Vanessa Hudgens Quotes

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

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!

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

What's nice about having kids close to the age they're playing is that you can actually capture awkwardness.

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.

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

If you have created an image of yourself at 13 and it is still with you at 17, it needs to be dropped.

Children are very addicting. Once they start growing up, you miss when they were little.

Your traditions change from when you a child to when you become an adult.

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

I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.

When I was 25, people used to say to me that having kids would change you, and I'd roll my eyes.

'Ugly Betty' has been four years of my life, important adolescent years. I think that all I've really known was getting pampered and interviewed and getting my picture taken.

My kids are growing up and it's hard to accept they are their own person and they're independent.

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.

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

It's such a funny thing when you see your daughter transitioning from your baby, your little girl, to suddenly being a young woman. If you're not really looking for it, you can miss it, and Lily-Rose is on that road already, and there's nothing I can do to stop it.

My mom sees her sons as baby boys. Well, I stopped being her baby boy a long time ago.

My mother always said bringing me up was a tiring business, which I 'believe. For instance, when we lived in Singapore, the Chinese staff used to leave their slippers at the bottom of the steps. Every night, I used to go and remove their slippers. I stopped being tiresome at about 14.

Zuri is slowly starting to become more of who I am in real life. Starting on 'Jessie,' she had a huge imagination, and had her imaginary friends, but now that she's 13 she has definitely passed that stage in her life and has grown so much.

I've got a family now, which matures you.

I know it's hard to believe that I'm no longer the young 'Zuri' everyone has grown to love, which I truly appreciate, but like every young lady, I'm growing, I'm maturing and finding myself at 16 years old discovering the joys and pains of the world we live in.

I think about the milestones from my childhood and what it will be like to watch our kids go through them. Taking Riley to her first day of school was a whirlwind. I can't imagine what middle school is going to be like, and high school, and graduation.

My kids have really brought me into maturity on another level and I really appreciate them for that.

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