4,004 Quotes About Growing-up

Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again

I played futsal growing up in Baurd. In futsal you need to think quick and play quick so its easier for you when you move to normal football.

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.

But suppose your dæmon settles in a shape you don't like? Well, then, you're discontented, en't you? There's plenty of folk as'd like to have a lion as a dæmon and they end up with a poodle. And till they learn to be satisfied with what they are, they're going to be fretful about it. Waste of feeling, that is. But it didn't seem to Lyra that she would ever grow up.

My mother married again after my father's death - another Royal Air Force officer, and a very different kind of man. We went to Australia when I was eight or nine. We lived there for a couple of years, and then came back and lived in North Wales for the whole of my teenage years. I learned how to write poems quite a lot. I just had a good time reading and reading and reading. So that's where I did most of my growing up.

My parents divorced, and I didn't have much of a daddy growing up.

I'm a boy who doesn't want to grow up.

I wanna grow up and be a critic.

What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life.