Growing Up Quotes

Make yourself a great cup of coffee, sit yourself down at the quietest corner of your house and take a trip down your memory lane to when you were child. As memories of your childhood and growing up flood your mental landscape, feeling good about yourself and the life you led as a kid shouldn’t really be much of a problem. Now, this right here is the power of growing up. Sadly however, while some may have great memories of growing up, for the rest, this may not be the case. Read on to come across a host of famous growing up quotations and sayings!

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
Old Age Proverbs Truth Wisdom
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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I didn't see a ton of movies growing up.
Movies
Kelly Preston

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I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.
Teenagers
Winona Ryder

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I did martial arts and karate for eight years when I was growing up.
Antony Starr

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I feel bad for kids growing up that, like, their favorite rapper is Lil Yachty.
Pete Davidson

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I did gymnastics when I was growing up and to this day I can still do the splits.
Kristin Kreuk

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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
Movies
Owen Wilson

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A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
Men Bachelors Beauty Belief
Helen Rowland

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Growing up, Wayne Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo were the players I looked up to - and Carlos Tevez when he was at the club.
Marcus Rashford

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As I learned from growing up, you don't mess with your grandmother.
Prince William

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When my sister and I were growing up, she was made out to be the goody-goody one.
Sister
Princess Margaret

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At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
Accomplishment Achievement Age Cooking
Salvador Dali

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Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.
Maturity
Tom Stoppard

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Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically.
Influence
Ed Sheeran

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Growing up, my sisters were both into dancing, so I went to a lot of dance recitals, mostly because there were always pretty girls in leotards.
Dancing
Jason Sudeikis

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Growing up, I never saw Asian-Americans on TV at all.
Brenda Song

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Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses.
Meaningful Principles Truth Value
Franklin P. Jones

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Growing up, being watched from the outside... it's kind of very taxing and maybe I should just do some kind of manual labor-it might be more relaxing. But I can't, it's not in my nature.
Nature
Jennifer Connelly

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I was a huge punker growing up.
Machine Gun Kelly

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There was definitely a wild side to me that couldn't run free growing up in England.
Catherine Oxenberg

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I was a handful growing up.
Teenagers
Olivia Wilde

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I didn't see a lot of comic books growing up.
Books
Henry Cavill

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I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school,it just didn't exist there.
Baseball
Finn Wittrock

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I love the smell of vanilla, but I didn't have perfumes growing up, so I wore vanilla extract.
Love
Evan Rachel Wood

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Growing up, I never saw any Asian faces on TV, so it didn't feel like a viable option.
Gemma Chan

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I spent a lot of time growing up in Oregon after I left California. Spent a lot of time in the woods.
Time
Sam Elliott

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My dad's French, and I spent my summers in France growing up. So I speak French fluently, and obviously, I speak English because I was raised in New York, and I grew up here.
Timothee Chalamet

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I spent years growing up being told what my sexuality was.
George Michael

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Growing up, I lived a moderate lifestyle with my family.
Family
Liam Hemsworth

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I was addicted to the original 'Star Trek' when I was growing up, because of my dad. We grew up in St. Helens, Oregon and we weren't allowed to watch a lot of TV.
Katee Sackhoff

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I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be 'sexy,' even before I knew what the word was.
Nothing
Dolly Parton

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Growing up in Canada, I dated a few ice hockey players.
Katherine Ryan

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When I was growing up, I didn't have a hometown hero.
Kawhi Leonard

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I spent a lot of time in a small town in France, growing up.
Time
Timothee Chalamet

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Growing up, I was always the small guy.
Wayne Gretzky

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I spent a lot of time growing up in Ireland in Donegal.
Time
Matthew Broderick

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I was a big fan of all the 'X-Men' films growing up.
Evan Peters

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Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.
Mothers
David Blaine

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Madea is a cross between my mother and my aunt. She's the type of grandmother that was on every corner when I was growing up.
Mothers
Tyler Perry

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I think everyone has their awkward phases. Growing up isn't easy for everyone. I definitely had my awkward moments.
Emily Ratajkowski

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To be honest, when I was growing up - I think it's because of Kate Winslet and 'Titanic' - I always wanted to do period.
Lily James

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Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
Zoe Saldana

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I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.
Caitlyn Jenner

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I didn't get to play many video games when I was growing up.
Play
Ana de Armas

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I played hockey in North Dakota growing up and watch a lot of that.
Phil Jackson

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Peter Parker's storyline hits every key point of growing up.
Tom Holland

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Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star.
Liza Minnelli

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I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.
Time
Elizabeth Taylor

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When I was growing up, I wasn't an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at school. I was very quiet.
School
Clint Eastwood

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I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.
Macaulay Culkin

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I was obsessed with Nancy Drew growing up - I couldn't get enough.
Alexandra Daddario

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I was a skinny guy growing up, and I still feel like that same skinny kid.
Jamie Dornan

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I played the piano growing up and then stopped for 10 or 12 years.
Timothee Chalamet

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While growing up, my dream and my goal was to win an Olympic gold medal. I did that, and both times, they were the proudest moments in my amateur career.
Dreams Gold
Vasyl Lomachenko

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Growing up together with my brothers and working out - knowing that they bring intensity to the workout and they really, truly believe in it - it's awesome.
Togetherness
Rob Gronkowski

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Well, I was obsessed with Judy Garland growing up. Like, obsessed.
Aubrey Plaza

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I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying.
Sports
Jason Bateman

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I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
Mackenzie Davis

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Growing up, I was a dancer. I wanted to be a choreographer.
Gal Gadot

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Growing up, I always had my dreams set on being an actor, so I looked up to Julia Roberts, Audrey Hepburn.
Dreams
Katie Holmes

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New York is about as cosmopolitan as it gets. It's a fairly mixed and woke town, so there weren't a lot of situations growing up where I felt like the outsider or the alien.
Jordan Peele

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To me, growing up in South Wales, a pair of Diesel jeans were the thing to have - if you could afford them.
Luke Evans

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It's always a struggle growing up in Akron.
Struggles
LeBron James

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I never thought, growing up, I'd be a TV host.
Thought
Rob Gronkowski

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I was obsessed with football when I was growing up.
Football
Michael Sheen

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Mariah and Whitney Houston were my goddesses growing up.
Ariana Grande

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I don't want my kids growing up to be city kids.
Donald Trump, Jr.

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Growing up I didn't watch movies.
Movies
Denzel Washington

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I came from a different mind-set growing up, and my mind has changed.
Mind
Katy Perry

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Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives.
Parents
Chris Hemsworth

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My thighs were huge; they were like rock! Growing up, I was really athletic, and I had a very athletic body.
Body
Gigi Hadid

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When I was growing up, I installed refrigerators in supermarkets. My father was an electrical engineer.
Fathers
Will Smith

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'Star Wars' meant everything to me growing up.
Katee Sackhoff

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As a kid growing up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, all I wanted to do was be on Broadway in a musical. 'Spring Awakening' kind of answered all of my questions and fulfilled all of my dreams - beyond my wildest dreams.
Questions Dreams
Jonathan Groff

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When I was growing up, my dad didn't have weights, so he made himself a weight bench. Instead of a hand-me-down jacket, it was a hand-me-down weight bench.
Jason Statham

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I loved fairy tales growing up.
Lily James

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I'm used to being around kids. Even when I was growing up in London, I had an older sister, I had a younger sister that I used to look after from time to time.
Sister Time
David Beckham

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Growing up where I did, the thought of working on a television show or in a movie... that existed on a parallel plane, you know?
Television
Jennifer Garner

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I was always blessed growing up with opportunities and access to facilities, equipment, and playing with my brothers in the backyard to be the best athlete I could be.
Best
Rob Gronkowski

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I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up.
LeBron James

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I didn't know much about golf growing up.
Golf
Lawrence Peter Berra

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I don't have an exact moment when I decided I wanted to be an actress - it kind of was just really a part of my growing up.
Lily James

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When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because he had such a confidence and a single mission that was so intimate.
Confidence
Sean Penn

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Beckham was a great inspiration to me growing up.
Greatness
Harry Kane

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Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.
Noam Chomsky

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Being in the business and growing up in L.A., I think I turned out pretty OK.
Business
Emma Roberts

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When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.
People
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

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I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
Barbra Streisand

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I used to watch LeBron on TV growing up, and now I'm playing my first game against him.
Jayson Tatum

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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
Home
Venus Williams

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I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.
Mandy Moore

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When I was growing up, Keane and Sheringham were my idols, and they wore 10. So it was always my dream to wear it.
Dreams Idols
Harry Kane

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Growing up as a kid, I watched Jeremy Shockey... Tony Gonzalez... Antonio Gates. I looked up to them. I watched what they did to be successful.
Rob Gronkowski

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I have a daughter, and fairies meant a lot to her growing up.
Daughters
Michael Sheen

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Growing up, I remember the 'Cheers' finale and 'M*A*S*H' and all these amazing finales, and I remember them being very, very important.
John Krasinski

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Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd.
Cool
Madonna Ciccone

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I didn't really know many girls, growing up, because there weren't many other people living around where I lived.
People Living
Dolores O'Riordan

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Growing up in Houston, the music scene is super boring.
Music
Travis Scott

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I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon.
R. Kelly

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Growing up, I loved comedy even before I knew that you could be a stand-up comedian.
Comedy
Katherine Ryan

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