Top 100 We Grow Up Quotes
#1. As we grow up, nothing changes more than the definition of loss.
Saleem Sharma
#2. When we are young the noise of general conversation seems much the most fun. When we grow up we discover the possibilities of the tete-a-tete. In maturity the monologue habit sets is. But now at last there is the chance to investigate the rich depth of the silence when the monologue is suspended.
Nanamoli Thera
#3. The question should be who do we want to be when we grow up, not what.
Craig Stone
#4. It's just cheaper to be White in America than it is to be Black, because of educational advances, because of the police incidents, because of the poverty we grow up in as African-Americans. So, it's just cheaper in this country if you're born a Caucasian than being born a Black person.
Warren Ballentine
#5. The point here is what makes human beings different from other creatures is our ability to use language. We can use words to express ourselves in very eloquent and complex ways. We grow up telling and listening to stories. That's what turns us into the people we are.
Flemming Rose
#6. I've been going to the library, looking up our history. There's a ton of it in anthropology books, a ton of it, Ruth. We haven't always been hated. Why didn't we grow up knowing that?
Leslie Feinberg
#7. he asks me, as if Ruth's become invisible. That's fucked up but that's what happens to women. We grow up into ghosts. No one wants to screw Ruth anymore so she's invisible.
Samantha Hunt
#8. When we grow up," she said, "we'll have amazing families. Our dens will be better than this. Your kids and my kids will play together in a humongous room with every kind of toy and game." "Except I won't have kids," Dan said. "I'll come over myself and play ...
Peter Lerangis
#9. Adults have
the benefit of experience and know the trick will work as long as the technique is correct.
When we "grow up" we gain this experience and knowledge, but we lose our innocence and
sense of wonder. In other words, the price we pay for growing up is a permanent sense of
loss.
Alberto Alvaro Rios
#10. Because we grow up, Filip,' Tedros exhaled. 'When you're young, you think your best friend is everything. But once you find real love... it changes. Your friendship can never be the same after that. Because no matter how much you try to keep both, your loyalty can only lie with one.
Soman Chainani
#11. In the lives of children, pumpkins can turn into coaches, mice and rats into human beings. When we grow up, we learn that it's far more common for human beings to turn into rats.
Gregory Maguire
#12. Hip-hop, you're close to 50. When can we grow up?
Sho Baraka
#13. When we grow up, we find ways to hide our anxieties, our loneliness, our fear and sorrow. But children hide nothing, putting everything into their tears, which they spread liberally about for the whole world to see.
Yoko Ogawa
#14. We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.
Mary Wesley
#15. And to think that when we grow up we may be as stupid as they are!
Louis Pergaud
#16. I know I'm as comfortable doing period as I am contemporary. I suppose we grow up with it in a sense, in the theater. We get to put on costumes and play a lot of period dramas or plays so we're exposed to it a little bit more I think because of our theatrical background.
Ioan Gruffudd
#17. We fall asleep to fairy tales, and the world rotates and revolves and time passes and we grow up and we understand that they are false. There are not heroes and princesses and villains. It's not that easy.
Amy Zhang
#18. We have to remember everything. If we don't, by the time we grow up it'll be gone forever.
Isaac Marion
#19. We can choose this moment of crisis to ask and answer the big questions of society's evolution - like, what do we want to be when we grow up?
Paul Gilding
#20. Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.
Stephen King
#21. Jesus taught that spiritual maturity is never an end in itself. Maturity is for ministry! We grow up in order to give out. It is not enough to keep learning more and more. We must act on what we know and practice what we claim to believe.
Rick Warren
#22. Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets.
John Green
#23. Nope, she didn't. So we grow up and leave home, and I hear from my mum that Madeline has married some wanker, said Ed.
Liane Moriarty
#24. We go to school so that when we grow up we can make lots of money, and we make lots of money so we can provide for our children, and we have children to provide for our retirement (because we don't have any money left).
R.M. ArceJaeger
#25. We grow up being told about great figures in our society, and as you get older you have to question the stories you've been told and decide if these great figures are indeed as great as you've been told.
Jonathan Stroud
#27. Humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies. one of the biggest lies in the story of humanity is the lie of our imperfection.
Miguel Ruiz
#28. Love. It's God's greatest gift. He fills our world with it and makes sure we grow up with caring, supportive parents. I'm just kidding. Pain is God's greatest gift. Pain is God's way of saying, Hurts, don't it ? Well, go ahead. Say, me dammit again.
Christopher Titus
#29. It's pretty popular today to say that everybody should learn to fail and that failure's a good thing. Intellectually, it's an obvious thing. But in fact, it gets conflated with another meaning of failure, so when we grow up as kids, failing in school was a really bad thing.
Edwin Catmull
#30. Why can't we just be nice? It's like, we grow up, and then we get right back into high school.
Jennifer Lawrence
#31. We keep a safe distance. We only whisper. We duck into the shadows whenever Cinderella turns around. We're really good at this sneaky thing. I bet we could be spies when we grow up. We'd be the cool brother-and-sister team that gets to go to exotic
Sarah Mlynowski
#32. We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I don't think there's any doubt that coming of age in Winnipeg both opened my eyes and made me hungry - if I can subvert all claims to be a real writer by mixing metaphors like that.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#33. I think at the end of the day this movie is respecting what we as women go through as we grow up. The experiences, what we deal with, other women, things about images, things that we deal with as women.
Amber Tamblyn
#34. We own the country we grow up in, or we are aliens and invaders.
Michael Ondaatje
#35. I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet.
Claudio Reyna
#36. Church is the textured context in which we grow up in Christ to maturity. But church is difficult. Sooner or later, though, if we are serious about growing up in Christ, we have to deal with church. I say sooner.
Eugene H. Peterson
#37. A person cannot grow up through happiness. Happiness makes a person shallow. It is only through suffering that we grow up, transform, and come to a better understanding of life.
Leslie T. Chang
#38. When we grow up with Love it's Easy to Share it with Others.
Jan Jansen
#39. Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we grow up and we are hurt, we learned not to trust.
Madeleine L'Engle
#40. As an Irish person, there's a historical fascination with America: America is the default green and promised land for Irish people and Italians; that's what we grow up with.
Dylan Moran
#41. We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
Margaret Mead
#42. That's the dilemma with family. When it comes to our parents, we're always children. At what point do we grow up? They raise us to function as individuals, but when do they allow us to act independently?
Barbara Delinsky
#43. As we grow up, it feels like you should either invite people into your life or not. There should be fewer and fewer instances of friends you 'can only take in small doses.'
Sloane Crosley
#44. I once lost something in precious in this place.
But I think it's by losing things...
... that we grow up to be adults.
Inio Asano
#45. We're all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up.
Annie Proulx
#46. Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.
Jacki Weaver
#47. We grow up thinking that the best answer is in someone else's brain. Much of our education is an elaborate game of 'guess what's in the teacher's head?' What the world really needs to know right now is what kind of dreams and ideas are in your head.
Roger Von Oech
#48. Autistic adults were once autistic kids. We grow up and need acceptance and understanding as well.
Tina J. Richardson
#49. The clitoris is the female sex organ, and the fact that we aren't told that when we were small children is devastating. We grow up with no information about the pleasure center of our body.
Betty Dodson
#50. We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business. And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
Akio Morita
#51. We grow up in isolation. Only slowly do we teach ourselves the Cosmos.
Carl Sagan
#52. When we are youths in the Dominican, we pick up bats and balls because baseball is part of what we grow up with. The fun feeling you get playing keeps your head up when you encounter difficult times.
Vladimir Guerrero
#53. If we have the Word without the Spirit, we dry up. If we have the Spirit without the Word, we blow up. But if we have the Word and the Spirit, we grow up.
Mike Bickle
#54. Inside you is eternity. A human being is not so simple. We're told that we're Ted or Sally or Willie or whatever and that we grow up and have experiences. That has nothing to do with what life is. You are eternity.
Frederick Lenz
#55. We grow up with this idea that we're all individual agents. We work, make our money, have our place to live and our satellite TV. But whether you like it or not, you need family or community.
Chang-rae Lee
#56. If you find yourself perplexed, or perhaps in a quandary, remember that human growth is perpendicular. We grow up and we grow forward, we just have to keep on growing steadily in both ways.
John Rzeznik
#57. I want to be simple. I think that we try - and we think when we grow up - that we have the truth, because we experience and stuff. But that bullsh*t actually.
Stromae
#58. Playing and fun are not the same thing, though when we grow up we may forget that and find ourselves mixing up playing with happiness. There can be a kind of amnesia about the seriousness of playing, especially when we played by ourselves.
Lynda Barry
#59. When we grow up, we lose the talent for loving without restrictions.
Nora Roberts
#60. As we grow up in more technology-enriched environments filled with laptops and smart phones, technology is not just becoming a part of our daily lives - it's becoming a part of each and every one of us.
Adora Svitak
#61. Think back to yourself at age 18. I know I was mighty different than the Patti I am today. As we grow up, we grow out of our haircuts, our apartments and - often times - our romantic decisions.
Patti Stanger
#62. When we grow up, concepts gradually get easier and we leave the images to the poets
Stephen King
#63. In our culture, we grow up thinking that failure is a terrible thing, that it's a setback, or worse, the end. Often it turns out to be the beginning of something better.
Katherine Schwarzenegger
#64. At heart, science is the quest for awesome - the literal awe that you feel when you understand something profound for the first time. It's a feeling we are all born with, although it often gets lost as we grow up and more mundane concerns take over our lives.
Sean Carroll
#65. Why do we grow up thinking life should be fair? Who told us that it should be? Because it never is, and finding that out ... hurts worse than a lie.
Mercedes Lackey
#66. We grow up in moments - when we encounter such stupidities in ourselves that our only choice is to grow past them or into them.
Natalie C. Parker
#67. I believe in humanity. We are an incredible species. We're still just a child creature, we're still being nasty to each other. And all children go through those phases. We're growing up, we're moving into adolescence now. When we grow up - man, we're going to be something!
Gene Roddenberry
#68. We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.
W. H. Auden
#69. And everybody dreams about vampires; we grow up dreaming about them. They're the first and worst monster that lives under everybody's bed.
Robin McKinley
#70. I feel growing up in Mumbai is an advantage, as we grow up speaking so many languages that when we go abroad, it becomes easier to learn new languages.
Zubin Mehta
#71. In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realize it is far more common for men to turn into rats.
Gregory Maguire
#72. As we grow up, we are exposed to hate and greed and anger and jealousy and peanut brittle and all kinds of things, our subtly body erodes.
Frederick Lenz
#73. We do not always respond to shocks with regression. Sometimes, in the face of crisis, we grow up - fast.
Naomi Klein
#74. 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
#75. We grow up opposing our parents only to become like them enough to oppose our children who behave as we once did - a reminder of how dreadful we were toward those now vindicated grandparents. And you thought God had no sense of humor.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#76. Young children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations ... Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up
Ken Robinson
#77. We don't grow up in vacuums. We grow up in societies.
Asne Seierstad
#78. The most important thing to realize is we're not blank slates at birth. We don't start off with nothing in our heads, and then get imprinted entirely by our environment. There's something in our heads on the day we're born, and then we grow up and make choices.
Jonathan Haidt
#79. Dreams change," I told her. "They have to. Stretch with our bones as we grow up. No shame in ending up on a different path than you started down on.
Carlie St. George
#80. The best years of our lives are not behind us. They're part of us and they are set for repetition as we grow up and move to New York and away from New York and wish we did or didn't live in New York.
Marina Keegan
#81. What I didn't know until right this very minute was how growing up happens in little surges. We grow up in moments - when we encounter such stupidities in ourselves that our only choice is to grow past them or into them. Maybe that's why some kids grow up too fast and others not at all.
Natalie C. Parker
#82. The tales lovers tell each other about how they met are hushed and secret things. They change year by year, for we all meet many times as we grow up and become different and new and exciting people
and this never stops, even for a minute, even when we are ninety.
Catherynne M Valente
#83. God could not be present everywhere so He made mothers. But there's more to it. He ensured that when we grow up, we don't forget that He exists, so He made children.
Shikha Kaul
#84. When we grow up we all will understand that we have made mistakes which we are not proud of, but some of those are worth committing all.
M.F. Moonzajer
#85. We are born with hope. We grow up with hope. We live with hope. We love with hope. We vanish from this world with eternal hope.
Debasish Mridha
#86. Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up.
Judd Nelson
#87. You know, when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living in someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up, and our hearts break in two."
Ted Brautigan, Hearts in Atlantis
Deyth Banger
#88. 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
#89. All communication is more or less cross-cultural. We learn to use language as we grow up, and growing up in different parts of the country, having different ethnic, religious, or class backgrounds, even just being male or female - all result in different ways of talking ...
Deborah Tannen
#90. It's what we do with the myths we grow up with that matters.
Ali Smith
#91. Our values are determined by the environment we grow up in; and we learn to judge other people based on a standard that's set for us by the first person we come in contact with - which in most cases is our mother.
Kanae Minato
#92. we grow up when we have to, not when we're ready.
Isabel Curtis
#93. Well, I'll tell you, one of things I'm proud of is for someone from Southern California, who didn't grow up around coal mines, I learned a lot that tragic day we lost twenty-nine miners at Upper Big Branch coal mine.
Hilda Solis
#94. I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like What I'm Going to be If I Grow Up
Lenny Bruce
#95. When people grow up in atmospheres of violence or atmospheres of poverty, they don't normally use hi-falutin' language to describe those things. They would describe some brutal event the same way we would describe getting a taxi or missing the bus.
Philipp Meyer
#96. Holiness is the object of our new creation. We are born again so that we may grow up into Christlikeness.
J.I. Packer
#97. A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.
Stephen King
#98. I've been so lonely without you, you dick'
'Don't call me a dick'
'You are, we both are... Got a mental idea me um, why don't we fucking grow up? God, god I love you lol, I can't be with anyone else.
Shane Meadows
#99. I still feel that in India we look upon sports as a recreational activity - which it is - but people have to understand that there is a career in sports. It's not just necessary to be a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer, as most of us Indians appear to think that our children should grow up to be.
Abhishek Bachchan
#100. It was an actual Christmas tree farm. We had, like, 15 acres. It was really fun as a kid. I also spent my summers at the Jersey Shore, on the bay in Stone Harbor. I walked everywhere barefoot. It was just the most amazing, magical way to grow up.
Taylor Swift
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