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Being young is having the world by the tail
Growing up is tracing it to your own posterior — W.M. Driscoll

People still take it really personally. They come up to me at breakfast places like, 'When are you growing your hair back?' — Keri Russell

I never trusted the police. It was just something you were taught growing up in the ghetto, especially when your father ran dope. "Can — Porscha Sterling

The thing about growing old is that when you wake up with a new pain, you can just about count on it becoming a permanent part of your life! — Marjorie Pay Hinckley

Study hard; and you might grow up to be President. But let's face it: Even then, you'll never make as much money as your dog. — George H. W. Bush

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 is like taking down the walls of your house and letting strangers in. — Maureen Daly

As I learned from growing up, you don't mess with your grandmother. — Prince William

When I was growing up, in our house nudity was defined as the period of time between the shower and your towel. — Amy Cohen

You lost your innocence when you grew up, all right, everyone knew that, but did you have to lose your hope, as well? — Stephen King

When you grow up in the [film] industry, the director is your father. You follow your father's lead, but you make your own way. — Leonardo DiCaprio

If there was one thing in particular that he had learned by growing up in his father's house it was this: how to annoy people. — Brandon Sanderson

Love teaches you to care for others. It also gives you your best chance to grow up. — Stephanie Dowrick

For your information, Lester, there are at least five wonderful parts of the female body that can be viewed by the owner only with a hand mirror. — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Growing up and seeing your parents' flaws is like losing your religion. I don't believe in God anymore. I don't believe in my father either. — Nicola Yoon

Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver. — Diane Ackerman

Growing up in the country, you're left to the wilds of your imagination. — Cindy Williams

Don't waste your youth growing up. — Pablo Picasso

When there is a river in your growing up, you probably always hear it — Ann Zwinger

Growing up is like that, I suppose. The strings fall away and you're left standing on your own. — Alan Bradley

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

Blaming your faults on your nature does not change the nature of your faults. After growing up on a dairy farm, everything in life seemed easy — Mike Johanns

When we were growing up, our mother taught us never to have your belly button exposed. — Mary-Kate Olsen

Instead of treating your child like how you were treated. Treat them with the same love and attention you wanted from your parents while growing up. — Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Irish poets, learn your trade,
sing whatever is well made,
scorn the sort now growing up
all out of shape from toe to top. — W.B.Yeats

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. — P. J. O'Rourke

If you grow up in a home where actions don't lead to predictable consequences, you don't develop strategies to control your impulses. — David Brooks

The kids growing up is a separate strand to your life. However bad a day you've had, that's the most important thing, and you have to remember that. — Michael Palin

When you grow up, your heart dies. — Ally Sheedy

There's something about growing up, about being in society and mixing with real people that restricts your imaginative powers. — V.C. Andrews

I figure if you have one person that loves you, that's enough, growing up. You just need one person in your corner. — Mark Bradford

God's ultimate goal for your life on earth is not comfort, but character development. He wants you to grow up spiritually and become like Christ. — Rick Warren

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

In the book, you lost your powers. In the movie, you chose not to use them as much. I guess I did a little of both. — Mara Wilson

But space shrinks when you get old, and things lose their wonder, and the wisest thing to do then is to try your best to sleep. — Dexter Palmer

Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness. — Robert Harris

Growing up elite means learning to value yourself in terms of the measures of success that mark your progress into and through the elite: — William Deresiewicz

Funny how growing up can change your opinion of being afraid of the dark and afraid of the bills. — Amelia Hutchins

Neverland is a place where you don't grow up, then you have to confront your past. — Edward Kitsis

If you begin to face your fears, something bittersweet
is going to happen to you: You'll grow up. — Martha Beck

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

Being amongst rough lives and confusion does not make you less, it only makes your beauty shine out more clearly. — Sharon Sant

Cry your guts out because nothing is sadder than an adult who forgets how to be a child. — Alison Espach

Love and appreciate your parents. We are often so busy growing up; we forget they are also growing old. — John Spence

My dad probably gave me the best advice growing up. I think it's really just keeping your cool in situations and learning to balance everything. — Cassie Steele

It's as if once you hit high school, you're programmed, like a robot, to be an asshole to your parents. — Sara Zarr

If you're a white kid growing up and you see a Black player and he's got the name of your college or your town across his chest, that means something. — Frank Deford

I think sitting in the car with your parents and listening to music is an essential to growing up. — James Vincent McMorrow

There's nothing you can do about growing older, and I should know. But growing up? That's entirely at your own discretion. — Nick Moseley

Growing up crowds your mind with new thoughts and new feelings so that you forget how you used to think and feel. — Maureen Daly

While you are busy growing up, don't forget your parents are growing old. — Asli E. Perker

You don't grow up, she reasoned now, until you begin to evaluate yourself, to recognize your good traits and acknowledge that you have a few faults. — Maud Hart Lovelace

Part of growing up is narrowing your life choices to a manageable size. — Amy E. Spiegel

The beginner hugs his infant poem to him and does not want it to grow up. But you may have to break your poem to remake it. — May Sarton

When you think your life is falling apart, it's usually falling together in disguise. — Charlotte Eriksson

I guess that's a sign of growing up: When your dad shuts up but you can hear him anyway. — Andrew Smith

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

We all have this moment, when your folks first see you as someone not growing up to be them. — Chuck Palahniuk

Remember when you're young and you think your dad is Superman? And then you grow up and realized he's just a drunk who wears a cape. — Dave Attell

When you're growing up you need your parents, but you don't want to be associated with them because you're trying to have your own life. — Rick Nielsen

The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face. — Jodi Picoult

My dad said to me growing up: 'When all is said and done, if you can count all your true friends on one hand, you're a lucky man.' — Josh Charles

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

Growing up outside your own country makes you feel that you don't belong when you return, so you feel free to make friends with whomever you like. — Claire Denis

Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind. — David Levithan

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

Forgive, Adapt and Evolve, because holding on stagnates your opportunity of being better. — Sachin Kumar Puli

You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs. — Catharine MacKinnon

A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up. — Erma Bombeck

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh
at yourself. — Ethel Barrymore

Growing up my dad would say, 'if your life were a book, would it be one worth reading? — B.L. Berry

I'm never growing up, I'll just sit in the corner of time and sip my juice box petulantly and judge your terrible Hamlet adaptations. — Rhiannon McGavin

You have to grow up, start paying the rent and have your heart broken before you understand country. — Emmylou Harris

I get enough sleep. I take very good care of myself. Growing up as a dancer, you know your body so well, you know what to do to overcome something. — Elizabeth Berkley

It's as if you were interested in fashion and your neighbor when you were growing up happened to be Giorgio Armani. — Malcolm Gladwell

The Very Hungry Caterpillar story is about hope. You, like the little caterpillar, will grow up, unfold your wings and fly off into the future — Eric Carle

He has no idea what it was like to grow up in the South, where you had to hold your head down. — Fred Allen

Everyone, when you're a teenager and you're growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it's not. — Ben Folds

Please your mother: just lie around upstairs and smoke some pot. Be a revolutionary. — Kenneth Logan

Growing up is like taking down the sides of your house and letting strangers walk in. — Maureen Daly

Perhaps that is what growing up means: slowly realizing how right your mother has been. — Sheila Kohler

When we were growing up, we had all these crazy, in-your-face guys around the house. For us, it was like, 'Ugh! Actors again.' — Inga Cadranel

If your life is a blank page, that only means you have room to write your story. You have the power to tell that story the way you want to. — Thea Harrison

You can get what you want or you can just get old. — Billy Joel

I believe in knowing who you are but without limiting yourself to your own expectation of who you are. — Charlotte Eriksson

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

Maturity is when your world opens up and you realize that you are not the center of it. — M.J. Croan

You have two numbers in your age when you are ten. It's the beginning of growing up. — Maud Hart Lovelace

Don't over-analyze your marriage; it's like yanking up a fragile indoor plant every 20 minutes to see how its roots are growing. — Ogden Nash

I hope, if you should live to grow up, you will endeavour to be very useful and not spend all your time in pleasing yourself. — Elizabeth Fry

If your gonna screw up, do it while you're young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back. — Winston Groom

Success is like a mountain in front of you that keeps growing. If you're not careful, it will take up your whole life. — George Saunders

I know that in my past I was young and irresponsible - but that's what growing up is. You learn from your mistakes. — Lindsay Lohan

I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family. — Kate Burton