When You Grow Up Sayings

#1. When snooty high school bitches grow up, their meanness is distilled into its purest, most lethal form," Emmie whispered fearfully. "Don't you watch Real Housewives?

Jayne Denker

#2. And when you grow up one day," her mother would always add, "you might be lucky enough to be shot by someone you love.

Carolyn Cohagan

#3. I want to be the best race horse around when I grow up, Mama.
You can be, Charlie, as long as you are willing to try your best and not give up when you have a bad day.

Deanie Humphrys-Dunne

#4. I don't know the answer. Maybe no one knows. Maybe when you grow up, you'll be the first to find out.

Carl Sagan

#5. When you grow up in America things like Christianity waters down your feeling ... When you're taught to love everybody, taught to love you're enemies, what value does that put on love?

Marilyn Manson

#6. When you grow up around people who don't speak very much, what they do say to you is indelible.

Hope Jahren

#7. I want to be a Huntress when I grow up!" shouted a voice from the throng.
Kyna rolled her eyes and shook her head. "You can't be a Huntress, Liam. You're not a centaur and you're not a female.

P.C. Cast

#8. It's like losing a son because I loved Michael and Michael loved me. But you know, as when people grow up and they make their own decisions and they move forward, there's a distance, and I think that Michael in some cases might have gone too far with some of the things he was doing.

Berry Gordy

#9. And really, when you grow up, and get over yourself, when you fuck narcissism and leave the hashtags at the door, you see what really matters in life.

Caroline Kepnes

#10. Sara: "You are so brave," I tell her, and then I smile. "When I grow up, I want to be just like you."
To my surprise, Kate shakes her head hard. Her voice is a feather, a thread. "No Mommy," she says. "You'd be sick.

Jodi Picoult

#11. In fact, corporations are the infants of our society - they know very little except how to grow (though they're very good at that), and they howl when you set limits. Socializing them is the work of politics. It's about time we took it up again.

Bill McKibben

#12. 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

#13. I think it's almost better to start [acting] at a later age because you have more stuff to drawm from - more life experience. When you start too young, you grow up on a set.

Josh Duhamel

#14. A message To the children who have read this book. When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important. A stodgy parent is no fun at all! What a child wants -and DESERVES- is a parent who is SPARKY! - Danny, the champion of the world.

Roald Dahl

#15. When you're in a broken family and your role model is a violent male, boys grow up believing that's the way they're supposed to act. And girls think that's an accepted way men will treat them.

Jim Costa

#16. If I'm talking to someone and they're feeling a certain way, I will definitely tie into that very quickly. You have to learn to read emotions and feelings when you grow up in a family with four brothers - especially if three of them are a lot bigger than you.

Henry Cavill

#17. Either you get a chance to be a kid when you are a kid, or you don't grow up.

Howard Fast

#18. When you're a kid, you think you're going to have this deep well of time with your parents when you grow up and you're all on equal footing.

Elisabeth Egan

#19. When you're a girl, passion can dominate the equation, but as you grow up relationships evolve. Mad passion can grab you at first, but it can't last forever.

Jody Watley

#20. Saying you want to be a model when you grow up is akin to saying you want to win the Powerball when you grow up. It's awesome, and it's out of your control, and it's not a career path.

Cameron Russell

#21. 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

#22. Because you're in a band, you go for other people in bands or in the music industry, but people don't grow up right when they're on tour all the time. They don't do the same things as someone who's been at home and gone to school and got a bunch of crappy jobs.

~Allison Robertson

Paul Miles

#23. Childhood trauma may sneak up from behind and fuck you in the ass when you grow up, but at least it leaves a tip on the nightstand.

Neil Strauss

#24. I wasn't aware that the world thought I was so weird and bizarre. But when you grow up, like I did, in front of 100 million people since the age of 5, you're automatically different.

Michael Jackson

#25. I grew up in Ann Arbor, about 25 miles west of Detroit. And when you grow up in that area, you get a healthy dose of Motown automatically.

Mayer Hawthorne

#26. My family never told me like you have to be one thing. What do you want to be when you grow up? They think it's the most ridiculous question. You can be many, many things.

Hannah Simone

#27. Some people think you begin to grow up when you stop trying to figure out who you are.

Francesca Lia Block

#28. When the culture is strong, you've got this consistency where black people can grow up in these places with this voice just resonating about our special-ness in the universe. And I always say you're in trouble if you get too far away from that core that grounds you.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

#29. Where do I get my seriousness? You can't help but grow up fast when your parents get divorced. You see your mother go to get food stamps and she's making fifty dollars too much to get them, with four kids to support.

Tom Cruise

#30. Call me when you grow up and decide you can handle a real relationship instead of some perfect-on-paper, passionless dead-zone." He

Maggie Kelley

#31. It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up.

Goldie Hawn

#32. When I was little, I always wanted to grow up to be like Jessalyn Kincaid and Vanessa Severo. They showed me how much joy performing can give you.

Katherine McNamara

#33. As you're growing up, it's odd, because directors don't expect you to grow up. They think you'll be young forever, but as an actor, there is an awkward period when you're too young for old or too old for young, and it can be an odd time.

Nicholas Hoult

#34. Would you like to be a doctor when you grow up?" I ask her. She looks at me oddly. "I'm already a doctor," she says.

Jenny Offill

#35. As you grow older, it's harder to stay fit. Every day you wake up with pain, muscle aches which you don't know you had. I have to work harder on me than I used to when I was 18 years old. It takes me longer to recover now.

Sania Mirza

#36. When I was a child, I always wanted to be funny and to please people in my family. As you grow up that instinct becomes more refined, but it's still there.

Romola Garai

#37. Isn't it weird how people grow up when you're not looking?

Ann Benjamin

#38. Hip-hop, you're close to 50. When can we grow up?

Sho Baraka

#39. When you grow up in the church, the only translation in that insular world that people understand is preaching. You're supposed to be a minister. So I was going down that path, and then I saw the Tonys.

Billy Porter

#40. In every language, the first word after "Mama!" that every kid learns to say is "Mine!" A system that doesn't allow ownership, that doesn't allow you to say "Mine!" when you grow up, has

Frank Zappa

#41. [What do you want to be when you grow up?] "A wrecker of civilizaton

Sasha Grey

#42. We all get caught up in the process, especially when you have a wave of success. But to me, being creative is not about rehashing everything you've done over and over. It's to continue to grow, continue to get better.

Vince Gill

#43. 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

#44. When you're a kid, they tell you it's all ... grow up. Get a job. Get married. Get a house. Have a kid, and that's it. But the truth is, the world is so much stranger than that. It's so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better.

Elton Pope

#45. I'm not sure what I want to do when I grow up, or if I'm sure I ever want to grow up. I'm sure there are people that wish I would, but you know, my mom will get over it.

Jerry Doyle

#46. When you grow up middle class, you just always feel like you've got to be working, or you won't be able to pay the bills.

Anna Kendrick

#47. When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

David Antin

#48. It was a dangerous profession I had chosen ... because no one likes a funny kid. In fact, adults are scared silly of them and tend to warn children who act out that they are going to wind up in prison or worse. It is only when you grow up that they pay you vast sums of money to make them laugh.

Art Buchwald

#49. 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

#50. When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

Diane Arbus

#51. When you grow up as the daughters of George and Laura Bush, you develop a special appreciation for how blessed we are to live in this great country.

Jenna Bush

#52. When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.

Roddy Doyle

#53. I admire when people take the harder path, not because they are masochistic and want to beat themselves up, but because you actually kind of learn more and I think you grow more.

Josh Hartnett

#54. One of my first memories of being a kid was, 'I want to have a real job when I grow up.' And to me that meant you wear a suit and a hat and carry a briefcase and go to your job.

Will Ferrell

#55. People say 'nerd' condescendingly, but when you're older you start to realize that it's the nerds who grow up to be the cool ones.

Leelee Sobieski

#56. People are more easily manipulated when they don't have information. If you ensure that kids grow up without basic reading skills, math skills, and so forth, then you ensure that they can't act effectively.

Tony Kushner

#57. The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.

Tori Amos

#58. Tell me Cameron Ann Morgan, what do you want to be when you grow up? ... Alive

Ally Carter

#59. When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow.

C. G. Jung

#60. When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.

Tom Robbins

#61. You grow up feeling the weight of blood, of family. There's no forsaking kin. But you can't help when kin forsakes you or when strangers come to be family.

Laura McHugh

#62. Happy," said Thomas. "When I grow up, I am going to be happy."
Mrs. van Amersfoort was about to pull a book from the shelf, but turned in surprise. She looked at Thomas with a smile and said, "That is a damn good idea. And do you know how happiness begins? It begins with no longer being afraid.

Guus Kuijer

#63. When you're growing up in a small town
You know you'll grow down in a small town
There is only one good use for a small town
You hate it and you know you'll have to leave.

Lou Reed

#64. I grew up in the South, in New Orleans, where guys torture you all the time. So I didn't really grow up on the self-esteem campaign. When you were lousy at something, they told you you were lousy, and they told you how to fix it.

Wynton Marsalis

#65. I think the thing about it is when you grow up in Chicago there's such a thing as putting on airs, you know? And you just learn not to put on airs. Don't act like, 'Oh boy, I'm somebody.' They'll slap you down.

Bob Newhart

#66. There are points in time when you grow older than your parents. Or come up on them at least. I look at my father, who's shrinking before my eyes, and realize no one will save me. No one can save me.

Amy McNamara

#67. When you grow up
and from the look of things, you have awhile
but you learn things never go back to normal simply because everyone's sorry. Sorry is ridiculous.

Marisha Pessl

#68. It seems like a cliche, but you do grow up a lot faster when you travel a lot, go through things like this interview, spend time away from home and hang around with other actors. It's inevitable that you're not going to have a so-called normal childhood.

Matt Dillon

#69. It's only 60,000. It's not a big town. It's a big hockey town. Everybody plays hockey when you grow up.

Peter Forsberg

#70. It's your job to make sure your younger brother is safe. Do you understand?"
"What about when he's all grown up?"
"Boys don't ever grow up, my darling," her mother replied. "Not ever.

Lauren B Mangiaforte

#71. But you find yourself repeating, "They grow up so quickly, don't they?" when all you really mean is: time goes faster for me nowadays.

Julian Barnes

#72. When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.

Alan Cumming

#73. Sometimes, when you grow up in one of these poverty-stricken neighborhoods where the educational system isn't the best, you don't realize that you have any choices.

Keke Palmer

#74. When you are in your 20s and you're not married with kids, you're having fun. But when you're in your 30s and you're not married and don't have kids, you begin to develop a Peter Pan complex. As you grow older, you have more responsibilities and you have to step up to them.

Ben Affleck

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

Nathan Fillion

#76. When you grow up with a name like Brad Thor, people expect you to be 6-foot-4 and a pile of muscles.

Brad Thor

#77. When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It's the total field.

Ray Bradbury

#78. Remember when you're young and you think your dad is Superman? And then you grow up and realized he's just a drunk who wears a cape.

Dave Attell

#79. I try to show that I have no fear. When you grow up hungry, you're not afraid of anything.

Angel Cabrera

#80. When you're in an industry where you're forced to grow up so quickly, part of you never grows up, and that's a good thing.

Debby Ryan

#81. If you listen to the fables in your childhood, that is great; if you listen to the fables when you grow up, that is also great! Fables represent imagination and imagination represents everything!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#82. As early as I can remember, I wanted to be a snowplow driver. When you grow up in the Rocky Mountains, like I did, you see the snow drifts piled up six feet high, and you're two feet, so it's impressive.

Kip Thorne

#83. When you grow up in a place (whether as a child or an adult) you squeeze everything out of it. You need so much when you're young.

Vestal McIntyre

#84. On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never passed beyond the stage of the cave-man.

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

#85. You'll grow up soon. I can't wait to see the girl who makes the player settle down. Damn, you're in for a serious shock when you meet the girl who turns your head. You won't know what's hit you; it's gonna be hilarious to watch.

Kirsty Moseley

#86. I mean can you walk to school on your own? Can you study science? Can you study math? Can you go to a normal school? Do you need to go to a special school? What is going to become of you when you grow up? Are you going to have to live on social security and SSI?

Sheena Iyengar

#87. I was privileged to grow up in Mexico at a time when you could play in the streets. We lived not too far from the ocean, and we would be outside all the time with the neighbours' kids, running free. What better place could there be for a child?

Salma Hayek

#88. When you grow up and something touches you emotionally, it lives on forever.

David E. Goldberg

#89. When I was a kid, they'd say, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" kids would go Wonder Woman, an astronaut. Do you know what I always said? World domination - so we're on our way.

Terri Irwin

#90. Punish you for what?" said Jack.
"Everything! Nothing. I don't know. That's the problem," said Holly. "That's what happens when you grow up the way I did. You spend the rest of your life just waiting for God to smite the shit out of you.

Sarah Dunn

#91. When you grow up to be an author and write books, you'll think you're making the books up, but they'll all really be true, somewhere.

Diana Wynne Jones

#92. I completely can't understand people of different faiths who say that their children will choose when they grow up. I think that if you believe in a religion, most people believe that it's right.

Susan Jacoby

#93. 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

#94. When you're a kid, you think, "Well, I will grow up and I will get a wife and we will have kids and then we will have grandkids." My life has a different shape. That is weird, but there are things about it that are exciting.

Guy Branum

#95. I'm not always good at asking for help..." "Neither I am. But it's time for us to grow up, Dhalia. I think part of that is learning to ask for help when you need it. Nobody is an island or something.

Kelly Thompson

#96. 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

#97. Just understanding that if you're not growing up, you're just moving backwards, and I'm a person that I always want to grow and learn and not be the smartest person in the room, because when you're not the smartest person in the room, you're always learning things.

Ndamukong Suh

#98. When you grow up in the saddest chapter of someone else's story, you're forever skating on the thin ice of their memories.

Carys Bray

#99. I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins.

Terry Pratchett

#100. When you get punched, you have to get up. You have no other choice. If you don't, you're not going to grow, you're not going to get better as a player.

Scott Brooks