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Growing Up Quotes

Most Famous Growing Up Quotes of All Time!

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Children are very addicting. Once they start growing up, you miss when they were little.

Quotes by Heidi Klum

A lot of Hollywood kids went to my grammar school growing up. I'm completely unmoved by it.

Quotes by Heather Mac Donald

Remembering growing up on U.S. Army bases stateside and abroad, the Star-Spangled Banner was played at important occasions... and often. It was the first song I learned the lyrics to.

Quotes by Harris Faulkner

'Airplane' was my favorite movie growing up.

Quotes by Harley Pasternak

For a spinner growing up in England, it is challenging to become an off-spinner. The line and length needs to be altered on each of the four days of county cricket or five days of Test matches. The pitches in...

Quotes by Harbhajan Singh

While I was growing up all over, in all my different schools, I was always doing theater, auditioning for plays.

Quotes by Hannah Simone

There was always Helmut Newton coffee table books around when I was growing up.

Quotes by Hannah Bronfman

Growing up in Manhattan has given me a thick skin.

Quotes by Hannah Bronfman

Growing up with strong female role models is always inspiring, and growing up, that was something I aspired to play.

Quotes by Hannah John-Kamen

Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid...

Quotes by Hal Sparks

When I was growing up in South Korea in the '70s and early '80s, the country was too poor to buy original records. Everything was bootlegged.

Quotes by Ha-Joon Chang

When I was growing up, to be an emcee meant to write the most clever, intellectual, and wittiest rap. And that's what we did.

Quotes by Gza

I came up with a lot of characters when I was growing up that were just creative outlets, and then, at one point, I came across Gus Dapperton in the back of my head when I was making music.

Quotes by Gus Dapperton

This is going to sound really sad, but I didn't really have any heartthrobs when I was growing up. I was a bit of a geek.

Quotes by Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Since I was growing up, I liked love songs - Smokey Robinson, Sam Cooke. That was the kind of songs getting the girls dancing.

Quotes by Gregory Isaacs

I didn't watch a lot of cop shows growing up, but I am a huge fan of 'Southland' now.

Quotes by Gregory Smith

I love the ocean; growing up around Laguna Beach, I spent my summers surfing, diving, and snorkeling.

Quotes by Greg MacGillivray

Growing up in Terre Haute, Indiana, there's not a whole lot to do. What I did was I just went to the basketball court at the Boys & Girls Club and literally stayed there all day until my mom got...

Quotes by Greg Oden

My favorite player, growing up, was David Robinson. He was really the first person that I actually knew about and actually watched.

Quotes by Greg Oden

'Turtles' was by far my favourite TV show when I was growing up. It would be the show that I would wanna watch more than anything. We'd record it on the big VHS tapes, and I'd watch it before school,...

Quotes by Greg Cipes

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Frequently Asked Questions

What themes come up most in these "growing up" quotes?
Several speak to the uncertainty of not knowing what you want to be, the powerful feelings tied to childhood memories, and the way growing up shapes a sense of identity.
Is there a quote about not knowing what you want to become?
Yes — one quote admits, "I could never decide what I wanted to be because I wanted to be so many things," capturing the open-ended excitement of childhood.
Do any of these quotes touch on identity and belonging?
Yes. One speaker recalls questioning things like "am I black enough?" and "Am I German enough?" while growing up, and pushes back by asking, "Why are we measuring blackness?" It's a personal reflection on identity. For more along these lines, see our Identity quotes.
Is there a quote about childhood memories tied to strong emotion?
There is — one person describes watching the Premier League as a child and says feeling the trophy and having the medal around their neck was "an unbelievable feeling." Browse more on our Emotion quotes page.
Do these quotes talk about change as part of growing up?
Yes — one speaker reflects on loving where they grew up and notes that it's "grown and changed and embraced change" over time. You can find more on our Change quotes and Experience quotes pages.

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