4,004 Quotes About Growing-up

Growing up in Michigan was fine...until I realized where I was.

I maintain, despite the moment's evidence against the claim, that we are born and grow up with a fondness for each other, and we have genes for that. We can be talked out of it, for the genetic message is like a distant music, and some of us are hard-of-hearing. Societies are noisy affairs, drowning out the sound of ourselves and our connection.

At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future.

Maybe there's less oppression growing up in a small village, and fewer rules, and less danger.

I would tell everyone to go to college, no matter what. It gives you time to grow up.

I think that there's got to be a comic gene in some way, but it's so much about it is how you grow up.

It's so important to raise people to grow up to be who they are and not be forced to be who they're not. What an awful thing to do to people - it's like being in prison.

I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.

When you grow up, you're told that rock 'n' roll is the only authentic way to express yourself. Live instrumentation, singer, live drums. You're told that's the best medium to communicate.