Booth Tarkington Quotes

I am a child who is getting on.

What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man.

One doesn't remain a teenager forever.

I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.

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.

When you are 20 years old, you are immature.

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

I always wanted to make a coming-of-age film, or something about growing up, like 'The Wonder Years,' 'Stand By Me' or 'Diner.'

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

Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform.

Just when you think you should start accepting that you're becoming an adult, all your childhood fantasies come true.

Adulthood it a glacier encroaching quietly on youth. When it arrives, the stamp of childhood suddenly freezes, capturing us for good in the image of our last act, the pose we struck when the ice of age set in.

Four or five years - nothing at all. But no one over thirty could understand this peculiarly weighted and condensed time, from late teens to early twenties, a stretch of life that needed a name, from school leaver to salaried professional, with a university and affairs and death and choices in between. I had forgotten how recent my childhood was, how long and inescapable it once seemed. How grown up and how unchanged I was.

There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.

Baby, high school's over. High school's never over.

What can be done when you’re eleven can often never be done again.

A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man.

Youth, however, is a defect that she is fast getting away from and may perhaps be entirely rid of before I shall want her.

There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.

It's always a really great feeling when I talk to people who watched 'Jett Jackson' because we were the same age. We were all kids. I was 13 when I started working on that show, and that was part of my childhood.

A flapper is just a little girl trying to grow up - in the process of growing up.

Fifteen is such a weird age to be. Nobody treats you like an adult, but you desperately want to be one. You still have these childlike aspects, but you're just kind of coming into the world.

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.