Jock Sturges Quotes

I've gone through several cycles. When I was little, I was the cute kid with missing teeth and funny one-liners. Then I moved on to be the young guy who wanted to be a grownup.

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids.

I feel like I've started to grow up and be more of a woman instead of this crazy girl.

You have to eventually grow up and take control of your life, which is very hard to do.

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

Experiencing difficult things, even as a very young kid, means you grow up quickly. I think that enables everyone to choose their own path and not just accept the one others have taken before you, and I went my own way.

There comes a time when you have to grow up and start thinking for yourself.

Sometimes you have to let young people develop.

The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'.

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

Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant; make the sheaths crack; push aside the stakes; to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.

You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls.

I wanted to be grown up the minute I could.

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.

The best holiday I ever had was the first one I went on without my parents, when I was 17.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

I needed to grow up and do things all adults do. It was time to stop having everything spoon fed to me. It was about being independent.

I think when you're 14 years old, I think you're sort of looking for markers that prove you're an adult and you're independent of your parents.

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

I never really wanted to grow up. I grew up really young. I moved out when I was 13 - that's when I started acting.

To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.

I think the most important thing my wife Cynthia and I can do for Kristen is to teach her how to grow up to be a woman and make her own decisions. Meanwhile, we sometimes have to guide her.