55 Quotes About Growing Up That Are Inspiring, Funny, and Relatable

1. “Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.” - Tom Stoppard

2. “You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.” - George Bernard Shaw

3. "It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." - E. E. cummings

4. “The trick is growing up without growing old.” - Casey Stengel

5. “Growing up is losing some illusions in order to acquire others.” - Virginia Woolf

6. "We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public." - Bryan White

7. "When you grow up, you'll be older but those memories you have as a kid last forever." - Xander Bogaerts

8. "It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually." - M. Scott Peck

9. "You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself." - Ethel Barrymore

10. "A grownup is a child with layers on." - Woody Harrelson

11. “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” - C.S. Lewis

12. "You've got to grow up sometime." - Winona Ryder

13. "Its OK to grow up, just as long as you don't grow old. Face it you are young." - Jarvis Cocker

14. "Growing up is learning that free time is very expensive." - Unknown

15. "Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes." - Annette Funicello

1. "To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly." - Henri Bergson

2. "The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise." - Alden Nowlan

3. "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

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

5. "If your gonna screw up, do it while you're young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back." - Winston Groom

6. "Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do." - Judd Nelson

7. “Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.” - Cassandra Clare

8. “Growing up, we are told many things; one being, you can do anything. But somewhere between child and adult, things change.” - Julie Hebert

9. “Growing old is unavoidable, but never growing up is possible. I believe you can retain certain things from your childhood if you protect them — certain traits, certain places where you don’t let the world go.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

10. "As people grow up, they realize it's less important to have more friends and more important to have real ones." - Lauren Conrad

11. "Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up." - Robert Smith

12. "The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness." - Laozi

13. "The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one." - J. D. Salinger

14. "A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder." - Stephen King

15. “You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.” - Ta-Nehisi Coates

1. “When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.” - Tom Robbins

2. "Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer." - Arnold Schwarzenegger

3. "Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional." - Chili Davis

4. "If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!" - James M. Barrie

5. "We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves." - Bernard Baruch

6. “Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day you’re in diapers; the next day you’re gone. But the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul.” - The Wonder Years

7. "Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples." - James M. Barrie

8. “As I learned from growing up, you don’t mess with your grandmother.” - Prince William

9. "As a kid, I wanted to be an adult. As an adult, I want a refund." - Unknown

10. "I miss the days when my biggest problem was a dead toy battery." - Unknown

1. "Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands." - Anne Frank

2. “Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.” - Lady Bird Johnson

3. “While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.” - Angela Schwindt

4. “Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.” - Anne Frank

5. "Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy." - Liam Neeson

6. "You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going." - P. J. O'Rourke

7. "I wish I could freeze time or go back in time and watch my kids grow up all over again because it is just going by too fast." - Robert Rodriguez

8. “It’s not what you leave to your children that matters, but what you leave in them.” – Shannon L. Alder

9. “Children are not things to be molded, but people to be unfolded.” – Jess Lair

10. “You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once.” – Polish Proverb

11. “It’s not only children who grow. Parents do too.” – Joyce Brothers

12. “Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.” – Robert Fulghum

13. “Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.” - Lady Bird Johnson

14. “You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.” – Franklin P. Jones

15. “Your children will become who you are, so be who you want them to be.” – David Bly