Growing Up Quotes

Most popular growing up quotes

The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth. - Maya Angelou quote.
The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth.

youth

Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child.

life childhood

You're never too old to grow up.

maturity

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh—at yourself. - Ethel Barrymore quote.
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh—at yourself.

maturity

Growing up is usually so painful that people make comedies out of it to soften the memory.
The trick is growing up without growing old. - Casey Stengel quote.
The trick is growing up without growing old.

age

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote.
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

parenting children funny

When I grow up I want to be a little boy. - Joseph Heller quote.
When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.

parenting adolescence

It is indeed ironic that we spend our school days yearning to graduate and our remaining days waxing nostalgic about our school days.

reunion adolescence

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice—that is, until we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say, "I lost it." - Sydney Harris quote.
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice—that is, until we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say, "I lost it."

Adulthood responsibility

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. - Thomas Szasz quote.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

Adulthood

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. - Graham Greene quote.
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

future childhood

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up. - C. S. Lewis quote.
When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
A real person is one who can grow up and still remain a child. - Erich Kästner quote.
A real person is one who can grow up and still remain a child.