Why grow up quotes

I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.

JoyBell C. Did you ever guess that that was why I was so afraid? It wasn't that I only loved some of you. But I wondered if you could ever love more than some of me. I knew I'd miss you. But the surprising thing is, you never leave me. I never forget a thing. Every kind of love, it seems, is the only one. It doesn't happen twice. And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn't seem broken at all.

I know young people look at me and think my youth seems so far away, but it's all around me, and you're all around me. Tiger Lily, do you think magic exists if it can be explained?

I can explain why I loved you, I can explain the theory of evolution that tells me why mermaids live in Neverland and nowhere else. But it still feels magic. The lost boys all stood at our wedding. Does it seem odd to you that they could have stood at a wedding that wasn't yours and mine? It does to me. It is so quiet here. Even with all the trains and the streets and the people.

It's nothing like the jungle. The boys have grown. Everything has grown. Do you think you will ever grow? I hope not. I like to think that even if I change and fade away, some other people won't. I like to think that one day after I die, at least one small particle of me - of all the particles that will spread everywhere - will float all the way to Neverland, and be part of a flower or something like that, like that poet said, the one that your Tik Tok loved.

I like to think that nothing's final, and that everyone gets to be together even when it looks like they don't, that it all works out even when all the evidence seems to say something else, that you and I are always young in the woods, and that I'll see you sometime again, even if it's not with any kind of eyes I know of or understand.

I wouldn't be surprised if that is the way things go after all - that all things end happy. Even for you and Tik Tok. Always, Your Peter P. Please give my love to Tink. She was always such a funny little bug. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try. 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. Barrie, Peter Pan. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again.

Mary Beth Danielson 0 Copy. If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me! If you're gonna screw up, do it while you're young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back.

Winston Groom 0 Copy. 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 0 Copy. It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do.

So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on. Nicholas Sparks 0 Copy. Most of us won't see one another after graduation, and even if we do it will be different.

We'll be different. We'll be adults--cured, tagged and labeled and paired and identified and placed neatly on our life path, perfectly round marbles set to roll down even, well-defined slopes. Lauren Oliver 0 Copy. One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed. Patricia Briggs 0 Copy. 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 0 Copy. Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest - learning when it was better to lie, rather than to hurt someone with the truth.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. Lewis 1 Copy. Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up. James Dobson 0 Copy. Sometimes you have to grow up before you appreciate how you grew up. Daniel Black 0 Copy. 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 0 Copy. Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors.

Well I won't do that. Walt Disney 1 Copy. Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary. Ernest Hemingway 0 Copy. It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. Cummings 0 Copy. Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart. Beverley Mitchell 0 Copy. The trick is growing up without growing old. Casey Stengel 0 Copy. We had so many dreams as children. Sara Blakely Failure I want my children to have a strong foundation, to help them maintain a faith in God throughout their life.

They are growing up in a world that is quickly turning away from God. We are raising the people who will grow up to influence society and the world.

When I was growing up, I thought wisdom was learned as it was passed down through the generations from grandmothers to mothers to daughters. Ana Barreto; Sarah Evans, Women, Rice and Beans Wise It's one of the most powerful assets we can have, and living with siblings means that your children will grow up in the best training ground they could have for developing this skill.

Because they grow up having to share your time and attention as well as the family possessions, they'll have to learn how to negotiate and compromise when there are the inevitable conflicts of interest. Linda Blair, Siblings Family Because of destructive criticism in childhood, adults grow up afraid of making a mistake or failing at their work.

This fear serves as a form of paralysis and holds people back from taking risks, volunteering for new responsibilities, or extending themselves in any way.

Brian Tracy Quotes about Taking Risks Macrosocial changes such as growing up in a context of ethnic diversity and living in single-parent families are increasingly experienced by adolescents in Western industrialized countries. Aiden Sisler, Siblings in Adolescence Diversity To be able to watch your children's children grow up is truly a blessing from above. Byron Pulsifer Blessed Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.

Beverley Mitchell Learning 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 Mistake 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.

O'Rourke Funny Poems Even though you're growing up, you should never stop having fun. 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 Birthday Poems Yes, Christmas is for children - except that children grow up to be adults who just might love Christmas as much as they did in their younger years. James Baldwin Love Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

Kurt Vonnegut Disappointment I knew that I had reached the end of childhood once I realized that adults in my life didn't know anymore than I did. Ethel Barrymore Laughter Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. Phyllis Diller Home Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

As you were growing up, you may have been told over and over that you were good at doing something. You believed it. Similarly, if you constantly tell people they are doing a good job, they will eventually believe it even if, in the beginning, they have doubts about their ability. In essence, we become what we believe.