37 Quotes About Babies Growing Up

Studying child development will ensure you follow the simple practice of talking to babies and nourishing an environment that their brains and bodies can grow up in. These quotes about babies growing up capture the effects and impact you can make on a child’s life based on how they are raised.

“A child’s life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.”

“Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.”

“Children are the Shades of both mother and father, whether poor or rich every one had a wonderful creative life growing up with them.”

“Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.”

“Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.”

“Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you’re young. But I don’t think we make any fewer when we’re grown up.”

“Give me a child and I’ll shape him into anything.”

“Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that.”

“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.”

“Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”

“Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience and pimples.”

“Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.”

“I constantly go between wanting you to stay my little baby forever and being excited about all of the amazing things you’ll do in this life.”

“I don’t want my kids growing up believing that there is nothing destructive in the world.”

“I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.”

“I think it’s important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of life. So from that point of view, I’m proud to be a role model!”

“I think we need to do as much as we can to give back to these young kids growing up. I think we’ve done a pretty decent job so far.”

“If from infancy you treat children as gods they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.”

“If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.”

“Kids are great. That’s one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It’s a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.”

“Kids: They dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music.”

“Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.”

“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.”

“Motherhood is an early retirement position. Your children do grow up.”

“My mother… she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.”

“Old enough to see that it’s wrong, young enough to do it anyway!”

“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.”

“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.”

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”

“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.”

“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.”

“To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.”

“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way.”

“We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.”

“When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can.”

“While we try to teach our children all about life, Our children teach us what life is all about.”

“You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.”

There are many influences you have on a child’s life as they are raised.