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Great Quotes About Growing Up and Maturity
I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sports helped me channel that temper into more positive acts
-Mike Krzyzewski
I still feel like I have a lot of growing up to do 'til i find the voice. Everybody has their own voice and their own thing they want to say to the world
-Sasha Alexander
Being a kid and growing up is such a cool part of life
-Devon Werkheiser
Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's a part of growing up
-Natalie Wood
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional
-Chili Davis
One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents and grandparents lives come to you
-Philip Pullman
Growing old is not growing up
-Douglas Horton
A grown up is a child with layers on
-Woody Harrelson
When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind
-Patrick Rothfuss
Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all part of the first real growing up that we do
-Judd Nelson
I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual
-Melinda Gates
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tails again
-C.S. Lewis
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
-Sarvenaz Tash
Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our toots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that
-Ally Condie
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands
-Anne Frank
Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up
-Jodi Picoult
If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!
-J.M. Barrie
Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging
-Maya Angelou
Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change
-Cassandra Clare
Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others
-Virginia Woolf
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one
-J.D salinger
One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed
-Patricia Briggs, Bone Crossed
Growing up is hard, love. Otherwise everyone would do it
-Kim Harrison
Where'd the days go, when all we did was play? And the stress that we were under wasn't stress at all just a run and a jump into a harmless fall
-Paolo Nutini
Maturity is when your world opens up and you realize that you are not the center of it
-M.J Croan
Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won't do that
-Walt Disney
The day the child realizes that all the adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent, the day he forgives them, he becomes and adult, the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise
-Alden Nowlan
You have to do your own growing up no matter how tall your grandfather was
-Abraham Lincoln
We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves
-May Lamberton Becker
The key to growth is the introduction of the higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness
-Lao Tzu
It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually
-M. Scott Peck
As we grow better we meet better people
-Elbert Hubbard
In this day and age, some turn 18 and think they're man or a woman and that's it, but that's just not true. You have to establish your manhood or your womanhood with actions
-Orlando McGuire
Don't you find it odd, she continued, that when you're a kid everyone, all the world encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try
-Ethan Hawke, The Hottest State
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - at yourself
-Ethel Barrymore
We had so many dreams as children. Where do they go when we grow? Are they swallowed up by the mundane things of everyday life? Or do we lose them, leave them behind us in the dust, for new children to find and take up?
-Helen Hollick
Sometimes you have to grow up before you appreciate how you grew up
-Daniel Black
Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience and pimples
-J.M Barrie
By the time we began to understand enough about what the world to ask the right questions, our visit is over, and someone else is visiting, asking the same questions
-D.K Levick
As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions
-Nikolai Gogol
Growing up is difficult. Strangely, even when we have stopped growing physically, we seem to have to keep on growing emotionally, which involves both expansion and shrinkage, as some parts of us develop and others must be allowed to disappear. Rigidity never works; we end up being the wrong size for our world
-Jeanette Winterson
As a man begins to understand the sacrifices he must make to live the life he dreams of, he often loses his courage for such a life
-Josie Sigler
Growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something
-Jim Butcher
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