Growing-up Quotes

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

Estragon: They're too bigVladimir: Perhaps you'll have socks some day

I wasn’t ready to think about the other yet: that it wasn’t that I wasn’t right for Macon, but that ...

It's not always easy being her daughter.' I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose d...

I reached up with my finger and traced the scar over my eyebrow, remembering when that was the great...

In Woody Allen movies people stood in line for Ingmar Bergman films or Holocaust documentaries talki...

It's such a hopeful, almost utopian word, that word "phase." As if any minute, "we" would suffer som...

He knew he could never jingle change in his pocket or park his car like a confident adult, he was th...

You lost your innocence when you grew up, all right, everyone knew that, but did you have to lose yo...

Adulthood is accretive by nature, a thing which arrives in ragged stages and uneven overlaps.

What if there were no grownups? Suppose the whole idea of grownups was an illusion? What if their mo...

The energy you drew on so extravagantly when you were a kid, the energy you thought would never exha...

I never grew up all at once. I did it one place and another along the way.

She saw clearly a boy and a man fighting for control of the same face.

The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.

That I always had space to run and that I had the opportunity to play with my imagination. I also lo...

I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or...

It's alright, just wait and see, your string of lights is still bright to me. Who you are is not whe...

Every single person is vulnerable to unexpected defeat in this inmost emotional self. At every momen...

I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins.

If he could only prevent himself growing up! He did not want to be a man.

His games have a deeper meaning and fascination that adults can no longer fathom and require nothing...

The afternoon had passed to a ghostly gray. She was struck by the immensity of things, so much water...

You learn, finally, that you'll die, and so you try to hang on to your own life, that gentle, naive ...

When they reached the top of the hill they turned and looked down at the valley. Moominhouse was jus...

My friend Madea has "attitude" that comes with wisdom. Back in our teens and twenties, we thought we...

What I've found about it is that there are some folks you can talk to until you're blue in the face-...

The truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow g...

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

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

It was too late. Maybe yesterday, while I was still a child, but not now. I knew too much, had seen ...

When we grow up, we find ways to hide our anxieties, our loneliness, our fear and sorrow. But childr...

At a certain point you have to leave childish things behind, and one of the childish things is a sen...

When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as ...

His sixth year, it seemed to him, had lasted a remarkably long time and there were points at which h...

She has given me a way out.

How Horrid" has a slightly facetious tone that strikes me as Wildean. It appears to embrace the actu...

For so long I'd thought about myself as a girl who'd walked away from her mother's life that it woul...

My son, my son. When I had my son I would explain all that to him when he was starry enough to like ...

Feeling very surprised too at myself. I knew what was happening, O my brothers. I was like growing u...

I remember everything,' Bette Midler flatly notes. 'But you know how in life, you tend to hold grudg...

I used to joke that we had prepared ourselves for a time like this by living with Mother. The proble...

The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself. I was...

Growing up is, at heart, the process of learning to take responsibility for whatever happens in your...

There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his u...

It wasn't until we dropped him at his university dormitory and left him there looking touchingly los...

I don't think I'd have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I'd known the whole thing was goin...

It seems only yesterday I used to believethere was nothing under my skin but light.If you cut me I c...

You can get what you want or you can just get old.

Just because you're an adult doesn't mean you're grown up. Growing up means being patient, holding y...

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is...

I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his ...

Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fr...

I've screwed everything up royally. I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start hav...

Growing up, I'd already decided I wanted to be a beatnik. A Bohemian poet, I thought. Or a musician....

I was a weird little kid. I was very irritable, bored, frustrated. I felt my imagination bubbling in...

He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it...

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure, death will. The...

Before you know it you'll be my age telling your own granddaughter the story of your life and you wa...

Hand, nobody told me about the weight. Why didn't our parents tell us about the weight?—What weight?...

Everyone was doing that in their own way, rejecting things and moving on. It's just a part of discov...

To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless...

Judith Rey watches the young woman. Once upon a time, I had a baby daughter. I dressed her in frilly...

Oh! Polly thought. Why aren't all girls locked up by law the year they turn fifteen? They do such st...

What I feel now doesn't matter at all? But at what point am I entitled to say to myself, what I am f...

Do you remember how you felt at seventeen? I do and I don't (...) Imagine you came from outer space ...

Or maybe memories are like karaoke - where you realize up on the stage, with all those lyrics scrawl...

It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized you could buy a packet of cereal with a free gift and...

the much-sought prize of eternal youthIs just arrested growth.

The Babies we were are buried, and their shadows are plodding on.

How did I get to be a grown-up? At times, I find myself still sitting on the hillside, plotting reve...

Young women dream of romance and passion as men dream of conquest because those dreams are necessary...

Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the pen...

Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages ...

The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique cap...

I ran a constant low fever waiting for my ride to come and take me away to something finer. I lay in...

They had entered the thorny wilderness, and the golden gates of their childhood had for ever closed ...

It is said with truth that every building is constructed stone by stone, and the same may be said of...

She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a wolverine and all, but sometimes she felt like she ...

It’s hard to have done all one’s growing up since 33 — but that’s a damn sight better than not growi...

Maybe you never stop feeling like an eight-year-old in front of your parents. You resolve to be your...

Your "scared" and my "scared" are two different things.''What's that supposed to mean?' she asked.'A...

I don't know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I'm pessimistic, then the ad...

For me- and for everybody else, probably- this is my first experience growing old, and the emotions ...

The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter

It took me ages to grow into being a woman, into being happy with it.

From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, disciplin...

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday...

Only when you are grown up, perhaps only when you have children yourself, do you fully understand th...

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature...

People always think something's all true. I don't give a damn, except that I get bored when people t...

As for the fact that Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle apeared to be going their different ways when they we...

How awful it was, thought Tessa, remembering Fats the toddler, the way tiny ghosts of your living ch...

Children are meant to grow up, and not to become Peter Pans. Not to lose innocence and wonder, but t...

...that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn’t know who I ...

He had a third martini. He looked at me intently and took hold of my arm. 'Look', he said. 'You're a...

Growth is life, and life is for ever destined to make for light.

I was eleven, the idea of two identical digits in my age still new and spectacular and heartbreaking...

I went back to my cabin and lay down on my berth. Everything trembled as if it had a spring at its v...