“Motherhood is an early retirement position.“A child’s life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.” - Chinese Proverb. “Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.” - Phyllis Diller.“You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they’re going.” - P.“While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.” - Angela Schwindt.“We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.” - Stacia Tauscher.“Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.” - Lady Bird Johnson.“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” - C.S.But when you’re older, somehow they act offended if you even try.'” - Ethan Hawke, The Hottest State “‘Don’t you find it odd,’ she continued, ‘that when you’re a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams.“Wasn’t it beautiful when you believed in everything?” - Unknown.So hang in there - growth and experience come with time.” - R.M. The same way it takes years to know what you deserve and what you don’t. “It takes years to learn the difference between who to let go and who to be patient with.The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.” - Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. “When we are children, we seldom think of the future. “Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.” - Anne Frank.“As I learned from growing up, you don’t mess with your grandmother.” - Prince William.But somewhere between child and adult, things change.” - Julie Hebert, Why Not You “Growing up, we are told many things one being, you can do anything.I believe you can retain certain things from your childhood if you protect them - certain traits, certain places where you don’t let the world go.” - Martin Luther King, Jr. “Growing old is unavoidable, but never growing up is possible.In the end, she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls.” - J.M. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. “Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.” - Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes.I want to grow old and be like her.” - Jodi Picoult “My mother… she is beautiful, softened at the edges, and tempered with a spine of steel.I’m glad for that.” - Allie Condie, Matched “Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side our roots will always be tangled.But the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul.” - The Wonder Years One day you’re in diapers the next day you’re gone. “Growing up is losing some illusions in order to acquire others.” - Virginia Woolf.“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.” - J.D.“You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.” - George Bernard Shaw.“Growing older is not upsetting being perceived as old is.” - Kenny Rogers.“’Oh,’ she thought, ‘How horrible it is that people have to grow up and marry and change!’” - L.M.“When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.” - Tom Robbins.
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