Growing Up Quotes

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  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

  Moving On, Memories, Moving Forward

  Nicholas Sparks (2013). “True Believer”, p.75, Hachette UK

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

  Neil Young

  Children, Justice, Politics

  "Song: "Let's Roll"". 2002.

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• That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Children, Real

  "Walt Disney World: Then, Now, & Forever". Book by Jeff Kurtti, October 7, 2008.

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• It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Motivational, Birthday

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

  Chili Davis

  Love, Happy Birthday, Happiness

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• To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

  Henri Bergson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Henri Bergson (2015). “Creative Evolution”, p.16, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Women, Lying

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Nov 29, 2014

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• Age is no guarantee of maturity.

  Lawana Blackwell

  Inspirational, Maturity, Getting Older

  Lawana Blackwell (2007). “Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, The”, p.23, Bethany House

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• You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cute

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

  Alden Nowlan

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Wise

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• Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

  Virginia Woolf

  Order, Losing, Illusion

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• Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Children

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• It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

  M. Scott Peck

  Life, Problem, Road Less Traveled

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

  Mark Twain

  Happy Birthday, Time, Age

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.29, St. Martin's Press

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• One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

  Carl Jung

  Thank You, Education, Thankful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1970). “The development of personality”

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• We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

  Bryan White

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• 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

  Life, Motivational, Broken Heart

  Max Lerner (1959). “The unfinished country: a book of American symbols”

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• The trick is growing up without growing old.

  Casey Stengel

  Motivational, Inspiration, Coaching

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

  Winston Groom

  Screw Ups, Young, Harder

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• Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Birthday, Positive

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.443, Courier Corporation

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• Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.

  Judd Nelson

  Disappointment, Real, Heartache

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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!

  James M. Barrie

  Change, Mean, Tree

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• I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.

  Lisa Unger

  Responsibility, Thinking, Parent

  Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.723, Crown

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• You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.

  Ethel Barrymore

  Inspirational, Life, Happy Birthday

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• Now I'm growing and I can see my faults. I can look at myself objectively and say I can't blame anyone else; it was my own damn fault.

  Christopher Atkins

  Looks, Faults, Blame

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