Growing Quotes

You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.

We should make it a crime even to attempt to pollute. Our children should grow up next to parks, not poison.

[Jo to her mother] I knew there was mischief brewing. I felt it and now it's worse than I imagined. I just wish I could marry Meg myself, and keep her safe in the family.

I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying.

Growing up I didn't watch movies.

You said you want to became Hokage. I have become the Kazekage. If you are willing to bear the name Kage, you have to do what you must do.

He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times.

That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.

There’s a different flavor to children’s literature you read after you grow up than there was reading it as a child. Things that were sweet as a child become bitter once you grow up.

Maybe a person's world can grow bigger in all the right ways, not too wide that it becomes shallow, just large enough to preserve its depth.

In the plains the grass grows tall, since there is no one to cut it. There is no one to water it either.

We were still at the age when girls are years older than guy, and the guys grow up by doing their best when the girls need them to.

Look forward to the wonderment of growing up, raising a family and driving by the gas station where the popular kids now work.

I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself. . .

Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.

Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own.

She has given me a way out.

Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.

They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.

I was going to be a memory when I grew up.

She had been a teenager once, and she knew that, despite the apparent contradictions, a person's teenage years lasted well into their fifties.

He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.

Remember, childhood only lasts 10-12 years. There's a lot that has to be squeezed in to make for a lifetime of happy memories. ♥

I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.

I reached up with my finger and traced the scar over my eyebrow, remembering when that was the greatest hurt I'd ever known.

Like everyone I slipped into adulthood like a delinquent through the back door.

To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this will happen, mark me. Childhood's end.

People need stories...we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books.

Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up

You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls.

In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.

This is growing up, having to stomp out love, this is how people turn terrible.

When you were too young and naïve to see the risks, I incurred your wrath to protect you. Scream at me for it if you must. Thank me for it when you finally grow up.

Everyone else we knew growing up is the same: image of their parents, no matter how loud they told themselves they'd be different

I'm at that age where I watch such things with two minds, one that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.

Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets.

The years went by, and Mary Alice and I grew up, Slower than we wanted to, faster than we realized.

most of us, as we undergo the growing up process, do not get what we want or even what we should. We get what we have, and no more, and we find out how to make what we have work for us.

I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins.

It was a sign of growing up, when the dark made no more difference to you than the day.

Oh! Polly thought. Why aren't all girls locked up by law the year they turn fifteen? They do such stupid things!

Adults tend to repress their pleasure. Sad to say, I think we become adults only through disappointment, grief, and lies. So of course gradually we become tough, less sensitive.

Most of our parents wanted the best for us, I knew, but we also wanted the best for them.

It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine.

Growing up is when you understand you get what you give, not what you're given.

That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself.

My father was an electrical engineer who worked at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. When I was growing up, my mother wrote humor columns for the local paper. She was the Erma Bombeck of Murrysville, Pa.

I was just a big fan of tattoos always growing up, and I wanted something cool that symbolizes what I've been through in my life, and everything on my chest and my back is like a collage.

I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.

I played sports growing up in high school.