Growing Up Quotes and Messages

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.

Growth is the only evidence of life.

Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.

Let's learn to grow up before we grow old.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

It is as important for children to grow up fit as it is to grow up smart.

It was a sign of growing up, when the dark made no more difference to you than the day.

Don’t try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed.

The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.

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

The trick is growing up without growing old.

People and their rituals. They cling to things so hard sometimes.

Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.

This is growing up, having to stomp out love, this is how people turn terrible.

I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way.

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

You never have a friend all figured out. Just when you think you know what makes them tick, they tock.

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

Even though you’re growing up, you should never stop having fun.

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

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

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

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

Change may come to you in trinkets and I hope it adorns your life gracefully.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

Children who grow up with plenty can learn to give, just as children who grow up receiving love can learn to express it.

The wheel of change moves on, and those who were down go up and those who were up go down.

Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.

Instead, by speaking the truth in a spirit of love, we must grow up in every way to Christ, who is the head.