If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again.
Mary Beth Danielson
Nafai knew the rule: when a man acts like a child, he's boyish, and everyone's delighted; when a boy acts the same way, he's childish, and everyone tells him to be a man.
Orson Scott Card
Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world.
Sylvia Plath
We've had bad luck with children; they've all grown up
Christopher Morley
Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I've heard that it's possible to grow up - I've just never met anyone who's actually done it.
Meredith Grey
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso
Man is the result of slow growth; that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What does a pup amount to that has gained its growth in a few days or weeks, beside a man who only attains it in as many years.
Alexander Graham Bell
Every one should keep a mental waste-paper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it torn up to irrecoverable tatters.
Samuel Butler
The trick is growing up without growing old.
Casey Stengel
As we grow better, we meet better people
Elbert Hubbard
It's alright, just wait and see, your string of lights is still bright to me. Who you are is not where you've been. You're still an innocent. It's okay life is a tough crowd, 32 is still growing up now.
Taylor Swift
I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another.
Taylor Swift