Quotes About Growing up

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.

You're growing up. And rain sort of remains on the branches of a tree that will someday rule the Earth. And it's good that there is rain. It clears the month of your sorry rainbow expressions, and it clears the streets of the silent armies... so we can dance.

This is where the pivotal events of my childhood unfolded, while I ate banana and root beer Popsicles, two by two, tucking the sticks neatly under the skirt of the chair. It's where Sunnybank Lad met Lady, Ken met his friend Flicka, Atlanta burned, Manderley burned, Lassie came home, Jim ran away, Alice got small, Wilbur got big, David Copperfield was born, Beth died, and, on an endless gloomy winter afternoon, Jody shot his yearling.

I do not miss my toys. I wouldn't play with them anyway. I am fifteen. I miss my childhood.

Choices were so easy when I was a child. Good guy versus bad guy, and the good guys always won. But I'm no longer a child.

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

I would try to be a striker even though I wasn't and once I started growing up and seeing professional football was a step closer I would look at Sergio Ramos. I always looked up to Ramos as an example and watched him a lot.

Many in the creative professions were nerds in their pasts because they spent so long reading comics and using their imaginations when they were growing up.

Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents' then-illegal and interracial marriage.

We're naturally programmed to endure a muddle of emotions as we leave childhood behind.

For us, our musical journey has just been a progression. We're not trying to grow up too fast or anything, and I'm saying that even coming from being married. For us, we're growing up with our audience.

When I was growing up, my family was serious about manners. I always wanted to put my elbow on the table to prop my head up. I didn't understand how other people looked awake. My head felt so heavy after the whole day.

My first proper kiss was from Cara Shucksmith when I was 13 or 14 at her birthday party.

It's properly scary playing a leading man. Growing up, I always wanted to be a character actor.

I think from here on it's up to me to prove that I'm growing up and that I have other things to say, but in terms of the show it definitely gave me all of the opportunities I've had so far.

Today I have only reality, and I cannot play with that … Poor child exiled in his manhood! Why did I have to grow up?

He was pleased that she should see death in his face at once. His mother, at the age of sixty, was going to be introduced to reality and he supposed that if the experience didn't kill her, it would assist her in the process of growing up. He stepped down and greeted her.

She had given a little cry; she looked aghast. He was pleased that she should see death in his face at once. His mother, at the age of sixty, was going to be introduced to reality and he supposed that if the experience didn't kill her, it would assist her in the process of growing up. He stepped down and greeted her.

I was growing up around Leeds and I idolised Leeds. I went to Huddersfield and thought it was a good chance but I got there and felt like I didn't really fancy it.

Growing up, I wanted to be a fashion designer, which I'm still in school for. Like, that's what I want to be: a fashion designer.

Growing up, I was like any Aussie kid - you know we love our sport - that was my favourite subject at school. That is a subject, right?

It wasn't our favourite place, where we grew up.

When you grow up, life makes you so busy that you completely lose the excitement around a festival.

I grew up watching Anderson. He was my favorite fighter.