In great states, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents wanting to make men and women of them. In vile states, the children are always wanting to be men and women, and the parents to keep them children.
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Quotes tagged ‘Growing Up’
The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day.
The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.
Summer vacation does kind of set up an adulthood of disappointment. That first job, you’re like, ‘I have to go to work in July? What is this, Russia?’
You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.
Greg he writes letters and burns his CDs, they say you were something in those formative years.
Years go by and I'm here still waiting, withering where some snowman was.
Slap them boys when they're naughty, make them crawl, make you haughty. Make you strong, little girl, you paint them toes, the reddish color.
I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
I was too young to know how to love her.
Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up.
I’m five again. No matter how much I think I’ve matured, I always end up back at five when I cry.
It’s like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you.
That’s the worst of growing up, and I’m beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don’t seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.
It’s funny how when you were a kid, a day could last forever. Then you grow up, and all these years just seemed like a blink.
That’s the worst of growing up, and I’m beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don’t seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.
When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
I am older at twenty than a lot of people who have died.
You have to accept that sometimes that’s how things happen in this world. People’s opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.