Growing Up Quotes

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

It’s hard at times, but it makes a kid strong in ways that most people can’t understand. Teaches them that even though people are left behind, new ones will inevitably take their place; that every place has something good—and bad—to offer. It makes a kid grow up fast.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

When you grow up, who you were as a teenager either takes on a mythical importance or it’s completely laughable. I wanted to be the kind of person who wiped those years away; instead, I feared, they defined me.

When we grow up, concepts gradually get easier and we leave the images to the poets…

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.[quoted from Wilhelm Stekel]

It was too late. Maybe yesterday, while I was still a child, but not now. I knew too much, had seen too much, I was a child no longer now; innocence and childhood were forever lost, forever gone from me.

If it had grown up, it would have been a dreadfully ugly child: but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.[she said to herself]

I am convinced that most people do not grow up. We find parking spaces and honor our credit cards. We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children in- side, are still innocent and shy as magnolias.

How strange it is that when I was a child I tried to be like a grown-up, yet as soon as I ceased to be a child I often longed to be like one.[Странно, отчего, когда я был ребенком, я старался быть похожим на большого, а с тех пор, как перестал быть им, часто желал быть похожим на него.]

Don’t try to make me grow up before my time.

All grown-ups were just children carefully putting on their grown-up disguises each day and then acting accordingly.