Friends Growing Up Quotes

A good friend is a connection to life – a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up.

I have been a harmony enthusiast since I was a child, singing in choir and with friends growing up. I always put a ton of harmonies on my demos.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

I never had a lot of friends growing up so having this insane amount of love and support really means a lot to me.

I believe that Reverend [Florine] Thompson’s hit on something. My parents, I and a lot of my friends growing up in that community had tremendous drive.

When grandpa was ill and could’ve died, I would have swapped all my record sales so he could get well. He is the reason I am a singer. He was my best friend growing up.

As people grow up, they realize it’s less important to have more friends and more important to have real ones.

The Goonies’ is classic. That’s, like, the movie I bring with me if I go out of town for a long time, because it just makes me think of the best times I’ve seen it with my friends growing up. Dude, everybody knows that movie, everybody watches that film. Best family film ever made.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

I love Korean food, and it’s kind of like home to me. The area that I grew up in outside Chicago, Glenview, is heavily Korean. A lot of my friends growing up were Korean and when I would eat dinner at their houses, their parents wouldn’t tell me the names of the dishes because I would butcher the language.

Most of my close friends, growing up, were women – and even after I got married, I still maintained a lot of those friendships. But as they get married, and as I get older, I’m making a lot of the transition to the husbands.