1. 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
2. Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world. -Sylvia Plath
3. Don’t try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it. -Russell Baker
4. Even though you’re growing up, you should never stop having fun. -Nina Dobrev
5.Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional. -Chili Davis
6. 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 Dostoyevsky
7. Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day you’re in diapers; the next day you’re gone. But the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul. -The Wonder Years
8. Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change. -Cassandra Clare
9. Growing up is hard, love. Otherwise everyone would do it. -Kim Harrison
10. Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others. -Virginia Woolf
11. Growing up is never easy. You hold on to things that were. You wonder what’s to come. But that night, I think we knew it was time to let go of what had been, and look ahead to what would be. Other days. New days. Days to come. The thing is, we didn’t have to hate each other for getting older. We just had to forgive ourselves… for growing up. -The Wonder Years
12. Growing up is never straight forward. There are moments when everything is fine, and other moments where you realize that there are certain memories that you’ll never get back, and certain people that are going to change, and the hardest part is knowing that there’s nothing you can do except watch them. -Alden Nowlan
13. 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 Alcott
14. I am convinced that most people do not grow up…We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias. -Maya Angelou
15. Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience and pimples. -J.M. Barrie
16. I think, as you’re growing up, your emotions are just as deep as they are when you’re an adult. You’re ability to feel lonely, longing, confused or angry are just as deep. We don’t feel things more as we get older. -Spike Jonze
17. I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. -Jodi Picoult
18. 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
19. 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! -J.M. Barrie
20. If you’re gonna screw up, do it while you’re young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back. -Winston Groom
21. 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
22. 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
23. 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
24. 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
25. Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. -C.S. Lewis
26. 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. -Jodi Picoult
27. 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
28. 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
29. 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
