Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from the sciences to music to writing to literature.
I mean, like a lot of kids growing up in the early seventies, I was fed Dr. Kissinger with my Fruit Loops. He was the Dr. Ruth of American foreign policy, and the model statesman.
As a kid growing up in the 1950s I became acutely aware of the changes taking place in American culture and I must say I didn't much like it. I witnessed the debasement of architecture, and I could see a decline in the quality of things like comic books and toys, things made for kids. Old things seemed to have more life, more substance, more humanity in them.
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.
Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.
Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples.
I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.
Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
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.
We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying. Doing jumps and having races. And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all of those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't.
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.
Encourage & support your kids because "Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
Can I jump over two or three guys like I used to? No. Am I as fast as I used to be? No, but I still have the fundamentals and smarts. That's what enables me to still be a dominant player. As a kid growing up, I never skipped steps. I always worked on fundamentals because I know athleticism is fleeting.
You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.
When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business.
As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course, as we all know from fairy stories, when you achieve that ambition, you find out you don't want it.
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