Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. — Chili Davis
It's okay to grow up, it's just slowing down that's the scary part. Running out of time. It's okay to grow up, but it doesn't mean you have to become like your parents. — Billie Joe Armstrong
Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional. — Bob Monkhouse
Once you grow up and discover yourself as a human being you look at things for what they are. — Marco Pierre White
If you are raised with something, you grow old with it. — Moroccan Proverbs
When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot. — Ray Kroc
Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging. — Maya Angelou
The need for growth - what we might call immaturity - is not a negative state of being. — John Dewey
That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. — Walt Disney
The trick is growing up without growing old. — Casey (Charles Dillon) Stengel
Being an adult is overrated. I refuse to grow up. — Lex Fridman
Born to be wild -- live to outgrow it. — Doug Horton
Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old. — Frank Lloyd Wright
You've got to do your own growing no matter how tall your father was. — Irish Proverbs
Great men are not born great, they grow great . . . — Mario Puzo
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. — Abraham Lincoln
Top 10 Grown Up Quotes
There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal. — Sigmund Freud
When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up. — C. S. Lewis
The Moguls is a story about guys that have all grown up together and are now in their late 40s, early 50s. — Joe Pantoliano
I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale. — Rachel McAdams
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Comic books to me are fairy tales for grown-ups. — Stan Lee
We've got a low turnover management group and executive group who've grown up in the business. — Fred L. Turner
I used to hate looking in the mirror. I've grown up into myself and now I'm happy with the way I look. — Ashley Tisdale
There was a big question as to whether or not different generations have grown up differently — Melissa Joan Hart
Grown Up Image Quotes
Once you're grown up you can't come back.
Being A Grown Up Quotes
There's a passion about this because people take it very close to their hearts and they have grown up with James Bond - and so have I. But I was being criticized before I had presented anything, so it was name calling. — Daniel Craig
Remember, the goal is not to raise great kids; it's to raise kids who become great adults. — Andy Andrews
I've got the rest of my life to be a grown-up. And for now, it's OK to be young. — Cory Monteith
Grown-ups are just kids with wrinkles.
One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up. — George Orwell
When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up. — C. S. Lewis
When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into a story which will be marketed for children, because children understand what their parents have rejected and forgotten. — Madeleine L'Engle
Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle. — Soren Kierkegaard
Up until Prohibition, an apple grown in America was far less likely to be eaten than to wind up in a barrel of cider. ("Hard" cider is a twentieth-century term, redundant before then since virtually all cider was hard until modern refrigeration allowed people to keep sweet cider sweet.) — Michael Pollan
Life is too precious to be a spectator sport. We are no longer merely fans, rooting for the winning team. We are the team. We are the grown-ups. Whatever you believe is true, now is the time to give your respectful, inquisitive, and compassionate self to it. — Vicki Robin
Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love. — Rabindranath Tagore
Being A Grown Woman Quotes
I'm not trying to make myself look like a girl because I'm not a girl anymore. I'm very happy about being a grown woman. — Sharon Stone
I'd rather be a boy playing with a paper plane, than to be a grown man playing with a woman's heart. — Niall Horan
I'm a grown woman and sometimes, I might be a little fat, you know? Am I alone there? Not really. — Leighton Meester
If my father were still writing essays, every full-grown 'girl' would probably be transformed into a'woman'. — Anne Fadiman
It helps being from somewhere other than Hollywood, not having grown up with that sense of film-making. I really wasn't exposed to that as a young woman. — Saffron Burrows
Being a grown-up woman doesn't mean you can't look beautiful, individual and different. — Twiggy
How Cute You Are Quotes
A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others. — L. Frank Baum
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? — Albert Einstein
I think how you look is the most important thing in the world. If you look cute, you are cute; if you look smart, you are smart, and if you don't look like anything, you aren't anything. — Betsy Byars
Cute's good. But cute only lasts for so long, and then it's, 'Who are you as a person?' Look at the heart. Look at the soul. Look at how the guy treats his mother and what he says about women. How he acts with children he doesn't know. And, more important, how does he treat you? — Michelle Obama
That's you, right?' he asks me. 'Yeah.' 'Cute. Not that I, uh, think little kids are cute. Just that you were cute. I mean, you can see how you turned out to be so...oh. — Elizabeth Scott
Counter Girl (in candy shop): You two are cute. Seriously. How long have you been going out? Sam: Six years. — Maggie Stiefvater
Growing Food Quotes
The time has come to reclaim the stolen harvest and celebrate the growing and giving of good food as the highest gift and the most revolutionary act. — Vandana Shiva
The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality. — William Shakespeare
Legalize hemp and allow women to grow it and make food, clothing and housing for pennies from it and legalize marijuana too. Let women integrate their divided consciousness with a natural herb instead of doctors' pills that kill the liver. — Roseanne Barr
Children who grow up getting nutrition from plant foods rather than meats have a tremendous health advantage. They are less likely to develop weight problems, diabetes, high blood pressure and some forms of cancer — Benjamin Spock
Whenever anyone grows tired of the secondhand sort of existence that depends on purchased products, and wants to resume the intimate relationship with nature that man once enjoyed, the kukui-nut stands ready to furnish him with food, flavor, tannin, oil, paint, varnish, medicine, and magic. — Euell Gibbons
I am confident that we will see a growing consensus about the most effective way to transform food in America: building a real, sustainable and free school-lunch program. — Alice Waters
If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture. — Bill Gates
Don't you find it odd that people will put more work into choosing their mechanic or house contractor than they will into choosing the person who grows their food? — Joel Salatin
The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families. — Jeremy Rifkin
We Grow Quotes
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. — George Bernard Shaw
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. James Baldwin on Love — James Baldwin
I guarantee that the seed you plant in love, not matter how small, will grow into a mighty tree of refuge. We all want a future for ourselves and we must now care enough to create, nurture and secure a future for our children.” — Afeni Shakur
We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity. — Otto von Bismarck
We get together on the basis of our similarities; we grow on the basis of our differences. — Virginia Satir
We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public. — Bryan White
We shall not grow weary of waiting upon God if we remember how long and how graciously He once waited for us. — Charles Spurgeon
One of these days we're gonna have to grow up, have to get real jobs and be adults, someday, just not today. — Kenny Chesney
Let us not be surprised when we have to face difficulties. When the wind blows hard on a tree, the roots stretch and grow the stronger, Let it be so with us. Let us not be weaklings, yielding to every wind that blows, but strong in spirit to resist. — Amy Carmichael
Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them. — Jayne Anne Phillips
Growing Things Quotes
Live life to the fullest. You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece. Laugh some every day. Keep growing, keep dreaming, keep following your heart. The important thing is not to stop questioning. — Albert Einstein
If you can't do great things, do little things with great love. If you can't do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can't do them with a little love, do them anyway. — Mother Teresa
Be patient. God is using today's difficulties to strengthen you for tomorrow. He is equipping you. The God who makes things grow will help you bear fruit. — Max Lucado
I just wanna go on more adventures. Be around good energy. Connect with people. Learn new things. Grow — Kid Cudi
Grant me the ability to be alone, May it be my custom to go outdoors each day among the trees and grasses among all growing things and there may I be alone, and enter into prayer to talk with the one that I belong to. — Nachman of Breslov
The hard thing when you get old is to keep your horizons open. The first part of your life everything is in front of you, all your potential and promise. But over the years, you make decisions; you carve yourself into a given shape. Then the challenge is to keep discovering the green growing edge. — Howard Thurman
But we are born to be happy, to be abundantly supplied with every good thing, to have fun in living, to consciously unite with the Divine Power that is around us and within us, and to grow and expand forever. — Ernest Holmes
We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion. — Max De Pree
Attention is the key to life. Whatever you really give your attention to, you become. Whatever you really concentrate upon will come into your life. We grow into the thing that fills our thoughts as inevitably as the stream merges into the ocean at last. — Emmet Fox
The clown has great importance as part of the search for what is laughable and ridiculous in man. We should put the emphasis on the rediscovery of our own individual clown, the one that has grown-up within us and which society does not allow us to express. — Jacques Lecoq
Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up. — Booker T. Washington
I've always been an animal lover. I've grown up with dogs my whole life. I think that is what helped me get the role on 'Lassie', I was comfortable around the dog, where many of the kids were afraid or intimidated by Lassie. — Will Estes
One of the basic troubles with radio and television news is that both instruments have grown up as an incompatible combination of show business, advertising and news. Each of the three is a rather bizarre and demanding profession. And when you get all three under one roof, the dust never settles. — Sayings
I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony. — Clarence Thomas
From the time I was 9 years old, I loved magic. I was an only child, and I think that had a big impact on me. I always had grown-up friends even though I was a little kid. I would take the train from Lido Beach into Manhattan, and I'd hang out in magic shops. — Rick Rubin
I was born and trained to communicate music, just as the sons were born and trained to hunt, and I was lucky to have grown up in Hungary, a country that lives and breathes music-that has a passionate belief in the power of music as a celebration of life. — Georg Solti
Most people put their childhood away as if it was an old hat. They forget it as if it was a phone number that does not apply anymore. They think about their life as if it was a salami which they are eating slice by slice and then they become grown-ups, but what are they now? Only those who grow up and still remain children are real human beings. — Erich Kastner
The evangelical Christian faith I'd grown up with sustained me. It demanded that I refuse the drugs and alcohol on offer in our southwestern Ohio town, that I treat my friends and family kindly, and that I work hard in school. — James David Vance
My daughters have grown up knowing all about my kidnapping and the case and what happened. — Patty Hearst
I want to win this World Cup and to do that you have to make sacrifices. Defending isn’t my strong point, I’m not Kante, but I’ll happily do it. I have grown up and matured. — Paul Pogba
Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions — Frantz Fanon
I’ve definitely grown up, but I’m the same Sadie now that I would have been, even if I wasn’t on ‘Stranger Things’. — Sadie Sink
Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends. — Chanakya
I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every aspect of their lives, and yet politics is the last place that they are told that they should be satisfied with a choice between brand A and brand B. It doesn't fit the way they think. It doesn't fit the way they live. — John Avlon
I totally enjoy what I'm doing and bringing joy into people's lives. To me, and if I can bring one second of joy into a child or a grown-up's life, then I have achieved my lifetime ambition. — Michael Jackson
It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked. — Enid Blyton
Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don't care if they lose it; they'll just make another one. — Tom Waits
The younger generation of today has grown up in a world in which in school and press the spirit of commercial enterprise has been represented as disreputable and the making of profit as immoral, where to employ a hundred people is represented as exploitation but to command the same number as honorable. — Friedrich August von Hayek
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. — Carl Jung
I think Americas food culture is embedded in fast-food culture. And the real question that we have is: How are we going to teach slow-food values in a fast-food world? Of course, its very, very difficult to do, especially when children have grown up eating fast food and the values that go with that. — Alice Waters
Oh, grown-ups cannot understand, And grown-ups never will, How short the way to fairyland Across the purple hill. — Alfred Noyes
Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling. — Robert Motherwell
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable. — Madeleine L'Engle
Original sin is in us like our beard. We are shaved today and look clean; tomorrow our beard has grown again, nor does it cease growing while we remain on earth. In like manner original sin cannot be extirpated from us; it springs up in us as long as we live. — Martin Luther
The most beautiful sea hasn't been crossed yet.
The most beautiful child hasn't grown up yet.
The most beautiful days we haven't seen yet.
And the most beautiful words I wanted to tell you
I haven't said yet. — Naz?m Hikmet
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