Alden Nowlan Quotes

Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.

I like being 30. I wouldn't want to do the twenties again. They are their own entity.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

I guess the older I get, the more understanding and forgiving I've become.

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

I like growing up; I feel like I have an old soul. I like the age to match as much as it can.

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

The difference between a 20-something and a 30-something man? Wisdom. At 20 years old, we don't really get how sensitive and beautiful women are. By 30, we're finally starting to learn.

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

I'm one of those people that makes a better adult than I did a kid.

You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.

Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.

When we're 16, we have lots of heavy thoughts. And these are the heavy thoughts, where, when we're in our 30s, we look at 16-year olds and sort of scorn it.

It's funny: 'Next Thing' was written in a time of my life when I was actually really naive and thought that I was wise.

You mature, you learn things.

It's interesting how things you hear as a kid take on a whole new meaning when you are an adult.

When you are 16 or 17, you think you are right about everything. But when you are over 20, you realise the mistakes you made at 16 or 18. You learn with age.

Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.

I think there comes a point where you have to grow up and get over yourself, lighten up…and forgive

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence.

I've learned that nobody's perfect, and I don't expect myself to be perfect anymore.

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

I'm 21 years old and I think that I've got a lot of perspective in life.

You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.

I said 'No, I've aged, but grown up? No'.