A collection of the top 15 best growing up quotes.
Most popular growing up quotes
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
children funny parenting
You're never too old to grow up.
— Shirley Conran
When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
— Joseph Heller
The trick is growing up without growing old.
— Casey Stengel
A real person is one who can grow up and still remain a child.
— Erich Kästner
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh—at yourself.
— Ethel Barrymore
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
— Graham Greene The Power and the Glory
childhood future
Growing up is usually so painful that people make comedies out of it to soften the memory.
— John Greenwald
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
— Thomas Szasz The Second Sin
Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child.
— Laurens van der Post
childhood life
The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth.
A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.
— Lewis B. Hershey
adolescence parenting
When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
— C. S. Lewis Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories
It is indeed ironic that we spend our school days yearning to graduate and our remaining days waxing nostalgic about our school days.
— Isabel Waxman
adolescence reunion
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice—that is, until we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say, "I lost it."
— Sydney Harris On the Contrary
Adulthood responsibility