Terry Pratchett Quotes

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.

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

I'm a big kid.

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

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.

Act your age, not your shoe size.

A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.

Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers.

Age is no guarantee of maturity.

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

Growing up is scary because it happens without you knowing it.

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

I wanted to be grown up the minute I could.

Children change you. They really do.

I was always a little adult. Even as a little kid, I just couldn't understand why I was surrounded by all these kids. I took things very seriously.

I never grew up.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.

As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.

I don't ever want to grow up. That's boring.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.

I'm a big kid, you know?

It's all about baby steps and trying to figure out how to slowly, elegantly become an adult.

You are going to grow up whether you want to or not. It requires no effort.

I've got some growing up to do.