Family Growing Up Quotes:

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

- Chili Davis

topic: Birthday, Growing Up, Growing, Inspirational Age, Older People

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

- e. e. cummings

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Birthday, Inspirational Courage, Inspirational High School Graduation

Even though you're growing up, you should never stop having fun.

- Nina Dobrev

topic: Fun, Growing Up, Should, Just For Fun, Family Growing Up

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

- Virginia Woolf

topic: Growing Up, Order, Losing, Family Growing Up

For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Growing Up, Dust, Ashes, Outgrowing, Family Growing Up

I have always been very family-oriented. I came from a dysfunctional, broken family growing up, and it's probably instilled in me the need and the want to have a strong family and a great foundation. So I think that is something that I naturally gravitate toward.

- Octavia Spencer

topic: Strong, Growing Up, Thinking, Strong Family, Family Growing Up

We talked about politics constantly in my family growing up in North Carolina. There were always debates. Being of Greek background, it's in our blood to drink coffee and talk politics.

- Zach Galifianakis

topic: Growing Up, Coffee, Blood, Family Growing Up

Thank goodness I had a great family growing up, a great foundation. But I will say my faith, my parents, my family, all that stuff is very, very important. And I'll say that until the day I die.

- Donny Osmond

topic: Growing Up, Parent, Important, Family Growing Up

My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.

- George J. Mitchell

topic: Growing Up, Parent, Needs, Family Growing Up, Sensory Deprivation

The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Growing Up, Play, Musical, Family Growing Up

I feel like confidence is something that ebbs and flows. I was given a lot of love and attention from my family growing up, so for sure I had a natural confidence.

- Milla Jovovich

source: Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 12, 2009.

topic: Growing Up, Ebb And Flow, Attention, Family Growing Up

Me and my family growing up, we cleared our land built our homes and all that. So, I was very well knowledgeable in the construction world. That turned into a commercial development company and construction company.

- Drew Waters

source: Source: www.beliefnet.com

topic: Growing Up, Home, Land, Family Growing Up, Construction Company

I've always been a strong family advocate. I had a wonderful family growing up

- Cheryl Ladd

topic: Strong, Growing Up, Wonderful, Wonderful Family, Strong Family