William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

A lot of middle-aged women are children still trying to find their way.

Boys like it when you talk to them as if they were grown men—at least he always did when he was a kid—because they pretend that’s what they are anyhow, grown-up men, and they do it for their entire lives.

-she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men.

You start getting hit with some very interesting situations in life - you as a parent - when they approach that teenage area, which is frightening because you still have memories of that age and the things you were doing at that age... Please don't do what I did.

Things that made me happy five, six years ago don't make me happy anymore.

It's pretty strange because you have images of people in your head when you left, then you just think they're going to be the same when you come back, like time freezes. I have sisters and from the ages of 11 to 13 - it's a big change for girls.

People flash back to pictures of me when I was 12 and say 'Kylie's so different,' but how can I look the same from 12 -18?

My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.

I think everybody's always attracted to both sexes. I mean, I think that women are very attractive. I've kissed girls, but everybody experiments. It's part of growing up.

I look back at my adolescence, and I'm shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior.

Sometimes I'll watch teenagers and find myself not quite believing I'm older than they are - even wondering, delusionally, if they can see any difference between us.

It's scary when you look at how kids age, because you think, 'Am I aging at that rate, too?'

Getting older and adjusting to all the things that biologically happen to you is not easy to do and is a constant struggle and adjustment.

The things a young woman goes through between the ages of 18 and 20 are far different than what a young woman can go through between 20 and 22.

Teens are strange and magical.

Some of these little girls are afraid to admit they are getting older. I am not afraid. You can't put your finger in the sun and stop time.

Eventually your boobs grow and you can't run anymore, and that was a really rude awakening.

You know you're getting older when the record executives start getting younger.

You can't be a 25-year-old forever.

Time makes you bolder, children get older. I'm getting older, too.

How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise.

That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.

Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?

The little boy had wandered away from his mother, tacking across the grass toward the play structure. His mother watched him go, proud, tickled, unaware that every time they toddled away from you, they came back a little different, ten seconds older and nearer to the day when they left you for good. Pearl divers in training, staying under a few seconds longer every time.

If we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then the boy can grow up and become truly masculine.