Herbert Hoover Quotes

I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.

There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.

Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.

Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform.

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

I mean, 15 - that is such a pivotal time in a young man's life.

You must remember that anyone under 30 - especially a ballplayer - is an adolescent. I never got close to being an adult until I was 32. Even though I was married and had a son at 20, I was a kid at 32, living at home with my parents. Sure, I was a manager then. That doesn't mean you're grown up.

It's all about baby steps and trying to figure out how to slowly, elegantly become an adult.

You don't become a real man until you're 35 or 40.

We all have to grow up some time.

When I was a child, I acted like child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.

I used to be a child. It came naturally to me. I was an adult for a time, too. That came less naturally.

A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man.

I am a child who is getting on.

We live a protracted adolescence. At some point you must leave the party.

Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.

Four or five years - nothing at all. But no one over thirty could understand this peculiarly weighted and condensed time, from late teens to early twenties, a stretch of life that needed a name, from school leaver to salaried professional, with a university and affairs and death and choices in between. I had forgotten how recent my childhood was, how long and inescapable it once seemed. How grown up and how unchanged I was.

I kind of grew up and started maturing.

As the children get older and know what they want ... We all grew up at one point.

But I'm warning you, we're growing up.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

I'm totally growing up.