4,004 Quotes About Growing-up

A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all.

Growing up with three boys in a heavily male-dominated world, I especially needed to express myself as a woman.

I always wanted to be grown up. When I was little I couldn’t wait to be a teenager and go to high school. When I got there I wanted to be done with it, wanted to get out into the world, the real one, and live in it. The thing is, that world doesn’t exist. All growing up means is that you realize no one will come along to fix things. No one will come along to save you.

I didn't read comics, growing up. I watched a lot of movies, and those were my comic books. And then, my exposure really increased by becoming affiliated with Spider-Man.

Growing up, one of my cousins was an out gay man.

You know, you grow up with the image of John Travolta being super cool - 'Saturday Night Fever,' Brian De Palma, handsome young god... he, in reality, is a very silly man. And I mean that in a good way. He'll walk around the set talking in little weird voices, making people laugh.

You can grow up with literally nothing and you don’t suffer if you know you’re loved and valued,

I did grow up in a rough neighborhood in Portland, which is an abstract concept for anybody who's rolled through Portland because now it looks like a TV set, literally.

Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that's never lost is your sister.