Growing Up Quotes

I may be a little like the grown-ups. I must have grown old.

Summerhill children are allowed to go through their gangster period, and consequentially more furniture is destroyed.

Unfortunately, it has come to my attention that the modern world is sorely lacking in imagination. And grown-ups are the biggest culprits of all.

If I don't see the reason of someone being my friend, chances are, we are just floating and I need a ship to set sail.

We're about to hit that age when we'll be too exhausted to maintain friendships, and the days of hanging out will be long behind us.

When you lose your ego, you win. It really is that simple.

There is magic everywhere around you, but most people are too busy being grownup to notice it.

Growing up, I never felt deprived. I was always happy. It seems only lately I've started seeing everything I didn't have.

And though, truly, she sometimes felt like something inside her had disappeared, it seemed that must be a natural part of growing up. Standing out too much made one feel too alone to do it forever.

Life is a progression of becoming who we are.

Yes, you're right. It's part of growing up, I suppose. You always have to leave something behind you.ü

Yes, you're right. It's part of growing up, I suppose. You always have to leave something behind you.

The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter

Q: I want to be an author when I grow up. Am I insane?"Neil Gaiman: "Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an au

You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.

​Till mirrors were Invented, Face was not You, Not Even part of Your Performance.

Life is like this roller coaster you can’t wait to be tall enough and old enough to get on. But when you get on it you realize you’re afraid of roller coasters.

I think it is a part of growing up, learning to control our suffering.

I am a kind of joke, but the question is: which kind? My job is to keep everyone guessing.

There was always so much I didnt know, but not knowing was part of it all.

Part of me is afraid that everyone will laugh, that I’m a caricature of myself.

It didn't matter what anyone else saw in me. For the first time, I felt like I was seeing myself.

When Uncle W. G. held out his hand to take my money, I dropped the dead mouse in his hand.

I'm going to go throw up now, because ive turned into my dad. If vomiting doesn't work, I'll see if I can get an exorcism.

Love is growing up.

Jocelyn did not want to always remain the same. Where was the adventure in that?

I realized if I didn’t just go, I’d never go. Going was the key. It didn’t matter where I was headed just as long as I was headed somewhere. ~ Ben Davis

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

Then, as Father had trained him, Rigg thought past his feelings.

Release-For yearsthey told you tosit.Stay.Now they open the doorand tell you toget up.Leave.Where do you gowith no oneto show youthe way?

I liked being with the books: they reminded me of how many ways of thinking existed outside my own - how small and fleeting my pulse was when set alongside those ageing spines.

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.

It was only high school after all, definitely one of the most bizarre periods in a person’s life. How anyone can come through that time well adjusted on any level is an absolute miracle.

Aging is something! It always makes you remember yesterday!

Everything was brighter and more colorful in those years, as if my childhood was ending in an explosion of unreal passion that made my life feel sacred and holy.

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.

I guess I just grew up thinking that when we become adults, we get to do what we love. For work, for fun, forever. I don't know where I got that from. Seems silly now.

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.

All seek perfection from our parents … Just wait till your parents start depending on you, that is when your own perfection, or lack thereof, will be apparent.

Stop using him, and start protecting him. I know he thinks he doesn't need it, but sometimes he does. Sometimes we all do.

Growing up, I believed in miracles. I guess I don’t anymore.

She isn't like any of the girls I ever knew, or any of the girls I was myself.

I tried on different versions of myself. I was so many different girls...

I think about how maybe it's not things that change but people that change, and maybe that's the change everyone is really talking about.

If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility.

The only pressure I agree to, is my conscious and not peer pressure.

God is Santa Claus for Grown-Ups.

How Horrid" has a slightly facetious tone that strikes me as Wildean. It appears to embrace the actual horror--puberty, public disgrace--then at the last second nimbly sidesteps it, laughing.

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.