Growing-up Quotes

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...

I began to feel alternately too big and too small. First, I grew so big that I took up the whole str...

A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: ...

As life runs on, the road grows strange With faces new, and near the end The milestones into headsto...

In his grief over the loss of a dog, a little boy stands for the first time on tiptoe, peering into ...

I was happy, but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They...

You are young," said my father. "You won't get any younger even if you clean your teeth twice a day....

Growing up is difficult. Strangely, even when we have stopped growing physically, we seem to have to...

In my youth, the question chiefly important to me was—What sort of man shall I decide to be? At nine...

My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to g...

Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're ...

but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst...

I wonder if all mothers feel like this the moment they realize their daughters are growing up- as if...

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewi...

I wonder if all mothers feel like this the moment they realize their daughters are growing up—as if ...

But kids don't stay where they're supposed to. You turn around and find her not in the bedroom but h...

It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants ri...

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them....

Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest - learning when it was better to lie, ra...

At seventeen, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take...

I know it’s impossible for you to see peers this way, but when you’re older, you start to see them—t...

I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were...miserable creatures who scoured the ear...

I was so good at being a kid, and so terrible at being whatever I was now.

Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets.

In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentou...

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.

And if I sit in that room at the top of the house and I think about my life and if I shut my eyes fr...

When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults ...

As long as Nelson was socked into baseball statistics or that guitar or even the rock records that t...

When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog foll...

I got tired, I told him. Not worn out, but worn through. Like one of those wives who wakes up one mo...

I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it somethin...

The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get ...

Our parents thought we might be corrupted by one another into becoming whatever it was they most fea...

It occurred to her that nobody really knew what anybody else was upset about, and that seemed like a...

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the chur...

Some days you go bear hunting and you get eaten. Some days you come home with a nice rug to roll aro...

Childhood anxieties, childhood fears, never disappear entirely. They fade, but not away.

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like "What ...

Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.

it feels so scary getting old.

I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, with...

...the uncomfortable appearance of a girl who was rapidly shooting up into a woman and didn't like i...

[Jo to her mother] I knew there was mischief brewing. I felt it and now it's worse than I imagined. ...

Don't try to make me grow up before my time…

I wish wearing flat-irons on our heads would keep us from growing up. But buds will be roses, and ki...

I wonder how long it will take for me to feel as adult inside as I look outside.

I know more about my father than I used to know: I know he wanted to be a pilot in the war but could...

They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it mark...

The most valuable thing [Anton LaVey] did that day was to help me understand and come to terms with ...

My grandfather had been the ugliest, darkest, foulest, most depraved figure of my childhood, more be...

We're growing up," Betsy said aloud. She wasn't even sure she liked it. But it happened, and then it...

We're growing up and I don't like it," said Tacy, as they say at Heinz's later, drinking coffee.

You don't grow up, she reasoned now, until you begin to evaluate yourself, to recognize your good tr...

The older I get the more mixed up life seems. When you're little, it's all so plain. It's all laid o...

Thoughts are such fleet magic things. Betsy's thoughts swept a wide arc while Uncle Keith read her p...

They soon stopped being ten years old. But whatever age they were seemed to be exactly the right age...