4,004 Quotes About Growing-up

When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates' parents also speak it, and you go home and see that your community is different -there is a sense of shame attached to that. It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.

To call the police is a really big deal because you don't snitch - that's the culture you grow up in.

It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.

When a young person, even a gifted one, grows up without proximate living examples of what she may aspire to become--whether lawyer, scientist, artist, or leader in any realm--her goal remains abstract. Such models as appear in books or on the news, however inspiring or revered, are ultimately too remote to be real, let alone influential. But a role model in the flesh provides more than inspiration; his or her very existence is confirmation of possibilities one may have every reason to doubt, saying, 'Yes, someone like me can do this.

No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I grow up,'

Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there.

Luckily for me, when I was growing up in high school, I had a band, and I was a singer in the band. I'm less of a legit Broadway singer than I am a pop-rock singer.

I think the arts are very important for children growing up.

When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't.