“Sometimes to achieve greatness, you do, you have to cut off a little piece of yourself no matter how much it hurts, in order to grow, in order to move on.”
Growth quotes
206 growth quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines-
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“One day, Carl, an influx of hormones that we can't control will overpower our better judgment and drive us to pursue the female species against our will.”
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“- Harrison: You have a long way to go yet, lad.
- Spur: He's not a lad, brother, he's man.”
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“Michael and I grew old together. But at times, when we laughed, we grew young. If he was here now, if he could hear what I say, I'd congratulate him on being a great man, and thank him for being a friend.”
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“Boys have the darnedest way of growing up, Ballin. Almost when you're not looking.”
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“- Balloon Lady: Of course, the grown-ups will all forget by tomorrow.
- Mary Poppins: They always do.”
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“- Ossie: I don't want to grow up.
- Tito: Why?
- Ossie: I don't want to get old like O'Sheen.
- Tito: What?
- Ossie: I don't want to turn into dust.”
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“One day, when you're all grown up, and you have a real relationship, you'll realize your feelings for Nick were just a thing. Just a crush. In fact, I bet by the time school starts, you'll have completely forgotten all about him.”
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“- Mike Teavee: Die! Die! Die!
- Mr. Teavee: Doesn't seem like they stay kids very long.” -
“- Mother: Sybylla, I want to have a talk with you.
- Sybylla Melvyn: Talk away.
- Mother: You're a young woman now and - I have been thinking about this a great deal - we can't afford to keep you any longer.”
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“For 18 years your mother is the most important person to you in your entire life. And then... and then... One day poof! You're gone. And then what are you supposed to do. Like, just adjust? Just like that?”
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“We didn't have MTV when I was growing up. So maybe it's the overstimulated times that we live in that causes young men to stick their... instruments in such... odd places. I knew a certain young men once who actually engaged in sexual congress with an apple pie, and he turned out just fine.”
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“- Robbie Freeling: Why can't we get a TV, like everybody else.
- Steve Freeling: No! No, we can't get a TV.
- Robbie Freeling: Great! I'll just have to grow up retarded!
- Steve Freeling: Come on, Rob! Kids don't grow up retarder because of lack of television.”
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“The spirit of adventure opens one's eyes.”
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“- Brown Cesario: What happened to the kid who just loved music?
- Shane Gray: He grew up!
- Brown Cesario: Big whoop! Stop acting like it's all about you.”
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“- Gabe: Change equals death!
- Judy: What kind of bullshit? That's just a bullshit line! Maybe you fool your twenty-year-old students into thinking that's some kind of an insight or something, but it means nothing! Change is what life is made of! Change - if you don't change, you don't grow, you just shrivel up!”
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“You ought not killed my little brother, he should've had a chance to grow up. He would had fun some time.”
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“Just because you grow up on the outside doesn't mean you want to stop having fun enjoying life.”
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“- Gilbert: God, Arnie, you're getting so big. Pretty soon I ain't gonna be able to carry you no more.
- Arnie Grape: No, you're getting littler, Gilbert. You're getting littler, you're shrinking! You're shrinking, Gilbert, you're shrinking! Shrinking, shrinking, shrinking!” -
“- Coach Ted Orion: You got two choices, Conway: take off the jersey right now or you don't play.
- Charlie Conway: You're breaking up the best thing any of us ever had.
- Coach Ted Orion: Well, it's time to grow up.
- Charlie Conway: Grow up? Like you, huh? A washed-up pro who has to show off to a bunch of kids. Geez, that's real grown up.”
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“Sooner or later, Nana, people have to grow up.”
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“Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.”
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