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. SalingerTags: growing-up attributed wilhelm-stekel
One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed.
Patricia BriggsTags: growing-up
He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times.
Neil GaimanTags: humor growing-up
She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.
Alice HoffmanTags: growing-up children
Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.
Mitch AlbomTags: growing-up
In the boundaryless forests,
there’re dancers of nude.
Yet in the confines of pasture,
there’s promise of food.
On which is your side?
Ô, but tarry and bide,
ere you decide,
in both do confide.
Tags: life growing-up experience poetry travel poems verse wandering rhymes rhyming-verse
It's not always easy being her daughter.'
I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are.
Tags: life growing-up parents daughters
I just wanted to see if... we were okay," she said, feeling relief. "Just to make sure we can be friends. I don't want it to be weird, you know?" Friends? Different parts of Birdie died as she said it. It was like stars exploding and burning one by one. She wondered if this was part of getting older. Parts of your heart exploded and died.
Jodi Lynn AndersonTags: growing-up
From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, has always been, and must always be, the task of education, as it is the moral of religion, philosophy, science, art, politics and economy; but a boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame...
Henry AdamsTags: growing-up
They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.
Margaret AtwoodTags: imagination growing-up school pretend
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