Growing Quotes

Seniority has nothing to do with intellectuality, your individuality wins the majority or minority, simply because you maintained the status quo of your peculiarity.

I don't have to get married to grow up!

My existence is young like the blossoming leaves. I have experienced nothing yet.

How did I get to be a grown-up? At times, I find myself still sitting on the hillside, plotting revenge against the adult world.

The older I get the more mixed up life seems. When you're little, it's all so plain. It's all laid out like a game ready to play. You think you know exactly how it's going to go. But things happen...

You don't grow up, she reasoned now, until you begin to evaluate yourself, to recognize your good traits and acknowledge that you have a few faults.

You think everyone will stay behind and do everything you did all over again, forever. You picture old geezers in jean jackets doing whip-its behind the plaza.

Young women dream of romance and passion as men dream of conquest because those dreams are necessary goads to leaving home and growing up.

Jump, when they say, and ask, how high? It is the only way to truly fit in. And who would want to be any different?

you know what her punishment is for tormenting you way back when?" he said.I looked at him.He said, "her punishment is being her,

We're growing up and I don't like it, " said Tacy, as they say at Heinz's later, drinking coffee.

Most people made comments on how I was the strongest woman they knew.That was before the title wave of disaster hit my charmed life.

Unfortunately the ‘warrior’ archetype accidentally dropped the soap in the shower and he has been getting boned senseless by the ‘soldier/lobbyist archetype’ ever since.

Boredom is a powerful reason, and the prospect of fun is a powerful draw - especially when you are young.

To become a man is to carry out your word because you gave your word. And your word is you as a man." - The Legacy Letters, by Carew Papritz

Because I was conceived and born and I grew up. I'm breathing and my heart is beating and as much as it hurts ― as much searing, monumental pain it causes me ― I have to exist.

Stephanie took another puff from her candy cigarette, reached into her purse, brought out the rest of the pack, and said, "Want one of these damned cigarettes?

Cry your guts out because nothing is sadder than an adult who forgets how to be a child.

I am what you made me, Father.

Step-parents, those fairy tale villains, Have been given a bad name.They're easy targets.When the family goes awryHow easy to blame them.I was blessed by the right steps...

Magda looks at me as if I've gone mad. Or I've grown up. It's kind of the same thing.

Hm. Didn’t you use to be a lot smaller?”“Yes, ” said Jinx. “Because I used to be six.

When I was young, I used to wish I would fit in… I’m glad I didn’t get my wish.

We can't go back, Alexa", he said. " We can't go back once we've started growing up, and the world can't be made simple again.

Why can't a girl just want to know stuff and not do stuff?

Oh God, I'm miss­ing the gene which makes you grow up and buy a flat in Streatham and start visiting Homebase every weekend. Everyone's moving on without me, into a world I don't understand.

Learning is one letter short of maturity.

Oak, granite, Lilies by the road, Remember me?I remember you.Clouds brushingClover hills, Remember me?Sister, child, Grown tall, Remember me?I remember you.

It seems only yesterday I used to believethere was nothing under my skin but light.If you cut me I could shine.But now when I fall upon the sidewalks of life, I skin my knees. I bleed.

We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together.

nobody tells us as little girls that we may fall in love and have moments of hating our beloved, or have ridiculous arguments at 2 AM over something that neither person understands.

Because…sometimes I think you meet people and they make you better, even if you’re not with them forever.

I didn't begin life hating my grandmother. Like every child, I adored her. Until I formed a brain and got to know her.

I think that's every unresolved person's dream, to wake up one day and know what they want to do the rest of their life.

I jumped on Sinbad's bottle. Nothing happened. I didn't do it again. Sometimes when nothing happened it was really getting ready to happen

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

Sometimes, life threw up problems that even the wisest, most trusted mentor couldn't solve for you. It was part of the pain of growing up.And having to stand by and watch was part of being a mentor.

…girls were like poems: weird, incomprehensible and boring, but those “in the know” assured me that they were beautiful.

We are not sure what we will become, only what we want to and don’t want to. We often become what we never thought we could, then we become fine with that.

Growing up changes morethan playground gamesand body shapes.

That time when past begins to look longer than the future

She's growing up, " Sister Evangeline said.And I wanted to tell her no, I'm not. Everything is exactly the same.

And then I know I'm being a man, not just some kid who's upset and wants it his way.

A lot of childhood effort, worry, and whispering goes into cracking the codes of adult life. Children have to be accomplished spies.

What happens to you when you get older? Do you just forget everything from before you turned eighteen? Do you make yourself forget?

I was born at a very early age. As I grew up, I got older... So far though, this is the oldest I've ever been.

Age has taught me that what other people think of me is none of my business.

The day you lose your sense of wonder is the day you grow old.

Lord, but did he grow up nice.

If I ever stop challenging myself, then I am getting lazy and comfortable and I am no longer growing. I hope to use life's challenges as stepping stones to ever greater things.