4,004 Quotes About Growing-up

  • Author John Waters
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    If you're not sure you could love your children, please don't have them, because they might grow up and kill us.

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  • Author Joss Whedon
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    When I was a kid, maybe 11, I remember saying, 'When I grow up I wanna have enough money to buy a really cool car, because I won't.'

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  • Author Kanye West
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    I spent two of my checks in telemarketing when I was 18-years-old on my first pair of Gucci slippers. This was before H&M and Zara, you couldn't just find cool stuff when you were growing up. And to me, I care a lot about cool stuff. It means something to me.

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  • Author Karen Thompson Walker
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    Feeling earthquakes was part of growing up, and also preparing for them: doing earthquake drills, or having earthquake supplies. The looming feeling was part of my life. My experience of earthquakes has always been more the fear of them, or the possibility.

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  • Author kate winslet
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    More than ever now, I believe it's so important to look as real and true to life as possible, because nobody's perfect. I seem to be on a mission, but I don't want the next generation, your daughters and mine, growing up thinking that you have to be thin to look beautiful in certain clothes. It's terrifying right now. It's out of control. It's beyond out of control.

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  • Author kate winslet
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    Mum and dad were very much friends, and up to life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up, they just taught me to be me.

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