Saqib Saleem Quotes

It’s part of growing up, I suppose…you always have to leave something behind you.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

It's kind of a Peter Pan thing: I want to stay a kid. I love it. But I guess you have to grow up someday. Everybody does.

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

There's this assumption that all children have the luxury of a childhood where their innocence is always respected and their main occupation is pleasant play - at the age of 18 or 21, they are then thrust into the real world and shown its uglier side, but not before.

At seventeen, I knew the end of a dream... I would never be a schoolboy again.

I don't yearn to be a child again.

I suppose you always look back at how easier things were being young. There's always a shame that you're not as naive as you were.

I never wanted to grow up. It really is a trap.

We all, to some degree, wish we could have some element of our childhood back again while, for kids, moving on is something they're worried about. They know it's going to happen at some point.

No matter how much kids beg to be treated like adults, nobody likes to let go of their childhood. You wish for it and dream of it and the second you have it, you wonder what you've done. You wonder what it is you've become.

Oh, September! It is so soon for you to lose your friends to good work and strange loves and high ambitions. The sadness of that is too grown-up for you. Like whiskey and voting, it is a dangerous and heady business, as heavy as years. If I could keep your little tribe together forever, I would. I do so want to be generous. But some stories sprout bright vines that tendril off beyond our sight, carrying the folk we love best with them, and if I knew how to accept that with grace, I would share the secret.

Childhood knows what it wants - to leave childhood behind.

For many of us, the curtain had just come down on childhood.

Growing up is scary because it happens without you knowing it.

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

I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.

I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.

'Good Times' is a story about the loss of innocence, how adults are responsible for their actions but children aren't.

Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.

However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.

I've never run into a person who yearns for their middle school days.

Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget.

I am not in any hurry to grow up.

When you're in an industry where you're forced to grow up so quickly, part of you never grows up, and that's a good thing.