Quotes About Growing up

Jo March : I can't believe childhood is over. Meg March : It was going to end one way or another. And what a happy end.

don't try and make me grow up before my time.

I hate to think I've got to grow up, and be Miss March, and wear long gowns, and look as prim as a China-aster! It's bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boys' games and work and manners! I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy; and it's worse than ever now, for I'm dying to go and fight with Papa, and I can only stay at home and knit like a poky old woman.

I never made any plans about what I'd do when I grew up. I never thought of being married, as you all did. I couldn't seem to imagine myself anything but stupid little Beth, trotting about at home, of no use anywhere but there. I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.

Don't try to make me grow up before my time, Meg. It's hard enough to have you change all of a sudden. Let me be a little girl as long as I can.

when I seemed most like a child I was learning to be a woman.

Really, girls, you are both to be blamed," said Meg, beginning to lecture in her elder-sisterly fashion. "You are old enough to leave off boyish tricks, and to behave better, Josephine. It didn't matter so much when you were a little girl, but now you are so tall, and turn up your hair, you should remember that you are a young lady.

It was going to be all right. There were to be no histrionics. For this deliverance Olivia was deeply grateful, but she felt sad too, because it is always sad when someone you have known as a child finally grows up, and you know that they will never be truly young again.

In his thirteenth year he was old enough to play on the rocks at Scandal Point without having to be watched over by his ayah, Kasturba.

I didnt really watch Dallas growing up, as I was a bit young and into other things, like sports.

Before they knew it, time would speed up and the future would appear on a street corner or in a park, and there they'd be, grown women who'd forgotten how long a summer could last.

This little girl's grown up by now, she said. Almost. Not quite. I wish you all a long and happy life.

Perhaps that was the moment you grew up, when you learned your parents were just as fallible as everyone else.

When you get down to it, unschooling is really just a fancy term for 'life' or 'growing up uninstitutionalized'.

Everyone, when you're a teenager and you're growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it's not.

I was able to grow up and do silly things and have a life with only a small amount of public scrutiny.

New York had a big influence on me growing up, and I was really part of the club scene - the Mudd Club and Studio 54. When you're living in New York, you are just bombarded with style, trying to figure out how to be cool and how to feel relaxed at the same time.

Mummy sighs. "We grew up, Dad," she says. "We grew up.

Como é que tu achas que é o mundo das pessoas crescidas? -Não sei dizer. Sou um rapa- disse, com muita sinceridade. São muito traiçoeiras, sir? ---- Mr. Darcie (professor) e Maurice P.13, Maurice, E.M. Forster, Livros Cotovia, tradução de Jorge Ayres Roza de Oliveira P.13, Maurice

Como é que tu achas que é o mundo das pessoas crescidas? -Não sei dizer. Sou um rapaz - disse, com muita sinceridade. - São muito traiçoeiras, sir? -------------~ Mr. Ducie (professor) e Maurice p.13, MAURICE - E.M. FORSTER, Livros Cotovia, 1989, esgotado, tradução: Jorge Ayres Roza de Oliveira

So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops.

All of my friends from school grew up and settled downAnd they mortgaged off their livesOne thing's not said too much, but I think it's trueThey just get married 'cause there's nothing else to do

Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown.

Mother Nature is wonderful. Children get too old for piggy-back rides just about the same time they get too heavy for them.