David Harbour Quotes

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

I firmly believe that every six years, a person goes through a serious change. Think about it: At 6, you start school. At about 12, you start hitting puberty. And then it goes on. You start hitting these different mental levels, and people change. I think that's part of the reason the divorce rate is so high.

When you're physically growing up, you develop emotionally with that.

I was indeed very slow as a youngster.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.

When what we introduce into the children's world of ideas and feelings is in line with the direction of the developmental forces of a given stage of life, we strengthen the entire developing person in a way that remains a source of strength throughout that person's life.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

I think, you know, when you're a teenager, sometimes your emotions are a little bit more drastic than maybe when you're in your 20s. You sort of level out a little bit.

What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

Early youth is a baffling time.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.

Once you have a child, you change so much along the way, you don't even recognize yourself by the time they're ready to move out!

We cannot know the young child's personality by studying his systems of interest, for his attention is as yet too labile, his reactions impulsive, and interests unformed. From adolescence onward, however, the surest clue to personality is the hierarchy of interests, including the loves and loyalties of adult life.

As you grow older, you change.

I think I may have to grow up without growing old. I think we're going to have to define differently what I'm going to be. We're going to have to define my growing up differently.

Young people can change and grow. Every parent knows that.

Watching kids go from the age of 9 and 10 to 13 is a big, huge jump. The way they speak, their looks, their attitudes, everything changes as you go from being a little kid to a teenager.

I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.

When you're young - I probably still am at 23, though I don't feel so young anymore - you have your ups and downs.

One has to evolve with age, and that's what I am doing.

So much changes in a year when you're a teenager.

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