Growing Up Quotes

But I, alas, do not know how to see sheep through the walls of boxes. Perhaps I am a little like the grown-ups. I have had to grow old.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Little Prince

— You need some time to grow up a little.
— I finished growing up, Leon. I just get older.

People become stronger because they have things they cannot forget. That’s what you call growth.

When we grew up nothing was what it seemed.

People make mistakes. It's part of growing up. And you never really stop growing.

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

As for me, I always assumed growing up happened dogmatically as you got older but it's really something you have to choose to do.

Growing up means one thing — independence. We all want it. Sometimes we use other people to try to get it for ourselves. Sometimes we find it in each other. Sometimes our independence comes at the cost of something else. And that cost can be high. Because more often than not, in order to gain our independence we have to fight. Never give up — never surrender.

Gossip Girl

independence

Used to play pretend, give each other different names,
We would build a rocket ship and then we'd fly it far away
Used to dream of outer space, but now they're laughing at our face
Singing "wake up, you need to make money", yeah!

I was told when I get older, all my fears would shrink,
But now I'm insecure, and I care what people think.

People never grow up, they just learn how to act in public.

Bryan White