Growing Pains Quotes:

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

- Mary Tyler Moore

topic: Positive, Courage, Pain, Making Mistakes And Learning From Them, Brave Man

Especially while television I think is going through some growing pains or is in need of - I think current comedy is a bit, uh, not happening, you know?

- Jenna Elfman

topic: Pain, Thinking, Needs, Growing Pains

Sometimes growing pains are by fits and starts.

- Anne Northup

source: "Freshman Rep. Anne Northup Wins GOP Attention with Flair" by Susan Crabtree, www.questia.com.

topic: Pain, Growing, Sometimes, Growing Pains

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of lifes wisdom.

- Wislawa Szymborska

topic: Pain, People, Growing, Foreground, Growing Pains

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

- Anais Nin

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Scribbles, Mind Heart

Growth hurts because change isn't easy, that's why they call it growing pains

- Tony Gaskins

topic: Hurt, Pain, Growth, Growing Pains

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

- Mary Tyler Moore

topic: Positive, Happiness, Meaningful, Physical Pain, Pain And Suffering

Honor your humanness and all of your feelings - the messy ones, the growing pains, the ache - because we can't have the dark without the light.

- Sabrina Ward Harrison

topic: Pain, Dark, Light, Growing Pains

When you go through growing pains and learning experiences, it makes you tougher down the road.

- Brian Roberts

topic: Pain, Growing, Learning Experience, Growing Pains

People suffer from pain and call it evil, yet in reality it may be growing pains of the Spirit-the changing of the body into a finer and more spiritual substance.

- Henry Thomas Hamblin

topic: Spiritual, Pain, Reality, Growing Pains

Often, the truly great and valuable lessons we learn in life are learned through pain. That's why they call it "growing pains." It's all about yin and yang. And that's not something you order off column A at your local Chinese restaurant.

- Fran Drescher

source: Fran Drescher (2002). “Cancer Schmancer”

topic: Pain, Order, Chinese, Yin And Yang, Valuable Lessons

Any show in its first season is going to probably have some growing pains.

- Tim Roth

source: Source: www.movieweb.com

topic: Growing Pains

The signs that presage growth, so similar, it seems to me, to those in early adolescence: discontent, restlessness, doubt, despair, longing, are interpreted falsely as signs of decay. In youth one does not as often misinterpret the signs; one accepts them, quite rightly, as growing pains. One takes them seriously, listens to them, follows where they lead. ... But in the middle age, because of the false assumption that it is a period of decline, one interprets these life-signs, paradoxically, as signs of approaching death.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

topic: Pain, Doubt, Growth, False Assumptions, Approaching Death

So as long as I'm a human being and I'm not perfect, I'm able to say I'm having some growing pains. Because in order to sustain where you are once you made such a breakthrough that everyone is looking at you, now everyone is like, 'Ooh, is she gonna make a mistake?' Yes, I'm going to make a mistake. Yes, I'm still gonna do things.

- Mary J. Blige

source: "Mary J. Blige Says She's 'Just Fine' With Her New Album, Losing 'Umbrella' To Rihanna". Interview with Jayson Rodriguez, www.mtv.com. October 10, 2007.

topic: Pain, Mistake, Order, Growing Pains

My prayer for the new year is that I may have the courage and the stamina to let Life happen to me, to accept its joys and successes, and to take in stride the learning that stretches us and the growing pains. Perhaps, to put it simply, my wish for the New Year is: may we love more, live more, laugh more. And so may you!

- Jean Hersey

source: Jean Hersey (1964). “A Sense of Seasons”

topic: New Year, Prayer, Pain, Growing Pains

Life is a school, a place for us to learn and grow. We, like Adam and Eve, experience 'growing pains' through the sorrow and contamination of a lone and dreary world. These experiences may include sin, but they also include mistakes, disappointments, and the undeserved pain of adversity. The blessed news of the gospel is that the Atonement of Jesus Christ can purify all the uncleanness and sweeten all the bitterness we taste.

- Bruce C. Hafen

topic: Jesus, Pain, Disappointment, Contamination, Growing Pains

Personal change, growth, development, identity formation--these tasks that once were thought to belong to childhood and adolescence alone now are recognized as part of adult life as well. Gone is the belief that adulthood is, or ought to be, a time of internal peace and comfort, that growing pains belong only to the young; gone the belief that these are marker events--a job, a mate, a child--through which we will pass into a life of relative ease.

- Lillian B. Rubin

topic: Jobs, Children, Pain, Personal Change, Change Growth

I always knew that 'Growing Pains' was not going to go on forever. I remember thinking, 'I'm going to enjoy every moment of this.

- Joanna Kerns

topic: Pain, Thinking, Forever, Growing Pains

This whole effort to rebuild and stabilize a countryside is not without its disappointments and mistakes... What matter though these temporary growing pains when one can cast his eye upon the hills and see hard-boiled farmers who have spent their lives destroying land now carrying water by hand to their new plantations

- Aldo Leopold

source: Aldo Leopold (2012). “For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings”, p.53, Island Press

topic: Pain, Disappointment, Mistake, Growing Pains

I would point out that I'm an actress for a reason! If I were popular in high school, I would have considered another career because I wouldn't have been alone in my room, making up other characters for myself. I definitely had growing pains. The popular kids didn't want anything to do with the girl who was starting the drama club.

- Ginnifer Goodwin

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

topic: Girl, Pain, Drama, Making Up, Drama Club

My wife - I married my onscreen girlfriend from 'Growing Pains', Mike Seaver's girlfriend, and we've been married for 17 years - so marriage is very important to us.

- Kirk Cameron

topic: Girlfriend, Pain, Years, Growing Pains

Moving from an opposition party to a governing party comes with growing pains. And, well, we're feeling those growing pains today. Doing big things is hard. All of us. All of us, myself included, we will need time to reflect on how we got to this moment, what we could have done to do it better.

- Paul Ryan

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Pain, Party, Moving, Opposition Parties, Growing Pains

The growing pains of being an actor, that was a little frustrating at times because you feel like you have great capacity to do many things. And yet there seems to be a misunderstanding about who you are and what you're trying to do. And that requires patience, and people eventually will understand.

- Matt Dillon

source: "Dillon Bucks Wayward-Youth Roles". The Arizona Republic, June 24, 2005.

topic: Pain, People, Trying, Growing Pains

It's so funny, because when I was growing up in a small town in New Hampshire, I was obsessed with Leonardo DiCaprio - from the 'Growing Pains'/'What's Eating Gilbert Grape' era, because he was superhot - and I carried a laminated photo of him in my wallet and said he was my boyfriend. But no one believed me.

- Eliza Coupe

topic: Growing Up, Pain, My Boyfriend, Leonardo, Hampshire

I do think it's important for black writers to show that we too can make it into the mainstream. Growing up, I didn't just watch The Cosby Show, I watched Growing Pains and Family Ties too. We can tell those stories too.

- Lena Waithe

topic: Growing Up, Pain, Thinking, Cosby Show, Family Ties

When we go to different areas and look at doing period pieces and movies shot in other states and locations, even overseas, it's hard to carry 1700 volunteers from your church with you to do that. And so, we knew that there were going to be growing pains at some point.

- Alex Kendrick

source: "'Courageous' filmmaker Alex Kendrick branches out with a new book, a new Erwin Brothers comedy and a new production company". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. July 2013.

topic: Pain, Volunteer, Church, Growing Pains

I get emails from students at programs all over the country who want to transfer to Iowa, and in most cases their frustrations have absolutely nothing to do with the programs they're attending. They have to do with the growing pains that they're undergoing as writers and with the growing pains that our own genre is constantly undergoing.

- John D'Agata

topic: Country, Pain, Frustration, Growing Pains

My kids haven't watched one episode of 'Growing Pains'. I'll tell you why. When our kids were little, we never wanted Mommy or Daddy to be the celebrity mom or dad to our kids.

- Kirk Cameron

topic: Mom, Dad, Pain, Growing Pains

The truth is WE ALL ACHE. WE ALL HAVE GROWING PAINS and wonder if WE ARE OKAY adn enough + loved. THE THING IS - WE ARE. REALLY. WITHOUT the silver shoes and lepord print sheet. WE ARE ENOUGH WITHOUT all the things we buy to make us much more than we are or need to be we are simple and complex and rare as is.

- Sabrina Ward Harrison

topic: Pain, Simple, Shoes, Growing Pains, Simple And Complex

It is amazing how much more amazing sleep is in the morning. You wake up and you're like, "I stayed up to do what?! Watch Growing Pains? What was I thinking!?" But at night you're like, "La La La La La, Hey! Growing Pains, awesome! And I've seen this episode. That Kirk Cameron's always in trouble."

- Jim Gaffigan

topic: Funny, Morning, Pain, Kirk, Cameron

This world and life of ours are filled with inequalities. The worst possible use to make of this fact, however, is to allow resentments to possess us. All of us have imagined limitations, but we have also the privilege of pushing them aside, and spreading our lives out! We never know any of our limitations until we put ourselves to the test. There are always "growing pains" working within us.

- George Matthew Adams

topic: Life, Pain, Use, World And Life, Growing Pains