(539 quotes found)
“A grownup is a child with layers on.”
Woody Harrelson
“Every gay and lesbian person who has been lucky enough to survive the turmoil of growing up is a survivor. Survivors always have an obligation to those who will face the same challenges.”
Bob Paris
“We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves”
May Lamberton Becker
“It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.”
M. Scott Peck
“I was a mostly happy child, though I had a pretty rough puberty. Growing up as a girl is always traumatizing, especially when you have the deadly combination of greasy skin and getting your boobs at ten. But I think it's good to grow up that way. It builds character.”
Tina Fey
“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
“I was so poor growing up - if I wasn't a boy - I'd have had nothing to play with”
Rodney Dangerfield
“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
“I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.”
Elizabeth Taylor
“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
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