Richard L. Evans Quotes

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

A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man.

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

Children who have been in work for a long time suddenly get a thud down to earth once the cuteness fades, hips widen, voices drop and jawlines strengthen.

I think you do a lot of your growing as a human being between the ages of 13 and 18.

You cannot have the same kind of character again and again in every season or every stage of your life. You change, people change.

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.

There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe.

When she looked at him now, she couldn't help thinking that the man he had become bore so little resemblance to the boy he had been. His smile was the only piece of baggage he had carried with him from boyhood into manhood.

Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.

A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.

One thing that prevents a man from being a good father is he hasn't completed being a boy.

What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man.

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

Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.

When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood lies behind. The bridge is made of wood. As you cross, it burns behind you.

Aging is not just decay, you know, its growth.

I like to think of myself less like 'an adult' and more like a 'former fetus.'

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

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

Children change you. They really do.

Everything changes and, somewhere along the line, I'm changing with it.

Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.

I'm not the angry, rebellious child that I was. You can remain a child for a long time. I certainly did. I was a slow learner.