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.
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.
Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
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.
The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.
Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples.
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
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.
Encourage & support your kids because "Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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.
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.
Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.
We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.
As a kid growing up in the little city of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, I dreamed of one day playing in the NHL, but never did I expect it to be as much fun as it turned out to be.
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 wasn't a kid growing up thinking, 'One day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech.' That wasn't on my mind.
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