4,004 Quotes About Growing-up

Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.

Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.

I don't think I ate a green vegetable until I was 30. I didn't grow up with a mom who enforced that at all.

Growing up, I would say Wonder Woman and Nancy Drew were definite role models for me. Historically, I know Amelia Earhart stands out for me.

Growing up as a child actress, there was much I got to do and yet so much that I missed out on. Therefore, when I had kids, I made it a point to make sure that they could do anything and everything that they dreamed of. A great education was definitely right at top of my list!

Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.

The hardest part of growing up is learning how to wait

It's quite interesting that in my growing up I had several influences. We had gospel music on campus. R&B music was, of course, the community, and radio was country music. So I can kind of see where all the influences came from.