39 Quotes About Change and Growing Up

There are many influences that can affect your daily life as you grow up and mature. These quotes about change and growing up offer the perfect encouragement to making a difference today.

“A mustache really defines your face. My dad had a mustache when I was growing up, and I can still remember when he shaved it, he looked like a completely different person.”

“Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.”

“Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world.”

“Don’t try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.”

“Even though you’re growing up, you should never stop having fun.”

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

“Everything I was afraid of when I was growing up, I’ve become. I’ve taken on my nightmares, like the devil and the end of the world, and I’ve become those things.”

“For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments.”

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

“Growing up as a chubby kid with a ton of imaginary friends and a Cyndi Lauper obsession, I learned about rejection early on and was constantly trying to avoid it.”

“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 happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.”

“Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.”

“Growing up is hard, love. Otherwise everyone would do it.”

“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 had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.”

“Growing up, I had a very normal relationship with my brother and sister. But, over time, they became my best friends, and now I hang out with them all the time. I’m very close with them.”

“Growing up, I just wanted to be like everyone else. I didn’t value or understand the beauty in being different at the time in my life.”

“Growing up, I never felt like the pretty girl.”

“Growing up, I was always chubby. My girlfriends were always running around in two-pieces, and I never felt comfortable to do that.”

“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.”

“Growing up, I wish that I’d had the supplies and laptops and all the new technology that’s out right now.”

“I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way.”

“I know that in my past I was young and irresponsible – but that’s what growing up is. You learn from your mistakes.”

“I make mistakes growing up. I’m not perfect; I’m not a robot.”

“I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.”

“I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.”

“If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again.”

“Lunchtime and recess, that was a big part for me growing up. I think it’s important for kids to have that.”

“Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you’re growing up, you’re walking down the street, you’ve got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can’t pass one person.”

“Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.”

“No matter where you are or where you grow up, you always go through the same awkward moments of being a teenager and growing up and trying to figure out who you are.”

“Part of growing up is realizing you learn to love so many people. It’s about forming those relationships and finding what will last forever.”

“The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on.”

“The trick is growing up without growing old.”

“The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.”

“You know, my mother’s beautiful, my dad was a really handsome man, and there was a lot of talk about looks when I was growing up.”

“Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.”

There are many things that can affect a child’s development and how they are raised and the type of people they grow up to be.