4,004 Quotes About Growing-up

  • Author Ricky Schroder
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    I've been very blessed. My parents always told me I could be anything I wanted. When you grow up in a household like that, you learn to believe in yourself.

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  • Author Rob Sheffield
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    One nice thing about growing up Catholic is it makes you open-minded about other people's religions, since ours is nuttier than yours.

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  • Author Robert Louis Stevenson
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    So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts.

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  • Author Robert Smith
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    Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.

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  • Author Ryne Sandberg
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    I was taught coming up in the Phillies organization to be seen and not heard by people like Pete Rose, my hero growing up, and players like Mike Schmidt and Steve Carlton and Manny Trillo.

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  • Author Sarah Silverman
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    Don't tell girls they can be anything they want when they grow up. Because it would have never occurred to them that they couldn't. It's like saying, 'Hey, when you get in the shower, I'm not gonna read your diary.' 'Wait--are you gonna read my diary?' 'No! I said I'm not gonna read your diary. Go take a shower!'

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  • Author Sarah Shahi
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    I saw Madeleine Stowe from Revenge recently, and she totally blew me away. And growing up I loved Morticia Addams and Lily Munster on one hand, and Jeannie from I Dream of Jeannie on the other. Two completely different ends of the spectrum, kind of like me.

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