Growing Up Quotes

"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art."

Stanisław Jerzy Lec

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."

Pablo Picasso

"Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own."

Logan Pearsall Smith

"The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been."

Madeleine L'Engle

"When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be."

Elliot Page

“All of my favourite people, people I really trust, none of them were cool in their younger years.”

“There's something different about growing up black and Muslim, especially in New Jersey. When I left the mosque and I left my dad, I felt unprotected, but I also felt a weird sense of pride.”

“I think so much of your energy when you're growing up is about becoming independent of your parents. And the older you get, the more you realise you're actually so much part and parcel of the same kind of material.”

“Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.”

"Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to."

John Ed Pearce

“We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life.”

Lauren Hutton

“Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.”

Chili Davis

“All children, except one, grow up.”

J. M. Barrie

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

E. E. Cummings