Growing Quotes

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.

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

You’re a teenager. It’s all complicated.

Sometimes you have to grow up before you appreciate how you grew up.

Scott: I don't think I'm ready to be a grown-up.Kim: I don't think you are either, buddy. But hey, you'll get it. It just takes practice.

He was an astronaut without a suit, but he was still breathing.

You can get what you want or you can just get old.

It was strange walking through the empty apartment. My battered purple room was gone, Brittany’s bruised blue was gone. Two coats covered everything. It was like none of it had ever happened.

hat's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.

The truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing but does only and wholly what he must do.

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

Isn't that the tragedy of growing up though? One day you wake up and realize that everything you are and everything you feel is not much different from what everyone else feels.

She had the feeling, the tingling, lingering sense that something or someone life altering was just over the horizon. She had no idea what it was, but she wanted to rush headlong to bring it to her.

Only when you are grown up, perhaps only when you have children yourself, do you fully understand that your own parents had a full and intricate existence before you were born.

Part of growing up is narrowing your life choices to a manageable size.

So her safe little world would never be safe again... She knew that the nurturing hand also held the knife, and that was very unsettling.

Wow you've grown!" Yeah, that tends to happen...

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

I never left because a part of me will always be in that house...

That boy made me realize, for a while at least, that my parents were wrong, and I didn't have to be like them.

I felt for the first time, maybe ever, how much harder it was to be the adults. And I wasn't sure I could do that when it was my turn.

I never tired of picturing sharks.

Being a kid has always been about being watched.

Maybe that was what growing up was, understanding where the real magic lived in this world. Inside our very own hearts.

Taking a lifetime to grow up.

And not one person would notice the grey parts of her until it was too late, because everyone falls for a pretty face.

I know who I want to be and I want you by my side as I become that person.

Like it or not, a caterpillar must first live as a chrysalis before becoming a butterfly. Maybe I remember those days because I am going through a chrysalis stage.

Childhood introduces children to the wounds of the world.

Thats the trick of growing up. Nothing stays the same." Hook sounded oddly sympathetic. "You see the faults in everything. Including yourself.

It's what you do when you grow up, apparently, face up to things you'd rather not and accept the fact that nobody is who you thought they were, maybe not even close.

Perhaps they never die at all. I quite believe that myself, and it is a comfort, don't you think? That there is a place where no one ever grows old?

Americans are children who must go somewhere else to grow up, and sometimes die.

... I guessed that when you are nearly a man, you have to learn to put up with a lot of aggravation from little old bitty kids.

I was sixteen, and I honestly believed that I was due a love story.

Maybe growing up was just about becoming closer to the person you always were.

Today she’s walking down the driveway to get on the school bus. Tomorrow she’s going off to college. Don’t blink.

Maybe in the future when life sees that we are ready for love we will meet up or stumble upon each other and it will ignite the light inside of us that we are craving right now.

In the book, you lost your powers. In the movie, you chose not to use them as much. I guess I did a little of both.

I was eleven, the idea of two identical digits in my age still new and spectacular and heartbreaking. The girls must have felt this. They must have known. Where had ten, nine, eight, and seven gone?

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

I'm not perfect and the older I get the more I realise that.

I knew that I had reached the end of childhood once I realized that adults in my life didn't know anymore than I did.

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

That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them

One thing you learn early growing up a girl--people always talk, whatever you do, ' Glain said. 'What bliss it must be to be male.

Generally speaking, I resolve to change my life on average maybe thirty to forty times a week, usually at about two a.m, drunk, ore early the next morning, hungover.

How shall I tell you of the world you faceStrident with sound of weapons and of hate, Make you aware now of the narrowing spaceBetween the hope of mortal and his fate?

Stil it takes you strange walking in your old foot steps like that. Putting your groan up foot where your chyld foot run nor dint know nothing what wer coming.

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