Growing Quotes

Growing Quote of the day

Growing up is like walking through glass doors that only open one way--you can see where you came from but can't go back.

I am not where I need to be, but, thank God, I am not where I used to be.

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

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself.

The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

I live in an ecotone. Employment must coexist with goofing off. Responsibility must coexist with irresponsibility.

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

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

I wish wearing flat-irons on our heads would keep us from growing up. But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats, - more's the pity!

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

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

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

Why stay we on earth except to grow?

Youth is wasted on the young.

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

You lost your innocence when you grew up, all right, everyone knew that, but did you have to lose your hope, as well?

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

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

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

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.

[Jo to her mother] I knew there was mischief brewing. I felt it and now it's worse than I imagined. I just wish I could marry Meg myself, and keep her safe in the family.

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

When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.

Everyone was always becoming someone else.Sometimes, when you were older, you became someone younger. And me, I felt old. How can aguy who’s about to turn seventeen feel old?

Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.

It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.

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

I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.

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

Dad?""What?" A small bird rises from a tree in front of us."What should I be when I grow up?"The bird disappears over a far ridge. I don't know what to say. "Honest, " I finally say.

David Letterman was my guy growing up. My parents recorded the tenth anniversary special for me, and I watched it 40 times.

You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls.

You will never be entirely comfortable. This is the truth behind the champion - he is always fighting something. To do otherwise is to settle.

God is Santa Claus for Grown-Ups.

Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.

One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed.

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

Growing up is hard, love. Otherwise everyone would do it.

The more open we are, the more we can learn. The more we learn, the more we recognize that every one of us is a hero

you have outgrown this skin.stop trying to hold it in.stop trying to hold it together.let yourself break.

But space shrinks when you get old, and things lose their wonder, and the wisest thing to do then is to try your best to sleep.

I like to be at a party and be a quiet observer, be in conversation. I wouldn't say I was a class clown growing up, but I would definitely sit back in class and take snipes at the teacher.

Time stops when you are in love, even as you age.

Maturity is when your world opens up and you realize that you are not the center of it.

You haunt my days and dreams.