Growing Up Quotes

I’m tired of justifying why I love someone. I’m done with the explaining.

That last time you kissed me my heart slid past your teeth down into the center of your chest… trapping us both in a stainless cage.

If I had an .MP3 of your heartbeat… I might actually get some sleep.

I kept waiting for the part where I’d finally know who I was — some flashing, neon moment of relief, but it never came.

I wish that love could be broken down the way it breaks me down.

I don’t ever want to hurt anyone, but I really wish there was something like a reset button on my life.

He could pour himself into my little paper cup heart and my emptiness would finally have a meaning.

It feels like the world is folding up around me, like origami paper, and I’m trapped inside of its breathless center.

I feel like a paper cut just waiting to bleed.

I wish on one of the stars for divine orchestration and save the rest of them for all of the other girls in the world who will feel like I do tonight.

You haunt my days and dreams.

Win or lose, good or bad, the experience will change you.

Hope, in anything but myself, is just way too dangerous right now…

Growing up doesn't mean that you are older than someone, it means that you are no longer an amateur.

Boys annoyed her. Girls annoyed her. She should have been a cat.

It made him wonder if all things taken from their home too soon lost some of their bloom.

In a desperate attempt to stay young forever we have achieved eternal childishness, rather than eternal youth.

It's easy to grow old if you haven't grown up

Otis Grows is a kid’s book that looks at adult problems. It playfully engages us all to consider: what’s tough, what’s inherent, but most of all, what’s possible.

I think I may have to grow up without growing old. I think we're going to have to define differently what I'm going to be. We're going to have to define my growing up differently.

Isn't it weird how people grow up when you're not looking?

As life runs on, the road grows strange With faces new, and near the end The milestones into headstones change, ’Neath every one a friend.

You can hide things from the world, but you can never hide things from time.

We got a saying around here about our corn, ‘it grows knee-high by the Fourth of July.

Don’t grow old to give up and don’t give up growing up

The thing is that it could never again feel natural to talk to her

Growing up, I really liked 'Star Wars.' Han Solo would've been really cool to meet. But my stuff was real low-brow. I was watching 'Bugs Bunny.'

I'm a runner from sports. I've been a runner, but I wasn't a cross-country runner or anything like that. I played a lot of soccer growing up.

I've always been a strong family advocate. I had a wonderful family growing up.

I've always wanted to design a home collection line because growing up, I was obsessed with reorganizing my room.

This is going to sound really sad, but I didn't really have any heartthrobs when I was growing up. I was a bit of a geek.

When I was growing up, I was lucky to benefit from a first class education.

Growing up in the Sacramento Valley in the '70s, we were all pretty big into cars. Of course, I had to nerd out and be a fan of Bob Tullius' Group 44 Jaguars instead of Corvettes/Camaros.

I used to be addicted to 'Reader's Digest' growing up. I would read the stories about love, and I guess that's where I became a hopeless romantic. I draw from that a lot.

When I was growing up, my dad didn't have weights, so he made himself a weight bench. Instead of a hand-me-down jacket, it was a hand-me-down weight bench.

My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.

I haven’t been very impressed lately.By people, or places, or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind.

I am not a broken heart. I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn’t know how to handle anything, at any time, and I am not your fault.

It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.

It's not always easy being her daughter.' I think, ' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are.

You know, people ask me. They say 'Dan, three years later do you really want to be drawing cat whiskers on your face?' but they don't understand. The cat whiskers, they come from within.

I've screwed everything up royally. I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.

By the time we began to understand enough about what the world to ask the right questions, our visit is over, and someone else is visiting, asking the same questions.

It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked.

When You Live Life Too Early, You Learn Life Too Late.

Being amongst rough lives and confusion does not make you less, it only makes your beauty shine out more clearly.

I cared about Ben, but I was never in love with him. I was in love with what it said about me that I had a boyfriend like Ben, and that's just different.

Every change, those subtle-slow, and those drastically sudden, has brought me into myself.

Parents expect only two things from their children, obedience in their childhood and respect in their adulthood.

Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.