W. H. Auden Quotes

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.

What are you, child, that you need time to learn about yourself?

I feel like I've started to grow up and be more of a woman instead of this crazy girl.

I'm 36 years old, and I'm growing up. Little by little.

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

There is a lot of learning I have to do and a lot of growing up I have to do.

From 15 to 18, everybody is a different person. Every six months, I have a whole new outlook on life.

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full;so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows; and you are a politician, a philosopher, or an explorer and adventurer. In old age the vessel dries up: there is no overflow: you are a child again.

Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished.

I knew who I was as a girl but I had to find who I was as a woman.

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

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

I'm not the angry, rebellious child that I was. You can remain a child for a long time. I certainly did. I was a slow learner.

Some age, others mature.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

Life is definitely always about expanding. That's how we grow.

How does anybody change from the time that they're 18 till they're 25? Everything kind of changes. You see the world much differently, and you get your priorities in order a little bit more.

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

I've grown up with kids watching me and as they're growing up, I'm growing up.

I think I may have to grow up without growing old. I think we're going to have to define differently what I'm going to be. We're going to have to define my growing up differently.

I didn't put out this album because I wanted everybody to know I was grown up. I'm 21 and that's not grown up.

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.

I always wanna be in the process of evolving and growing.

It takes time to be who you really want to be. It doesn't happen overnight.

People mature at different stages and I feel I'm learning a lot.