Growing Quotes

An ancient Chinese saying says every child is actually a little Buddha that helps their parents mature and grow up.

Age is only an obstacle to the ordinary. Be brilliant and timeless!

You know, I believe we have two lives...the life we learn with and the life we live with after that.

We were young. We had momentum. We were winning.

To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other's hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.

Children nowadays are tyrants. They
contradict their parents, gobble
their food and tyrannise their teachers.

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father
was so ignorant I could hardly stand to
have the old man around. But when I got
to be twenty-one, I was astonished by
how much he'd learned in seven years.

You place too much importance, and you always have done, on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they’re looking for ideas.

Go without a coat when it's cold; find out what cold is. Go hungry; keep your existence lean. Wear away the fat, get down to the lean tissue and see what it's all about. The only time you define your character is when you go without. In times of hardship, you find out what you're really made of and what you're capable of. If you're never tested, you'll never define your character.

There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.

When you're a kid, they tell you it's all "grow up. Get a job. Get married. Get a house. Have a kid, and that's it." [sighs] But the truth is, the world is so much stranger than that. It's so much darker. And so much madder. [grins] And so much better.