Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.
I don't want my daughters to grow up the way that I grew up. I want them to actually see Mommy in a fulfilled relationship that's amazing for her.
I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.
I feel like the luckiest child in the world because I got to grow up in Ireland. In summer is when you really grow up. During the year, I would go back to the States, and all year long really couldn't wait to get back to Ardmore.
I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me. We agree to disagree.
When you grow up as the daughters of George and Laura Bush, you develop a special appreciation for how blessed we are to live in this great country.
Working with UNICEF made me grow up and recognize how fortunate I am.
My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise.
I never felt I had anything to hide. I never felt being gay was anything to be ashamed of, so I never felt apologetic. I didn't have issues with it, didn't grow up with any religion, so I didn't have any religious, you know, issues to deal with as far as homosexuality is concerned. So, I accepted it very easily. For me, it wasn't that big a deal.
Ryan and I didn't grow up like this at all, with this much attention. We'll just try to keep their feet on the ground and raise them with the values we were raised with.
'What if this funny-looking youngster from Missouri is talented after all?' I think it was a nice place to grow up, but I'm glad I don't live there anymore.
I thought I'd grow up to be a teacher, or maybe run for political office.
I didn't grow up with any concept of people being deviants unless they mistreated others.
I did not grow up with people, you know, pounding in my head, 'This is what you've got to do, this is what you're going to do.'
Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.
Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted.
I really believe that you grow up a certain way in New York. There's a New York morality, a sense of loyalty. You know how to win and lose. There's a thousand kids outside, you know who to push and who not to push. There's a sixth sense you develop just because it's New York.
When I was 12 years old, I was hanging out with 23-year-olds. I was into cartoons and Pokemon, and they're all talking about girls. It was a strange way to grow up.
I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go.
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
I just thank God that I didn't grow up with so much money or privilege because you had to create ways to make it happen.
We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.
I didn't grow up reading the Bible.
When you grow up as a minority in a majority culture, a lot of times, you're just trying to fit in.
I wanted to grow up to be just like my father.
The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does.
I'd promised my parents that I'd go to college, take the time to grow up a bit, and experience something different before really pursuing music.
I was always enamored with TV shows and movies. But you didn't grow up in my town and turn into an actor.
I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.
When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.
It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up.
I never had to say to myself, 'OK now, I've got to grow up and work for a bank, or go and sell real estate.' I never had to make that kind of break.
Is advertising a profession, like law or medicine? How many new parents clutch their baby to their breast and declare, 'I want this child to grow up to be a media planner'?
Right now I'm just thinking about school and trying to get those grades and keep them up! In case I become a Norma Desmond when I grow up, I can have something to fall back on!
I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody.
