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Narrator (Adult Kevin Arnold)3 quotes
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) · 1993Maybe 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) · 1988Men 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) · 1988Allison Reynolds1 quote
When you grow up, your heart dies. — Allison Reynolds · 1985Andrew Clark1 quote
My God, are we gonna be like our parents? — Andrew Clark · 1985Apostle Paul1 quote
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 · 55Ariel1 quote
I'm sixteen years old. I'm not a child anymore. — Ariel · 1989Charley Malloy1 quote
You're getting on. You're pushing 30, slugger. You know, it's time to think about getting some ambition. — Charley Malloy · 1954Erik Erikson1 quote
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 · 1958Graham Greene1 quote
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. — Graham Greene · 1940Granny Wendy1 quote
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 · 1991Judy Blume1 quote
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 · 1970Kate Chopin1 quote
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 · 1899Nikolai Gogol1 quote
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 · 1842Peter, Paul and Mary1 quote
A dragon lives forever,
But not so, little boys
Painted wings and giants' rings
Make way for other toys. — Peter, Paul and Mary · 1963The Blue Fairy1 quote
Prove yourself brave, truthful, and unselfish, and someday, you will be a real boy. — The Blue Fairy · 1940The Writer1 quote
We'd only been gone two days but somehow the town seemed different; smaller. — The Writer · 1986Troy Dyer1 quote
Honey, all you have to be by the time you're 23 is yourself. — Troy Dyer · 1994W.B. Yeats1 quote
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