Childhood Adulthood Growing Up Quotes

#1. They sealed this promise by hooking pinkies, the way they used to, long ago, when promises didn't hurt as much.

Alice Hoffman

#2. Being a child sucked. Being a teenager was worse. And being an adult seemed so far away that I had a better chance at swimming the length of the ocean than growing up.

Shannon A. Thompson

#3. Answers based in truth are the foundation of wisdom.

Jayce O'Neal

#4. Impossible," said he, "is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.

Napoleon Hill

#5. You act like beauty is the only thing that makes us worthy of love.

Amy Harmon

#6. Cheese has always been a food that both sophisticated and simple humans love.

M.F.K. Fisher

#7. Your body doesn't carry you up there. Your mind does. Your body is exhausted hours before you reach the top; it is only through will and focus and drive that you continue to move. If you lose that focus, your body is a dead, worthless thing beneath you.

Beck Weathers

#8. The beige linoleum floor turned into the ocean, crashed and crashed against Lotto's shins. He sat down. How swiftly things spun. Two minutes ago he'd been a kid, thinking about his nintendo system, worried about asymptotes and signs. Now he was, heavy, adult.

Lauren Groff

#9. The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. The most difficult journey any of us ever take in our adulthood is the return to our parents' house. A home visit makes us recall all of the childhood events that formed us. Returning home reacquaints us with family members and our former self.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#11. I've got news for you, Aves. When a guy says he wants to take you out in the name of science, he's totally full of it. He really just wants to take you out."
"But you've taken me out like a million times for the experiment. You kissed me once in the name of science."
"Exactly.

Kelly Oram

#12. There was a time when that kind of thing looked like the kingdom of heaven, but somewhere along the line it had lost its glow. Maybe that was just the cost of growing up. And maybe the cost of growing up was too high.

James P. Blaylock

#13. They had entered the thorny wilderness, and the golden gates of their childhood had for ever closed behind them.

George Eliot

#14. The arc of the celebrity phenomenon ultimately is: everything turns to dust and everything does go away.

George Hickenlooper

#15. In any case, we do not advance the human cause by refusing to consider ideas that make us frightened.

Carl Sagan

#16. Planning is the mother of almost every other ability. Make your plan and set a timetable for its accomplishment in writing.

Sterling W. Sill

#17. I like being independent. I don't think that marriage means you're not independent, but right now I'm very comfortable, and I'm probably the happiest I've ever been. I feel solid. I feel safe.

Sandra Lee

#18. I'm never bored. Only people bore me, so I avoid them

Dexter Petley

#19. 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

#20. Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try.

Ethan Hawke

#21. I regret my childhood was cut so short by my adulthood.

Joseph DiFrancesco

#22. When we strive to remove all risk from childhood we also remove the foundations of a rational adulthood, and we eliminate the very experiences that will help kids grow up to be the empowered, creative, brave problem-solvers that they can and must be.

Gever Tulley

#23. Nobody truly becomes an adult. The child we have been is always there, deep inside of us. As time passes, we think we're growing, but maturity is only an illusion; a hindrance to our free child soul.

Jiro Taniguchi

#24. Little children are stoical. They cry over bumps, but they take the big things as they come, they don't whine like so many adults.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#25. To hate someone just because he doesn't presume like you is big blunder.

M.H. Rakib

#26. The monsters were never under our bed, but in the forest our future.

Crystal Woods

#27. The scholar may be sure that he writes the tougher truth for the calluses on his palms. They give firmness to the sentence. Indeed, the mind never makes a great and successful effort, without a corresponding energy of the body.

Henry David Thoreau