Quotes · Skopia

19 quotes

On the Waterfront · 1954

★ 1.9

Peter, I can't come with you. I've forgotten how to fly. I'm old, Peter. Ever so much more than twenty. I grew up a long time ago.

Granny Wendy

Hook · 1991

★ 1.9

The identity crisis... Occurs in that period of the life cycle when each of you must forge for himself some central perspective and direction, some working unity, out of the effective remnants of his childhood and the hopes of his anticipated adulthood.

Erik Erikson

1958

★ 3.4

TV program · Coming of age (TV) · Comedy (TV) · Coming of age · Comedy

Men and women suffer alone, over the choices they've made. And young boys, full of confusion... Full of fear... Full of love and courage... Grow up stealthily in their sleep.

Narrator (Adult Kevin Arnold)

The Wonder Years · 1988

★ 3.5

Novel

As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don't leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!

Nikolai Gogol

Dead Souls · 1842

★ 3.6

Novel

She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.

Kate Chopin

The Awakening · 1899

★ 3.6

Poem

That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.

W.B. Yeats

1933

★ 3.6

Novel

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Graham Greene

The Power and the Glory · 1940

★ 3.6

Film · Coming of age (film) · Coming of age

We'd only been gone two days but somehow the town seemed different; smaller.

The Writer

Stand By Me · 1986

★ 3.6

TV program · Coming of age (TV) · Comedy (TV) · Coming of age · Comedy

Maybe we both realized that growing up doesn’t have to be so much a straight line as a series of advances and retreats.

Narrator (Adult Kevin Arnold)

The Wonder Years · 1988

★ 3.6

Film · Teen (film) · Coming of age (film) · Teen · Coming of age

My God, are we gonna be like our parents?

Andrew Clark

The Breakfast Club · 1985

★ 3.7

Film · Romantic comedy (film) · Comedy drama (film) · Romantic comedy · Comedy drama

Honey, all you have to be by the time you're 23 is yourself.

Troy Dyer

Reality Bites · 1994

★ 3.7

Film · Animation (film) · Musical (film) · Animation · Musical

I'm sixteen years old. I'm not a child anymore.

Ariel

The Little Mermaid · 1989

★ 3.8

Film · Animation (film) · Musical (film) · Animation · Musical

Prove yourself brave, truthful, and unselfish, and someday, you will be a real boy.

The Blue Fairy

Pinocchio · 1940

★ 4.4

Song · Folk music · Pop music

A dragon lives forever, But not so, little boys Painted wings and giants' rings Make way for other toys.

Peter, Paul and Mary

Puff, The Magic Dragon · 1963

★ 4.5

Scripture · Religious literature

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

Apostle Paul

1st Corinthians 13:11 · 55

★ 4.6

Film · Teen (film) · Coming of age (film) · Teen · Coming of age

When you grow up, your heart dies.

Allison Reynolds

The Breakfast Club · 1985

★ 4.6

Are you there God? It's me, Margaret. I just told my mother I want a bra. Please help me grow God. You know where.

Judy Blume

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret · 1970

★ 5.4

TV program · Coming of age (TV) · Comedy (TV) · Coming of age · Comedy

Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day, you’re in diapers; next day, you’re gone. But the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul. I remember a place, a town, a house…like a lot of other houses; a yard like a lot of other yards; on a street like a lot of other streets. And the thing is…after all these years, I still look back…with wonder.

Narrator (Adult Kevin Arnold)

The Wonder Years · 1993

★ 6.9

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