Growing Up Quotes

As a kid, my dad would take me to see indie films when I would visit him in New York. Films that I just wouldn't see growing up in the Bay Area.

Mahershala Ali
- Up
- Growing
- Me
The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.

Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
- People
- Up
- Time

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

Barbara Kingsolver
- Up
- Home
- Growing
I remember specifically my mother telling me growing up don't put my business in the street. I was like seven, and I am like, 'What does that mean.'

Karrine Steffans
- Up
- Business
- Remember
I talk openly about my past and what I've gone through - abuse being something that was very real in my household, and a lot of chaos growing up as a child. I think that I naturally just gravitated towards music that I could really feel on a deep level - and that meant sadness. I was able to connect with that at a really young age.

Christina Aguilera
- Up
- Music
- Thinking
When we cling, often forever, to our old patterns of thinking and behaving, we fall to negotiate any crisis, to truly grow up, and to experience the joyful sense of rebirth that accompanies the successful transition into greater maturity.

M. Scott Peck
- Up
- Thinking
- Experience
Growing up, I was not told that there were women's areas of preoccupation or male ones.

Rachel Kushner
- Up
- Women
- Growing
Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I'd listen to Italian music.

Maya Angelou