Quotes About Growing Up

1. “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” – C. S. Lewis
2. “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.” – Kevin [The Wonder Years]

3. “Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up.” – Jodi Picoult
4. “Even though you're growing up, you should never stop having fun.” – Nina Dobrev
5. “In this day and age, some turn 18 and think they're a man or a woman and that's it, but that's just not true. You have to establish your manhood or your womanhood with actions.” – Orlando McGuire

6. “Don’t grow old to give up and don’t give up growing up.” – Bernard Kelvin Clive

7. “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
8. “Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.” – Chili Davis
9. “You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.” – Ta-Nehisi Coates

10. “We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.” – May Lamberton Becker

11. “The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.” – Max Lerner
12. “Age is a necessary but insufficient requirement for growing up. There are immature old people, and there are appropriately mature young people.” – Henry Cloud

13. “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
14. “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

15. “As children, we don't get to pick the ways in which we're loved. But then we grow up, and if we're smart and prepared and very determined, every once in a while we actually do get the life we wanted.” – Oprah Winfrey
16. “Don’t try to make me grow up before my time.” – Louisa May Alcott

17. “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

18. “Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.” – Mark Twain
19. “Don’t try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.” – Russell Baker

20. “Children who grow up with plenty can learn to give, just as children who grow up receiving love can learn to express it.” – Fred Rogers

21. “The trick is growing up without growing old.” – Casey Stengel
22. “Part of growing up is realizing you learn to love so many people. It’s about forming those relationships and finding what will last forever.” – Dylan O’Brien
23. “You grow up the day you have your first real laugh – at yourself.” – Ethel Barrymore

24. “One sign of maturity is the ability to be comfortable with people who are not like us.” – Virgil A. Kraft

25. “Growing up is hard, love. Otherwise everyone would do it.” – Kim Harrison