Growing-up Quotes

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...

If you happen to be white in a white country; pretty according to the dictates of fashion; rich in a...

Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get ...

Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young ...

I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that gr...

So her safe little world would never be safe again... She knew that the nurturing hand also held the...

The nice thing about being an adolescent is being able to make mature decisions when you need them a...

When you're born a light is switched on, a light which shines up through your life. As you get older...

Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. T...

Q: I want to be an author when I grow up. Am I insane?"Neil Gaiman: "Yes. Growing up is highly overr...

It wasn’t brave because he wasn’t scared: it was the only thing he could do. But going back again to...

Yes, you're right. It's part of growing up, I suppose. You always have to leave something behind you...

Yes, you're right. It's part of growing up, I suppose. You always have to leave something behind you...

He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by ...

I'm going to tell you something important. Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either....

Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own.

It's hard at times, but it makes a kid strong in ways that most people can't understand. Teaches the...

If I could have all of those things, I wouldn't mind if I touched her or not.

That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killin...

From then on, I was terrified that I or one of my parents were going to die. My mother worried me th...

I think modern education over-emphasizes the intellect. I suppose that comes from the scientific tre...

And then the queen wept with all her heart. Not for the cruel and greedy man who had warred and kill...

Then, as Father had trained him, Rigg thought past his feelings.

I was born with more power inside myself than I ever dreamed. But along with it there came no more s...

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to t...

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves...

The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our chilhood behind.

It was such a strange tormenting feeling when your daemon was pulling at the link between you; part ...

He was still a kid inside. His body had grown, stretched, towered, tanned its skin, hardened its mus...

Not to grow up properly is to retain our 'caterpillar' quality from childhood (where it is a virtue)...

We'd drifted too far to rely on the old boyhood telepathy anymore.

Dad?""What?" A small bird rises from a tree in front of us."What should I be when I grow up?"The bir...

Can I have a motorcycle when I get old enough?""If you take care of it.""What do you have to do?""Lo...

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ev...

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....