Growing Up Quotes

Recalling his first dreams of flight when he was a small child, Max acknowledged that his entire existence had been building up to this tipping point where he could finally choose to release his self-imposedlimitations.

~ Sol Luckman

That night, Gregory dreamt of his mother. It was a dream that he'd have carried to his therapist like a raw, precious egg if he'd had a therapist, and the dream made him wish he had one. In the dream, he sat in the kitchen of his mother's house at the table on his usual place. He could hear her handle pots and pans and sigh occasionally. Sitting there filled his heart with sadness and also with a long missed feeling of comfort until he realised that the chair and the table were much too small for him: it was a child's chair and he could barely fit his long legs under the table. He was worried that his mother might scold him for being so large and for not wearing pants. Gregory, in the dream, felt his manhood press against his belly while he was crouching uncomfortably, not daring to move.

~ Marcus Speh

He’s completely blown through his younger years like his childhood was one big cigarette to smoke carelessly.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

I was going to be a memory when I grew up.

~ Alejandro Zambra

And you might try to hide or protect yourself, or compare the different states of love,but you must not grow up, must not act wise when it comes to love.You must stay foolish and fall for every heart will beat in different ways together with yours and love is not meant to be compared, only enjoyed, and suffered, and remembered.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

There is magic everywhere around you, but most people are too busy being grownup to notice it.

~ Sassafras Lowrey

With Martyn, I hold forth some of the philosophies I've been honing since beginning my travels in Ireland almost two years ago, about universal health care and the travel practices of American youth, about my country and the way I was indoctrinated to believe that America was number one in everything, but actually people in other countries have what we have--and sometimes better--about my obligations as a daughter, about the ways that I have put my faith in all the wrong things and now I am hopelessly lost but at the same time realizing that's okay so maybe that means I'm not lost at all, just searching.

~ Rachel Friedman

Life is too hard, too much to handle. Nobody told me there’d be days like these. How could nobody tell me there’d be days like these? How could they let me grow up like that—happy and pink and stupid?

~ Karen Marie Moning

Growing up, I never felt deprived. I was always happy. It seems only lately I've started seeing everything I didn't have.

~ Kasie West

And though, truly, she sometimes felt like something inside her had disappeared, it seemed that must be a natural part of growing up. Standing out too much made one feel too alone to do it forever.

~ Jodi Lynn Anderson

For the first time in my life, I actually wished that everyone was the same. And I despised myself for my differentness or uniqueness as an individual. In the world there are lots of social groups people can fit into, and I've spent time roaming in and out of a few and being kicked out of many. Now I stand on the outside and look in. Wondering where is my place. Coming to a conclusion, I have no place.

~ Laura Hanna

When had she stopped being a child? The first time a guy had whistled at her out of a car window when she was walking to school? The moment she started wondering how she looked when she ran, what jiggled or bounced, instead of the pace she was setting? The first time she’d kept from raising her hand because she didn’t want to seem too smart or too eager?

~ Leigh Bardugo

Life is a progression of becoming who we are.

~ J.r. Rim

Yes, you're right. It's part of growing up, I suppose. You always have to leave something behind you.ü

~ Neil Gaiman

Yes, you're right. It's part of growing up, I suppose. You always have to leave something behind you.

~ Neil Gaiman

A butterfly does not return to a caterpillar after it is mature. We must learn to grow and evolve into a stronger, wiser and better version of ourselves. Life occurs in stages and taking a step at a time is key to learning and growing.

~ Kemi Sogunle

I ought to grow up successfully, and I'm sure it will be my own fault if I don't. I feel it's a great responsibility because I have only one chance. If I don't grow up right I can't go back and begin over again.

~ L.m. Montgomery

The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter

~ Haruki Murakami

Occasionally, events in one's life become clearer through the prism of experience, a phrase which simply means that things tend to be clearer as time goes on. For instance, when a person is just born, they usually have no idea what curtains are and spend a great deal of their first months wondering why on earth Mommy and Daddy have hung large pieces of cloth over each window in the nursery. But as the person grows older, the idea of curtains becomes clearer through the prism of experience. The person will learn the word curtains and notice that they are actually quite handy for keeping a room dark when it is time to sleep, and for decorating an otherwise boring window area. Eventually, they will entirely accept the idea of curtains of their own, or venetian blinds, and it is all due to the prism of experience.

~ Lemony Snicket

Q: I want to be an author when I grow up. Am I insane?Neil Gaiman: Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an au

~ Neil Gaiman

I want my life to be the greatest story. My very existence will be the greatest poem.Watch me burn.Love always, Charlotte

~ Charlotte Eriksson

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

​Till mirrors were Invented, Face was not You, Not Even part of Your Performance.

~ Vineet Raj Kapoor

The most difficult journey any of us ever take in our adulthood is the return to our parents’ house. A home visit makes us recall all of the childhood events that formed us. Returning home reacquaints us with family members and our former self.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Life is like this roller coaster you can’t wait to be tall enough and old enough to get on. But when you get on it you realize you’re afraid of roller coasters.

~ Evan Rauch

My father used to say that when he was growing up the water was clear and there were tons of fireflies everywhere... He felt sorry for the kids growing up today... But it is really beautiful... Time will just keep on passing... we'll get old... and look back on the past. I hope we can always say... how great things were.

~ Fuyumi Soryo

I think it is a part of growing up, learning to control our suffering.

~ Gregory David Roberts

The groove is so mysterious. We're born with it and we lose it and the world seems to split apart before our eyes into stupid and cool. When we get it back, the world unifies around us, and both stupid and cool fall away.I am grateful to those who are keepers of the groove. The babies and the grandmas who hang on to it and help us remember when we forget that any kind of dancing is better than no dancing at all.

~ Lynda Barry

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.

~ John James Audubon

I am a kind of joke, but the question is: which kind? My job is to keep everyone guessing.

~ Gary Shteyngart

IT helps to think of the whole development thing as a process; you go in looking like a girl, and you'll come out at the other end looking like a woman. The stuff in the middle is just what everyone goes through, it;s almost never much fun.

~ Philip Van Munching

From then on, I was terrified that I or one of my parents were going to die. My mother worried me the most. She was the force around which our world turned. Unlike our father, who spent his life in the clouds, my mother was propelled through the universe by the brute force of reason. She was the judge in all of our arguments. One disapproving word from her was enough to send us off to hide in a corner, where we would cry and fantasize our own martyrdrom. And yet. One kiss could restore us to princedom. Without her, our lives would dissolve into chaos.

~ Nicole Krauss

There was always so much I didnt know, but not knowing was part of it all.

~ Nnedi Okarafor

I wasn’t ready to think about the other yet: that it wasn’t that I wasn’t right for Macon, but that maybe he wasn’t right for me. There was a difference. Even for someone who things didn’t come easy for, someone like me.

~ Sarah Dessen

Part of me is afraid that everyone will laugh, that I’m a caricature of myself.

~ Laura Goode

It didn't matter what anyone else saw in me. For the first time, I felt like I was seeing myself.

~ Lisa Brown Roberts

Boys annoyed her. Girls annoyed her. She should have been a cat.

~ Katie Neipris

She’d always pictured her future self as a lone wolf traveling around the world, ensnaring romantic conquests and achieving her wildest and most ambitious goals. She didn’t think that at nineteen she would be so dependent on other people; she pictured herself as an autonomous and untouchable force that occasionally flitted back home to show off her new feathers before flying away to her life that was much more exciting than theirs.

~ Katie Neipris

Laura knew then that she was not a little girl any more. Now she was alone; she must take care of herself. When you must do that, then you do it and you are grown up. Laura was not very big, but she was almost thirteen years old, and no one was there to depend on. Pa and Jack had gone, and Ma needed help to take care of Mary and the little girls, and somehow to get them all safely to the west on a train.

~ Laura Ingalls Wilder

I live in an ecotone. Employment must coexist with goofing off. Responsibility must coexist with irresponsibility.

~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz