As soon as you’re ripe, you start to rot.” - Ray Krocģ4. “As long as you’re green, you’re growing. “It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” - Mark Twainģ3. “You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.” –Abraham Lincolnģ2. “As you get older, you’re always maturing, you’re always learning something new about yourself.” - Troy Vincentģ1. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.” - Dalai Lamaģ0. “Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” - John F. Life is about creating yourself.” - George Bernard ShawĢ8. “The problem with growing up is that once you’re grown up, people who aren’t grown up aren’t fun anymore.” - Lev GrossmanĢ7. “The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.” - Henry MillerĢ6. “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 Alcottħ. But the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul.” - The Wonder YearsĦ. One day you’re in diapers the next day you’re gone. “If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again.” - Mary Beth DanielsonĤ. “For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments.” - Fyodor Dostoyevskyģ. “Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world.” - Sylvia PlathĢ. Read them to remind yourself of what growing up was like for you and what it is for the children of today.Īnd read them to better understand what it all means. That’s the aim of the growing up quotes you’ll read in this article.
What do you remember of your thoughts as a child?Īnd do you ever ask children what they think about growing up, about whom they look up to, or about who they want to be?