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We're so preoccupied with protecting children from disappointment and discomfort that we're inadvertently excusing them from growing up. — LZ Granderson

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing. — J.B. Priestley

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

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing. — Phyllis Diller

Growing in poverty imparted a certain DNA in the life of their children. — Santiago "Jimmy" Mellado

Growing up I was involved in children's theater, so I was definitely on the path to be an actor and a singer. — Victor Garber

Stories are like children. They grow in their own way. — Madeleine L'Engle

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

Wasn't growing catnip in one's yard the kitty equivalent of giving candy to children? — Caroline Paul

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

Growing up, I always loved Disney movies, but the first movie I remember seeing is 'Sleepers,' so I wasn't really taken to children's movies. — Sarah Silverman

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

You could not moralize children out of growing up. Or teach them how to do it. — Stephen King

One of the things I teach my children is that I have always invested in myself, and I have never stopped learning, never stopped growing. — Chesley Sullenberger

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

Mamas are always crying about how one day they see you as a baby, and the next morning, they see you growed up. — Andrew Galasetti

That's so important for children when they're growing up, to have a strong male role model. — Mary Badham

I think the arts are very important for children growing up. — Stephen Schwartz

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

Children are very addicting. Once they start growing up, you miss when they were little. — Heidi Klum

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

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot. — Billy Graham

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

Children have the unforgivable habit of growing up — Bjarne Reuter

Earth, the mother of all, Moves on her stedfast way, Gathering, flinging, sowing. Mortals, we live in her day, She in her children is growing. — George Meredith

If I wasn't acting, I would probably be working with children. I was a camp counselor growing up and I loved it. — Julianne Nicholson

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

Oh, children, growing up to be Adventurers into sophistry, Forbear, forbear to be of those That read the rood to learn the rose. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

A young hero is the world's greatest attraction. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Because I see my own boys growing, and I see other children growing and I just have such a connection. — Sam Trammell

How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother? — Gabrielle Hamilton

A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man. — Herbert Hoover

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

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

Summerhill children are allowed to go through their gangster period, and consequentially more furniture is destroyed. — A.S. Neill

The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child. — Hans Rosling

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

Some children have the most disagreeable way of getting grown-up — Lewis Carroll

It's about children cooking themselves, growing themselves. When kids grow it and cook it they eat it. — Alice Waters

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

The world my children are growing up in is so much more sophisticated and exposed - emotionally, intellectually, sexually. — Amy Grant

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

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

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

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

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

He was thirteen that year, the age when children splinter off and abandon the old loves. — Mark Costello

I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts. — John Mahoney

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

What interests me is what children go through while growing up. — Beverly Cleary

I am but the reflection in your eyes, the effect of your expressions, and the sum of your praise and criticism. — Richelle E. Goodrich

The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult. — Maria Montessori

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jocelyn did not want to always remain the same. Where was the adventure in that? — Heidi Schulz

A change in those moments, some switch turned off forever, the end of trust or safety or love, and how do we ever find the switch again? — David Vann

She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all. — Alice Hoffman

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

Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me. — David Boreanaz

It was the hate of the used and tormented, who are the children of the used and tormented, and whose own children will be used and tormented. — Laini Taylor

Katie soon learned there was a problem with hope. — Carla H. Krueger

Marital psychological abuse suffered by a parent can never be understood by disrespectful, ungrateful, growing, biased, brainwashed children. — Angelica Hopes

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

A lot of childhood effort, worry, and whispering goes into cracking the codes of adult life. Children have to be accomplished spies. — Vera B. Williams

It's not nice to think of children growing up like mushrooms, in the dark. — Shirley Jackson

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

The phrase 'Boys will be boys,' reflects that a male child is expected to be unpredictable and occasionally troublesome. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Childhood introduces children to the wounds of the world. — Kilroy J. Oldster

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

A mother is a child's first looking glass into the world. — Richelle E. Goodrich

When I was growing up, my parents took in foster children. From a young age, I learned that there are a lot of children in need. — Michelle Monaghan

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

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

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

...[their] children were not growing up or being brought up, but were tumbling up. — Charles Dickens

Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up. — Kate Forsyth

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

I am concerned about the growing problem of sexual abuse and exploitation of our children. — Jim Ryun

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.
Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children. — Jodi Picoult

Almost 24 million children - one in three - are likely growing up without their father involved in their lives. — Arne Duncan

The opinions of men who think are always growing and changing, like living children. — Philip Gilbert Hamerton

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

How do you explain to a child who likes everyone in the world that adult life consists to a great extent of cutting people away? — Miranda Emmerson

Validate my existence with your words and I will speak to you all the day long. — Richelle E. Goodrich

The joy of reading with our children doesn't stop as they, and we, get older; it simply changes. — Paul Kropp

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

Resting on the roots of this old oak I lean back against his knotted trunk, shine my granny smith on my sleeve And ponder the days ... — Kellie Elmore

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

She's not a baby anymore, my love, said Tarik softly. That's what we have to accept, you and I. — Soheir Khashoggi

If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away. — Neil Gaiman

Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own. — Neil Gaiman