Anne Frank Quotes

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

One doesn't remain a teenager forever.

Childhood knows what it wants - to leave childhood behind.

We all, one day, realize that we’re not going to be kids forever and we’re going to grow up.

But I'm warning you, we're growing up.

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

I'm not scared of growing up, but it just happens, doesn't it?

Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.

I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.

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

When I was a child, I acted like child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.

All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, ‘Oh, why can’t you remain like this for ever!’ This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

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

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.

Sometimes it seems as though not a moment has moved, but then you look up and you're already old or you already have a household of kids or you look down and see your feet are miles and miles away from the rest of you—and you realize you've grown up.

I used to be a child. It came naturally to me. I was an adult for a time, too. That came less naturally.

The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose.

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.

Alex like groweth up, Oh Yes.

One day you will be the one called Master (Naruto). You'll be the one to treat others to ramen. We can't stay kids forever." - Shikamaru Nara (Naruto)

Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.

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

I knew who I was as a girl but I had to find who I was as a woman.

I feel like I'm 18, with the maturity level of like a 14-year-old. I'm still the same goofball; I'm still in college, as far as I'm concerned.