Growth Quotes

"A grownup is a child with layers on."

- Woody Harrelson

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

- Russell Baker

"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

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

- Colleen Parro

"Adults are just outdated children."

- Dr. Seuss

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

- J.M. Barrie

"You know who’s going to build that better world? It’s the youth. Children will do things that are now considered impossible."

- Kacey McCallister

"Children are like wet cement whatever falls on them makes an impression."

- Haim Ginott

"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

"Remember, the goal is not to raise great kids; it’s to raise kids who become great adults."

- Andy Andrews

"Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?"

- Samuel Johnson

"You will never have this day with your children again. Tomorrow they’ll be a little older than they were today. This day is a gift. Just breathe, notice, study their faces and little feet. Pay attention. Relish the charms of the present. Enjoy today, it will be over before you know it."

- Jen Hatmaker

"All kids need a little help, a little hope, and somebody who believes in them."

- Magic Johnson

"Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love."

- Zig Ziglar

"Children do learn what they live. Then they grow up to live what they’ve learned."

- Dorothy Nolte

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

- Kim Harrison

"The final stage of wisdom is becoming a kid again."

- Maxime Lagacé

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

- Chinese Proverb

"Sometimes, we’re so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up."

- James C. Dobson

"When kids grow up wanting to be you, you matter."

- Seth Godin

"Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you; they were born for a different time."

- Ali Ibn Abi Talib

"Kids are great imitators, so give them something great to imitate."

- Anonymous

"The greatest legacy we can leave our kids is happy memories."

- Anonymous

"Your kids will become who you are; so be who you want them to be."

- Anonymous

"The sacrifices we make today give our kids a better tomorrow."

- Anonymous

"A day with your kids, no matter how big or small they are, heals your soul."

- Anonymous

"Children are our greatest teachers. From them, we can learn some of life’s most valuable qualities; patience, curiosity, kindness, determination, resilience, fearlessness, trust. And most importantly they teach us what it means to love and be loved unconditionally."

- Anonymous

"The great paradox of parenting is that it moves in both slow motion and fast speed."

- Anonymous

"Bloom where you are planted"

"No rain, no flowers"