Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when under age, but when of age, in purple.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

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

Part of growing up is realizing you learn to love so many people. It's about forming those relationships and finding what will last forever.

I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.

It's fun chasing boys, especially when you're young, but I think it takes time and life experience to notice the other boys.

As you get older, you start to understand you have to do what you need to do.

I feel like you're only young once.

For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts; adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.

Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love - now you are love.

In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.

It seems like a cliche, but you do grow up a lot faster when you travel a lot, go through things like this interview, spend time away from home and hang around with other actors. It's inevitable that you're not going to have a so-called normal childhood.

Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not.

Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.

Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.

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

Don't tell me you don't know what love is When you're old enough to know better.

Silver gray hair Neatly combed in place There were four generations Of love on her face She was so wise No surprise passed her eyes She's seen it all

Distance makes the heart grow fonder, a little bit, but there's a certain maturity level that just comes with experience and growing up.

I'm 18 so I'm still young and I'm still learning. But I mean, relationships in general are hard.

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.

A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.