Growing Up Quotes

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I remembered learning from my favorite professor at Belmont

I remembered learning from my favorite professor at Belmont to surround yourself with people who are better than you, and I was now living that mantra.

Kimberly Novosel

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Roseanne, Roseanne, if I called to you now, my own self call

Roseanne, Roseanne, if I called to you now, my own self calling to my own self, would you hear me? And if you could hear me, would you heed me?

Sebastian Barry

Beauty Youth Growing Up Identity

I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. Ther

I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying. Doing jumps and having races. And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all of those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't.

Stephen Chbosky

Life Growing Up

We were still at the age when girls are years older than guy

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.

Men Love Courage Women Growing Up Lovers

That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfa

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

Life People Growing Up Irony Mothers

It's easy to grow old if you haven't grown up

It's easy to grow old if you haven't grown up

Age Growing Up Inspirational Growing Old

I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to

I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway...let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves.

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girls were like poems: weird, incomprehensible and boring, b

girls were like poems: weird, incomprehensible and boring, but those in the know assured me that they were beautiful.

Jake Vander Ark

Beauty Growing Up Girls Coming Of Age

She told herself that she longed greatly to go back to those

She told herself that she longed greatly to go back to those dear merry days when life was seen through a rosy mist of hope and illusion, and possessed an indefinable something that had passed away forever. Where was it now--the glory and the dream?

L.M. Montgomery

Life Growing Up Anne Of The Island

It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A

It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.

Growing Up

Life has a funny way of turning you into the one thing you d

Life has a funny way of turning you into the one thing you don't want to be.

Jonathan Levine

Life Growing Up You

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.

Parenting Growing Up Parents

Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to b

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

Life Children Growing Up

Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I d

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

Growing Up

Growing up happens when you start having things you look bac

Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray

Cassandra Clare

Life Change Growing Up

Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. M

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

Life Friendship Growing Up Inspirational Metaphor

Adulthood is accretive by nature, a thing which arrives in r

Adulthood is accretive by nature, a thing which arrives in ragged stages and uneven overlaps.

Growing Up

I've screwed everything up royally. I remember you saying th

I've screwed everything up royally. I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.

Cassandra Clare

Life Growing Up

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

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Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After

Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.

Ernest Hemingway

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