Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

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

Growing up is hard, love. Otherwise everyone would do it.

I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another. It's been going on for quite some time now, without me knowing it. I've found that growing up can mean a lot of things. For me, it doesn't mean I should become somebody completely new and stop loving the things I used to love. It means I've just added more things to my list.

Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood.

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

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.

It gets easier as you get older because life deals its particular hand, and our experiences get deeper, richer, more profound. When I gave birth to my son, something happened. It is a huge thing for a woman: a whole set of emotions you never had before arrives, and a love you never had before in your life is now on tap.

I just feel like I haven't grown up yet. I live on my own and I do grown-up things, but there is something about me that is very youthful.

Kids don't shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an uneven, highly individual pace.

When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.

When you are 20 years old, you are immature.

It took me a long time to grow up.

Love is different at different stages of your life.

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

I don't think I've grown up easily.

Each time of life has its own kind of love.

I think love changes you over time, and whether you have good or bad experiences, you always grow and learn from them.

There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love, as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning.

Everyone has to grow up and that's what we're all doing; we're just doing it in different ways.

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.

why shouldn't he? All life is just a progression toward and then a recession from one phrase-- 'I love you

In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.

Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.

She is nine, beloved, as open-faced as the sky and as self-contained. I have watched her grow. As recently as three or four years ago, she had a young child's perfectly shallow receptiveness; she fitted into the world of time, it fitted into her, as thoughtlessly as sky fits its edges, or a river its banks. But as she has grown, her smile has widened with a touch of fear and her glance has taken on depth. Now she is aware of some of the losses you incur by being here--the extortionary rent you have to pay as long as you stay.

In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.