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I think it's really good for a family or children to have a dog, cat, bird or whatever to grow up with. — Hayao Miyazaki

It is rare, I think, for parents to let their children
of any age
grow up and become peers. — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today. — Margaret Mead

From the time that you are a child, you grow up repressing yourself. — Lauryn Hill

While games are fun to play, children should grow up not just being the consumers of technology but also the creators of technology. — Newton Lee

Care about your children. Just bless them instead of worrying, as every child is the little Buddha who helps his parents to grow up. — Gautama Buddha

Albert Einstein was never clear if he believed in time travel, but had he raised a toddler, he certainly would have. — Michael R. French

I have several children who I'm turning into killers. Wait till they grow up. — David Berkowitz

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning. — Mary Wesley

The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted. — Julie Christie

If you are not aware of the goal of your living, what will you do you when your children grow up and leave the house? — Sunday Adelaja

A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. — Edward Snowden

We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustration and poverty, we must expect to pay the price. — Robert Kennedy

Both parents' rights must be in balance so children can grow up with a balance between both parents. — Warren Farrell

The question isn't so much, Are you parenting the right way? as it is: Are you the adult you want your child to grow up to be? — Brene Brown

When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children. — David Beckham

We should make it a crime even to attempt to pollute. Our children should grow up next to parks, not poison. — William J. Clinton

Our children, when young, are part of ourselves. When they grow up they are just other people. — Barbara Vine

It's too painful to us to admit that our children won't wait to grow up because their parents are busy with other things... — Fredrik Backman

The child needs a helping hand or he'll grow up to be an angry young man some day. — Elvis Presley

You grow up the day you realize your parents are just wounded children. — Srividya Srinivasan

Never try to grow up too fast, but don't linger in the child you were — Christofer Drew

What makes you think children like childish things? Don't tell them how to be children. They want to grow up. — M.B. Goffstein

I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life. — Robert Redford

Children know when they're loved. It's when you grow up that you're more easily fooled. — Samantha Sotto

I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well. — Annie Lennox

Our moral imperative is to work with all our powers for that day when the children of the world grow up without the fear of nuclear war. — Ronald Reagan

We tell children what they should do when they grow up so we can impress the people next door. — Robin S. Sharma

Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings, lest they grow up expecting peace and order, and be eaten alive. — Kurt Vonnegut

If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I just wanted my daughter to grow up, get married, have children and get divorced like everyone else. — Cher

It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it. — Frank Warren

Our children will grow up confused, not respecting the Bible or anything else that is sacred. — Charles Wesley

I don't grow up. In me is the small child of my early days. — M.C. Escher

Young children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations ... Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up — Ken Robinson

I think children of divorced parents do grow up quicker. You just do. — Jasmine Guinness

Children will grow up substantially what they are by nature
and only that. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor. — Kirk Douglas

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it. — Russell Baker

It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gambolling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters. — George Orwell

Children don't wait for you to spend time with them. They grow up with or without you. — Sharon Randall

When you grow up in a place (whether as a child or an adult) you squeeze everything out of it. You need so much when you're young. — Vestal McIntyre

Children need to grow up and make their own decisions - how they want to pierce their bodies or do whatever they need to. — Kim Basinger

I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be. — Jodi Picoult

It is when children start to question their happiness that they lose it and grow up. — Elizabeth Goudge

Today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself. — Margaret Mead

No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and beautiful. — Mark Twain

Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English. — Mignon McLaughlin

I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me. — Roald Dahl

Arizona may be the only state in America where mothers don't tell their children that someday they can grow up and be president. — John McCain

Remember that your ultimate goal is for your children to grow up secure in your love, strong in their faith, and with sound character. — Gary Chapman

This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up. — Jerry Spinelli

People born in Amagasaki grow up, get married, have children, and die wearing tracksuits. — Novala Takemoto

No adult can bear a child's burden or grow up in his stead. — Maria Montessori

Lots of children I know are excited to grow up. So I wonder why this man was so happy to become young again? — Sara Rich

Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we grow up and we are hurt, we learned not to trust. — Madeleine L'Engle

My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up. — Caitlin Flanagan

We can't get away with anything with children. They are keen and attentive, and they will eventually grow up to tell the story of their home. — Sarah Mae

Be nice to your children. They may grow up to be writers. — Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Children need close friends to help them grow up, to discover things about themselves and about life. They also need close friends to keep them sane — Cecelia Ahern

I was missing the opportunity to see my friends' children grow up, to have my son go to his friends' homes and be involved with their parents. — Karen Hughes

When people have children, they have to grow up! — Kyle

Respect children because they're human beings and they deserve respect, and they'll grow up to be better people. — Benjamin Spock

Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children. — Harold S. Kushner

I didn't want the children to grow up and, when asked what their mother did, say, 'Oh, Mom's a gun moll in the movies.' — Jane Greer

All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma. — Kazuo Ishiguro

we are living in an interdependent world where what our children hear, see, feel, and learn will affect how they grow up and who they turn out to be. — Hillary Rodham Clinton

What do we want most for our children? What's most important in the grand scheme of things? We want them to grow up and be happy. — Adele Devine

Being a good psychoanalyst, in short, has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up. — Morton Hunt

All children, except one, grow up. — J.M. Barrie

I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment. — Frank Zappa

By empowering a woman, we empower a child. By educating a girl child, we make it possible for her to grow up to become an empowered woman. — Winnie Byanyima

No one aspires as a child to grow up and enter into a domestic partnership. But they do aspire as children to grow up and be married. — Ted Olson

You cannot compare your athletic achievement to the importance of children and giving them a safe environment in which to grow up and enjoy life. — Steffi Graf

My wish for the new millennium is for all children ... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before. — Hillary Clinton

You need a husband and some babies to look after. Otherwise you're going to grow up into a virago ... — Lindsay Armstrong

No mother ever wants a war, they want to see their children grow up in peace, surrounded by love. — Debasish Mridha

Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers. — Piers Anthony

Let's roll for justice, let's roll for truth. Let's not let our children grow up fearful in their youth. — Neil Young

There is a psychic cost children bear when they grow up in fear. — John Niven

Don't we have to respond to people who don't seem normal to us? Will my child grow up able to accept that not everyone looks the same? — Nancy Burson

If you're financially responsible, your children have a much better chance to grow up financially responsible. — Suze Orman

When I grow up I want to be just like Benny Carter! — Dizzy Gillespie

I hope my children just grow up happy and pursue their dreams. I mean, that's all I can ask of them. — Ivanka Trump

The adventures of the boy who doesn't want to grow up has universal appeal. We all want to keep something of the child in us. — Tessa Jowell

Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that's never lost is your sister. — Gail Sheehy

They said - Adults need to have fun so children will want to grow up. — Erica Bauermeister

We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does. — W. H. Auden

I love London, and it's a privilege for my children to grow up here. — Helen McCrory

Cruel children, crying babies,
All grow up as geese and gabies,
Hated, as their age increases,
By their nephews and their nieces. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I would just like my children to be able to eat fish when they grow up. Now, I don't think there's anything controversial about that. — James Murdoch

No matter your position or place in life, it is imperative to create opportunities for children so that we can grow up to blow you away. — Adora Svitak

Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading children. — Elizabeth Bowen

I think a lot of mothers are doing as I am: starting up their own ventures as their children grow older, and having a kind of second blooming. — Donna Air

I believe that children have to grow up as all-round personalities, but it cannot be at the cost of academics. — Nita Ambani

Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people. — Chuck Palahniuk

I need to stop carving out four-hour chunks to do random things and go home and watch my children grow up. — Neil Patrick Harris