "I miss Wonderland. I am like a child who became a scientist, only to learn that all he really wanted was to never grow up in the first place. I wanted to stay in Wonderland. I wanted to find Alice again.

Cameron Jace

#3. Also, and this is something I feel passionate about, I simply never call children "kids." Baby goats are kids, not children! I know it may seem silly to some, but it's something I feel most strongly. If we respect little people, then they in turn will grow up to respect others.

Brenda Ashford

#4. If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!

James M. Barrie

#5. All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up
that growing is an ever ongoing process.

M. Scott Peck

#6. I never had to say to myself, 'OK now, I've got to grow up and work for a bank, or go and sell real estate.' I never had to make that kind of break.

Luke Wilson

#7. I never saw a gun until I was 24. I didn't grow up in Mayberry; I grew up in Southern California.

Susan Straight

#8. I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.

G-Eazy

#9. I never thought to myself, I'm going to grow up and fall in love with a man or I'm going to fall in love with a woman because my mother is a lesbian.

Ally Sheedy

#10. And just like that, I became my mother. We all do, if only for a moment at a time. That person we never think we will be like when we grow up is the person we see in our own reflection. How did that happen so fast?

Soleil Moon Frye

#11. I did not grow up in poverty. But I did grow up with a poor boy's sense of longing, in my case not for what my family had never had, but for what we had had and lost.

Mohsin Hamid

#12. When you grow up in a city like Boston, where I grew up, a lot of kids became criminals or cops. I never really had a bad take on cops other than I hate when there's one behind me on the highway.

Donnie Wahlberg

#13. I hope you will grow up gentle and good, and never learn bad ways; do your work with a good will, lift your feet up well when you trot, and never bite or kick even in play.

Anna Sewell

#14. You were the hardest year of my life and I've never been so happy. What does that say about me?

Charlotte Eriksson

#15. Will you never grow up?"
"I doubt it, and I certainly hope not.

David Eddings

#16. Finding ballet gave me passion for the first time in my life. I was always very shy and just wanted to fit in; I never daydreamed about what I wanted to be when I grew up. But dancing gave me a connection to my personality that made me grow.

Misty Copeland

#17. I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.

Judy Blume

#18. I wanted to be a doctor at one point and I also wanted to be a pilot. I think if you grow up in a dodgy area, reality often beats down those ambitions as you get older. But with me that never really happened.

James McAvoy

#19. I think that's the lesson you learn in life. As you get older you realize you're never going to grow up and you're never going to be ready. And you may, as well, do things now, don't wait

Hugh Laurie

#20. I just never want to completely grow up.

Iris Apfel

#21. You know how you either grow up in a Michael Jackson house or a Prince house? For me it was Michael Jackson. I could never decide whether I wanted to be Michael Jackson or marry him.

Amy Winehouse

#22. I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.

Margaret Mead

#23. Even if I could be forgiven, how long could I keep up the insincere apologies I made in pain, once I was back in my comfortable old high place. IV-98. For never can true reconcilement grow / Where wounds of deadly hate have peirc'd so deep:

Joseph Lanzara

#24. I've never really had any trouble coming up with ideas; they just grow, like weeds. The weeding is the hard part.

Stuart Woods

#25. When I was two I was always like "I wanna be a famous singer when I grow up." When you listen to most kids they went in and did all these competitions. I was never like that, my mom never pushed me like that. I pretty much just sang when I wanted to.

Kiley Dean

#26. My father and his brothers were all lawyers, so I think that the expectation was probably for me to grow up to be an attorney, but it never really fascinated me that much. I was more interested in building things.

Steve Case

#27. I had the choice to either grow up and find God in the situation or become bitter. I chose to find God. And I experienced freedom like I never knew before.

Heather Mercer

#28. Hey, are you a boy or a - never mind, can I have a push on the swing? And some day, y'all, when we grow up, it's all gonna be that simple.

Andrea Gibson

#29. Oh I don't wanna grow up, wish I'd never grown up
It could still be simple.

Taylor Swift

#30. I'm never going to grow up. Staying young is what it is all about for me.

Hugh Hefner

#31. I want my kids to grow up and enjoy their childhood and be carefree. I never really got a chance to be a kid.

Jim Morris

#32. Guess you never know how much you like the water until the well runs dry, and if I can't have your love unconditionally, then I'll just have to do without it until you grow up.

Carolyn Brown

#33. It must be lovely to be grown up, Marilla, when just being treated as if you were is so nice ... Well, anyway, when I grow up, I'm always going to talk to little girls as if they were, too, and I'll never laugh when they use big words.

L.M. Montgomery

#34. It's about you. I always thought that you would need some time, you know, to grow up, but I think I just realized that it's never going to happen, not while I'm sitting around waiting for it.

Emma Straub

#35. I've never had siblings, I didn't grow up in a big family; it was just me and my single mom. And hectic family dysfunction was actually something that I craved.

Emmy Rossum

#36. Hip hop - it's an art form but it's a culture as well. You grow up in the culture and you never leave it. It's a style of dress; it's a way of thought. I always grew up in the culture, and it was part of who I was and I carried it into every world I was in.

LeCrae

#37. I was never happy as a child, so it wasn't something I took for granted.i did'nt grow up as an average, american child. An average child grows up with an expectation of being happy.

Marilyn Monroe

#38. Actually, I think I'm part of the last generation to grow up believing in magic and fairies and believing I had powers - you know, lying on the ground and trying to have my spirit leave my body - which never happened; still working on that bit.

Alice Englert

#39. I never want to grow up.

Tyler, The Creator

#40. I stop painting entirely. I get a job in advertising. I get older. I grow up, I suppose. I never look back except in those moments when I can't stop fucking thinking about it.

Jami Attenberg

#41. The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up.

Naomi Watts

#42. I always knew I was going to grow up to be a storyteller; that's one of the earliest things I remember about myself. There was never a question of me not writing.

Regina Doman

#43. Sometimes I feel like the Tom Hanks character in Big. But my life is not a movie. I never have to go back to Coney Island to find the fortune-teller machine so I have to grow up again.

Shaquille O'Neal

#44. Dolorita Hunsickle says that the chipmunks tell your fortune if you catch them but I never did. She says a chipmunk told her she would grow up to be a famous ballerina and that she would die of consumption unloved in a boardinghouse in Prague.

Neil Gaiman

#45. I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that first small space redesign.

Nate Berkus

#46. ONE THING I AM NEVER GOING TO DO WHEN I GROW UP
Is fall in love, drop out of college, learn to subsist on water and air, have a species named after me, and ruin my life.

Nicole Krauss

#47. We're never going to escape the idea of being young. Which I don't mind myself. I mean, who wants to grow up anyway?

Niall Horan

#48. I didn't grow up in a traditional family, and I never had a family dinner around the table, so whenever I actually had a dinner 'plan,' it meant a lot to me; it made me feel excited and safe.

Drew Barrymore

#49. For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn't grow up being told that I was a disabled child.

Aimee Mullins

#50. It doesn't matter. I've moved on from something that was never there to begin with. That's one of the dire things about escaping from childhood. Eventually you grow up and realize the things you wanted when you were young weren't really yours to ask for.
I know that now.

T.J. Klune

#51. One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.

E. O. Wilson

#52. In reality, I never want to grow up.

Michael Jordan

#53. He never went to church, which Bailey and I thought also proved he was a very courageous person. How great it would be to grow up like that, to be able to stare religion down,

Maya Angelou

#54. I've never wanted to be a fireman, in my life. I've never really wanted to grow up and be anything other than a film director.

David Gordon Green

#55. Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up

Stephen King

#56. I didn't grow up on dance class. I was always natural. I've been in the industry since I was eight and I've always had a choreographer since then. But I never really took ballet or anything like that.

Marques Houston

#57. You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die.
And it means something else too, doesn't it? I shall never ever grow up.

Anne Rice

#58. I might grow old in Brisbane, but I would never grow up.

David Malouf

#59. I love the energy of children. It makes me feel young. I'm just drawn to them. They're like magic to me. And they're drawn to me, the childlike part of me that never did grow up.

Dolly Parton

#60. All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.

Kirk Douglas

#61. I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.

Aaron Tveit

#62. Years ago, when I first started wearing hair extensions, I would get mail from young girls, or young girls would come up to me and they would say, 'Tyra you have the most beautiful hair, like I could never grow hair like that!' And I would say 'Child, this is a weave!'

Tyra Banks

#63. It wasn't until I could get out of Stanford that I could sit down and think about my life, to do the things that most kids do, which is to ask who am I, what do I want to be when I grow up. I never got to do Dan Pintauro.

Danny Pintauro

#64. I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.

Isidor Isaac Rabi

#65. It's true that I never wanted to grow up. But how important was it really - to have decided to be human?

Rachel Klein

#66. I never really wanted to grow up. I grew up really young. I moved out when I was 13 - that's when I started acting.

Helena Bonham Carter

#67. I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

Margaret Mead

#68. Steffania shook her head in mock sorrow. "I've heard it said people never grow up. They merely learn how to behave in front of others." She leaned over and whispered loudly, "Ramsey has done neither.

Patricia A. Knight

#69. I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic.

Richard Pryor

#70. I worry about kids today - because of the sexual revolution, they're going to grow up and never know what "dirty" means.

Lily Tomlin

#71. All things take time. A lot of my films still run on cable and are in video stores, and there's a whole generation that doesn't know who I am. So, it's a dichotomy. In some people's minds I may never grow up.

Robby Benson

#72. I realize that I am never going to grow up.

Martin McDonagh

#73. I think people who struggle to define themselves might never be satisfied because there is no definition. Living with responsibility is important, but I don't really think you have to grow up.

Kristen Bell

#74. I grew up on a farm with only two TV channels. I didn't grow up around much culture. When I got excited about painting, I never really got further than what would have been in a modern art history textbook.

Neil Farber

#75. I'm living in the heart of gun culture, but I'm not a gun guy. I didn't grow up with them; I was never a hunter; my dad was never a hunter.

Jonathan Gottschall

#76. I didn't grow up watching detective shows. I've never even seen an episode of 'CSI.'

Cary Fukunaga

#77. I want to see my grandchildren grow up. I want to be there for my friends. I want to be able to love the person in my life. I want to work. I want to do something I've never done, which is save money. I've never bought anything. I have nothing.

Marianne Faithfull

#78. When I grow up, maybe I will be
the first one to circle the sea.
Or maybe I will just spend all my day
doing everything my way.
Maybe I will be in a world of my own
I just hope not alone.
I just know that whatever I do
I will never, ever forget about you.

Oliver Neubert

#79. I'm a big kid. I never lost my childlike appreciation of things. Too many people lock it out and throw their toys away and say, okay, I'm gonna grow up and be grumpy and miserable and not think about the magical side of things anymore
and I can't seem to stop doing that.

Andy Partridge

#80. I've never been able to grow an organ back," Lana said. "Last time I tried ... Let's just hope you don't end up with whip eyes.

Michael Grant

#81. I was never going to become anything but myself, that i was of the clan of Peter Pan and we did not grow up

Patti Smith

#82. I've never wanted to grow up too fast. I wanted to wear a sports bra until I was 22! ... The allure of being sexy never really held any excitement for me. I've never been in a terrible rush to be seen as a woman.

Emma Watson

#83. I will never be crazy," repeats the adolescent hero to herself. "I will never get killed. I have to grow up.

Blanche McCrary Boyd

#84. I could tell I was at the gateway of a region half-bewitched through the piling-up of unbroken time-accumulations; a region where old, strange things have had a chance to grow and linger because they have never been stirred up.

H.P. Lovecraft

#85. Kids are supposed to grow up and cut the apron strings. I just never dreamed those sharp scissors would leave so many wounds.

Lisa Wingate

#86. I didn't grow up in one place, so I never had a certain mentality. I have some aspects of growing up in Texas, but I also have a lot of East Coast family. I would have loved to grow up on the East Coast.

Debby Ryan

#87. I love you, for God's sake. I still love you. I loved you more than anyone on earth. But I'll never trust you, after what happened. It's what Alice said. You'll never grow up. There is no peace in you.

David Hare

#88. I was hoping we could just listen to Jimmy Eat World and forget we ever grew up.

Crystal Woods