2233+ quotes about growing up 2023

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The trick is growing up without growing old. — Casey Stengel

Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional. — Walt Disney

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up. — Tom Stoppard

As long as you’re green, you’re growing. As soon as you’re ripe, you start to rot. — Ray Kroc

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

Growing up is losing some illusions in order to acquire others. — Virginia Woolf

Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day you’re in diapers; the next day you’re gone. But the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul. — The Wonder Years

Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that. — Allie Condie, Matched

My mother… she is beautiful, softened at the edges, and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her. — Jodi Picoult

Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change. — Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end, she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls. — J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

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

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. — E.E. Cummings

When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. — Tom Robbins

’Oh,’ she thought, ‘How horrible it is that people have to grow up and marry and change!’ — L.M. Montgomery

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is. — Kenny Rogers

You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing. — George Bernard Shaw

Growing old is unavoidable, but never growing up is possible. I believe you can retain certain things from your childhood if you protect them — certain traits, certain places where you don’t let the world go. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Growing up, we are told many things; one being, you can do anything. But somewhere between child and adult, things change. — Julie Hebert, Why Not You

As I learned from growing up, you don’t mess with your grandmother. — Prince William

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

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, The Name of the Wind

It takes years to learn the difference between who to let go and who to be patient with. The same way it takes years to know what you deserve and what you don’t. So hang in there — growth and experience come with time. — R.M. Drake

Wasn’t it beautiful when you believed in everything? — Unknown

growing up together quotes for friends

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. … It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

You don’t have to have anything in common with people you’ve known since you were five. With old friends, you’ve got your whole life in common.

Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

The best mirror is an old friend.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

Ten minutes with a genuine friend is better than years spent with anyone less.

A good friend is a connection to life – a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

Childhood friends are the benchmark of our lives, no matter where we go, what we do. They will always come by and take you to the place where you belong.

Everyone has a friend during each stage of life. But only lucky ones have the same friend in all stages of life.

I love coming back home and seeing old friends and family. I would say it keeps me grounded.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don’t forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems.

A circle is round, it has no end. That’s how long I want to be your friend.

Are we not like two volumes of one book?

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.

Cherish all your happy moments. They make a fine cushion for old age.

Friendship is a gift that is fair in all things. It roots from one’s heart and involves memories that stay not for a while but a lifetime.

He felt lost and alone without his old friend, though he barely recognized him anymore. He wondered if they could ever be friends again.

I keep my old friends, and get older with them, but push young. It’s good to be surrounded by kids, because they keep you young.

I look to the sea, reflections in the waves spark my memory. Some happy, some sad, I think of childhood friends, and the dreams we had.

growing up quotes for son

Let your boys test their wings. They may not be eagles, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t soar free.

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.

One of the greatest gifts you can give your teenage boy is the gift of letting him know you get it. You’ve been there.

Of course, you are going to be reading books to your son at night. The books that he loves will be an education for you.

Do I want to be a hero to my son? No. I would like to be a very real human being. That’s hard enough.

My wild, wild son, run free. Ooh, you’ll know it when you’re where you’re supposed to be.

Listen, my son, to your father’s instructions and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

Yet now in my arms I was holding a helpless baby boy who would grow into a man… I cannot imagine that soft little face one day having whiskers.

He doesn’t know you’re watching him, but in this special, reflective moment, you realize he’s growing up. I mean, really growing up.

Though our new son is barely a part of our present, we look at his squirming, warm bundle of future potential and say to ourselves, ‘Hello, little man.’ Little do we know the adventure we are beginning!

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

Until you have a son of you own, you will never know what that means. You will never know the joy beyond joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.

There is no greater privilege in living than bringing a tiny new human being into the world and then trying to raise him or her properly during the next eighteen years.

When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son.

I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it’s good to make thoughtful, good choices.

If you would have your son to walk honorably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them – not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.

I want my son to have a choice to contribute fully in the workforce or at home.

As the mother of a son, I do not accept that alienation from me is necessary for his discovery of himself. As a woman, I will not cooperate in demeaning womanly things so that he can be proud to be a man. I like to think the women in my son’s future are counting on me.

You don’t raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they’ll turn out to be heroes, even if it’s just in your own eyes.

The years will rush by, and one day you will be watching your son as a man, and feeling incredibly proud that he is caring, safe, making a contribution, and hopefully going far beyond you in the scope of his life.

There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that transcends all other affections of the heart.

If a man has been his mother’s undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

growing up quotes for daughter

No matter how old she may be, sometimes a girl just needs her mom. — Cardinal Mermillod

I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them. — Louisa May Alcott

To a father growing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter. — Euripides

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary. — Dorothy C. Fisher

A daughter may outgrow your lap, but she will never outgrow your heart. — Unknown

The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother. — Sharon Olds

As they get older, our daughters become more and more like us too. — Amy Newmark

I hope that my daughter grows up empowered and doesn’t define herself by the way she looks but by qualities that make her an intelligent, strong, and responsible woman. — Isaiah Mustafa

Raising a daughter is like growing a flower. You give it your best. If you’ve done your job well, she blooms. And after that, she leaves. — Unknown