4,004 Quotes About Growing-up

I will sing whatever I'm given to sing. Growing up, I would sing anything that I was given. If the choir needed a first tenor, I would sing first tenor. If they needed a bass, I would sing bass. Throughout my life, I just figured out ways to hit notes I needed to hit.

My favorites growing up were always Billy Joel, Michael Jackson... and Placido Domingo.

We can't have everything! It took a lot of growing up for me to realize this unalterable fact and to discipline myself into accepting it.

Let's roll for justice, let's roll for truth. Let's not let our children grow up fearful in their youth.

We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.

I beat my children daily, with a shoe, because I don't want them to grow up fairies. At 9 p.m. I promptly play The Wall in full and walk around the house naked carrying cupcakes. It's important my children see my bits in graphic detail.

I don't want my kids growing up with the image of God that I had -- Plato's white grandfatherly god -- because that god is not a very good father. When it comes down to it, you can't trust him with your kids.

That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.

Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.