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“A grownup is a child with layers on.”
Woody Harrelson
“We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves”
May Lamberton Becker
“If your gonna screw up, do it while you're young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back.”
Winston Groom
“It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.”
M. Scott Peck
“Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.”
Tom Stoppard
“I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.”
Elizabeth Taylor
“I was so poor growing up - if I wasn't a boy - I'd have had nothing to play with”
Rodney Dangerfield
“Mistakes are a natural part of growing up. They're to be expected and made light of. But children bloom like spring flowers under praise. They want so much to be noticed and appreciated, to excel and have that excellence noticed.”
Earl Nightingale
“You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.”
P. J. O'Rourke
“Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.”
Peter B. Medawar