Growing Quotes
Some people grow up with issues because they did not have their parents around growing up, many others have issues because their parents were around growing up
I didn't grow up in a Norman Rockwell house... my house was more akin to Norman Lear.
One must always be aware, to notice—even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.
If your life is a blank page, that only means you have room to write your story. You have the power to tell that story the way you want to.
Kids these days, " Dragos said quietly. "They grow up so fast." "Supersonic fast, " Pia said just as quietly.
He was surrounded by people who loved him, yet he had never felt lonelier.
We have to get you a haircut sometime today. You're starting to look like a sulky rock star." "Well, I am a rock star, " he said, deadpan
Dragos reached for his coffee cup. "You are always going to be one of my highest priorities.
I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore, like I always thought I would.
When you think your life is falling apart, it's usually falling together in disguise.
I don't like being with grown-up people. I've known that a long time. I don't like it because I don't know how to get on with them.
When you're finally a grown-up, one of the things you find is that there are no grown-ups.
If you look for endings you can always find one, but I truly felt as if I had used up the last of my youth, if youth is that finite stage of life when it all feels expeditionary, inexact.
the much-sought prize of eternal youthIs just arrested growth.
You become a man when, in having children, you not only physically look after and protect them but also protect them with all the love and learning you have to give.
If a fight looks like a lot of fun, you should be suspicious. 'If you ain't scared of standing up for what's right, you ain't standing up for much.
I mean, I really liked him to the point where being around him was sort of wonderful and painful all at the same time, you know?
Please your mother: just lie around upstairs and smoke some pot. Be a revolutionary.
She kissed me on the cheek, and my mom sang Theresa’s name from the open front door. She loves Theresa. I think she loves me more when I’m with her.
I could feel his hand on my waist, his arms around me, feel the rise and fall of his chest next to mine as I held my breath, and wished the sun would drop out of the sky.
Dude, ” he said instead, “I’m flattered as hell.” And then he kicked my foot, lightly, twice. He was smiling.He couldn’t see the chasm that had opened behind my ribs.
I've always wanted to wake up one day in a world where I liked the right people, and they lied me in return. I worry it'll never happen.
I do like the way people behave toward me and Theresa when we’re together-everyone’s voice changes to music, and we get all sorts of smiles.
I wear my wrinkles like battle scars, having earned every last one slaying life’s dragons. They boast of my victories and some defeats while their beauty is a wealth of wisdom gained.
You can't make me be nice.You can't make me be good.You can't make me be
They soon stopped being ten years old. But whatever age they were seemed to be exactly the right age for having fun.
Eventually, however, the denial turned into emptiness and my childhood ended.
Do you ever plan to grow up, Veltan?” he asked.“Not if I can avoid it, no.
They sealed this promise by hooking pinkies, the way they used to, long ago, when promises didn't hurt as much.
The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our chilhood behind.
Mam said I was growing up. I felt that I was dying.
He was thirteen that year, the age when children splinter off and abandon the old loves.
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.
If he could only prevent himself growing up! He did not want to be a man.
She knew him in that way you can only know a person as a child. Like if you cracked away the adult shell, you'd find that child, happily sitting inside, smiling at you.
Being a child sucked. Being a teenager was worse. And being an adult seemed so far away that I had a better chance at swimming the length of the ocean than growing up.
I lost something magical in the process of growing up – my disillusionment.
... I wrote about ... my childhood, when dreams were small and attainable for all. When sweets were a penny and god was a rabbit.
God always has a plan. This isn't his fault. This is a test, something designed to help you grow closer to God. And. I know, somehow, God will use it.
Though people are laughing at the dirt surrounding you, they are missing to see the seeds also planted, growing silently within.
Any parents are as ordinary human beings as others, making them angels or even more is up to their next generation.
Your life was meant for more than being a life-long doormat for deadbeats, losers, gossipers, nay-sayers, dream-crushers, energy vampires, users, abusers, ragers and passive-aggressive backstabbers.
Staying in an unhealthy relationship can keep a person from finding their own way and moving to the next level of their own path — and that person could even be you.
And that is the last lesson of childhood: You spend all your years fighting against the injustice of big folk and their big rules until you are ready to rule yourself.
If your gonna screw up, do it while you're young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back.
Life has a funny way of turning you into the one thing you don't want to be.