We dance in a circle and thank the universe for our feet. The heart opening postures make me feel dizzy. The instructor tells me it’s because I'm in the process of letting things go.
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Quotes tagged ‘Growing Up’
Growing up is a heavy leaf to turn.
A daughter may outgrow your lap but she'll never outgrow your heart.
Jamie: Ye treat him as a child, but he's a man now. Jenny: Ye ought to give him a taste of freedom, while he still thinks it's yours to give.
Neither one had the chance to become an adult. They should have become adults. They should have had children of their own and loved those children and I want to make that possible for other people.
You know you’re growing up when you want stuff for your apartment. Instead of like toys and clothes. I’m not there yet.
Role playing. It's such an important part of growing up. When we were kids, whatever role Deb assigned me - evil monster, treacherous Nazi, horrible alien - I played them to perfection. The only roles I had trouble with were the good guys - heroes, knights in shining armor. It just never felt right.
— James Manos, Jr., Dexter Morgan, Michael C. Hall, imdb.com
I've never been very good at the adult thing, I guess.
When you're a little boy, you don't have to go very far to find the center of your universe. Mom. She's always there. It's a pretty good arrangement—when you're five. But around age thirteen, there starts to be...a problem. The problem is...she's always there. And I mean always. Now a mom has to be…
— Todd W. Langen, Narrator (Adult Kevin), Daniel Stern, imdb.com
Once upon a time, I lived in a great big house. With a great big yard, and a great big bedroom. And a great big older brother. But by the middle of nineteen-sixty-nine, the house and the yard and the bedroom were are all getting...smaller. Or maybe Wayne and I were getting larger. One thing was cert…
— Mark B. Perry, Narrator (Adult Kevin), Daniel Stern, imdb.com
When you are a little kid, you are a bit of everything—artist, scientist, athlete, scholar. Sometimes, it seems life is like a process of giving those things up, one by one. I guess we all have one thing we regret giving up. One thing we really miss. And we gave up because we were too lazy. We could…
— Todd W. Langen, Narrator (Adult Kevin), Daniel Stern, imdb.com
Sometimes...when you're a kid...you lie awake at night and ponder the kinds of questions that grownups have long since stopped asking. Questions like—What did it feel like to be dead? Are time and space really infinite? What was there before the universe began? Why are there people like Wayne?
— Matthew Carlson, Narrator (Adult Kevin), Daniel Stern, imdb.com
Who was right, and who was wrong? Well, I'm supposed to be an adult now, and I still can't completely figure that one out. But at some point, late at night, near sleep, the ideas and the disagreements sort of dissolve, and you're just left with the people. And people were no different then, as they'…
— Carol Black, Neal Marlens, Narrator (Adult Kevin), Daniel Stern, imdb.com
Maybe we both realized that growing up doesn’t always have to be a straight line, but a series of advances and retreats. Maybe we just felt like swinging. But whatever it was, Winnie and I made an unspoken pact that day to stay kids for a little while longer.
— Carol Black, Neal Marlens, Narrator (Adult Kevin), Daniel Stern, imdb.com
If you build it, they will come, and if they don’t, well, fuck ’em.
Stu: There's nothing wrong with Tommy. Didi: How can you say that? Drawing on the walls proves that he cannot find a constructive outlet for his repressed, social anxieties. Stu: Deed, he's a year old!
— Arlene Klasky, Gabor Csupo, Stu Pickles, Jack Riley, imdb.com
It’s time to let go of the fantasies. It’s time to grow up.
— Stephen Lloyd, Barney Stinson, Neil Patrick Harris, imdb.com
It's just, eventually we're all gonna move on. It's called growing up.
'You'll understand when you're older.' Well, now I'm older and I understand nothing.
I don't blame Hannah for anything. That's how it is for girls. People judge you for the way you look and the things they hear about you. They put a label on you.